The Philistines stood on the mountain on one side while Israel stood on the mountain on the other side, with the valley between them. And what is your request? Then Jonathan said, "Behold, we will cross over to the men and reveal ourselves to them. E Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of rams. Then David said to Abigail, "Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me, and blessed be your discernment, and blessed be you, who have kept me this day from bloodshed and from avenging myself by my own hand. And David said, "The LORD who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, He will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine " And Saul said to David, "Go, and may the LORD be with you." Then he looked and behold, there was at his head a bread cake baked on hot stones, and a jar of water. Then the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "Did I not tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?" At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam became sick. Now Jehoshaphat had great riches and honor; and he allied himself by marriage with Ahab. And he stood and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying: "Blessed be the LORD, who has given rest to His people Israel, according to all that He promised; not one word has failed of all His good promise, which He promised through Moses His servant. So Obadiah went to meet Ahab and told him; and Ahab went to meet Elijah. Then Saul sent messengers to see David, saying, "Bring him up to me on his bed, that I may put him to death." Now what more can he have but the kingdom?" "Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon, and they have come up from there rejoicing, so that the city is in an uproar. He also put away the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols which his fathers had made. Now the famine was severe in Samaria. Now Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house. Then he mustered the young men of the rulers of the provinces, and there were 232; and after them he mustered all the people, even all the sons of Israel, 7,000. What is my iniquity? N "But King Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the LORD forever." "The LORD said to him, 'How?' It happened after a while that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land. Only the trees which you know are not fruit trees you shall destroy and cut down, that you may construct siegeworks against the city that is making war with you until it falls. "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?" Then David said to himself, "Now I will perish one day by the hand of Saul. So Saul summoned all the people for war, to go down to Keilah to besiege David and his men. Now Saul was afraid of David, for the LORD was with him but had departed from Saul. He said, "What are these cities which you have given me, my brother?" But the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying, "Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying, 'Thus says the LORD, "You shall not go up or fight against your relatives; return every man to his house, for this thing is from Me."'" 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.. 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. And Jehonadab answered, "It is " Jehu said, "If it is, give me your hand." "They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the time we were with them tending the sheep. 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. And Jehu said, "For which one of us?" So the men of his city, the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had sent word to them, just as it was written in the letters which she had sent them. Then she came and told the man of God. When it was told Saul that David had escaped from Keilah, he gave up the pursuit. "The king has also sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the Cherethites, and the Pelethites; and they have made him ride on the king's mule. read more. When Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned and was dead, Jezebel said to Ahab, "Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth, the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money; for Naboth is not alive, but dead." besides that from the traders and the wares of the merchants and all the kings of the Arabs and the governors of the country. So David said to Jonathan, "Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I ought to sit down to eat with the king But let me go, that I may hide myself in the field until the third evening. And his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess. When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land As the sons of the prophets were sitting before him, he said to his servant, "Put on the large pot and boil stew for the sons of the prophets." And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and struck him and put him to death and became king in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah. The battle went heavily against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was badly wounded by the archers. 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. And when he humbled himself, the anger of the LORD turned away from him, so as not to destroy him completely; and also conditions were good in Judah. After this event Jeroboam did not return from his evil way, but again he made priests of the high places from among all the people; any who would, he ordained, to be priests of the high places. Some years later he went down to visit Ahab at Samaria. 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. When Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house And Jehu pursued him and said, "Shoot him too, in the chariot " So they shot him at the ascent of Gur, which is at Ibleam. and Baalath and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for his chariots and cities for his horsemen, and all that it pleased Solomon to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land under his rule. Then Jehu rode in a chariot and went to Jezreel, for Joram was lying there. In the fourth year the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid, in the month of Ziv. 'But to his son I will give one tribe, that My servant David may have a lamp always before Me in Jerusalem, the city where I have chosen for Myself to put My name. "Blessed be the LORD your God who delighted in you to set you on the throne of Israel; because the LORD loved Israel forever, therefore He made you king, to do justice and righteousness." 'Also let the gold and silver utensils of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the temple in Jerusalem and brought to Babylon, be returned and brought to their places in the temple in Jerusalem; and you shall put them in the house of God.' So the LORD said to Solomon, "Because you have done this, and you have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant. Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread and a jug of wine and a young goat, and sent them to Saul by David his son. "And when the LORD does for my lord according to all the good that He has spoken concerning you, and appoints you ruler over Israel, this will not cause grief or a troubled heart to my lord, both by having shed blood without cause and by my lord having avenged himself. Here I am, I must die!" 