And he said, "Fill four pitchers with water and pour it on the burnt offering and on the wood." 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. Now God gave Solomon wisdom and very great discernment and breadth of mind, like the sand that is on the seashore. His servants arose and made a conspiracy and struck down Joash at the house of Millo as he was going down to Silla. Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door and hold the door shut against him. So Saul said, "Bring to me the burnt offering and the peace offerings." Then the king of Israel replied, "Tell him, 'Let not him who girds on his armor boast like him who takes it off.'" I will call to the LORD, that He may send thunder and rain Then you will know and see that your wickedness is great which you have done in the sight of the LORD by asking for yourselves a king." Let each of them return to his house in peace.'" Then Jonathan said, "My father has troubled the land. They rose early in the morning and went out to the wilderness of Tekoa; and when they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, "Listen to me, O Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, put your trust in the LORD your God and you will be established. King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire which she requested, besides what he gave her according to his royal bounty. read more. He set one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan. "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." And Achish said to the commanders of the Philistines, "Is this not David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, who has been with me these days, or rather these years, and I have found no fault in him from the day he deserted to me to this day?" 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. A certain man drew his bow at random and struck the king of Israel in a joint of the armor. From the threshing floor, or from the wine press?" But in the dearth of people is a princes ruin. He will slay your daughters on the mainland with the sword; and he will make siege walls against you, cast up a ramp against you and raise up a large shield against you. In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves. 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. 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. Hallelujah! Then the king said to him, "How many times must I adjure you to speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of the LORD?" Its opening inside the crown at the top was a cubit, and its opening was round like the design of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also on its opening there were engravings, and their borders were square, not round. OpenBible.info 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.'" And Michal said to Saul, "He said to me, 'Let me go! Now the three oldest followed Saul, but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father's flock at Bethlehem. 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. and Baalath and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for, and all the storage cities which Solomon had, even, And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, Thus says the, I will bless her, and indeed I will give you. Never again did such abundance of spices come in as that which the queen of Sheba gave King Solomon. Then the LORD raised up an adversary to Solomon, Hadad the Edomite; he was of the royal line in Edom. He acted very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites had done, whom the LORD cast out before the sons of Israel. Then the Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah, saying, "Is not David hiding on the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon?" Ashkelon shall see it, and be afraid; Gaza too, and shall writhe in anguish; Ekron also, because its hopes are confounded. Then he said, "What is this monument that I see?" Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field. Now the famine was severe in Samaria. And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually. And he offered the burnt offering. So she wrote letters in Ahab's name and sealed them with his seal, and sent letters to the elders and to the nobles who were living with Naboth in his city. 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 Joram crossed over to Zair, and all his chariots with him. Saul took him that day and did not let him return to his father's house. But he said, "As the LORD lives, before whom I stand, I will take nothing." But his hand which he stretched out against him dried up, so that he could not draw it back to himself. 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." He said to Jeroboam, "Take for yourself ten pieces; for thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon and give you ten tribes (but he will have one tribe, for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel), because they have forsaken Me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the sons of Ammon; and they have not walked in My ways, doing what is right in My sight and observing My statutes and My ordinances, as his father David did. Shall this one come into my house?" So he went with them; and when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees. But he sent away the rest of the people, each to his tent. But Jehoshaphat said, "Is there not yet a prophet of the LORD here that we may inquire of him?" "Now, behold, I know that you will surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel will be established in your hand. "Then you shall surround the king, each with his weapons in his hand; and whoever comes within the ranks shall be put to death. The LORD heard the voice of Elijah, and the life of the child returned to him and he revived. Now it came about after this that the sons of Moab and the sons of Ammon, together with some of the Meunites, came to make war against Jehoshaphat. When all the men of Israel who had hidden themselves in the hill country of Ephraim heard that the Philistines had fled, even they also pursued them closely in the battle. Now it was told Saul that David had fled to Gath, so he no longer searched for him. The young men of the rulers of the provinces went out first; and Ben-hadad sent out and they told him, saying, "Men have come out from Samaria." In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan. I have carried out the command of the LORD." So he said to the driver of the chariot, "Turn around and take me out of the fight, for I am severely wounded." Now the king's sons, seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who were rearing them. And he said, "Your servant went nowhere." WebAnd Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying, Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink of the waters of the well: but we will go along by the king's high way, until we be past thy borders. For through the anger of the LORD this came about in Jerusalem and Judah until He cast them out from His presence And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. And he said, "Is he still alive? Then David put garrisons among the Arameans of Damascus; and the Arameans