# bible

book: 2Samuel
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  David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” And Nathan said to David, “The LORD also has put away your sin; you shall not die.


book: 2Samuel
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  Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly scorned the LORD, the child who is born to you shall die.”


book: 2Samuel
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  Then Nathan went to his house. And the LORD afflicted the child that Uriah’s wife bore to David, and he became sick.


book: 2Samuel
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  David therefore sought God on behalf of the child. And David fasted and went in and lay all night on the ground.


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  And the elders of his house stood beside him, to raise him from the ground, but he would not, nor did he eat food with them.


book: 2Samuel
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  On the seventh day the child died. And the servants of David were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he did not listen to us. How then can we say to him the child is dead? He may do himself some harm.”


book: 2Samuel
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  But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David understood that the child was dead. And David said to his servants, “Is the child dead?” They said, “He is dead.”


book: 2Samuel
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  Then David arose from the earth and washed and anointed himself and changed his clothes. And he went into the house of the LORD and worshiped. He then went to his own house. And when he asked, they set food before him, and he ate.


book: 2Samuel
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  Then his servants said to him, “What is this thing that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive; but when the child died, you arose and ate food.”


book: 2Samuel
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  He said, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, ‘Who knows whether the LORD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?’


book: 2Samuel
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  But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.”


book: 2Samuel
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  Then David comforted his wife, Bathsheba, and went in to her and lay with her, and she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. And the LORD loved him


book: 2Samuel
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  And Joab sent messengers to David and said, “I have fought against Rabbah; moreover, I have taken the city of waters.


book: 2Samuel
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  Now then gather the rest of the people together and encamp against the city and take it, lest I take the city and it be called by my name.”


book: 2Samuel
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  And he took the crown of their king from his head. The weight of it was a talent of gold, and in it was a precious stone, and it was placed on David’s head. And he brought out the spoil of the city, a very great amount.


book: 2Samuel
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  And he brought out the people who were in it and set them to labor with saws and iron picks and iron axes and made them toil at the brick kilns. And thus he did to all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem. 


book: 2Samuel
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  Now Absalom, David’s son, had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar. And after a time Amnon, David’s son, loved her.


book: 2Samuel
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  And Amnon was so tormented that he made himself ill because of his sister Tamar, for she was a virgin, and it seemed impossible to Amnon to do anything to her.


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  But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David’s brother. And Jonadab was a very crafty man.


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  And he said to him, “O son of the king, why are you so haggard morning after morning? Will you not tell me?” Amnon said to him, “I love Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.”


book: 2Samuel
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  Jonadab said to him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend to be ill. And when your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Let my sister Tamar come and give me bread to eat, and prepare the food in my sight, that I may see it and eat it from her hand.’”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
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  So Amnon lay down and pretended to be ill. And when the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king, “Please let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat from her hand.”


book: 2Samuel
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  So Tamar went to her brother Amnon’s house, where he was lying down. And she took dough and kneaded it and made cakes in his sight and baked the cakes.


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  And she took the pan and emptied it out before him, but he refused to eat. And Amnon said, “Send out everyone from me.” So everyone went out from him.


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  Then Amnon said to Tamar, “Bring the food into the chamber, that I may eat from your hand.” And Tamar took the cakes she had made and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother.


book: 2Samuel
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  But when she brought them near him to eat, he took hold of her and said to her, “Come, lie with me, my sister.”


book: 2Samuel
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  She answered him, “No, my brother, do not violate me, for such a thing is not done in Israel; do not do this outrageous thing.


book: 2Samuel
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  As for me, where could I carry my shame? And as for you, you would be as one of the outrageous fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.”


book: 2Samuel
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  Then Amnon hated her with very great hatred, so that the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. And Amnon said to her, “Get up! Go!”


book: 2Samuel
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  But she said to him, “No, my brother, for this wrong in sending me away is greater than the other that you did to me.” But he would not listen to her.


book: 2Samuel
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  He called the young man who served him and said, “Put this woman out of my presence and bolt the door after her.”


book: 2Samuel
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  Now she was wearing a long robe with sleeves, for thus were the virgin daughters of the king dressed. So his servant put her out and bolted the door after her.


book: 2Samuel
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  And Tamar put ashes on her head and tore the long robe that she wore. And she laid her hand on her head and went away, crying aloud as she went.


book: 2Samuel
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  And her brother Absalom said to her, “Has Amnon your brother been with you? Now hold your peace, my sister. He is your brother; do not take this to heart.” So Tamar lived, a desolate woman, in her brother Absalom’s house.


book: 2Samuel
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  But Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad, for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had violated his sister Tamar.


book: 2Samuel
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  After two full years Absalom had sheepshearers at Baal-hazor, which is near Ephraim, and Absalom invited all the king’s sons.


book: 2Samuel
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  And Absalom came to the king and said, “Behold, your servant has sheepshearers. Please let the king and his servants go with your servant.”


book: 2Samuel
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  But the king said to Absalom, “No, my son, let us not all go, lest we be burdensome to you.” He pressed him, but he would not go but gave him his blessing.


book: 2Samuel
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  Then Absalom said, “If not, please let my brother Amnon go with us.” And the king said to him, “Why should he go with you?”


book: 2Samuel
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  Then Absalom commanded his servants, “Mark when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Do not fear; have I not commanded you? Be courageous and be valiant.”


book: 2Samuel
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  So the servants of Absalom did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king’s sons arose, and each mounted his mule and fled.


book: 2Samuel
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  While they were on the way, news came to David, “Absalom has struck down all the king’s sons, and not one of them is left.”


book: 2Samuel
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  Then the king arose and tore his garments and lay on the earth. And all his servants who were standing by tore their garments.


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  But Jonadab the son of Shimeah, David’s brother, said, “Let not my lord suppose that they have killed all the young men, the king’s sons, for Amnon alone is dead. For by the command of Absalom this has been determined from the day he violated his sister Tamar.


book: 2Samuel
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  Now therefore let not my lord the king so take it to heart as to suppose that all the king’s sons are dead, for Amnon alone is dead.”


book: 2Samuel
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  But Absalom fled. And the young man who kept the watch lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, many people were coming from the road behind him by the side of the mountain.


book: 2Samuel
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  And Jonadab said to the king, “Behold, the king’s sons have come; as your servant said, so it has come about.”


book: 2Samuel
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  And as soon as he had finished speaking, behold, the king’s sons came and lifted up their voice and wept. And the king also and all his servants wept very bitterly.


book: 2Samuel
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  But Absalom fled and went to Talmai the son of Ammihud, king of Geshur. And David mourned for his son day after day.


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  And the spirit of the king longed to go out to Absalom, because he was comforted about Amnon, since he was dead. 


book: 2Samuel
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  And Joab sent to Tekoa and brought from there a wise woman and said to her, “Pretend to be a mourner and put on mourning garments. Do not anoint yourself with oil, but behave like a woman who has been mourning many days for the dead.


book: 2Samuel
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  When the woman of Tekoa came to the king, she fell on her face to the ground and paid homage and said, “Save me, O king.”


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  And the king said to her, “What is your trouble?” She answered, “Alas, I am a widow; my husband is dead.


book: 2Samuel
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  And your servant had two sons, and they quarreled with one another in the field. There was no one to separate them, and one struck the other and killed him.


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  And now the whole clan has risen against your servant, and they say, ‘Give up the man who struck his brother, that we may put him to death for the life of his brother whom he killed.’ And so they would destroy the heir also. Thus they would quench my coal that is left and leave to my husband neither name nor remnant on the face of the earth.”


book: 2Samuel
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  And the woman of Tekoa said to the king, “On me be the guilt, my lord the king, and on my father’s house; let the king and his throne be guiltless.”


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  The king said, “If anyone says anything to you, bring him to me, and he shall never touch you again.”


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  Then she said, “Please let the king invoke the LORD your God, that the avenger of blood kill no more, and my son be not destroyed.” He said, “As the LORD lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the ground.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
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  And the woman said, “Why then have you planned such a thing against the people of God? For in giving this decision the king convicts himself, inasmuch as the king does not bring his banished one home again.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
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  We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. But God will not take away life, and he devises means so that the banished one will not remain an outcast.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
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  Now I have come to say this to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid, and your servant thought, ‘I will speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.


book: 2Samuel
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  For the king will hear and deliver his servant from the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together from the heritage of God.’


book: 2Samuel
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  And your servant thought, ‘The word of my lord the king will set me at rest,’ for my lord the king is like the angel of God to discern good and evil. The LORD your God be with you!”


book: 2Samuel
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  Then the king answered the woman, “Do not hide from me anything I ask you.” And the woman said, “Let my lord the king speak.”


book: 2Samuel
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  The king said, “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?” The woman answered and said, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, one cannot turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has said. It was your servant Joab who commanded me; it was he who put all these words in the mouth of your servant.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
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  In order to change the course of things your servant Joab did this. But my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God to know all things that are on the earth.”


book: 2Samuel
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  And Joab fell on his face to the ground and paid homage and blessed the king. And Joab said, “Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord the king, in that the king has granted the request of his servant.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
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  And the king said, “Let him dwell apart in his own house; he is not to come into my presence.” So Absalom lived apart in his own house and did not come into the king’s presence.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
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  Now in all Israel there was no one so much to be praised for his handsome appearance as Absalom. From the sole of his foot to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.


book: 2Samuel
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  And when he cut the hair of his head (for at the end of every year he used to cut it; when it was heavy on him, he cut it), he weighed the hair of his head, two hundred shekels by the king’s weight.


book: 2Samuel
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  There were born to Absalom three sons, and one daughter whose name was Tamar. She was a beautiful woman.


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  Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king, but Joab would not come to him. And he sent a second time, but Joab would not come.


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  Then he said to his servants, “See, Joab’s field is next to mine, and he has barley there; go and set it on fire.” So Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.


book: 2Samuel
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  Then Joab arose and went to Absalom at his house and said to him, “Why have your servants set my field on fire?”


book: 2Samuel
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  Absalom answered Joab, “Behold, I sent word to you, ‘Come here, that I may send you to the king, to ask, “Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still.” Now therefore let me go into the presence of the king, and if there is guilt in me, let him put me to death.’”


book: 2Samuel
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  Then Joab went to the king and told him, and he summoned Absalom. So he came to the king and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king, and the king kissed Absalom. 


book: 2Samuel
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  And Absalom used to rise early and stand beside the way of the gate. And when any man had a dispute to come before the king for judgment, Absalom would call to him and say, “From what city are you?” And when he said, “Your servant is of such and such a tribe in Israel,”


book: 2Samuel
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  Absalom would say to him, “See, your claims are good and right, but there is no man designated by the king to hear you.”


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  Then Absalom would say, “Oh that I were judge in the land! Then every man with a dispute or cause might come to me, and I would give him justice.”


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  And whenever a man came near to pay homage to him, he would put out his hand and take hold of him and kiss him.


book: 2Samuel
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  Thus Absalom did to all of Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.


book: 2Samuel
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  And at the end of four years Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to the LORD, in Hebron.


book: 2Samuel
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  For your servant vowed a vow while I lived at Geshur in Aram, saying, ‘If the LORD will indeed bring me back to Jerusalem, then I will offer worship to the LORD.’”


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  But Absalom sent secret messengers throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then say, ‘Absalom is king at Hebron!’”


book: 2Samuel
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  With Absalom went two hundred men from Jerusalem who were invited guests, and they went in their innocence and knew nothing.


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  And while Absalom was offering the sacrifices, he sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city Giloh. And the conspiracy grew strong, and the people with Absalom kept increasing.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
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  Then David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, “Arise, and let us flee, or else there will be no escape for us from Absalom. Go quickly, lest he overtake us quickly and bring down ruin on us and strike the city with the edge of the sword.”


book: 2Samuel
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  And the king’s servants said to the king, “Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king decides.”


book: 2Samuel
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  So the king went out, and all his household after him. And the king left ten concubines to keep the house.


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  And all his servants passed by him, and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the six hundred Gittites who had followed him from Gath, passed on before the king.


book: 2Samuel
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  Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why do you also go with us? Go back and stay with the king, for you are a foreigner and also an exile from your home.


book: 2Samuel
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  You came only yesterday, and shall I today make you wander about with us, since I go I know not where? Go back and take your brothers with you, and may the LORD show steadfast love and faithfulness to you.”


book: 2Samuel
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  But Ittai answered the king, “As the LORD lives, and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king shall be, whether for death or for life, there also will your servant be.”


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  And David said to Ittai, “Go then, pass on.” So Ittai the Gittite passed on with all his men and all the little ones who were with him.


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  And all the land wept aloud as all the people passed by, and the king crossed the brook Kidron, and all the people passed on toward the wilderness.


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  And Abiathar came up, and behold, Zadok came also with all the Levites, bearing the ark of the covenant of God. And they set down the ark of God until the people had all passed out of the city.


book: 2Samuel
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  Then the king said to Zadok, “Carry the ark of God back into the city. If I find favor in the eyes of the LORD, he will bring me back and let me see both it and his dwelling place.


book: 2Samuel
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  But if he says, ‘I have no pleasure in you,’ behold, here I am, let him do to me what seems good to him.”


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  The king also said to Zadok the priest, “Are you not a seer? Go back to the city in peace, with your two sons, Ahimaaz your son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.


book: 2Samuel
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  But David went up the ascent of the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went, barefoot and with his head covered. And all the people who were with him covered their heads, and they went up, weeping as they went.


book: 2Samuel
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  And it was told David, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” And David said, “O LORD, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”


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  While David was coming to the summit, where God was worshiped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat torn and dirt on his head.


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  But if you return to the city and say to Absalom, ‘I will be your servant, O king; as I have been your father’s servant in time past, so now I will be your servant,’ then you will defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.


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  Are not Zadok and Abiathar the priests with you there? So whatever you hear from the king’s house, tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.


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  Behold, their two sons are with them there, Ahimaaz, Zadok’s son, and Jonathan, Abiathar’s son, and by them you shall send to me everything you hear.”


book: 2Samuel
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  When David had passed a little beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of donkeys saddled, bearing two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred bunches of raisins, a hundred of summer fruits, and a skin of wine.


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  And the king said to Ziba, “Why have you brought these?” Ziba answered, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride on, the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat, and the wine for those who faint in the wilderness to drink.”


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  And the king said, “And where is your master’s son?” Ziba said to the king, “Behold, he remains in Jerusalem, for he said, ‘Today the house of Israel will give me back the kingdom of my father.’”


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  Then the king said to Ziba, “Behold, all that belonged to Mephibosheth is now yours.” And Ziba said, “I pay homage; let me ever find favor in your sight, my lord the king.”


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  When King David came to Bahurim, there came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera, and as he came he cursed continually.


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  And he threw stones at David and at all the servants of King David, and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.


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  The LORD has avenged on you all the blood 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. See, your evil is on you, for you are a man of blood.”


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  Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over and take off his head.”


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  But the king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? If he is cursing because the LORD has said to him, ‘Curse David,’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’”


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  And David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, my own son seeks my life; how much more now may this Benjaminite! Leave him alone, and let him curse, for the LORD has told him to.


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  It may be that the LORD will look on the wrong done to me, and that the LORD will repay me with good for his cursing today.”


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  So David and his men went on the road, while Shimei went along on the hillside opposite him and cursed as he went and threw stones at him and flung dust.


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  And the king, and all the people who were with him, arrived weary at the Jordan. And there he refreshed himself.


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  And when Hushai the Archite, David’s friend, came to Absalom, Hushai said to Absalom, “Long live the king! Long live the king!”


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  And Absalom said to Hushai, “Is this your loyalty to your friend? Why did you not go with your friend?”