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." So the people departed. I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you; and I will make you a name like the name of the great ones who are in the earth. 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. Jezebel his wife said to him, "Do you now reign over Israel? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? WebAnd Gehazi said, My lord the king, this is the woman and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life. 6 When the king asked the woman, she told everything to him. "Are not Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Then the king of Israel called an officer and said, "Bring quickly Micaiah son of Imlah." Then he put the carved image of the idol which he had made in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever; and I will not again remove the foot of Israel from the land which I have appointed for your fathers, if only they will observe to do all that I have commanded them according to all the law, the statutes and the ordinances given through Moses." 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.' For the ark of God was at that time with the sons of Israel. And the woman said to Saul, "I see a divine being coming up out of the earth." And he answered, "Here I am, my lord." by the hand of Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month: 15 And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch David captured from him 1,700 horsemen and 20,000 foot soldiers; and David hamstrung the chariot horses, but reserved enough of them for 100 chariots. T Now Joab was over the whole army of Israel, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; The kings wrath is like the roaring of a lion,But his favor is like dew on the grass. 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. He overlaid the whole house with gold, until all the house was finished. So he departed from Elisha and returned to his master, who said to him, "What did Elisha say to you?" And Amon his son became king in his place. And the Lord anointed you king over Israel. For the LORD has called these three kings to give them into the hand of Moab." 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." And Amon his son became king in his place. Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek, while the Israelites were camping by the spring which is in Jezreel. And he answered, "What peace, so long as the harlotries of your mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?" Now the rest of all the acts of Asa and all his might and all that he did and the cities which he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? And they went by way of the Arabah. So he entered and shut the door behind them both and prayed to the LORD. 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. So the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "The LORD is righteous." Then Elisha prayed and said, "O LORD, I pray, open his eyes that he may see " And the LORD opened the servant's eyes and he saw; and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha. It came about at the end of twenty years in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD and the king's house (Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress timber and gold according to all his desire), then King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee. 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 will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and of fifties, and some to do his plowing and to reap his harvest and to make his weapons of war and equipment for his chariots. The LORD said to him, "I have heard your prayer and your supplication, which you have made before Me; I have consecrated this house which you have built by putting My name there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually. 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. "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." Micaiah said, "Behold, you will see on that day when you enter an inner room to hide yourself." But the commanders of the Philistines were angry with him, and the commanders of the Philistines said to him, "Make the man go back, that he may return to his place where you have assigned him, and do not let him go down to battle with us, or in the battle he may become an adversary to us. 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. For I brought neither my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's matter was urgent." He said, "Call her." He did much evil in the sight of the LORD provoking Him to anger. And Elisha said to him, "Where have you been, Gehazi?" "He will give up Israel on account of the sins of Jeroboam, which he committed and with which he made Israel to sin." When he came, behold, the captains of the army were sitting, and he said, "I have a word for you, O captain." So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites. "Has it not been told to my master what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of the LORD, that I hid a hundred prophets of the LORD by fifties in a cave, and provided them with bread and water? And Saul went to his home, but David and his men went up to the stronghold. Then he arose and departed and went to Samaria. He made the ten stands like this: all of them had one casting, one measure and one form. So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, "May the LORD require it at the hands of David's enemies." 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.' Your house and your kingdom shall endure before Me forever; your throne shall be established forever., Now, therefore, thus shall you say to My servant David, Thus says the Lord of hosts, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be leader over My people Israel. The Lord reigns, He is clothed with majesty;The Lord has clothed and girded Himself with strength;Indeed, the world is firmly established, it will not be moved. And there came great wrath against Israel, and they departed from him and returned to their own land. He set up priests of his own for the high places, for the satyrs and for the calves which he had made. The king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. But as for the sons of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them. A warrior is not delivered by great strength. Now therefore, please be on guard in the morning, and stay in a secret place and hide yourself. that his heart may not be lifted up above his, So he sent and brought him in. And they saddled it. Ish-bosheth, Sauls son, was forty years old when he became king over Israel, and he was king for two years. After the earthquake a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire; and after the fire a sound of a gentle blowing. He put garrisons in Edom. Ahithophel was counselor to the king; and Hushai the Archite was the kings friend. The lowest story was five cubits wide, and the middle was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide; for on the outside he made offsets in the wall of the house all around in order that the beams would not be inserted in the walls of the house. 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 Elijah said to them, "Seize the prophets of Baal; do not let one of them escape." When the letter came to them, they took the king's sons and slaughtered them, seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him at Jezreel. Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all. "Moreover, I issue a decree concerning what you are to do for these elders of Judah in the rebuilding of this house of God: the full cost is to be paid to these people from the royal treasury out of the taxes of the provinces beyond the River, and that without delay. When the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him. So he set it before them, and they ate and had some left over, according to the word of the LORD. And the Lord helped David wherever he went. And the LORD said, "Take a heifer with you and say, 'I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.' The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "I will disguise myself and go into the battle, but you put on your robes." Then he took his oldest son who was to reign in his place, and offered him as a burnt offering on the wall. He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen mother, because she had made a horrid image as an Asherah; and Asa cut down her horrid image and burned it at the brook Kidron. And she answered, "This woman said to me, 'Give your son that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.' "This woman's son died in the night, because she lay on it. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. And he said, "There remains yet the youngest, and behold, he is tending the sheep." And they went by way of the Arabah. But Jehoshaphat said, "Is there not a prophet of the LORD here, that we may inquire of the LORD by him?" Saul said to his servants who stood around him, "Hear now, O Benjamites! But they did not listen, and Manasseh seduced them to do evil more than the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the sons of Israel. And he arose by night and struck the Edomites who had surrounded him and the captains of the chariots; but his army fled to their tents. Jehoshaphat said, "The word of the LORD is with him." When you saw that Nahash the king of the sons of Ammon came against you, you said to me, No, but a king shall reign over us, although the Lord your God was your king. "So act according to your wisdom, and do not let his gray hair go down to Sheol in peace. Now God gave Solomon wisdom and very great discernment and breadth of mind, like the sand that is on the seashore. 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. "Then you shall surround the king, each with his weapons in his hand; and whoever comes within the ranks shall be put to death. "Then a spirit came forward and stood before the LORD and said, 'I will entice him.' Thus Jehu eradicated Baal out of Israel. And he came to the circle of the camp while the army was going out in battle array shouting the war cry. For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and after Milcom the detestable idol of the Ammonites. The altar also was split apart and the ashes were poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the LORD. 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. So he said, "I saw all Israel Scattered on the mountains, Like sheep which have no shepherd; And the LORD said, 'These have no master. She said to her young men, "Go on before me; behold, I am coming after you." Then his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem and buried him in his grave with his fathers in the city of David. Then David arose and cut off the edge of Saul's robe secretly. "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. Shimei then said to the king, "The word is good. "He inquired of the LORD for him, gave him provisions, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine." The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed and bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom. Then Saul sent messengers to see David, saying, "Bring him up to me on his bed, that I may put him to death." And Joram said, "Take a horseman and send him to meet them and let him say, 'Is it peace?'" And he answered, "I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do evil in the sight of the LORD. At the end of seven years, the woman returned from the land of the Philistines; and she went out to appeal to the king for her house and for her field. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high. He made his son pass through the fire, practiced witchcraft and used divination, and dealt with mediums and spiritists. So the kingdom of Jehoshaphat was at peace, for his God gave him rest on all sides. In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream at night; and God said, "Ask what you wish me to give you." The shaft of his spear was like a weaver's beam, and the head of his spear weighed six hundred shekels of iron; his shield-carrier also walked before him. But as for the sons of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them. David had also taken Ahinoam of Jezreel, and they both became his wives. Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand that is on the seashore in abundance; they were eating and drinking and rejoicing. It came about as soon as he was king, he struck down all the household of Jeroboam. Thus he set up the pillars at the porch of the nave; and he set up the right pillar and named it Jachin, and he set up the left pillar and named it Boaz. She is his mother." Those who had escaped from the sword he carried away to Babylon; and they were servants to him and to his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its sabbaths All the days of its desolation it kept sabbath until seventy years were complete. While he was still speaking, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came Then Adonijah said, "Come in, for you are a valiant man and bring good news." "For the LORD will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and He will uproot Israel from this good land which He gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they have made their Asherim, provoking the LORD to anger. 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." Thus you shall say to them, 'My little finger is thicker than my father's loins! He will tell you what will happen to the boy." Solomon reigned forty years in Jerusalem over all Israel. When Ahijah heard the sound of her feet coming in the doorway, he said, "Come in, wife of Jeroboam, why do you pretend to be another woman? Will he make you all commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds? 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. After this Jehoshaphat king of Judah allied himself with Ahaziah king of Israel. "For the LORD will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and He will uproot Israel from this good land which He gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they have made their Asherim, provoking the LORD to anger. 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." Now the king of Aram had commanded the captains of his chariots, saying, "Do not fight with small or great, but with the king of Israel alone." "Now, behold, I know that you will surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel will be established in your hand. These were the chief officers who were over Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, who ruled over the people doing the work. So David departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam; and when his brothers and all his father's household heard of it, they went down there to him. When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land As the sons of the prophets were sitting before him, he said to his servant, "Put on the large pot and boil stew for the sons of the prophets."