became servants to David, bringing tribute. The days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years he reigned in Hebron and thirty-three years he reigned in Jerusalem. "How blessed are your men, how blessed are these your servants who stand before you continually and hear your wisdom. When Abigail saw David, she hurried and dismounted from her donkey, and fell on her face before David and bowed herself to the ground. So they listened to the word of the LORD, and returned and went their way according to the word of the LORD. So he held Judah and Benjamin. "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.'" About this time tomorrow I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over My people Israel; and he will deliver My people from the hand of the Philistines. WebThis is the text and a scan of the actual, original, first printing of the 1611 King James Version, the 'HE' Bible, for 1 Samuel Chapter 16. When Judah came to the lookout of the wilderness, they looked toward the multitude, and behold, they were corpses lying on the ground, and no one had escaped. He acted valiantly and defeated the Amalekites, and delivered Israel from the hands of those who plundered them. Behold, they will be in any case like all the multitude of Israel who are left in it; behold, they will be in any case like all the multitude of Israel who have already perished, so let us send and see." Then Asa took all the silver and the gold which were left in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the treasuries of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants And King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Aram, who lived in Damascus, saying, "Let there be a treaty between you and me, as between my father and your father. She said to them, "Thus says the LORD God of Israel, 'Tell the man who sent you to me, thus says the LORD, "Behold, I bring evil on this place and on its inhabitants, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah has read. The high places, however, were not removed; the people had not yet directed their hearts to the God of their fathers. But he forsook the counsel of the elders which they had given him, and consulted with the young men who grew up with him and served him. 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. Now the rest of the acts of Zimri and his conspiracy which he carried out, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? Now it was told Saul that David had fled to Gath, so he no longer searched for him. And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of his father David, and Jehoram his son became king in his place. And they were unable to eat. When Saul saw that he was prospering greatly, he dreaded him. Indeed the LORD will give over the army of Israel into the hands of the Philistines!" "Now the LORD has fulfilled His word which He spoke; for I have risen in place of my father David and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built the house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel. "Now therefore, O LORD, the God of Israel, keep with Your servant David my father that which You have promised him, saying, 'You shall not lack a man to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your sons take heed to their way to walk before Me as you have walked.' For is the tree of the field a man, that it should be besieged by you? Then the priest said, "The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the valley of Elah, behold, it is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod; if you would take it for yourself, take it. "Now therefore, as the LORD lives, who has established me and set me on the throne of David my father and who has made me a house as He promised, surely Adonijah shall be put to death today." So King Solomon became greater than all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom. And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. Therefore Saul removed him from his presence and appointed him as his commander of a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people. So Hiram sent word to Solomon, saying, "I have heard the message which you have sent me; I will do what you desire concerning the cedar and cypress timber. So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. And he went up and lay on the child, and put his mouth on his mouth and his eyes on his eyes and his hands on his hands, and he stretched himself on him; and the flesh of the child became warm. Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers' households of the sons of Israel, to King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from the city of David, which is Zion. And the stone sank into his forehead, so that he fell on his face to the ground. Pul, king of Assyria, came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver so that his hand might be with him to strengthen the kingdom under his rule. "Anyone of Baasha who dies in the city the dogs will eat, and anyone of his who dies in the field the birds of the heavens will eat." Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha were secretaries; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder; Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army, and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder. Then Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself. For he had dominion over everything west of the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings west of the River; and he had peace on all sides around about him. I gave you a king in My angerAnd took him away in My wrath. 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." Amen. King Solomon made 200 large shields of beaten gold, using 600 shekels of gold on each large shield. 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. "However, I will not tear away all the kingdom, but I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem which I have chosen." Submit yourselves for the Lords sake to every human institution, whether to a king as the one in authority. And when he had called her, she stood before him. 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." But he said, "As the LORD lives, before whom I stand, I will take nothing." 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. Then Saul immediately fell full length upon the ground and was very afraid because of the words of Samuel; also there was no strength in him, for he had eaten no food all day and all night. Thus David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone, and he struck the Philistine and killed him; but there was no sword in David's hand. Then Ben-hadad came out to him, and he took him up into the chariot. But Jonathan had not heard when his father put the people under oath; therefore, he put out the end of the staff that was in his hand and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth, and his eyes brightened. 