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  And Hushai said to Absalom, “No, for whom the LORD and this people and all the men of Israel have chosen, his I will be, and with him I will remain.


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  And again, whom should I serve? Should it not be his son? As I have served your father, so I will serve you.”


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  Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Go in to your father’s concubines, whom he has left to keep the house, and all Israel will hear that you have made yourself a stench to your father, and the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened.”


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  So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof. And Absalom went in to his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.


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  Now in those days the counsel that Ahithophel gave was as if one consulted the word of God; so was all the counsel of Ahithophel esteemed, both by David and by Absalom. 


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  Moreover, Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue David tonight.


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  I will come upon him while he is weary and discouraged and throw him into a panic, and all the people who are with him will flee. I will strike down only the king,


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  and I will bring all the people back to you as a bride comes home to her husband. You seek the life of only one man, and all the people will be at peace.”


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  And when Hushai came to Absalom, Absalom said to him, “Thus has Ahithophel spoken; shall we do as he says? If not, you speak.”


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  Hushai said, “You know that your father and his men are mighty men, and that they are enraged, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Besides, your father is expert in war; he will not spend the night with the people.


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  Behold, even now he has hidden himself in one of the pits or in some other place. And as soon as some of the people fall at the first attack, whoever hears it will say, ‘There has been a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom.’


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  Then even the valiant man, whose heart is like the heart of a lion, will utterly melt with fear, for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and that those who are with him are valiant men.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  But my counsel is that all Israel be gathered to you, from Dan to Beersheba, as the sand by the sea for multitude, and that you go to battle in person.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  So we shall come upon him in some place where he is to be found, and we shall light upon him as the dew falls on the ground, and of him and all the men with him not one will be left.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  If he withdraws into a city, then all Israel will bring ropes to that city, and we shall drag it into the valley, until not even a pebble is to be found there.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For the LORD had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, so that the LORD might bring harm upon Absalom.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Then Hushai said to Zadok and Abiathar the priests, “Thus and so did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel, and thus and so have I counseled.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Now therefore send quickly and tell David, ‘Do not stay tonight at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over, lest the king and all the people who are with him be swallowed up.’”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were waiting at En-rogel. A female servant was to go and tell them, and they were to go and tell King David, for they were not to be seen entering the city.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  But a young man saw them and told Absalom. So both of them went away quickly and came to the house of a man at Bahurim, who had a well in his courtyard. And they went down into it.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And the woman took and spread a covering over the well’s mouth and scattered grain on it, and nothing was known of it.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  When Absalom’s servants came to the woman at the house, they said, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” And the woman said to them, “They have gone over the brook of water.” And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  After they had gone, the men came up out of the well, and went and told King David. They said to David, “Arise, and go quickly over the water, for thus and so has Ahithophel counseled against you.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Then David arose, and all the people who were with him, and they crossed the Jordan. By daybreak not one was left who had not crossed the Jordan.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey and went off home to his own city. He set his house in order and hanged himself, and he died and was buried in the tomb of his father.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Now Absalom had set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra the Ishmaelite, who had married Abigal the daughter of Nahash, sister of Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  When David came to Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash from Rabbah of the Ammonites, and Machir the son of Ammiel from Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim,


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  honey and curds and sheep and cheese from the herd, for David and the people with him to eat, for they said, “The people are hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness.” 


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Then David mustered the men who were with him and set over them commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And David sent out the army, one third under the command of Joab, one third under the command of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, and one third under the command of Ittai the Gittite. And the king said to the men, “I myself will also go out with you.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  But the men said, “You shall not go out. For if we flee, they will not care about us. If half of us die, they will not care about us. But you are worth ten thousand of us. Therefore it is better that you send us help from the city.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  The king said to them, “Whatever seems best to you I will do.” So the king stood at the side of the gate, while all the army marched out by hundreds and by thousands.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And the king ordered Joab and Abishai and Ittai, “Deal gently for my sake with the young man Absalom.” And all the people heard when the king gave orders to all the commanders about Absalom.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  So the army went out into the field against Israel, and the battle was fought in the forest of Ephraim.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And the men of Israel were defeated there by the servants of David, and the loss there was great on that day, twenty thousand men.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  The battle spread over the face of all the country, and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And Absalom happened to meet the servants of David. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a great oak, and his head caught fast in the oak, and he was suspended between heaven and earth, while the mule that was under him went on.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Joab said to the man who told him, “What, you saw him! Why then did you not strike him there to the ground? I would have been glad to give you ten pieces of silver and a belt.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  But the man said to Joab, “Even if I felt in my hand the weight of a thousand pieces of silver, I would not reach out my hand against the king’s son, for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, ‘For my sake protect the young man Absalom.’


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  On the other hand, if I had dealt treacherously against his life (and there is nothing hidden from the king), then you yourself would have stood aloof.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Joab said, “I will not waste time like this with you.” And he took three javelins in his hand and thrust them into the heart of Absalom while he was still alive in the oak.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Then Joab blew the trumpet, and the troops came back from pursuing Israel, for Joab restrained them.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And they took Absalom and threw him into a great pit in the forest and raised over him a very great heap of stones. And all Israel fled every one to his own home.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up for himself the pillar that is in the King’s Valley, for he said, “I have no son to keep my name in remembrance.” He called the pillar after his own name, and it is called Absalom’s monument to this day.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, “Let me run and carry news to the king that the LORD has delivered him from the hand of his enemies.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And Joab said to him, “You are not to carry news today. You may carry news another day, but today you shall carry no news, because the king’s son is dead.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Then Joab said to the Cushite, “Go, tell the king what you have seen.” The Cushite bowed before Joab, and ran.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said again to Joab, “Come what may, let me also run after the Cushite.” And Joab said, “Why will you run, my son, seeing that you will have no reward for the news?”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  “Come what may,” he said, “I will run.” So he said to him, “Run.” Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and outran the Cushite.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Now David was sitting between the two gates, and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate by the wall, and when he lifted up his eyes and looked, he saw a man running alone.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  The watchman called out and told the king. And the king said, “If he is alone, there is news in his mouth.” And he drew nearer and nearer.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  The watchman saw another man running. And the watchman called to the gate and said, “See, another man running alone!” The king said, “He also brings news.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  The watchman said, “I think the running of the first is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok.” And the king said, “He is a good man and comes with good news.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Then Ahimaaz cried out to the king, “All is well.” And he bowed before the king with his face to the earth and said, “Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delivered up the men who raised their hand against my lord the king.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And the king said, “Is it well with the young man Absalom?” Ahimaaz answered, “When Joab sent the king’s servant, your servant, I saw a great commotion, but I do not know what it was.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And behold, the Cushite came, and the Cushite said, “Good news for my lord the king! For the LORD has delivered you this day from the hand of all who rose up against you.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  The king said to the Cushite, “Is it well with the young man Absalom?” And the Cushite answered, “May the enemies of my lord the king and all who rise up against you for evil be like that young man.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And the king was deeply moved and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept. And as he went, he said, “O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!” 


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  So the victory that day was turned into mourning for all the people, for the people heard that day, “The king is grieving for his son.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And the people stole into the city that day as people steal in who are ashamed when they flee in battle.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, “O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Then Joab came into the house to the king and said, “You have today covered with shame the faces of all your servants, who have this day saved your life and the lives of your sons and your daughters and the lives of your wives and your concubines,


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  because you love those who hate you and hate those who love you. For you have made it clear today that commanders and servants are nothing to you, for today I know that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead today, then you would be pleased.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Now therefore arise, go out and speak kindly to your servants, for I swear by the LORD, if you do not go, not a man will stay with you this night, and this will be worse for you than all the evil that has come upon you from your youth until now.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Then the king arose and took his seat in the gate. And the people were all told, “Behold, the king is sitting in the gate.” And all the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his own home.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And all the people were arguing throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “The king delivered us from the hand of our enemies and saved us from the hand of the Philistines, and now he has fled out of the land from Absalom.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  But Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why do you say nothing about bringing the king back?”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And King David sent this message to Zadok and Abiathar the priests: “Say to the elders of Judah, ‘Why should you be the last to bring the king back to his house, when the word of all Israel has come to the king?


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  You are my brothers; you are my bone and my flesh. Why then should you be the last to bring back the king?’


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my bone and my flesh? God do so to me and more also, if you are not commander of my army from now on in place of Joab.’”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And he swayed the heart of all the men of Judah as one man, so that they sent word to the king, “Return, both you and all your servants.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  So the king came back to the Jordan, and Judah came to Gilgal to meet the king and to bring the king over the Jordan.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, from Bahurim, hurried to come down with the men of Judah to meet King David.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And with him were a thousand men from Benjamin. And Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, with his fifteen sons and his twenty servants, rushed down to the Jordan before the king,


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  and they crossed the ford to bring over the king’s household and to do his pleasure. And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, as he was about to cross the Jordan,


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  and said to the king, “Let not my lord hold me guilty or remember how your servant did wrong on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem. Do not let the king take it to heart.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  For your servant knows that I have sinned. Therefore, behold, I have come this day, the first of all the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, “Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD’s anointed?”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  But David said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should this day be as an adversary to me? Shall anyone be put to death in Israel this day? For do I not know that I am this day king over Israel?”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king. He had neither taken care of his feet nor trimmed his beard nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came back in safety.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And when he came to Jerusalem to meet the king, the king said to him, “Why did you not go with me, Mephibosheth?”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  He answered, “My lord, O king, my servant deceived me, for your servant said to him, ‘I will saddle a donkey for myself, that I may ride on it and go with the king.’ For your servant is lame.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  He has slandered your servant to my lord the king. But my lord the king is like the angel of God; do therefore what seems good to you.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  For all my father’s house were but men doomed to death before my lord the king, but you set your servant among those who eat at your table. What further right have I, then, to cry to the king?”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And the king said to him, “Why speak any more of your affairs? I have decided: you and Ziba shall divide the land.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And Mephibosheth said to the king, “Oh, let him take it all, since my lord the king has come safely home.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Now Barzillai the Gileadite had come down from Rogelim, and he went on with the king to the Jordan, to escort him over the Jordan.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Barzillai was a very aged man, eighty years old. He had provided the king with food while he stayed at Mahanaim, for he was a very wealthy man.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And the king said to Barzillai, “Come over with me, and I will provide for you with me in Jerusalem.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  But Barzillai said to the king, “How many years have I still to live, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  I am this day eighty years old. Can I discern what is pleasant and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or what he drinks? Can I still listen to the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Your servant will go a little way over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward?


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Please let your servant return, that I may die in my own city near the grave of my father and my mother. But here is your servant Chimham. Let him go over with my lord the king, and do for him whatever seems good to you.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And the king answered, “Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do for him whatever seems good to you, and all that you desire of me I will do for you.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Then all the people went over the Jordan, and the king went over. And the king kissed Barzillai and blessed him, and he returned to his own home.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  The king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him. All the people of Judah, and also half the people of Israel, brought the king on his way.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Then all the men of Israel came to the king and said to the king, “Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away and brought the king and his household over the Jordan, and all David’s men with him?”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, “Because the king is our close relative. Why then are you angry over this matter? Have we eaten at all at the king’s expense? Or has he given us any gift?”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, “We have ten shares in the king, and in David also we have more than you. Why then did you despise us? Were we not the first to speak of bringing back our king?” But the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel. 


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Now there happened to be there a worthless man, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjaminite. And he blew the trumpet and said, “We have no portion in David, and we have no inheritance in the son of Jesse; every man to his tents, O Israel!”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  So all the men of Israel withdrew from David and followed Sheba the son of Bichri. But the men of Judah followed their king steadfastly from the Jordan to Jerusalem.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And David came to his house at Jerusalem. And the king took the ten concubines whom he had left to care for the house and put them in a house under guard and provided for them, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up until the day of their death, living as if in widowhood.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Then the king said to Amasa, “Call the men of Judah together to me within three days, and be here yourself.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom. Take your lord’s servants and pursue him, lest he get himself to fortified cities and escape from us.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And there went out after him Joab’s men and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men. They went out from Jerusalem to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  When they were at the great stone that is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. Now Joab was wearing a soldier’s garment, and over it was a belt with a sword in its sheath fastened on his thigh, and as he went forward it fell out.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And Joab said to Amasa, “Is it well with you, my brother?” And Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  But Amasa did not observe the sword that was in Joab’s hand. So Joab struck him with it in the stomach and spilled his entrails to the ground without striking a second blow, and he died. Then Joab and Abishai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And one of Joab’s young men took his stand by Amasa and said, “Whoever favors Joab, and whoever is for David, let him follow Joab.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the highway. And anyone who came by, seeing him, stopped. And when the man saw that all the people stopped, he carried Amasa out of the highway into the field and threw a garment over him.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  When he was taken out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And Sheba passed through all the tribes of Israel to Abel of Beth-maacah, and all the Bichrites assembled and followed him in.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And all the men who were with Joab came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maacah. They cast up a mound against the city, and it stood against the rampart, and they were battering the wall to throw it down.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Then a wise woman called from the city, “Listen! Listen! Tell Joab, ‘Come here, that I may speak to you.’”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And he came near her, and the woman said, “Are you Joab?” He answered, “I am.” Then she said to him, “Listen to the words of your servant.” And he answered, “I am listening.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Then she said, “They used to say in former times, ‘Let them but ask counsel at Abel,’ and so they settled a matter.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  I am one of those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city that is a mother in Israel. Why will you swallow up the heritage of the LORD?”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  That is not true. But a man of the hill country of Ephraim, called Sheba the son of Bichri, has lifted up his hand against King David. Give up him alone, and I will withdraw from the city.” And the woman said to Joab, “Behold, his head shall be thrown to you over the wall.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri and threw it out to Joab. So he blew the trumpet, and they dispersed from the city, every man to his home. And Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Now Joab was in command of all the army of Israel; and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was in command of the Cherethites and the Pelethites;


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year. And David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, “There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them. Now the Gibeonites were not of the people of Israel but of the remnant of the Amorites. Although the people of Israel had sworn to spare them, Saul had sought to strike them down in his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And David said to the Gibeonites, “What shall I do for you? And how shall I make atonement, that you may bless the heritage of the LORD?”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  The Gibeonites said to him, “It is not a matter of silver or gold between us and Saul or his house; neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel.” And he said, “What do you say that I shall do for you?”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  They said to the king, “The man who consumed us and planned to destroy us, so that we should have no place in all the territory of Israel,


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  let seven of his sons be given to us, so that we may hang them before the LORD at Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of the LORD.” And the king said, “I will give them.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Saul’s son Jonathan, because of the oath of the LORD that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  The king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Merab the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite;


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
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  and he gave them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the mountain before the LORD, and the seven of them perished together. They were put to death in the first days of harvest, at the beginning of barley harvest.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Then Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until rain fell upon them from the heavens. And she did not allow the birds of the air to come upon them by day, or the beasts of the field by night.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, on the day the Philistines killed Saul on Gilboa.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of his son Jonathan; and they gathered the bones of those who were hanged.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father. And they did all that the king commanded. And after that God responded to the plea for the land.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  There was war again between the Philistines and Israel, and David went down together with his servants, and they fought against the Philistines. And David grew weary.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And Ishbi-benob, one of the descendants of the giants, whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of bronze, and who was armed with a new sword, thought to kill David.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  But Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to his aid and attacked the Philistine and killed him. Then David’s men swore to him, “You shall no longer go out with us to battle, lest you quench the lamp of Israel.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  After this there was again war with the Philistines at Gob. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite struck down Saph, who was one of the descendants of the giants.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And there was again war with the Philistines at Gob, and Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, the Bethlehemite, struck down Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And there was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on each hand, and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number, and he also was descended from the giants.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  These four were descended from the giants in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants. 


