"After whom has the king of Israel come out? It came about as she was riding on her donkey and coming down by the hidden part of the mountain, that behold, David and his men were coming down toward her; so she met them. 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. Thus they spoke before the king. And Jehu said, "What have you to do with peace? He said, "I cannot return with you, nor go with you, nor will I eat bread or drink water with you in this place. "Moreover, the king's servants came to bless our lord King David, saying, 'May your God make the name of Solomon better than your name and his throne greater than your throne!' 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. "Let our lord now command your servants who are before you. He said, "Let him alone; let no one disturb his bones." And he said, "The LORD has not chosen this one either." What shall we do?" He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger. There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets of stone which Moses put there at Horeb, where the LORD made a covenant with the sons of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt. He said, "I cannot return with you, nor go with you, nor will I eat bread or drink water with you in this place. In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves. He was buried in his grave in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son became king in his place. So they stationed themselves against the city. V Then Samuel said to Saul, "Wait, and let me tell you what the LORD said to me last night." Then Saul commanded his servants, "Speak to David secretly, saying, 'Behold, the king delights in you, and all his servants love you; now therefore, become the king's son-in-law.'" Then Jehu said to Bidkar his officer, "Take him up and cast him into the property of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite, for I remember when you and I were riding together after Ahab his father, that the LORD laid this oracle against him: 'Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons,' says the LORD, 'and I will repay you in this property,' says the LORD. Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, O my enemy?" The Levites, from the sons of the Kohathites and of the sons of the Korahites, stood up to praise the LORD God of Israel, with a very loud voice. He said to him, "Go in peace." "This woman's son died in the night, because she lay on it. "How much more, if only the people had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies which they found! He said to him, "Far from it, you shall not die. And David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, each with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's widow. They said, "It is a lie, tell us now." 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." From the threshing floor, or from the wine press?" read more. In Jerusalem also Jehoshaphat appointed some of the Levites and priests, and some of the heads of the fathers' households of Israel, for the judgment of the LORD and to judge disputes among the inhabitants of Jerusalem. David said to Achish, "Very well, you shall know what your servant can do." Now appoint a king for us to judge us like all the nations. But the thing was displeasing in the sight of Samuel when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed to the Lord.read more.The Lord said to Samuel, Listen to the voice of the people in regard to all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me from being king over them. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD dispossessed before the sons of Israel. But his anger is toward him who acts shamefully. Then the city was broken into, and all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls beside the king's garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. Now after this it came about that David defeated the Philistines and subdued them; and David took control of the chief city from the hand of the Philistines. Jonathan then answered Saul, "David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem, for he said, 'Please let me go, since our family has a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has commanded me to attend. He walked in all the sins of his father which he had committed before him; and his heart was not wholly devoted to the LORD his God, like the heart of his father David. For the living one is my son, and the dead one is your son." Then she went in and fell at his feet and bowed herself to the ground, and she took up her son and went out. Therefore Saul took his sword and fell on it. So Judah gathered together to seek help from the LORD; they even came from all the cities of Judah to seek the LORD. Then he returned and came to Achish. When Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab arose to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it. Then he died in a ripe old age, full of days, riches and honor; and his son Solomon reigned in his place. And Shaphan read it in the presence of the king. Now it came about after these things that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard which was in Jezreel beside the palace of Ahab king of Samaria. And Hiram sent to the king 120 talents of gold. So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him. And he said to him, "Speak!" 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. King David also dedicated these to the Lord with the silver and the gold which he had carried away from all the nations: from Edom, Moab, the sons of Ammon, the Philistines, and from Amalek. Now then, take and cast him into the property, according to the word of the LORD. 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. '", "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. Now Saul and his son Jonathan and the people who were present with them were staying in Geba of Benjamin while the Philistines camped at Michmash. "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. He overlaid the whole house with gold, until all the house was finished. So Jehoash slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son became king in his place. It happened after a while that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land. "Now behold, the sons of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom You did not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt (they turned aside from them and did not destroy them), see how they are rewarding us by coming to drive us out from Your possession which You have given us as an inheritance. So he called her. Then Solomon said, "The LORD has said that He would dwell in the thick cloud. Then David slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David. read more. And each one of them took his men who were to come in on the sabbath, with those who were to go out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest. For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.. When he came, behold, the captains of the army were sitting, and he said, "I have a word for you, O captain." Shall I overtake them?" Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. but My lovingkindness shall not depart from him, as I took it away from Saul, whom I removed from before you. "Once I have sworn by My holiness; I will not lie to David. And it was pleasing in the sight of all the people and also in the sight of Saul's servants. 