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. Then the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam the son of Shaphan, Achbor the son of Micaiah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king's servant saying, "Go, inquire of the LORD for me and the people and all Judah concerning the words of this book that has been found, for great is the wrath of the LORD that burns against us, because our fathers have not listened to the words of this book, to do according to all that is written concerning us." 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. You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword, have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the sons of Ammon. Surely there was no one like Ahab who sold himself to do evil in the sight of the LORD, because Jezebel his wife incited him. Now the rest of the acts of Elah and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? So a horseman went to meet him and said, "Thus says the king, 'Is it peace?'" So the two of them made a covenant before the LORD; and David stayed at Horesh while Jonathan went to his house. namely, from their descendants who were left after them in the land whom the sons of Israel had not destroyed. "Please let us go to the Jordan and each of us take from there a beam, and let us make a place there for ourselves where we may live." He also spoke 3,000 proverbs, and his songs were 1,005. The number of days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months. Now Elijah said to Ahab, "Go up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of the roar of a heavy shower." 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. "So shall their blood return on the head of Joab and on the head of his descendants forever; but to David and his descendants and his house and his throne, may there be peace from the LORD forever." So she went and came to the man of God to Mount Carmel. And he said to him, "Go back again, for what have I done to you?" King James Bible with "Go To Verse" Kindle Edition by Deep Field Publishing (Author, Editor) Format: Kindle Edition 518 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle $3.99 Read with Our Free App Imitation Leather $13.99 5 Used from $9.99 A breakthrough for Kindle Bibles. Samuel said, "Is it not true, though you were little in your own eyes, you were made the head of the tribes of Israel? "Why then have you not kept the oath of the LORD, and the command which I have laid on you?" Furthermore, the altar that was at Bethel and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he broke down Then he demolished its stones, ground them to dust, and burned the Asherah. 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. Then the king of Israel when he saw them, said to Elisha, "My father, shall I kill them? And the. 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 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." WebThe King James Bible - Offline content to use anytime without Internet access - Easy and quick navigation with no distraction - Share a verse with someone easily - Bookmark a verse to read later - Change Bible text size - Switch between day and night time reading modes We believe the Bible should King Solomon answered and said to his mother, "And why are you asking Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? 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. Now in the eleventh year of Joram, the son of Ahab, Ahaziah became king over Judah. "And behold, I will send the lad, saying, 'Go, find the arrows.' 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." Then Jonathan said to the young man who was carrying his armor, "Come and let us cross over to the garrison of these uncircumcised; perhaps the LORD will work for us, for the LORD is not restrained to save by many or by few." Now the day came that Jonathan, the son of Saul, said to the young man who was carrying his armor, "Come and let us cross over to the Philistines' garrison that is on the other side." While Saul talked to the priest, the commotion in the camp of the Philistines continued and increased; so Saul said to the priest, "Withdraw your hand." 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. As the LORD lives, not one hair of his head shall fall to the ground, for he has worked with God this day." Then he found another man and said, "Please strike me." The battle went heavily against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was badly wounded by the archers.read more.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. It came about when he became king, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he killed all the household of Baasha; he did not leave a single male, neither of his relatives nor of his friends. WebNaboth Is Killed in His Grape-Field - Now Naboth the Jezreelite had a field of grape-vines in Jezreel beside the family of Ahab king of Samaria. 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. It came about at that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him on the road. Moreover, Shaphan the scribe told the king saying, "Hilkiah the priest has given me a book." Samuel said to the people, "Do not fear. Amen. Then David said to Ahimelech the Hittite and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, saying, "Who will go down with me to Saul in the camp?" No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him. He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done, for the daughter of Ahab became his wife; and he did evil in the sight of the LORD. And two or three officials looked down at him. He said to Jeroboam, "Take for yourself ten pieces; for thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon and give you ten tribes (but he will have one tribe, for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel), because they have forsaken Me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the sons of Ammon; and they have not walked in My ways, doing what is right in My sight and observing My statutes and My ordinances, as his father David did. He gives great deliverance to His king,And shows lovingkindness to His anointed,To David and his descendants forever. And there was a trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all the people. There was no stranger with us in the house, only the two of us in the house. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom more than all his other wives and concubines. Now in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, camped against it and built a siege wall all around it. Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 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. for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity. 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." He said, "Call her." 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. He captured the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem. He had large supplies in the cities of Judah, and warriors, valiant men, in Jerusalem. The Lord has returned upon you all the bloodshed of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned; and the Lord has given the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. So David had captured all the sheep and the cattle which the people drove ahead of the other livestock, and they said, "This is David's spoil." Shall I overtake them?" 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.