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And David spoke to the LORD the words of this song on the day when the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold and my refuge, my savior; you save me from violence.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  “In my distress I called upon the LORD; to my God I called. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry came to his ears.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  “Then the earth reeled and rocked; the foundations of the heavens trembled and quaked, because he was angry.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Smoke went up from his nostrils, and devouring fire from his mouth; glowing coals flamed forth from him.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Then the channels of the sea were seen; the foundations of the world were laid bare, at the rebuke of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  “The LORD dealt with me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he rewarded me.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  This God—his way is perfect; the word of the LORD proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  I beat them fine as the dust of the earth; I crushed them and stamped them down like the mire of the streets.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  “You delivered me from strife with my people; you kept me as the head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  who brought me out from my enemies; you exalted me above those who rose against me; you delivered me from men of violence.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Great salvation he brings to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his offspring forever.” 


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Now these are the last words of David: The oracle of David, the son of Jesse, the oracle of the man who was raised on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, the sweet psalmist of Israel:


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  The God of Israel has spoken; the Rock of Israel has said to me: When one rules justly over men, ruling in the fear of God,


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  he dawns on them like the morning light, like the sun shining forth on a cloudless morning, like rain that makes grass to sprout from the earth.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  “For does not my house stand so with God? For he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and secure. For will he not cause to prosper all my help and my desire?


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  but the man who touches them arms himself with iron and the shaft of a spear, and they are utterly consumed with fire.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb-basshebeth a Tahchemonite; he was chief of the three. He wielded his spear against eight hundred whom he killed at one time.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And next to him among the three mighty men was Eleazar the son of Dodo, son of Ahohi. He was with David when they defied the Philistines who were gathered there for battle, and the men of Israel withdrew.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  He rose and struck down the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clung to the sword. And the LORD brought about a great victory that day, and the men returned after him only to strip the slain.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And next to him was Shammah, the son of Agee the Hararite. The Philistines gathered together at Lehi, where there was a plot of ground full of lentils, and the men fled from the Philistines.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  But he took his stand in the midst of the plot and defended it and struck down the Philistines, and the LORD worked a great victory.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And three of the thirty chief men went down and came about harvest time to David at the cave of Adullam, when a band of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And David said longingly, “Oh, that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem that is by the gate!”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Then the three mighty men broke through the camp of the Philistines and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate and carried and brought it to David. But he would not drink of it. He poured it out to the LORD


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  and said, “Far be it from me, O LORD, that I should do this. Shall I drink the blood of the men who went at the risk of their lives?” Therefore he would not drink it. These things the three mighty men did.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Now Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the thirty. And he wielded his spear against three hundred men and killed them and won a name beside the three.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  He was the most renowned of the thirty and became their commander, but he did not attain to the three.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was a valiant man of Kabzeel, a doer of great deeds. He struck down two ariels of Moab. He also went down and struck down a lion in a pit on a day when snow had fallen.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And he struck down an Egyptian, a handsome man. The Egyptian had a spear in his hand, but Benaiah went down to him with a staff and snatched the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand and killed him with his own spear.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  He was renowned among the thirty, but he did not attain to the three. And David set him over his bodyguard.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, “Go, number Israel and Judah.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  So the king said to Joab, the commander of the army, who was with him, “Go through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, and number the people, that I may know the number of the people.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  But Joab said to the king, “May the LORD your God add to the people a hundred times as many as they are, while the eyes of my lord the king still see it, but why does my lord the king delight in this thing?”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  But the king’s word prevailed against Joab and the commanders of the army. So Joab and the commanders of the army went out from the presence of the king to number the people of Israel.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  They crossed the Jordan and began from Aroer, and from the city that is in the middle of the valley, toward Gad and on to Jazer.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Then they came to Gilead, and to Kadesh in the land of the Hittites; and they came to Dan, and from Dan they went around to Sidon,


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  and came to the fortress of Tyre and to all the cities of the Hivites and Canaanites; and they went out to the Negeb of Judah at Beersheba.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And Joab gave the sum of the numbering of the people to the king: in Israel there were 800,000 valiant men who drew the sword, and the men of Judah were 500,000.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  But David’s heart struck him after he had numbered the people. And David said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, O LORD, please take away the iniquity of your servant, for I have done very foolishly.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And when David arose in the morning, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying,


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  “Go and say to David, ‘Thus says the LORD, Three things I offer you. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.’”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  So Gad came to David and told him, and said to him, “Shall three years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ pestilence in your land? Now consider, and decide what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Then David said to Gad, “I am in great distress. Let us fall into the hand of the LORD, for his mercy is great; but let me not fall into the hand of man.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  So the LORD sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning until the appointed time. And there died of the people from Dan to Beersheba 70,000 men.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And when the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was working destruction among the people, “It is enough; now stay your hand.” And the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Then David spoke to the LORD when he saw the angel who was striking the people, and said, “Behold, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me and against my father’s house.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And Gad came that day to David and said to him, “Go up, raise an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And when Araunah looked down, he saw the king and his servants coming on toward him. And Araunah went out and paid homage to the king with his face to the ground.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” David said, “To buy the threshing floor from you, in order to build an altar to the LORD, that the plague may be averted from the people.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Then Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him. Here are the oxen for the burnt offering and the threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  All this, O king, Araunah gives to the king.” And Araunah said to the king, “May the LORD your God accept you.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  But the king said to Araunah, “No, but I will buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to the LORD my God that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And David built there an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD responded to the plea for the land, and the plague was averted from Israel. 


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Now King David was old and advanced in years. And although they covered him with clothes, he could not get warm.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Therefore his servants said to him, “Let a young woman be sought for my lord the king, and let her wait on the king and be in his service. Let her lie in your arms, that my lord the king may be warm.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  So they sought for a beautiful young woman throughout all the territory of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  The young woman was very beautiful, and she was of service to the king and attended to him, but the king knew her not.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Now Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, “I will be king.” And he prepared for himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  His father had never at any time displeased him by asking, “Why have you done thus and so?” He was also a very handsome man, and he was born next after Absalom.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  He conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest. And they followed Adonijah and helped him.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  But Zadok the priest and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada and Nathan the prophet and Shimei and Rei and David’s mighty men were not with Adonijah.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Adonijah sacrificed sheep, oxen, and fattened cattle by the Serpent’s Stone, which is beside En-rogel, and he invited all his brothers, the king’s sons, and all the royal officials of Judah,


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Then Nathan said to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, “Have you not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith has become king and David our lord does not know it?


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Now therefore come, let me give you advice, that you may save your own life and the life of your son Solomon.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Go in at once to King David, and say to him, ‘Did you not, my lord the king, swear to your servant, saying, “Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne”? Why then is Adonijah king?’


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Then while you are still speaking with the king, I also will come in after you and confirm your words.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  So Bathsheba went to the king in his chamber (now the king was very old, and Abishag the Shunammite was attending to the king).


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  She said to him, “My lord, you swore to your servant by the LORD your God, saying, ‘Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne.’


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  He has sacrificed oxen, fattened cattle, and sheep in abundance, and has invited all the sons of the king, Abiathar the priest, and Joab the commander of the army, but Solomon your servant he has not invited.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And now, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, to tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Otherwise it will come to pass, when my lord the king sleeps with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be counted offenders.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And they told the king, “Here is Nathan the prophet.” And when he came in before the king, he bowed before the king, with his face to the ground.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And Nathan said, “My lord the king, have you said, ‘Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne’?


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  For he has gone down this day and has sacrificed oxen, fattened cattle, and sheep in abundance, and has invited all the king’s sons, the commanders of the army, and Abiathar the priest. And behold, they are eating and drinking before him, and saying, ‘Long live King Adonijah!’


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  But me, your servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon he has not invited.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Has this thing been brought about by my lord the king and you have not told your servants who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Then King David answered, “Call Bathsheba to me.” So she came into the king’s presence and stood before the king.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  as I swore to you by the LORD, the God of Israel, saying, ‘Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne in my place,’ even so will I do this day.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the ground and paid homage to the king and said, “May my lord King David live forever!”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  King David said, “Call to me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada.” So they came before the king.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And the king said to them, “Take with you the servants of your lord and have Solomon my son ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet there anoint him king over Israel. Then blow the trumpet and say, ‘Long live King Solomon!’


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  You shall then come up after him, and he shall come and sit on my throne, for he shall be king in my place. And I have appointed him to be ruler over Israel and over Judah.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, “Amen! May the LORD, the God of my lord the king, say so.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  As the LORD has been with my lord the king, even so may he be with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord King David.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites went down and had Solomon ride on King David’s mule and brought him to Gihon.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  There Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the tent and anointed Solomon. Then they blew the trumpet, and all the people said, “Long live King Solomon!”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And all the people went up after him, playing on pipes, and rejoicing with great joy, so that the earth was split by their noise.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they finished feasting. And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, “What does this uproar in the city mean?”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  While he was still speaking, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came. And Adonijah said, “Come in, for you are a worthy man and bring good news.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  and the king has sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites. And they had him ride on the king’s mule.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king at Gihon, and they have gone up from there rejoicing, so that the city is in an uproar. This is the noise that you have heard.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Moreover, the king’s servants came to congratulate our lord King David, saying, ‘May your God make the name of Solomon more famous than yours, and make his throne greater than your throne.’ And the king bowed himself on the bed.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And the king also said, ‘Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who has granted someone to sit on my throne this day, my own eyes seeing it.’”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Then it was told Solomon, “Behold, Adonijah fears King Solomon, for behold, he has laid hold of the horns of the altar, saying, ‘Let King Solomon swear to me first that he will not put his servant to death with the sword.’”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And Solomon said, “If he will show himself a worthy man, not one of his hairs shall fall to the earth, but if wickedness is found in him, he shall die.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  So King Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. And he came and paid homage to King Solomon, and Solomon said to him, “Go to your house.” 


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  and keep the charge of the LORD your God, walking in his ways and keeping his statutes, his commandments, his rules, and his testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn,


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  that the LORD may establish his word that he spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk before me in faithfulness with all their heart and with all their soul, you shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.’


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  “Moreover, you also know what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, how he dealt with the two commanders of the armies of Israel, Abner the son of Ner, and Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, avenging in time of peace for blood that had been shed in war, and putting the blood of war on the belt around his waist and on the sandals on his feet.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  But deal loyally with the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table, for with such loyalty they met me when I fled from Absalom your brother.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And there is also with you Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse on the day when I went to Mahanaim. But when he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the LORD, saying, ‘I will not put you to death with the sword.’


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Now therefore do not hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man. You will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down with blood to Sheol.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And the time that David reigned over Israel was forty years. He reigned seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Then Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. And she said, “Do you come peacefully?” He said, “Peacefully.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  He said, “You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel fully expected me to reign. However, the kingdom has turned about and become my brother’s, for it was his from the LORD.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And he said, “Please ask King Solomon—he will not refuse you—to give me Abishag the Shunammite as my wife.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him on behalf of Adonijah. And the king rose to meet her and bowed down to her. Then he sat on his throne and had a seat brought for the king’s mother, and she sat on his right.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Then she said, “I have one small request to make of you; do not refuse me.” And the king said to her, “Make your request, my mother, for I will not refuse you.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  King Solomon answered his mother, “And why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom also, for he is my older brother, and on his side are Abiathar the priest and Joab the son of Zeruiah.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Then King Solomon swore by the LORD, saying, “God do so to me and more also if this word does not cost Adonijah his life!


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Now therefore as the LORD lives, who has established me and placed me on the throne of David my father, and who has made me a house, as he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death today.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And to Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go to Anathoth, to your estate, for you deserve death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you carried the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and because you shared in all my father’s affliction.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  So Solomon expelled Abiathar from being priest to the LORD, thus fulfilling the word of the LORD that he had spoken concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  When the news came to Joab—for Joab had supported Adonijah although he had not supported Absalom—Joab fled to the tent of the LORD and caught hold of the horns of the altar.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And when it was told King Solomon, “Joab has fled to the tent of the LORD, and behold, he is beside the altar,” Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go, strike him down.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  So Benaiah came to the tent of the LORD and said to him, “The king commands, ‘Come out.’” But he said, “No, I will die here.” Then Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, “Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  The king replied to him, “Do as he has said, strike him down and bury him, and thus take away from me and from my father’s house the guilt for the blood that Joab shed without cause.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  The LORD will bring back his bloody deeds on his own head, because, without the knowledge of my father David, he attacked and killed with the sword two men more righteous and better than himself, Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  So shall their blood come back on the head of Joab and on the head of his descendants forever. But for David and for his descendants and for his house and for his throne there shall be peace from the LORD forevermore.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and struck him down and put him to death. And he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada over the army in place of Joab, and the king put Zadok the priest in the place of Abiathar.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Then the king sent and summoned Shimei and said to him, “Build yourself a house in Jerusalem and dwell there, and do not go out from there to any place whatever.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  For on the day you go out and cross the brook Kidron, know for certain that you shall die. Your blood shall be on your own head.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And Shimei said to the king, “What you say is good; as my lord the king has said, so will your servant do.” So Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  But it happened at the end of three years that two of Shimei’s servants ran away to Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath. And when it was told Shimei, “Behold, your servants are in Gath,”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Shimei arose and saddled a donkey and went to Gath to Achish to seek his servants. Shimei went and brought his servants from Gath.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  the king sent and summoned Shimei and said to him, “Did I not make you swear by the LORD and solemnly warn you, saying, ‘Know for certain that on the day you go out and go to any place whatever, you shall die’? And you said to me, ‘What you say is good; I will obey.’


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  The king also said to Shimei, “You know in your own heart all the harm that you did to David my father. So the LORD will bring back your harm on your own head.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  But King Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the LORD forever.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Then the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and he went out and struck him down, and he died. So the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon. 


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Solomon made a marriage alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt. He took Pharaoh’s daughter and brought her into the city of David until he had finished building his own house and the house of the LORD and the wall around Jerusalem.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  The people were sacrificing at the high places, however, because no house had yet been built for the name of the LORD.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father, only he sacrificed and made offerings at the high places.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place. Solomon used to offer a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  At Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night, and God said, “Ask what I shall give you.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And Solomon said, “You have shown great and steadfast love to your servant David my father, because he walked before you in faithfulness, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart toward you. And you have kept for him this great and steadfast love and have given him a son to sit on his throne this day.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And now, O LORD my God, you have made your servant king in place of David my father, although I am but a little child. I do not know how to go out or come in.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And your servant is in the midst of your people whom you have chosen, a great people, too many to be numbered or counted for multitude.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, that I may discern between good and evil, for who is able to govern this your great people?”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And God said to him, “Because you have asked this, and have not asked for yourself long life or riches or the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern what is right,


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  behold, I now do according to your word. Behold, I give you a wise and discerning mind, so that none like you has been before you and none like you shall arise after you.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  I give you also what you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that no other king shall compare with you, all your days.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And if you will walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And Solomon awoke, and behold, it was a dream. Then he came to Jerusalem and stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and offered up burnt offerings and peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  The one woman said, “Oh, my lord, this woman and I live in the same house, and I gave birth to a child while she was in the house.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Then on the third day after I gave birth, this woman also gave birth. And we were alone. There was no one else with us in the house; only we two were in the house.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And she arose at midnight and took my son from beside me, while your servant slept, and laid him at her breast, and laid her dead son at my breast.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, he was dead. But when I looked at him closely in the morning, behold, he was not the child that I had borne.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  But the other woman said, “No, the living child is mine, and the dead child is yours.” The first said, “No, the dead child is yours, and the living child is mine.” Thus they spoke before the king.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Then the king said, “The one says, ‘This is my son that is alive, and your son is dead’; and the other says, ‘No; but your son is dead, and my son is the living one.’”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And the king said, “Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one and half to the other.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Then the woman whose son was alive said to the king, because her heart yearned for her son, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and by no means put him to death.” But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours; divide him.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Then the king answered and said, “Give the living child to the first woman, and by no means put him to death; she is his mother.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And all Israel heard of the judgment that the king had rendered, and they stood in awe of the king, because they perceived that the wisdom of God was in him to do justice. 