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." Who?" But the poles were so long that the ends of the poles could be seen from the holy place before the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen outside; they are there to this day. WebIsaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 14 helpful votesHelpfulNot Helpful. When all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, "What portion do we have in David? So 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. The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed and bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom. But Jehoshaphat was not willing. Now the famine was severe in Samaria. Then it happened when the Philistine rose and came and drew near to meet David, that David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet the Philistine. But David's men said to him, "Behold, we are afraid here in Judah. Now the word of the LORD came to Solomon saying, "Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in My statutes and execute My ordinances and keep all My commandments by walking in them, then I will carry out My word with you which I spoke to David your father. Now when Saul returned from pursuing the Philistines, he was told, saying, "Behold, David is in the wilderness of Engedi." Then Saul said to his servants, "Seek for me a woman who is a medium, that I may go to her and inquire of her." He said, "Go up and succeed, for they will be given into your hand." He did evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. Everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented gathered to him; and he became captain over them. The house, that is, the nave in front of the inner sanctuary, was forty cubits long. In the third year Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel. After this Jehoshaphat king of Judah allied himself with Ahaziah king of Israel. And he said, "Peacefully." "Besides, Solomon has even taken his seat on the throne of the kingdom. 'Tomorrow go down against them. 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. 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 came about in the four hundred and eightieth year after the sons of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomons reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the, Then Solomon began to build the house of the. "But will God indeed dwell on the earth? 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 Saul went up from pursuing the Philistines, and the Philistines went to their own place. He acted valiantly and defeated the Amalekites, and delivered Israel from the hands of those who plundered them. Now after this it came about that David defeated the Philistines and subdued them and took Gath and its towns from the hand of the Philistines. Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, "Come, let us face each other." 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. 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." David had also taken Ahinoam of Jezreel, and they both became his wives. "Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this one to act the madman in my presence? And where are you from?" Now afterward David arose and went out of the cave and called after Saul, saying, My lord the king! And when Saul looked behind him, Joab fell on his face to the ground, prostrated himself and blessed the king; then Joab said, Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, O my lord, the king, in that the king has performed the. Return, my son David, for I will not harm you again because my life was precious in your sight this day. Then he opened the door and fled. When he came to the king, the king said to him, "Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I refrain?" When all the men of Israel saw the man, they fled from him and were greatly afraid. Then there was no harm in the pot. Now a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to another by the word of the LORD, "Please strike me." Is it well with the child?'" Then Samuel said to Jesse, "Send and bring him; for we will not sit down until he comes here." "May the God who has caused His name to dwell there overthrow any king or people who attempts to change it, so as to destroy this house of God in Jerusalem. Or how can you say to your brother, Let me take the speck out of your eye, when there is the log in your own eye? "Why then did you not obey the voice of the LORD, but rushed upon the spoil and did what was evil in the sight of the LORD?" When the words which David spoke were heard, they told them to Saul, and he sent for him. Return, my son David, for I will not harm you again because my life was precious in your sight this day. Ahab said, "By whom?" Who then is the faithful and sensible slave whom his master put in charge of his household to give them their food at the proper time? But Amaziah would not listen. And he answered, "I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do evil in the sight of the LORD. Ben-hadad sent to him and said, "May the gods do so to me and more also, if the dust of Samaria will suffice for handfuls for all the people who follow me." Then Jehu said to Bidkar his officer, "Take him up and cast him into the property of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite, for I remember when you and I were riding together after Ahab his father, that the LORD laid this oracle against him: 'Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons,' says the LORD, 'and I will repay you in this property,' says the LORD. So the priests agreed that they would take no more money from the people, nor repair the damages of the house. Then Saul became very angry, for this saying displeased him; and he said, "They have ascribed to David ten thousands, but to me they have ascribed thousands. 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. Thus the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years. Please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak favorably." At the turn of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon with the valuable articles of the house of the LORD, and he made his kinsman Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem. 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. which He will bring about at the proper timeHe who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see. Therefore it is necessary to be in subjection, not only because of wrath, but also for conscience sake. So the great court all around had three rows of cut stone and a row of cedar beams even as the inner court of the house of the LORD, and the porch of the house. "Now then send and gather to me all Israel at Mount Carmel, together with 450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of the Asherah, who eat at Jezebel's table." KJ21. 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. When the word reached the king of Nineveh, he arose from his throne, laid aside his robe from him, On an appointed day Herod, having put on his royal apparel, took his seat on the, 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, Moreover, the king made a great throne of, And the righteous scepter is the scepter of, All the kings servants and the people of the kings provinces know that for any man or woman who. Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: But the LORD said to Samuel, "Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart." Then Joram said, "Get ready." Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. For because of this you also pay taxes, for rulers are servants of God, devoting themselves to this very thing. Isaiah 15:6 For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing. The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. And she said, "Your maidservant has nothing in the house except a jar of oil." Why did this mad fellow come to you?" 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. He did away with the horses which the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the official, which was in the precincts; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire. Judah was defeated by Israel, and they fled each to his tent. But Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole in its lid and put it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into the house of the LORD; and the priests who guarded the threshold put in it all the money which was brought into the house of the LORD. Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath. When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, "Is this you, you troubler of Israel?" "O our God, will You not judge them? When she came to Solomon, she spoke with him about all that was in her heart. Saul sent to Jesse, saying, "Let David now stand before me, for he has found favor in my sight." Then Ahaziah the son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, "Let my servants go with your servants in the ships." He arose and went into the house, and he poured the oil on his head and said to him, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'I have anointed you king over the people of the LORD, even over Israel. 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. So David said to Saul, "I cannot go with these, for I have not tested them." "When I rose in the morning to nurse my son, behold, he was dead; but when I looked at him carefully in the morning, behold, he was not my son, whom I had borne." First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men, for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity. It shall be with him and he shall read it. Ben-hadad said to him, "The cities which my father took from your father I will restore, and you shall make streets for yourself in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria." But the other said, "He shall be neither mine nor yours; divide him!" Then David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, "Please bring me the ephod." When there was war again, David went out and fought with the Philistines and defeated them with great slaughter, so that they fled before him. Now they found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David, and gave him bread and he ate, and they provided him water to drink. Then he said, "If they have come out for peace, take them alive; or if they have come out for war, take them alive." After all, a king who cultivates the field is an advantage to the land. I will also appoint a place for My people Israel and will plant them, that they may live in their own place and not be disturbed again, nor will the wicked afflict them any more as formerly,read more.even from the day that I commanded judges to be over My people Israel; and I will give you rest from all your enemies. Thus Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel. Then he went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised in his own heart; and he instituted a feast for the sons of Israel and went up to the altar to burn incense. Then he said to him, "Did not my heart go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? But Amaziah would not listen. Pharaoh arose in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians, and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was no home where there was not someone dead. There are many servants today who are each breaking away from his master. And Saul said, "Because I saw that the people were scattering from me, and that you did not come within the appointed days, and that the Philistines were assembling at Michmash, therefore I said, 'Now the Philistines will come down against me at Gilgal, and I have not asked the favor of the LORD.' Now the rest of the acts of Joash and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? And he said, "I am a young man of Egypt, a servant of an Amalekite; and my master left me behind when I fell sick three days ago. Behold, I have played the fool and have committed a serious error." So it came about at the time when Merab, Saul's daughter, should have been given to David, that she was given to Adriel the Meholathite for a wife. And all the kings of the earth were seeking the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom which God had put in his heart. So it has been from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel to this day. Elijah took the child and brought him down from the upper room into the house and gave him to his mother; and Elijah said, "See, your son is alive." 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! Now it was told Solomon, saying, "Behold, Adonijah is afraid of King Solomon, for behold, he has taken hold of the horns of the altar, saying, 'Let King Solomon swear to me today that he will not put his servant to death with the sword.'" Jonathan made David vow again because of his love for him, because he loved him as he loved his own life. He cried against the altar by the word of the LORD, and said, "O altar, altar, thus says the LORD, 'Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name; and on you he shall sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and human bones shall be burned on you.'" Elijah said, "As the LORD of hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today." read more. He set up the altar of the LORD and sacrificed peace offerings and thank offerings on it; and he ordered Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel. When he had consulted with the people, he appointed those who sang to the LORD and those who praised Him in holy attire, as they went out before the army and said, "Give thanks to the LORD, for His lovingkindness is everlasting." Then 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? You are to keep My statutes. "May the LORD judge between you and me, and may the LORD avenge me on you; but my hand shall not be against you. 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. Therefore now, send and bring him to me, for he must surely die." The days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years he reigned in Hebron and thirty-three years he reigned in Jerusalem. 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." 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." 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 built the house of the forest of Lebanon; its length was 100 cubits and its width 50 cubits and its height 30 cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars with cedar beams on the pillars.