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Elihoreph and Ahijah the sons of Shisha were secretaries; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; Zabud the son of Nathan was priest and king’s friend;


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Ahishar was in charge of the palace; and Adoniram the son of Abda was in charge of the forced labor.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household. Each man had to make provision for one month in the year.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach, Megiddo, and all Beth-shean that is beside Zarethan below Jezreel, and from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, as far as the other side of Jokmeam;


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
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  Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead (he had the villages of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, and he had the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars);


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan. And there was one governor who was over the land.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt. They brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  ten fat oxen, and twenty pasture-fed cattle, a hundred sheep, besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  For he had dominion over all the region west of the Euphrates from Tiphsah to Gaza, over all the kings west of the Euphrates. And he had peace on all sides around him.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And Judah and Israel lived in safety, from Dan even to Beersheba, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, all the days of Solomon.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And those officers supplied provisions for King Solomon, and for all who came to King Solomon’s table, each one in his month. They let nothing be lacking.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds they brought to the place where it was required, each according to his duty.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding beyond measure, and breadth of mind like the sand on the seashore,


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  so that Solomon’s wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the people of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  For he was wiser than all other men, wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol, and his fame was in all the surrounding nations.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon to the hyssop that grows out of the wall. He spoke also of beasts, and of birds, and of reptiles, and of fish.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And people of all nations came to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and from all the kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom. 


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Now Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon when he heard that they had anointed him king in place of his father, for Hiram always loved David.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  “You know that David my father could not build a house for the name of the LORD his God because of the warfare with which his enemies surrounded him, until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And so I intend to build a house for the name of the LORD my God, as the LORD said to David my father, ‘Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place, shall build the house for my name.’


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Now therefore command that cedars of Lebanon be cut for me. And my servants will join your servants, and I will pay you for your servants such wages as you set, for you know that there is no one among us who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  As soon as Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced greatly and said, “Blessed be the LORD this day, who has given to David a wise son to be over this great people.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, “I have heard the message that you have sent to me. I am ready to do all you desire in the matter of cedar and cypress timber.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  My servants shall bring it down to the sea from Lebanon, and I will make it into rafts to go by sea to the place you direct. And I will have them broken up there, and you shall receive it. And you shall meet my wishes by providing food for my household.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  while Solomon gave Hiram 20,000 cors of wheat as food for his household, and 20,000 cors of beaten oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him. And there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And he sent them to Lebanon, 10,000 a month in shifts. They would be a month in Lebanon and two months at home. Adoniram was in charge of the draft.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  besides Solomon’s 3,300 chief officers who were over the work, who had charge of the people who carried on the work.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  At the king’s command they quarried out great, costly stones in order to lay the foundation of the house with dressed stones.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  So Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders and the men of Gebal did the cutting and prepared the timber and the stone to build the house. 


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  In the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the LORD.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  The house that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits long, equal to the width of the house, and ten cubits deep in front of the house.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  He also built a structure against the wall of the house, running around the walls of the house, both the nave and the inner sanctuary. And he made side chambers all around.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  The lowest story was five cubits broad, the middle one was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad. For around the outside of the house he made offsets on the wall in order that the supporting beams should not be inserted into the walls of the house.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  When the house was built, it was with stone prepared at the quarry, so that neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was being built.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  The entrance for the lowest story was on the south side of the house, and one went up by stairs to the middle story, and from the middle story to the third.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  So he built the house and finished it, and he made the ceiling of the house of beams and planks of cedar.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  He built the structure against the whole house, five cubits high, and it was joined to the house with timbers of cedar.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  “Concerning this house that you are building, if you will walk in my statutes and obey my rules and keep all my commandments and walk in them, then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  He lined the walls of the house on the inside with boards of cedar. From the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood, and he covered the floor of the house with boards of cypress.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  He built twenty cubits of the rear of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls, and he built this within as an inner sanctuary, as the Most Holy Place.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  The cedar within the house was carved in the form of gourds and open flowers. All was cedar; no stone was seen.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  The inner sanctuary he prepared in the innermost part of the house, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high, and he overlaid it with pure gold. He also overlaid an altar of cedar.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And Solomon overlaid the inside of the house with pure gold, and he drew chains of gold across, in front of the inner sanctuary, and overlaid it with gold.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And he overlaid the whole house with gold, until all the house was finished. Also the whole altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary he overlaid with gold.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Five cubits was the length of one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the length of the other wing of the cherub; it was ten cubits from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  He put the cherubim in the innermost part of the house. And the wings of the cherubim were spread out so that a wing of one touched the one wall, and a wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; their other wings touched each other in the middle of the house.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Around all the walls of the house he carved engraved figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, in the inner and outer rooms.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  For the entrance to the inner sanctuary he made doors of olivewood; the lintel and the doorposts were five-sided.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  He covered the two doors of olivewood with carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers. He overlaid them with gold and spread gold on the cherubim and on the palm trees.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  and two doors of cypress wood. The two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  On them he carved cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, and he overlaid them with gold evenly applied on the carved work.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished in all its parts, and according to all its specifications. He was seven years in building it. 


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon. Its length was a hundred cubits and its breadth fifty cubits and its height thirty cubits, and it was built on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And it was covered with cedar above the chambers that were on the forty-five pillars, fifteen in each row.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And he made the Hall of Pillars; its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth thirty cubits. There was a porch in front with pillars, and a canopy in front of them.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And he made the Hall of the Throne where he was to pronounce judgment, even the Hall of Judgment. It was finished with cedar from floor to rafters.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  His own house where he was to dwell, in the other court back of the hall, was of like workmanship. Solomon also made a house like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter whom he had taken in marriage.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  All these were made of costly stones, cut according to measure, sawed with saws, back and front, even from the foundation to the coping, and from the outside to the great court.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  The great court had three courses of cut stone all around, and a course of cedar beams; so had the inner court of the house of the LORD and the vestibule of the house.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze. And he was full of wisdom, understanding, and skill for making any work in bronze. He came to King Solomon and did all his work.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  He cast two pillars of bronze. Eighteen cubits was the height of one pillar, and a line of twelve cubits measured its circumference. It was hollow, and its thickness was four fingers. The second pillar was the same.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  He also made two capitals of cast 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.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  There were lattices of checker work with wreaths of chain work for the capitals on the tops of the pillars, a lattice for the one capital and a lattice for the other capital.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Likewise he made pomegranates in two rows around the one latticework to cover the capital that was on the top of the pillar, and he did the same with the other capital.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Now the capitals that were on the tops of the pillars in the vestibule were of lily-work, four cubits.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  The capitals were on the two pillars and also above the rounded projection which was beside the latticework. There were two hundred pomegranates in two rows all around, and so with the other capital.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  He set up the pillars at the vestibule of the temple. He set up the pillar on the south and called its name Jachin, and he set up the pillar on the north and called its name Boaz.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Then he made the sea of cast metal. It was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Under its brim were gourds, for ten cubits, compassing the sea all around. The gourds were in two rows, cast with it when it was cast.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The sea was set on them, and all their rear parts were inward.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Its thickness was a handbreadth, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held two thousand baths.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  He also made the ten stands of bronze. Each stand was four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  and on the panels that were set in the frames were lions, oxen, and cherubim. On the frames, both above and below the lions and oxen, there were wreaths of beveled work.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Moreover, each stand had four bronze wheels and axles of bronze, and at the four corners were supports for a basin. The supports were cast with wreaths at the side of each.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Its opening was within a crown that projected upward one cubit. Its opening was round, as a pedestal is made, a cubit and a half deep. At its opening there were carvings, and its panels were square, not round.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And the four wheels were underneath the panels. The axles of the wheels were of one piece with the stands, and the height of a wheel was a cubit and a half.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  The wheels were made like a chariot wheel; their axles, their rims, their spokes, and their hubs were all cast.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  There were four supports at the four corners of each stand. The supports were of one piece with the stands.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And on the top of the stand there was a round band half a cubit high; and on the top of the stand its stays and its panels were of one piece with it.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And on the surfaces of its stays and on its panels, he carved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, according to the space of each, with wreaths all around.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  After this manner he made the ten stands. All of them were cast alike, of the same measure and the same form.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And he made ten basins of bronze. Each basin held forty baths, each basin measured four cubits, and there was a basin for each of the ten stands.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And he set the stands, five on the south side of the house, and five on the north side of the house. And he set the sea at the southeast corner of the house.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Hiram also made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram finished all the work that he did for King Solomon on the house of the LORD:


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  the two pillars, the two bowls of the capitals that were on the tops of the pillars, and the two latticeworks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the tops of the pillars;


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  and the four hundred pomegranates for the two latticeworks, two rows of pomegranates for each latticework, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars;


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Now the pots, the shovels, and the basins, all these vessels in the house of the LORD, which Hiram made for King Solomon, were of burnished bronze.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because there were so many of them; the weight of the bronze was not ascertained.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  So Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of the LORD: the golden altar, the golden table for the bread of the Presence,


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  the lampstands of pure gold, five on the south side and five on the north, before the inner sanctuary; the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs, of gold;


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  the cups, snuffers, basins, dishes for incense, and fire pans, of pure gold; and the sockets of gold, for the doors of the innermost part of the house, the Most Holy Place, and for the doors of the nave of the temple.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Thus all the work that King Solomon did on the house of the LORD was finished. And Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, the silver, the gold, and the vessels, and stored them in the treasuries of the house of the LORD. 


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers’ houses of the people of Israel, before King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And all the men of Israel assembled to King Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And they brought up the ark of the LORD, the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the tent; the priests and the Levites brought them up.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who had assembled before him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place in the inner sanctuary of the house, in the Most Holy Place, underneath the wings of the cherubim.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  For the cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim overshadowed the ark and its poles.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And the poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the Holy Place before the inner sanctuary; but they could not be seen from outside. And they are there to this day.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets of stone that Moses put there at Horeb, where the LORD made a covenant with the people of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Then the king turned around and blessed all the assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel stood.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And he said, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who with his hand has fulfilled what he promised with his mouth to David my father, saying,


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  ‘Since the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, that my name might be there. But I chose David to be over my people Israel.’


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  But the LORD said to David my father, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Nevertheless, you shall not build the house, but your son who shall be born to you shall build the house for my name.’


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Now the LORD has fulfilled his promise that he made. For I have risen in the place of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and I have built the house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And there I have provided a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of the LORD that he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven,


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  and said, “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above or on earth beneath, keeping covenant and showing steadfast love to your servants who walk before you with all their heart;


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label: 1King
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  you have kept with your servant David my father what you declared to him. You spoke with your mouth, and with your hand have fulfilled it this day.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Now therefore, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father what you have promised him, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man to sit before me on the throne of Israel, if only your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.’


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Now therefore, O God of Israel, let your word be confirmed, which you have spoken to your servant David my father.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  “But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you; how much less this house that I have built!


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Yet have regard to the prayer of your servant and to his plea, O LORD my God, listening to the cry and to the prayer that your servant prays before you this day,


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label: 1King
content:
  that your eyes may be open night and day toward this house, the place of which you have said, ‘My name shall be there,’ that you may listen to the prayer that your servant offers toward this place.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And listen to the plea of your servant and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. And listen in heaven your dwelling place, and when you hear, forgive.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  “If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath and comes and swears his oath before your altar in this house,


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  then hear in heaven and act and judge your servants, condemning the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  “When your people Israel are defeated before the enemy because they have sinned against you, and if they turn again to you and acknowledge your name and pray and plead with you in this house,


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel and bring them again to the land that you gave to their fathers.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  “When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, if they pray toward this place and acknowledge your name and turn from their sin, when you afflict them,


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk, and grant rain upon your land, which you have given to your people as an inheritance.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  “If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar, if their enemy besieges them in the land at their gates, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is,


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  whatever prayer, whatever plea is made by any man or by all your people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart and stretching out his hands toward this house,


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  then hear in heaven your dwelling place and forgive and act and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways (for you, you only, know the hearts of all the children of mankind),


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label: 1King
content:
  “Likewise, when a foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, comes from a far country for your name’s sake


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label: 1King
content:
  (for they shall hear of your great name and your mighty hand, and of your outstretched arm), when he comes and prays toward this house,


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label: 1King
content:
  hear in heaven your dwelling place and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to you, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house that I have built is called by your name.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  “If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to the LORD toward the city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name,


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  “If they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near,


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  yet if they turn their heart in the land to which they have been carried captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and have acted perversely and wickedly,’


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  if they repent with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city that you have chosen, and the house that I have built for your name,


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label: 1King
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  and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions that they have committed against you, and grant them compassion in the sight of those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them


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label: 1King
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  (for they are your people, and your heritage, which you brought out of Egypt, from the midst of the iron furnace).


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Let your eyes be open to the plea of your servant and to the plea of your people Israel, giving ear to them whenever they call to you.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  For you separated them from among all the peoples of the earth to be your heritage, as you declared through Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord GOD.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Now as Solomon finished offering all this prayer and plea to the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD, where he had knelt with hands outstretched toward heaven.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  “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 spoke by Moses his servant.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his rules, which he commanded our fathers.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Let these words of mine, with which I have pleaded before the LORD, be near to the LORD our God day and night, and may he maintain the cause of his servant and the cause of his people Israel, as each day requires,


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Let your heart therefore be wholly true to the LORD our God, walking in his statutes and keeping his commandments, as at this day.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Solomon offered as peace offerings to the LORD 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the people of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  The same day the king consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD, for there he offered the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat pieces of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before the LORD was too small to receive the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat pieces of the peace offerings.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven days.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  On the eighth day he sent the people away, and they blessed the king and went to their homes joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the LORD had shown to David his servant and to Israel his people. 


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  As soon as Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD and the king’s house and all that Solomon desired to build,


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And the LORD said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your plea, which you have made before me. I have consecrated this house that you have built, by putting my name there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And as for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you, and keeping my statutes and my rules,


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  then I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised David your father, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.’


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  But if you turn aside from following me, you or your children, and do not keep my commandments and my statutes that I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them,


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and the house that I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight, and Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And this house will become a heap of ruins. Everyone passing by it will be astonished and will hiss, and they will say, ‘Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?’


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Then they will say, ‘Because they abandoned the LORD their God who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt and laid hold on other gods and worshiped them and served them. Therefore the LORD has brought all this disaster on them.’”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD and the king’s house,


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  and Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress timber and gold, as much as he desired, King Solomon gave to Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  But when Hiram came from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given him, they did not please him.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Therefore he said, “What kind of cities are these that you have given me, my brother?” So they are called the land of Cabul to this day.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And this is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon drafted to build the house of the LORD and his own house and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Hazor and Megiddo and Gezer


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label: 1King
content:
  (Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and captured Gezer and burned it with fire, and had killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and had given it as dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife;


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  and all the store cities that Solomon had, and the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  All the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the people of Israel—


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  their descendants who were left after them in the land, whom the people of Israel were unable to devote to destruction—these Solomon drafted to be slaves, and so they are to this day.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  But of the people of Israel Solomon made no slaves. They were the soldiers, they were his officials, his commanders, his captains, his chariot commanders and his horsemen.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  These were the chief officers who were over Solomon’s work: 550 who had charge of the people who carried on the work.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  But Pharaoh’s daughter went up from the city of David to her own house that Solomon had built for her. Then he built the Millo.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Three times a year Solomon used to offer up burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar that he built to the LORD, making offerings with it before the LORD. So he finished the house.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  King Solomon built a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And Hiram sent with the fleet his servants, seamen who were familiar with the sea, together with the servants of Solomon.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And they went to Ophir and brought from there gold, 420 talents, and they brought it to King Solomon. 


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Now when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to test him with hard questions.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  She came to Jerusalem with a very great retinue, with camels bearing spices and very much gold and precious stones. And when she came to Solomon, she told him all that was on her mind.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And Solomon answered all her questions; there was nothing hidden from the king that he could not explain to her.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  the food of his table, the seating of his officials, and the attendance of his servants, their clothing, his cupbearers, and his burnt offerings that he offered at the house of the LORD, there was no more breath in her.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And she said to the king, “The report was true that I heard in my own land of your words and of your wisdom,


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  but I did not believe the reports until I came and my own eyes had seen it. And behold, the half was not told me. Your wisdom and prosperity surpass the report that I heard.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and set you on the throne of Israel! Because the LORD loved Israel forever, he has made you king, that you may execute justice and righteousness.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Then she gave the king 120 talents of gold, and a very great quantity of spices and precious stones. Never again came such an abundance of spices as these that the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Moreover, the fleet of Hiram, which brought gold from Ophir, brought from Ophir a very great amount of almug wood and precious stones.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And the king made of the almug wood supports for the house of the LORD and for the king’s house, also lyres and harps for the singers. No such almug wood has come or been seen to this day.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all that she desired, whatever she asked besides what was given her by the bounty of King Solomon. So she turned and went back to her own land with her servants.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  besides that which came from the explorers and from the business of the merchants, and from all the kings of the west and from the governors of the land.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And he made 300 shields of beaten gold; three minas of gold went into each shield. And the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  The throne had six steps, and the throne had a round top, and on each side of the seat were armrests and two lions standing beside the armrests,


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  while twelve lions stood there, one on each end of a step on the six steps. The like of it was never made in any kingdom.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  All King Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. None were of silver; silver was not considered as anything in the days of Solomon.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  For the king had a fleet of ships of Tarshish at sea with the fleet of Hiram. Once every three years the fleet of ships of Tarshish used to come bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And the whole earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put into his mind.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Every one of them brought his present, articles of silver and gold, garments, myrrh, spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen. He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And the king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stone, and he made cedar as plentiful as the sycamore of the Shephelah.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And Solomon’s import of horses was from Egypt and Kue, and the king’s traders received them from Kue at a price.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  A chariot could be imported from Egypt for 600 shekels of silver and a horse for 150, and so through the king’s traders they were exported to all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Syria. 


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Now King Solomon loved many foreign women, along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  from the nations concerning which the LORD had said to the people of Israel, “You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon clung to these in love.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not wholly true to the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and did not wholly follow the LORD, as David his father had done.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods. But he did not keep what the LORD commanded.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Therefore the LORD said to Solomon, “Since this has been your practice and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes that I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you and will give it to your servant.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Yet for the sake of David your father I will not do it in your days, but I will tear it out of the hand of your son.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  However, I will not tear away all the kingdom, but I will give one tribe to your son, for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem that I have chosen.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And the LORD raised up an adversary against Solomon, Hadad the Edomite. He was of the royal house in Edom.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  For when David was in Edom, and Joab the commander of the army went up to bury the slain, he struck down every male in Edom


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  But Hadad fled to Egypt, together with certain Edomites of his father’s servants, Hadad still being a little child.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  They set out from Midian and came to Paran and took men with them from Paran and came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house and assigned him an allowance of food and gave him land.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him in marriage the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And the sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh’s house. And Genubath was in Pharaoh’s house among the sons of Pharaoh.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  But when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers and that Joab the commander of the army was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, “Let me depart, that I may go to my own country.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  But Pharaoh said to him, “What have you lacked with me that you are now seeking to go to your own country?” And he said to him, “Only let me depart.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  God also raised up as an adversary to him, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his master Hadadezer king of Zobah.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And he gathered men about him and became leader of a marauding band, after the killing by David. And they went to Damascus and lived there and made him king in Damascus.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  He was an adversary of Israel all the days of Solomon, doing harm as Hadad did. And he loathed Israel and reigned over Syria.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother’s name was Zeruah, a widow, also lifted up his hand against the king.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And this was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king. Solomon built the Millo, and closed up the breach of the city of David his father.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  The man Jeroboam was very able, and when Solomon saw that the young man was industrious he gave him charge over all the forced labor of the house of Joseph.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And at that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him on the road. Now Ahijah had dressed himself in a new garment, and the two of them were alone in the open country.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And he said to Jeroboam, “Take for yourself ten pieces, for thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘Behold, I am about to tear the kingdom from the hand of Solomon and will give you ten tribes


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label: 1King
content:
  (but he shall have one tribe, for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city that I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel),


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label: 1King
content:
  because they have forsaken me and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and they have not walked in my ways, doing what is right in my sight and keeping my statutes and my rules, as David his father did.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Nevertheless, I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand, but I will make him ruler all the days of his life, for the sake of David my servant whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Yet to his son I will give one tribe, that David my servant may always have a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city where I have chosen to put my name.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And I will take you, and you shall reign over all that your soul desires, and you shall be king over Israel.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do what is right in my eyes by keeping my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did, I will be with you and will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam. But Jeroboam arose and fled into Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the Book of the Acts of Solomon?


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And Solomon slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David his father. And Rehoboam his son reigned in his place. 


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And as soon as Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon), then Jeroboam returned from Egypt.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And they sent and called him, and Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel came and said to Rehoboam,


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  “Your father made our yoke heavy. Now therefore lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke on us, and we will serve you.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he was yet alive, saying, “How do you advise me to answer this people?”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And they said to him, “If you will be a servant to this people today and serve them, and speak good words to them when you answer them, then they will be your servants forever.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  But he abandoned the counsel that the old men gave him and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him and stood before him.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And he said to them, “What do you advise that we answer this people who have said to me, ‘Lighten the yoke that your father put on us’?”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And the young men who had grown up with him said to him, “Thus shall you speak to this people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you lighten it for us,’ thus shall you say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s thighs.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And now, whereas my father laid on you a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.’”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king said, “Come to me again the third day.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  So the king did not listen to the people, for it was a turn of affairs brought about by the LORD that he might fulfill his word, which the LORD spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And when all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, “What portion do we have in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, David.” So Israel went to their tents.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Then King Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was taskmaster over the forced labor, and all Israel stoned him to death with stones. And King Rehoboam hurried to mount his chariot to flee to Jerusalem.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And when all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. There was none that followed the house of David but the tribe of Judah only.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, 180,000 chosen warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  “Say to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people,


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  ‘Thus says the LORD, You shall not go up or fight against your relatives the people of Israel. Every man return to his home, for this thing is from me.’” So they listened to the word of the LORD and went home again, according to the word of the LORD.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. And he went out from there and built Penuel.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  If this people go up to offer sacrifices in the temple of the LORD at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will turn again to their lord, to Rehoboam king of Judah, and they will kill me and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  So the king took counsel and made two calves of gold. And he said to the people, “You have gone up to Jerusalem long enough. Behold your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  He also made temples on high places and appointed priests from among all the people, who were not of the Levites.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And Jeroboam appointed a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar. So he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he made. And he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  He went up to the altar that he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, in the month that he had devised from his own heart. And he instituted a feast for the people of Israel and went up to the altar to make offerings. 


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And behold, a man of God came out of Judah by the word of the LORD to Bethel. Jeroboam was standing by the altar to make offerings.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And the man 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 he shall sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who make offerings on you, and human bones shall be burned on you.’”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And he gave a sign the same day, saying, “This is the sign that the LORD has spoken: ‘Behold, the altar shall be torn down, and the ashes that are on it shall be poured out.’”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And when the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar at Bethel, Jeroboam stretched out his hand from the altar, saying, “Seize him.” And his hand, which he stretched out against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back to himself.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  The altar also was torn down, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign that the man of God had given by the word of the LORD.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And the king said to the man of God, “Entreat now the favor of the LORD your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored to me.” And the man of God entreated the LORD, and the king’s hand was restored to him and became as it was before.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And the king said to the man of God, “Come home with me, and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And the man of God said to the king, “If you give me half your house, I will not go in with you. And I will not eat bread or drink water in this place,


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  for so was it commanded me by the word of the LORD, saying, ‘You shall neither eat bread nor drink water nor return by the way that you came.’”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Now an old prophet lived in Bethel. And his sons came and told him all that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. They also told to their father the words that he had spoken to the king.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And their father said to them, “Which way did he go?” And his sons showed him the way that the man of God who came from Judah had gone.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And he said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” So they saddled the donkey for him and he mounted it.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And he went after the man of God and found him sitting under an oak. And he said to him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” And he said, “I am.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And he said, “I may not return with you, or go in with you, neither will I eat bread nor drink water with you in this place,


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  for it was said to me by the word of the LORD, ‘You shall neither eat bread nor drink water there, nor return by the way that you came.’”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And he said to him, “I also am a prophet as you are, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, ‘Bring him back with you into your house that he may eat bread and drink water.’” But he lied to him.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And he cried to the man of God who came from Judah, “Thus says the LORD, ‘Because you have disobeyed the word of the LORD and have not kept the command that the LORD your God commanded you,


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  but have come back and have eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which he said to you, “Eat no bread and drink no water,” your body shall not come to the tomb of your fathers.’”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And after he had eaten bread and drunk, he saddled the donkey for the prophet whom he had brought back.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And as he went away a lion met him on the road and killed him. And his body was thrown in the road, and the donkey stood beside it; the lion also stood beside the body.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And behold, men passed by and saw the body thrown in the road and the lion standing by the body. And they came and told it in the city where the old prophet lived.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And when the prophet who had brought him back from the way heard of it, he said, “It is the man of God who disobeyed the word of the LORD; therefore the LORD has given him to the lion, which has torn him and killed him, according to the word that the LORD spoke to him.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And he went and found his body thrown in the road, and the donkey and the lion standing beside the body. The lion had not eaten the body or torn the donkey.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And the prophet took up the body of the man of God and laid it on the donkey and brought it back to the city to mourn and to bury him.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And after he had buried him, he said to his sons, “When I die, bury me in the grave in which the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  For the saying that he called out by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel and against all the houses of the high places that are in the cities of Samaria shall surely come to pass.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  After this thing Jeroboam did not turn from his evil way, but made priests for the high places again from among all the people. Any who would, he ordained to be priests of the high places.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And this thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, so as to cut it off and to destroy it from the face of the earth. 


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And Jeroboam said to his wife, “Arise, and disguise yourself, that it not be known that you are the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh. Behold, Ahijah the prophet is there, who said of me that I should be king over this people.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Take with you ten loaves, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what shall happen to the child.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Jeroboam’s wife did so. She arose and went to Shiloh and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were dim because of his age.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And the LORD said to Ahijah, “Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to inquire of you concerning her son, for he is sick. Thus and thus shall you say to her.” When she came, she pretended to be another woman.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  But when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, he said, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam. Why do you pretend to be another? For I am charged with unbearable news for you.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: “Because I exalted you from among the people and made you leader over my people Israel


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  and tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you, and yet you have not been like my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me with all his heart, doing only that which was right in my eyes,


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  but you have done evil above all who were before you and have gone and made for yourself other gods and metal images, provoking me to anger, and have cast me behind your back,


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  therefore behold, I will bring harm upon the house of Jeroboam and will cut off from Jeroboam every male, both bond and free in Israel, and will burn up the house of Jeroboam, as a man burns up dung until it is all gone.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city the dogs shall eat, and anyone who dies in the open country the birds of the heavens shall eat, for the LORD has spoken it.”’


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And all Israel shall mourn for him and bury him, for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found something pleasing to the LORD, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Moreover, the LORD will raise up for himself a king over Israel who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam today. And henceforth,


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  the LORD will strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water, and root up Israel out of this good land that he gave to their fathers and scatter them beyond the Euphrates, because they have made their Asherim, provoking the LORD to anger.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And he will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he sinned and made Israel to sin.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Then Jeroboam’s wife arose and departed and came to Tirzah. And as she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And all Israel buried him and mourned for him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And the time that Jeroboam reigned was twenty-two years. And he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Now Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And Judah did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins that they committed, more than all that their fathers had done.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  For they also built for themselves high places and pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree,


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  and there were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations that the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  He took away the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king’s house. He took away everything. He also took away all the shields of gold that Solomon had made,


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  and King Rehoboam made in their place shields of bronze, and committed them to the hands of the officers of the guard, who kept the door of the king’s house.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And as often as the king went into the house of the LORD, the guard carried them and brought them back to the guardroom.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite. And Abijam his son reigned in his place. 


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And he walked in all the sins that his father did before him, and his heart was not wholly true to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Nevertheless, for David’s sake the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, setting up his son after him, and establishing Jerusalem,


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  because David did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and did not turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  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? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And Abijam slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David. And Asa his son reigned in his place.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  and he reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  He put away the male cult prostitutes out of the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen mother because she had made an abominable image for Asherah. And Asa cut down her image and burned it at the brook Kidron.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was wholly true to the LORD all his days.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And he brought into the house of the LORD the sacred gifts of his father and his own sacred gifts, silver, and gold, and vessels.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and built Ramah, that he might permit no one to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king’s house and gave them into the hands of his servants. And King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who lived in Damascus, saying,


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  “Let there be a covenant between me and you, as there was between my father and your father. Behold, I am sending to you a present of silver and gold. Go, break your covenant with Baasha king of Israel, that he may withdraw from me.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel and conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah, and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Then King Asa made a proclamation to all Judah, none was exempt, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its timber, with which Baasha had been building, and with them King Asa built Geba of Benjamin and Mizpah.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, all his might, and all that he did, and the cities that he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? But in his old age he was diseased in his feet.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And Asa slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father, and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and he reigned over Israel two years.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin which he made Israel to sin.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  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, for Nadab and all Israel were laying siege to Gibbethon.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And as soon as he was king, he killed all the house of Jeroboam. He left to the house of Jeroboam not one that breathed, until he had destroyed it, according to the word of the LORD that he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  It was for the sins of Jeroboam that he sinned and that he made Israel to sin, and because of the anger to which he provoked the LORD, the God of Israel.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Now the rest of the acts of Nadab and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  In the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha the son of Ahijah began to reign over all Israel at Tirzah, and he reigned twenty-four years.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin which he made Israel to sin. 


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  “Since I exalted you out of the dust and made you leader over my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have made my people Israel to sin, provoking me to anger with their sins,


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  behold, I will utterly sweep away Baasha and his house, and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Anyone belonging to Baasha who dies in the city the dogs shall eat, and anyone of his who dies in the field the birds of the heavens shall eat.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Now the rest of the acts of Baasha and what he did, and his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Moreover, the word of the LORD came by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha and his house, both because of all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and also because he destroyed it.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah the son of Baasha began to reign over Israel in Tirzah, and he reigned two years.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  But his servant Zimri, commander of half his chariots, conspired against him. When he was at Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah,


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Zimri came in and struck him down and killed him, in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his place.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  When he began to reign, as soon as he had seated himself on his throne, he struck down all the house of Baasha. He did not leave him a single male of his relatives or his friends.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Thus Zimri destroyed all the house of Baasha, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  for all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned and which they made Israel to sin, provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their idols.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  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?


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned seven days in Tirzah. Now the troops were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines,


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  and the troops who were encamped heard it said, “Zimri has conspired, and he has killed the king.” Therefore all Israel made Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel that day in the camp.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And when Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went into the citadel of the king’s house and burned the king’s house over him with fire and died,


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  because of his sins that he committed, doing evil in the sight of the LORD, walking in the way of Jeroboam, and for his sin which he committed, making Israel to sin.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and the conspiracy that he made, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Then the people of Israel were divided into two parts. Half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king, and half followed Omri.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  But the people who followed Omri overcame the people who followed Tibni the son of Ginath. So Tibni died, and Omri became king.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri began to reign over Israel, and he reigned for twelve years; six years he reigned in Tirzah.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  He bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver, and he fortified the hill and called the name of the city that he built Samaria, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in the sins that he made Israel to sin, provoking the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger by their idols.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Now the rest of the acts of Omri that he did, and the might that he showed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, Ahab the son of Omri began to reign over Israel, and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he took for his wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal and worshiped him.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And Ahab made an Asherah. Ahab did more to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  In his days Hiel of Bethel built Jericho. He laid its foundation at the cost of Abiram his firstborn, and set up its gates at the cost of his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke by Joshua the son of Nun. 


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Now Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  “Depart from here and turn eastward and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  So he went and did according to the word of the LORD. He went and lived by the brook Cherith that is east of the Jordan.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And the ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to feed you.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks. And he called to her and said, “Bring me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And as she was going to bring it, he called to her and said, “Bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And she said, “As the LORD your God lives, I have nothing baked, only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. And now I am gathering a couple of sticks that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it and die.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And Elijah said to her, “Do not fear; go and do as you have said. But first make me a little cake of it and bring it to me, and afterward make something for yourself and your son.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  For thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘The jar of flour shall not be spent, and the jug of oil shall not be empty, until the day that the LORD sends rain upon the earth.’”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  The jar of flour was not spent, neither did the jug of oil become empty, according to the word of the LORD that he spoke by Elijah.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  After this the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became ill. And his illness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And she said to Elijah, “What have you against me, O man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to remembrance and to cause the death of my son!”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And he said to her, “Give me your son.” And he took him from her arms and carried him up into the upper chamber where he lodged, and laid him on his own bed.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And he cried to the LORD, “O LORD my God, have you brought calamity even upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by killing her son?”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Then he stretched himself upon the child three times and cried to the LORD, “O LORD my God, let this child’s life come into him again.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And the LORD listened to the voice of Elijah. And the life of the child came into him again, and he revived.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And Elijah took the child and brought him down from the upper chamber into the house and delivered him to his mother. And Elijah said, “See, your son lives.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And the woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of the LORD in your mouth is truth.” 


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  After many days the word of the LORD came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain upon the earth.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
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  and when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water.)


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label: 1King
content:
  And Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land to all the springs of water and to all the valleys. Perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, and not lose some of the animals.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  So they divided the land between them to pass through it. Ahab went in one direction by himself, and Obadiah went in another direction by himself.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And as Obadiah was on the way, behold, Elijah met him. And Obadiah recognized him and fell on his face and said, “Is it you, my lord Elijah?”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And he said, “How have I sinned, that you would give your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me?


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  As the LORD your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. And when they would say, ‘He is not here,’ he would take an oath of the kingdom or nation, that they had not found you.


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label: 1King
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  And as soon as I have gone from you, the Spirit of the LORD will carry you I know not where. And so, when I come and tell Ahab and he cannot find you, he will kill me, although I your servant have feared the LORD from my youth.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Has it not been told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of the LORD, how I hid a hundred men of the LORD’s prophets by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water?


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And Elijah said, “As the LORD of hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And he answered, “I have not troubled Israel, but you have, and your father’s house, because you have abandoned the commandments of the LORD and followed the Baals.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Now therefore send and gather all Israel to me at Mount Carmel, and the 450 prophets of Baal and the 400 prophets of Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And Elijah came near to all the people and said, “How long will you go limping between two different opinions? If the LORD is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” And the people did not answer him a word.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Then Elijah said to the people, “I, even I only, am left a prophet of the LORD, but Baal’s prophets are 450 men.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
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  Let two bulls be given to us, and let them choose one bull for themselves and cut it in pieces and lay it on the wood, but put no fire to it. And I will prepare the other bull and lay it on the wood and put no fire to it.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And you call upon the name of your god, and I will call upon the name of the LORD, and the God who answers by fire, he is God.” And all the people answered, “It is well spoken.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Then Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose for yourselves one bull and prepare it first, for you are many, and call upon the name of your god, but put no fire to it.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And they took the bull that was given them, and they prepared it and called upon the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, “O Baal, answer us!” But there was no voice, and no one answered. And they limped around the altar that they had made.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
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  And at noon Elijah mocked them, saying, “Cry aloud, for he is a god. Either he is musing, or he is relieving himself, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep and must be awakened.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And they cried aloud and cut themselves after their custom with swords and lances, until the blood gushed out upon them.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And as midday passed, they raved on until the time of the offering of the oblation, but there was no voice. No one answered; no one paid attention.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Then Elijah said to all the people, “Come near to me.” And all the people came near to him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD that had been thrown down.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the LORD came, saying, “Israel shall be your name,”


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label: 1King
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  and with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD. And he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two seahs of seed.


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label: 1King
content:
  And he put the wood in order and cut the bull in pieces and laid it on the wood. And he said, “Fill four jars with water and pour it on the burnt offering and on the wood.”


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label: 1King
content:
  And he said, “Do it a second time.” And they did it a second time. And he said, “Do it a third time.” And they did it a third time.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And at the time of the offering of the oblation, Elijah the prophet came near and said, “O LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Answer me, O LORD, answer me, that this people may know that you, O LORD, are God, and that you have turned their hearts back.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Then the fire of the LORD fell and consumed the burnt offering and the wood and the stones and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces and said, “The LORD, he is God; the LORD, he is God.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape.” And they seized them. And Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon and slaughtered them there.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Mount Carmel. And he bowed himself down on the earth and put his face between his knees.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And he said to his servant, “Go up now, look toward the sea.” And he went up and looked and said, “There is nothing.” And he said, “Go again,” seven times.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
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  And at the seventh time he said, “Behold, a little cloud like a man’s hand is rising from the sea.” And he said, “Go up, say to Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot and go down, lest the rain stop you.’”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And in a little while the heavens grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode and went to Jezreel.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah, and he gathered up his garment and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel. 


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do to me and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by this time tomorrow.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Then he was afraid, and he arose and ran for his life and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And he lay down and slept under a broom tree. And behold, an angel touched him and said to him, “Arise and eat.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And he looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked on hot stones and a jar of water. And he ate and drank and lay down again.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And the angel of the LORD came again a second time and touched him and said, “Arise and eat, for the journey is too great for you.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mount of God.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  There he came to a cave and lodged in it. And behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and he said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  He said, “I have been very jealous for the LORD, the God of hosts. For the people of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword, and I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life, to take it away.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
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  And he said, “Go out and stand on the mount before the LORD.” And behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains and broke in pieces the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. And after the wind an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And after the earthquake a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire the sound of a low whisper.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And when Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his cloak and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. And behold, there came a voice to him and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And the LORD said to him, “Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. And when you arrive, you shall anoint Hazael to be king over Syria.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And Jehu the son of Nimshi you shall anoint to be king over Israel, and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah you shall anoint to be prophet in your place.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And the one who escapes from the sword of Hazael shall Jehu put to death, and the one who escapes from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha put to death.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Yet I will leave seven thousand in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  So he departed from there and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen in front of him, and he was with the twelfth. Elijah passed by him and cast his cloak upon him.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And he left the oxen and ran after Elijah and said, “Let me kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you.” And he said to him, “Go back again, for what have I done to you?”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And he returned from following him and took the yoke of oxen and sacrificed them and boiled their flesh with the yokes of the oxen and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he arose and went after Elijah and assisted him. 


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Ben-hadad the king of Syria gathered all his army together. Thirty-two kings were with him, and horses and chariots. And he went up and closed in on Samaria and fought against it.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  The messengers came again and said, “Thus says Ben-hadad: ‘I sent to you, saying, “Deliver to me your silver and your gold, your wives and your children.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Nevertheless I will send my servants to you tomorrow about this time, and they shall search your house and the houses of your servants and lay hands on whatever pleases you and take it away.’”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land and said, “Mark, now, and see how this man is seeking trouble, for he sent to me for my wives and my children, and for my silver and my gold, and I did not refuse him.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  So he said to the messengers of Ben-hadad, “Tell my lord the king, ‘All that you first demanded of your servant I will do, but this thing I cannot do.’” And the messengers departed and brought him word again.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Ben-hadad sent to him and said, “The gods do so to me and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people who follow me.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And the king of Israel answered, “Tell him, ‘Let not him who straps on his armor boast himself as he who takes it off.’”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  When Ben-hadad heard this message as he was drinking with the kings in the booths, he said to his men, “Take your positions.” And they took their positions against the city.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And behold, a prophet came near to Ahab king of Israel and said, “Thus says the LORD, Have you seen all this great multitude? Behold, I will give it into your hand this day, and you shall know that I am the LORD.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And Ahab said, “By whom?” He said, “Thus says the LORD, By the servants of the governors of the districts.” Then he said, “Who shall begin the battle?” He answered, “You.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Then he mustered the servants of the governors of the districts, and they were 232. And after them he mustered all the people of Israel, seven thousand.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And they went out at noon, while Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the booths, he and the thirty-two kings who helped him.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  The servants of the governors of the districts went out first. And Ben-hadad sent out scouts, and they reported to him, “Men are coming out from Samaria.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  He said, “If they have come out for peace, take them alive. Or if they have come out for war, take them alive.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  So these went out of the city, the servants of the governors of the districts and the army that followed them.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And each struck down his man. The Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them, but Ben-hadad king of Syria escaped on a horse with horsemen.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And the king of Israel went out and struck the horses and chariots, and struck the Syrians with a great blow.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Then the prophet came near to the king of Israel and said to him, “Come, strengthen yourself, and consider well what you have to do, for in the spring the king of Syria will come up against you.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And the servants of the king of Syria said to him, “Their gods are gods of the hills, and so they were stronger than we. But let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they.


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label: 1King
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  and muster an army like the army that you have lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot. Then we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they.” And he listened to their voice and did so.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And the people of Israel were mustered and were provisioned and went against them. The people of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of goats, but the Syrians filled the country.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And a man of God came near and said to the king of Israel, “Thus says the LORD, ‘Because the Syrians have said, “The LORD is a god of the hills 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.’”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And they encamped opposite one another seven days. Then on the seventh day the battle was joined. And the people of Israel struck down of the Syrians 100,000 foot soldiers in one day.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And the rest fled into the city of Aphek, and the wall fell upon 27,000 men who were left. Ben-hadad also fled and entered an inner chamber in the city.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And his servants said to him, “Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Let us put sackcloth around our waists and ropes on our heads and go out to the king of Israel. Perhaps he will spare your life.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  So they tied sackcloth around their waists and put ropes on their heads and went to the king of Israel and said, “Your servant Ben-hadad says, ‘Please, let me live.’” And he said, “Does he still live? He is my brother.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Now the men were watching for a sign, and they quickly took it up from him and said, “Yes, your brother Ben-hadad.” Then he said, “Go and bring him.” Then Ben-hadad came out to him, and he caused him to come up into the chariot.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And Ben-hadad said to him, “The cities that my father took from your father I will restore, and you may establish bazaars for yourself in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria.” And Ahab said, “I will let you go on these terms.” So he made a covenant with him and let him go.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his fellow at the command of the LORD, “Strike me, please.” But the man refused to strike him.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
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  Then he said to him, “Because you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as you have gone from me, a lion shall strike you down.” And as soon as he had departed from him, a lion met him and struck him down.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Then he found another man and said, “Strike me, please.” And the man struck him—struck him and wounded him.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  So the prophet departed and waited for the king by the way, disguising himself with a bandage over his eyes.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And as the king passed, he cried to the king and said, “Your servant went out into the midst of the battle, and behold, a soldier turned and brought a man to me and said, ‘Guard this man; if by any means he is missing, your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.’


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And as your servant was busy here and there, he was gone.” The king of Israel said to him, “So shall your judgment be; you yourself have decided it.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Then he hurried to take the bandage away from his eyes, and the king of Israel recognized him as one of the prophets.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And he said to him, “Thus says the LORD, ‘Because you have let go out of your hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore your life shall be for his life, and your people for his people.’”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And after this Ahab said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a vegetable garden, because it is near my house, and I will give you a better vineyard for it; or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its value in money.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And Ahab went into his house vexed and sullen because of what Naboth the Jezreelite had said to him, for he had said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” And he lay down on his bed and turned away his face and would eat no food.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  But Jezebel his wife came to him and said to him, “Why is your spirit so vexed that you eat no food?”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And 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 please you, I will give you another vineyard for it.’ And he answered, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And Jezebel his wife said to him, “Do you now govern Israel? Arise and eat bread and let your heart be cheerful; I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name and sealed them with his seal, and she sent the letters to the elders and the leaders who lived with Naboth in his city.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And set two worthless men opposite him, and let them bring a charge against him, saying, ‘You have cursed God and the king.’ Then take him out and stone him to death.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And the men of his city, the elders and the leaders who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had sent word to them. As it was written in the letters that she had sent to them,


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And the two worthless men came in and sat opposite him. And the worthless men brought a charge against Naboth in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king.” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death with stones.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  As soon as 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.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And as soon as Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab arose to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  “Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who is in Samaria; behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, where he has gone to take possession.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And you shall say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD, “Have you killed and also taken possession?”’ And you shall say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD: “In the place where dogs licked up the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick your own blood.”’”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, O my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do what is evil in the sight of the LORD.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Behold, I will bring disaster upon you. I will utterly burn you up, and will cut off from Ahab every male, bond or free, in Israel.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  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, for the anger to which you have provoked me, and because you have made Israel to sin.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Anyone belonging to Ahab who dies in the city the dogs shall eat, and anyone of his who dies in the open country the birds of the heavens shall eat.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  (There was none who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of the LORD like Ahab, whom Jezebel his wife incited.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  He acted very abominably in going after idols, as the Amorites had done, whom the LORD cast out before the people of Israel.)


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And when Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his flesh and fasted and lay in sackcloth and went about dejectedly.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  “Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself before me, I will not bring the disaster in his days; but in his son’s days I will bring the disaster upon his house.” 


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And the king of Israel said to his servants, “Do you know that Ramoth-gilead belongs to us, and we keep quiet and do not take it out of the hand of the king of Syria?”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And he said to Jehoshaphat, “Will you go with me to battle at Ramoth-gilead?” And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, “Shall I go to battle against Ramoth-gilead, or shall I refrain?” And they said, “Go up, for the Lord will give it into the hand of the king.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the LORD, Micaiah the son of Imlah, but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but evil.” And Jehoshaphat said, “Let not the king say so.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting on their thrones, arrayed in their robes, at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria, and all the prophets were prophesying before them.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made for himself horns of iron and said, “Thus says the LORD, ‘With these you shall push the Syrians until they are destroyed.’”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And all the prophets prophesied so and said, “Go up to Ramoth-gilead and triumph; the LORD will give it into the hand of the king.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And the messenger who went to summon Micaiah said to him, “Behold, the words of the prophets with one accord are favorable to the king. Let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak favorably.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And when he had come to the king, the king said to him, “Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall we refrain?” And he answered him, “Go up and triumph; the LORD will give it into the hand of the king.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  But the king said to him, “How many times shall I make you swear that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of the LORD?”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And he said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. And the LORD said, ‘These have no master; let each return to his home in peace.’”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Did I not tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And Micaiah said, “Therefore hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing beside him on his right hand and on his left;


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  and the LORD said, ‘Who will entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one said one thing, and another said another.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And the LORD said to him, ‘By what means?’ And he said, ‘I will go out, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ And he said, ‘You are to entice him, and you shall succeed; go out and do so.’


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Now therefore behold, the LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; the LORD has declared disaster for you.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek and said, “How did the Spirit of the LORD go from me to speak to you?”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And Micaiah said, “Behold, you shall see on that day when you go into an inner chamber to hide yourself.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And the king of Israel said, “Seize Micaiah, and take him back to Amon the governor of the city and to Joash the king’s son,


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  and say, ‘Thus says the king, “Put this fellow in prison and feed him meager rations of bread and water, until I come in peace.”’”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And Micaiah said, “If you return in peace, the LORD has not spoken by me.” And he said, “Hear, all you peoples!”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself and go into battle, but you wear your robes.” And the king of Israel disguised himself and went into battle.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Now the king of Syria had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, “Fight with neither small nor great, but only with the king of Israel.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “It is surely the king of Israel.” So they turned to fight against him. And Jehoshaphat cried out.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And when the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  But a certain man drew his bow at random and struck the king of Israel between the scale armor and the breastplate. Therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, “Turn around and carry me out of the battle, for I am wounded.”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And the battle continued that day, and the king was propped up in his chariot facing the Syrians, until at evening he died. And the blood of the wound flowed into the bottom of the chariot.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And about sunset a cry went through the army, “Every man to his city, and every man to his country!”


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And they washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria, and the dogs licked up his blood, and the prostitutes washed themselves in it, according to the word of the LORD that he had spoken.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Now the rest of the acts of Ahab and all that he did, and the ivory house that he built and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  He walked in all the way of Asa his father. He did not turn aside from it, doing what was right in the sight of the LORD. Yet the high places were not taken away, and the people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he showed, and how he warred, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And from the land he exterminated the remnant of the male cult prostitutes who remained in the days of his father Asa.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they did not go, for the ships were wrecked at Ezion-geber.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Then Ahaziah the son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, “Let my servants go with your servants in the ships,” but Jehoshaphat was not willing.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father, and Jehoram his son reigned in his place.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned two years over Israel.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of his father and in the way of his mother and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.


book: 1Kings
label: 1King
content:
  He served Baal and worshiped him and provoked the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger in every way that his father had done. 


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Now Ahaziah fell through the lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria, and lay sick; so he sent messengers, telling them, “Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this sickness.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say to them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Now therefore thus says the LORD, You shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but you shall surely die.’” So Elijah went.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And they said to him, “There came a man to meet us, and said to us, ‘Go back to the king who sent you, and say to him, Thus says the LORD, Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but you shall surely die.’”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  They answered him, “He wore a garment of hair, with a belt of leather about his waist.” And he said, “It is Elijah the Tishbite.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty men with his fifty. He went up to Elijah, who was sitting on the top of a hill, and said to him, “O man of God, the king says, ‘Come down.’”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  But Elijah answered the captain of fifty, “If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty.” Then fire came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Again the king sent to him another captain of fifty men with his fifty. And he answered and said to him, “O man of God, this is the king’s order, ‘Come down quickly!’”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  But Elijah answered them, “If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty.” Then the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Again the king sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up and came and fell on his knees before Elijah and entreated him, “O man of God, please let my life, and the life of these fifty servants of yours, be precious in your sight.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Behold, fire came down from heaven and consumed the two former captains of fifty men with their fifties, but now let my life be precious in your sight.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then the angel of the LORD said to Elijah, “Go down with him; do not be afraid of him.” So he arose and went down with him to the king


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  and said to him, “Thus says the LORD, ‘Because you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron—is it because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word?—therefore you shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but you shall surely die.’”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  So he died according to the word of the LORD that Elijah had spoken. Jehoram became king in his place in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, because Ahaziah had no son.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? 


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Now when the LORD was about to take Elijah up to heaven by a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And Elijah said to Elisha, “Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me as far as Bethel.” But Elisha said, “As the LORD lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And the sons of the prophets who were in Bethel came out to Elisha and said to him, “Do you know that today the LORD will take away your master from over you?” And he said, “Yes, I know it; keep quiet.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Elijah said to him, “Elisha, please stay here, for the LORD has sent me to Jericho.” But he said, “As the LORD lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they came to Jericho.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  The sons of the prophets who were at Jericho drew near to Elisha and said to him, “Do you know that today the LORD will take away your master from over you?” And he answered, “Yes, I know it; keep quiet.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then Elijah said to him, “Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me to the Jordan.” But he said, “As the LORD lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So the two of them went on.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Fifty men of the sons of the prophets also went and stood at some distance from them, as they both were standing by the Jordan.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then Elijah took his cloak and rolled it up and struck the water, and the water was parted to the one side and to the other, till the two of them could go over on dry ground.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, “Ask what I shall do for you, before I am taken from you.” And Elisha said, “Please let there be a double portion of your spirit on me.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he said, “You have asked a hard thing; yet, if you see me as I am being taken from you, it shall be so for you, but if you do not see me, it shall not be so.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And as they still went on and talked, behold, chariots of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them. And Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And Elisha saw it and he cried, “My father, my father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!” And he saw him no more. Then he took hold of his own clothes and tore them in two pieces.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he took up the cloak of Elijah that had fallen from him and went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then he took the cloak of Elijah that had fallen from him and struck the water, saying, “Where is the LORD, the God of Elijah?” And when he had struck the water, the water was parted to the one side and to the other, and Elisha went over.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Now when the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho saw him opposite them, they said, “The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.” And they came to meet him and bowed to the ground before him.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And they said to him, “Behold now, there are with your servants fifty strong men. Please let them go and seek your master. It may be that the Spirit of the LORD has caught him up and cast him upon some mountain or into some valley.” And he said, “You shall not send.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  But when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, “Send.” They sent therefore fifty men. And for three days they sought him but did not find him.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And they came back to him while he was staying at Jericho, and he said to them, “Did I not say to you, ‘Do not go’?”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Now the men of the city said to Elisha, “Behold, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees, but the water is bad, and the land is unfruitful.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then he went to the spring of water and threw salt in it and said, “Thus says the LORD, I have healed this water; from now on neither death nor miscarriage shall come from it.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  He went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he turned around, and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the LORD. And two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  In the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Ahab became king over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned twelve years.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, though not like his father and mother, for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Nevertheless, he clung to the sin of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin; he did not depart from it.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder, and he had to deliver to the king of Israel 100,000 lambs and the wool of 100,000 rams.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he went and sent word to Jehoshaphat king of Judah: “The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you go with me to battle against Moab?” And he said, “I will go. I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then he said, “By which way shall we march?” Jehoram answered, “By the way of the wilderness of Edom.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom. And when they had made a circuitous march of seven days, there was no water for the army or for the animals that followed them.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then the king of Israel said, “Alas! The LORD has called these three kings to give them into the hand of Moab.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And Jehoshaphat said, “Is there no prophet of the LORD here, through whom we may inquire of the LORD?” Then one of the king of Israel’s servants answered, “Elisha the son of Shaphat is here, who poured water on the hands of Elijah.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And Jehoshaphat said, “The word of the LORD is with him.” So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And Elisha said to the king of Israel, “What have I to do with you? Go to the prophets of your father and to the prophets of your mother.” But the king of Israel said to him, “No; it is the LORD who has called these three kings to give them into the hand of Moab.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And Elisha said, “As the LORD of hosts lives, before whom I stand, were it not that I have regard for Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would neither look at you nor see you.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  For thus says the LORD, ‘You shall not see wind or rain, but that streambed shall be filled with water, so that you shall drink, you, your livestock, and your animals.’


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  and you shall attack every fortified city and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree and stop up all springs of water and ruin every good piece of land with stones.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  The next morning, about the time of offering the sacrifice, behold, water came from the direction of Edom, till the country was filled with water.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  When all the Moabites heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, all who were able to put on armor, from the youngest to the oldest, were called out and were drawn up at the border.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And when they rose early in the morning and the sun shone on the water, the Moabites saw the water opposite them as red as blood.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And they said, “This is blood; the kings have surely fought together and struck one another down. Now then, Moab, to the spoil!”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  But when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose and struck the Moabites, till they fled before them. And they went forward, striking the Moabites as they went.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And they overthrew the cities, and on every good piece of land every man threw a stone until it was covered. They stopped every spring of water and felled all the good trees, till only its stones were left in Kir-hareseth, and the slingers surrounded and attacked it.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  When the king of Moab saw that the battle was going against him, he took with him 700 swordsmen to break through, opposite the king of Edom, but they could not.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then he took his oldest son who was to reign in his place and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. And there came great wrath against Israel. And they withdrew from him and returned to their own land. 


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD, but the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And Elisha said to her, “What shall I do for you? Tell me; what have you in the house?” And she said, “Your servant has nothing in the house except a jar of oil.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then go in and shut the door behind yourself and your sons and pour into all these vessels. And when one is full, set it aside.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  So she went from him and shut the door behind herself and her sons. And as she poured they brought the vessels to her.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  When the vessels were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another vessel.” And he said to her, “There is not another.” Then the oil stopped flowing.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  She came and told the man of God, and he said, “Go, sell the oil and pay your debts, and you and your sons can live on the rest.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  One day Elisha went on to Shunem, where a wealthy woman lived, who urged him to eat some food. So whenever he passed that way, he would turn in there to eat food.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And she said to her husband, “Behold now, I know that this is a holy man of God who is continually passing our way.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Let us make a small room on the roof with walls and put there for him a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp, so that whenever he comes to us, he can go in there.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he said to Gehazi his servant, “Call this Shunammite.” When he had called her, she stood before him.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he said to him, “Say now to her, ‘See, you have taken all this trouble for us; what is to be done for you? Would you have a word spoken on your behalf to the king or to the commander of the army?’” She answered, “I dwell among my own people.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he said, “What then is to be done for her?” Gehazi answered, “Well, she has no son, and her husband is old.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he said, “At this season, about this time next year, you shall embrace a son.” And she said, “No, my lord, O man of God; do not lie to your servant.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  But the woman conceived, and she bore a son about that time the following spring, as Elisha had said to her.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he said to his father, “Oh, my head, my head!” The father said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And when he had lifted him and brought him to his mother, the child sat on her lap till noon, and then he died.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God and shut the door behind him and went out.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then she called to her husband and said, “Send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, that I may quickly go to the man of God and come back again.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he said, “Why will you go to him today? It is neither new moon nor Sabbath.” She said, “All is well.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then she saddled the donkey, and she said to her servant, “Urge the animal on; do not slacken the pace for me unless I tell you.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  So she set out and came to the man of God at Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her coming, he said to Gehazi his servant, “Look, there is the Shunammite.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Run at once to meet her and say to her, ‘Is all well with you? Is all well with your husband? Is all well with the child?’” And she answered, “All is well.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And when she came to the mountain to the man of God, she caught hold of his feet. And Gehazi came to push her away. But the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for she is in bitter distress, and the LORD has hidden it from me and has not told me.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  He said to Gehazi, “Tie up your garment and take my staff in your hand and go. If you meet anyone, do not greet him, and if anyone greets you, do not reply. And lay my staff on the face of the child.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then the mother of the child said, “As the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So he arose and followed her.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Gehazi went on ahead and laid the staff on the face of the child, but there was no sound or sign of life. Therefore he returned to meet him and told him, “The child has not awakened.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then he went up and lay on the child, putting his mouth on his mouth, his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands. And as he stretched himself upon him, the flesh of the child became warm.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then he got up again and walked once back and forth in the house, and went up and stretched himself upon him. The child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then he summoned Gehazi and said, “Call this Shunammite.” So he called her. And when she came to him, he said, “Pick up your son.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And Elisha came again to Gilgal when there was a famine in the land. And as the sons of the prophets were sitting before him, he said to his servant, “Set on the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  One of them went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine and gathered from it his lap full of wild gourds, and came and cut them up into the pot of stew, not knowing what they were.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And they poured out some for the men to eat. But while they were eating of the stew, they cried out, “O man of God, there is death in the pot!” And they could not eat it.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  He said, “Then bring flour.” And he threw it into the pot and said, “Pour some out for the men, that they may eat.” And there was no harm in the pot.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  A man came from Baal-shalishah, bringing the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. And Elisha said, “Give to the men, that they may eat.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  But his servant said, “How can I set this before a hundred men?” So he repeated, “Give them to the men, that they may eat, for thus says the LORD, ‘They shall eat and have some left.’”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master and in high favor, because by him the LORD had given victory to Syria. He was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Now the Syrians on one of their raids had carried off a little girl from the land of Israel, and she worked in the service of Naaman’s wife.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  She said to her mistress, “Would that my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And the king of Syria said, “Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” So he went, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten changes of clothing.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, which read, “When this letter reaches you, know that I have sent to you Naaman my servant, that you may cure him of his leprosy.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And when the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, “Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends word to me to cure a man of his leprosy? Only consider, and see how he is seeking a quarrel with me.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  But when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent to the king, saying, “Why have you torn your clothes? Let him come now to me, that he may know that there is a prophet in Israel.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored, and you shall be clean.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  But Naaman was angry and went away, saying, “Behold, I thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call upon the name of the LORD his God, and wave his hand over the place and cure the leper.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be clean?” So he turned and went away in a rage.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  But his servants came near and said to him, “My father, it is a great word the prophet has spoken to you; will you not do it? Has he actually said to you, ‘Wash, and be clean’?”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  So he went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and he came and stood before him. And he said, “Behold, I know that there is no God in all the earth but in Israel; so accept now a present from your servant.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  But he said, “As the LORD lives, before whom I stand, I will receive none.” And he urged him to take it, but he refused.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then Naaman said, “If not, please let there be given to your servant two mule loads of earth, for from now on your servant will not offer burnt offering or sacrifice to any god but the LORD.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  In this matter may the LORD pardon your servant: when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, leaning on my arm, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, when I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon your servant in this matter.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “See, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not accepting from his hand what he brought. As the LORD lives, I will run after him and get something from him.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  So Gehazi followed Naaman. And when Naaman saw someone running after him, he got down from the chariot to meet him and said, “Is all well?”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he said, “All is well. My master has sent me to say, ‘There have just now come to me from the hill country of Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets. Please give them a talent of silver and two changes of clothing.’”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And Naaman said, “Be pleased to accept two talents.” And he urged him and tied up two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and laid them on two of his servants. And they carried them before Gehazi.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And when he came to the hill, he took them from their hand and put them in the house, and he sent the men away, and they departed.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  He went in and stood before his master, and Elisha said to him, “Where have you been, Gehazi?” And he said, “Your servant went nowhere.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  But he said to him, “Did not my heart go when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Was it a time to accept money and garments, olive orchards and vineyards, sheep and oxen, male servants and female servants?


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Therefore the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you and to your descendants forever.” So he went out from his presence a leper, like snow. 


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “See, the place where we dwell under your charge is too small for us.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Let us go to the Jordan and each of us get there a log, and let us make a place for us to dwell there.” And he answered, “Go.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  But as one was felling a log, his axe head fell into the water, and he cried out, “Alas, my master! It was borrowed.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then the man of God said, “Where did it fall?” When he showed him the place, he cut off a stick and threw it in there and made the iron float.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Once when the king of Syria was warring against Israel, he took counsel with his servants, saying, “At such and such a place shall be my camp.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  But the man of God sent word to the king of Israel, “Beware that you do not pass this place, for the Syrians are going down there.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And the king of Israel sent to the place about which the man of God told him. Thus he used to warn him, so that he saved himself there more than once or twice.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And the mind of the king of Syria was greatly troubled because of this thing, and he called his servants and said to them, “Will you not show me who of us is for the king of Israel?”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And one of his servants said, “None, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he said, “Go and see where he is, that I may send and seize him.” It was told him, “Behold, he is in Dothan.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  So he sent there horses and chariots and a great army, and they came by night and surrounded the city.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  When the servant of the man of God rose early in the morning and went out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was all around the city. And the servant said, “Alas, my master! What shall we do?”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then Elisha prayed and said, “O LORD, please open his eyes that he may see.” So the LORD opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw, and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And when the Syrians came down against him, Elisha prayed to the LORD and said, “Please strike this people with blindness.” So he struck them with blindness in accordance with the prayer of Elisha.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And Elisha said to them, “This is not the way, and this is not the city. Follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek.” And he led them to Samaria.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  As soon as they entered Samaria, Elisha said, “O LORD, open the eyes of these men, that they may see.” So the LORD opened their eyes and they saw, and behold, they were in the midst of Samaria.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  As soon as the king of Israel saw them, he said to Elisha, “My father, shall I strike them down? Shall I strike them down?”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  He answered, “You shall not strike them down. Would you strike down those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink and go to their master.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  So he prepared for them a great feast, and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. And the Syrians did not come again on raids into the land of Israel.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And there was a great famine in Samaria, as they besieged it, until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove’s dung for five shekels of silver.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Now as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he said, “If the LORD will not help you, how shall I help you? From the threshing floor, or from the winepress?”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And the king asked her, “What is your trouble?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  So we boiled my son and ate him. And on the next day I said to her, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him.’ But she has hidden her son.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  When the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes—now he was passing by on the wall—and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth beneath on his body—


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  and he said, “May God do so to me and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders today.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. Now the king had dispatched a man from his presence, but before the messenger arrived Elisha said to the elders, “Do you see how this murderer has sent to take off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door and hold the door fast against him. Is not the sound of his master’s feet behind him?”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And while he was still speaking with them, the messenger came down to him and said, “This trouble is from the LORD! Why should I wait for the LORD any longer?” 


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  But Elisha said, “Hear the word of the LORD: thus says the LORD, Tomorrow about this time a seah of fine flour shall be sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, at the gate of Samaria.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned said to the man of God, “If the LORD himself should make windows in heaven, could this thing be?” But he said, “You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat of it.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Now there were four men who were lepers at the entrance to the gate. And they said to one another, “Why are we sitting here until we die?


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  If we say, ‘Let us enter the city,’ the famine is in the city, and we shall die there. And if we sit here, we die also. So now come, let us go over to the camp of the Syrians. If they spare our lives we shall live, and if they kill us we shall but die.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  So they arose at twilight to go to the camp of the Syrians. But when they came to the edge of the camp of the Syrians, behold, there was no one there.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians hear the sound of chariots and of horses, the sound of a great army, so that they said to one another, “Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Egypt to come against us.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  So they fled away in the twilight and abandoned their tents, their horses, and their donkeys, leaving the camp as it was, and fled for their lives.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And when these lepers came to the edge of the camp, they went into a tent and ate and drank, and they carried off silver and gold and clothing and went and hid them. Then they came back and entered another tent and carried off things from it and went and hid them.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then they said to one another, “We are not doing right. This day is a day of good news. If we are silent and wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us. Now therefore come; let us go and tell the king’s household.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  So they came and called to the gatekeepers of the city and told them, “We came to the camp of the Syrians, and behold, there was no one to be seen or heard there, nothing but the horses tied and the donkeys tied and the tents as they were.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And the king rose in the night and said to his servants, “I will tell you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry. Therefore they have gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the open country, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive and get into the city.’”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And one of his servants said, “Let some men take five of the remaining horses, seeing that those who are left here will fare like the whole multitude of Israel who have already perished. Let us send and see.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  So they took two horsemen, and the king sent them after the army of the Syrians, saying, “Go and see.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  So they went after them as far as the Jordan, and behold, all the way was littered with garments and equipment that the Syrians had thrown away in their haste. And the messengers returned and told the king.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then the people went out and plundered the camp of the Syrians. So a seah of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Now the king had appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to have charge of the gate. And the people trampled him in the gate, so that he died, as the man of God had said when the king came down to him.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  For when the man of God had said to the king, “Two seahs of barley shall be sold for a shekel, and a seah of fine flour for a shekel, about this time tomorrow in the gate of Samaria,”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  the captain had answered the man of God, “If the LORD himself should make windows in heaven, could such a thing be?” And he had said, “You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat of it.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Arise, and depart with your household, and sojourn wherever you can, for the LORD has called for a famine, and it will come upon the land for seven years.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  So the woman arose and did according to the word of the man of God. She went with her household and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And at the end of the seven years, when the woman returned from the land of the Philistines, she went to appeal to the king for her house and her land.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, “Tell me all the great things that Elisha has done.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And while he was telling the king how Elisha had restored the dead to life, behold, the woman whose son he had restored to life appealed to the king for her house and her land. And Gehazi said, “My lord, O king, here is the woman, and here is her son whom Elisha restored to life.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed an official for her, saying, “Restore all that was hers, together with all the produce of the fields from the day that she left the land until now.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Now Elisha came to Damascus. Ben-hadad the king of Syria was sick. And when it was told him, “The man of God has come here,”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  the king said to Hazael, “Take a present with you and go to meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD through him, saying, ‘Shall I recover from this sickness?’”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, all kinds of goods of Damascus, forty camels’ loads. When he came and stood before him, he said, “Your son Ben-hadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, ‘Shall I recover from this sickness?’”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And Elisha said to him, “Go, say to him, ‘You shall certainly recover,’ but the LORD has shown me that he shall certainly die.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And Hazael said, “Why does my lord weep?” He answered, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the people of Israel. You will set on fire their fortresses, and you will kill their young men with the sword and dash in pieces their little ones and rip open their pregnant women.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And Hazael said, “What is your servant, who is but a dog, that he should do this great thing?” Elisha answered, “The LORD has shown me that you are to be king over Syria.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then he departed from Elisha and came to his master, who said to him, “What did Elisha say to you?” And he answered, “He told me that you would certainly recover.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  But the next day he took the bed cloth and dipped it in water and spread it over his face, till he died. And Hazael became king in his place.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  In the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, when Jehoshaphat was king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, began to reign.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife. And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Yet the LORD was not willing to destroy Judah, for the sake of David his servant, since he promised to give a lamp to him and to his sons forever.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then Joram passed over to Zair with all his chariots and rose by night, and he and his chariot commanders struck the Edomites who had surrounded him, but his army fled home.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Now 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?


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  So Joram slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David, and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, began to reign.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah; she was a granddaughter of Omri king of Israel.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  He also walked in the way of the house of Ahab and did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as the house of Ahab had done, for he was son-in-law to the house of Ahab.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  He went with Joram the son of Ahab to make war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth-gilead, and the Syrians wounded Joram.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds that the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick. 


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets and said to him, “Tie up your garments, and take this flask of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And when you arrive, look there for Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat, son of Nimshi. And go in and have him rise from among his fellows, and lead him to an inner chamber.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then take the flask of oil and pour it on his head and say, ‘Thus says the LORD, I anoint you king over Israel.’ Then open the door and flee; do not linger.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And when he came, behold, the commanders of the army were in council. And he said, “I have a word for you, O commander.” And Jehu said, “To which of us all?” And he said, “To you, O commander.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  So he arose and went into the house. And the young man poured the oil on his head, saying to him, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, I anoint you king over the people of the LORD, over Israel.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And you shall strike down the house of Ahab your master, so that I may avenge on Jezebel the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the LORD.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  For the whole house of Ahab shall perish, and I will cut off from Ahab every male, bond or free, in Israel.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the territory of Jezreel, and none shall bury her.” Then he opened the door and fled.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  When Jehu came out to the servants of his master, they said to him, “Is all well? Why did this mad fellow come to you?” And he said to them, “You know the fellow and his talk.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And they said, “That is not true; tell us now.” And he said, “Thus and so he spoke to me, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD, I anoint you king over Israel.’”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then in haste every man of them took his garment and put it under him on the bare steps, and they blew the trumpet and proclaimed, “Jehu is king.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Thus Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. (Now Joram with all Israel had been on guard at Ramoth-gilead against Hazael king of Syria,


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  but King Joram had returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds that the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) So Jehu said, “If this is your decision, then let no one slip out of the city to go and tell the news in Jezreel.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then Jehu mounted his chariot and went to Jezreel, for Joram lay there. And Ahaziah king of Judah had come down to visit Joram.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  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.” And Joram said, “Take a horseman and send to meet them, and let him say, ‘Is it peace?’”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  So a man on horseback went to meet him and said, “Thus says the king, ‘Is it peace?’” And Jehu said, “What do you have to do with peace? Turn around and ride behind me.” And the watchman reported, saying, “The messenger reached them, but he is not coming back.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then he sent out a second horseman, who came to them and said, “Thus the king has said, ‘Is it peace?’” And Jehu answered, “What do you have to do with peace? Turn around and ride behind me.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Again the watchman reported, “He reached them, but he is not coming back. And the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi, for he drives furiously.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Joram said, “Make ready.” And they made ready his chariot. Then Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah set out, each in his chariot, and went to meet Jehu, and met him at the property of Naboth the Jezreelite.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And when Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” He answered, “What peace can there be, so long as the whorings and the sorceries of your mother Jezebel are so many?”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And Jehu drew his bow with his full strength, and shot Joram between the shoulders, so that the arrow pierced his heart, and he sank in his chariot.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Jehu said to Bidkar his aide, “Take him up and throw him on the plot of ground belonging to Naboth the Jezreelite. For remember, when you and I rode side by side behind Ahab his father, how the LORD made this pronouncement against him:


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  ‘As surely as I saw yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons—declares the LORD—I will repay you on this plot of ground.’ Now therefore take him up and throw him on the plot of ground, in accordance with the word of the LORD.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  When Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled in the direction of Beth-haggan. And Jehu pursued him and said, “Shoot him also.” And they shot him in the chariot at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo and died there.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  His servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his tomb with his fathers in the city of David.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. And she painted her eyes and adorned her head and looked out of the window.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he lifted up his face to the window and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” Two or three eunuchs looked out at him.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  He said, “Throw her down.” So they threw her down. And some of her blood spattered on the wall and on the horses, and they trampled on her.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then he went in and ate and drank. And he said, “See now to this cursed woman and bury her, for she is a king’s daughter.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  But when they went to bury her, they found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  When they came back and told him, he said, “This is the word of the LORD, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite: ‘In the territory of Jezreel the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel,


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  and the corpse of Jezebel shall be as dung on the face of the field in the territory of Jezreel, so that no one can say, This is Jezebel.’” 


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria, to the rulers of the city, to the elders, and to the guardians of the sons of Ahab, saying,


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  “Now then, as soon as this letter comes to you, seeing your master’s sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, fortified cities also, and weapons,


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  select the best and fittest of your master’s sons and set him on his father’s throne and fight for your master’s house.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  But they were exceedingly afraid and said, “Behold, the two kings could not stand before him. How then can we stand?”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  So he who was over the palace, and he who was over the city, together with the elders and the guardians, sent to Jehu, saying, “We are your servants, and we will do all that you tell us. We will not make anyone king. Do whatever is good in your eyes.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then he wrote to them a second letter, saying, “If you are on my side, and if you are ready to obey me, take the heads of your master’s sons and come to me at Jezreel tomorrow at this time.” Now the king’s sons, seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who were bringing them up.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And as soon as 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.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  When the messenger came and told him, “They have brought the heads of the king’s sons,” he said, “Lay them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then in the morning, when he went out, he stood and said to all the people, “You are innocent. It was I who conspired against my master and killed him, but who struck down all these?


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Know then that there shall fall to the earth nothing of the word of the LORD, which the LORD spoke concerning the house of Ahab, for the LORD has done what he said by his servant Elijah.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  So Jehu struck down all who remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, all his great men and his close friends and his priests, until he left him none remaining.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Jehu met the relatives of Ahaziah king of Judah, and he said, “Who are you?” And they answered, “We are the relatives of Ahaziah, and we came down to visit the royal princes and the sons of the queen mother.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  He said, “Take them alive.” And they took them alive and slaughtered them at the pit of Beth-eked, forty-two persons, and he spared none of them.


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label: 2King
content:
  And when he departed from there, he met Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him. And he greeted him and said to him, “Is your heart true to my heart as mine is to yours?” And Jehonadab answered, “It is.” Jehu said, “If it is, give me your hand.” So he gave him his hand. And Jehu took him up with him into the chariot.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And when he came to Samaria, he struck down all who remained to Ahab in Samaria, till he had wiped them out, according to the word of the LORD that he spoke to Elijah.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then Jehu assembled all the people and said to them, “Ahab served Baal a little, but Jehu will serve him much.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, all his worshipers and all his priests. Let none be missing, for I have a great sacrifice to offer to Baal. Whoever is missing shall not live.” But Jehu did it with cunning in order to destroy the worshipers of Baal.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And Jehu sent throughout all Israel, and all the worshipers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left who did not come. And they entered the house of Baal, and the house of Baal was filled from one end to the other.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  He said to him who was in charge of the wardrobe, “Bring out the vestments for all the worshipers of Baal.” So he brought out the vestments for them.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then Jehu went into the house of Baal with Jehonadab the son of Rechab, and he said to the worshipers of Baal, “Search, and see that there is no servant of the LORD here among you, but only the worshipers of Baal.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had stationed eighty men outside and said, “The man who allows any of those whom I give into your hands to escape shall forfeit his life.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  So as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guard and to the officers, “Go in and strike them down; let not a man escape.” So when they put them to the sword, the guard and the officers cast them out and went into the inner room of the house of Baal,


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And they demolished the pillar of Baal, and demolished the house of Baal, and made it a latrine to this day.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  But Jehu did not turn aside from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin—that is, the golden calves that were in Bethel and in Dan.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And the LORD said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in carrying out what is right in my eyes, and have done to the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, your sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of the LORD, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He did not turn from the sins of Jeroboam, which he made Israel to sin.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  In those days the LORD began to cut off parts of Israel. Hazael defeated them throughout the territory of Israel:


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  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, that is, Gilead and Bashan.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Now the rest of the acts of Jehu and all that he did, and all his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  So Jehu slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his place.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal family.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the king’s sons who were being put to death, and she put him and his nurse in a bedroom. Thus they hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not put to death.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he remained with her six years, hidden in the house of the LORD, while Athaliah reigned over the land.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  But in the seventh year Jehoiada sent and brought the captains of the Carites and of the guards, and had them come to him in the house of the LORD. And he made a covenant with them and put them under oath in the house of the LORD, and he showed them the king’s son.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he commanded them, “This is the thing that you shall do: one third of you, those who come off duty on the Sabbath and guard the king’s house


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label: 2King
content:
  (another third being at the gate Sur and a third at the gate behind the guards) shall guard the palace.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And the two divisions of you, which come on duty in force on the Sabbath and guard the house of the LORD on behalf of the king,


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  shall surround the king, each with his weapons in his hand. And whoever approaches the ranks is to be put to death. Be with the king when he goes out and when he comes in.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  The captains did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded, and they each brought his men who were to go off duty on the Sabbath, with those who were to come on duty on the Sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And the priest gave to the captains the spears and shields that had been King David’s, which were in the house of the LORD.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And the guards stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, from the south side of the house to the north side of the house, around the altar and the house on behalf of the king.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then he brought out the king’s son and put the crown on him and gave him the testimony. And they proclaimed him king and anointed him, and they clapped their hands and said, “Long live the king!”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  When Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she went into the house of the LORD to the people.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And when she looked, there was the king standing by the pillar, according to the custom, and the captains and the trumpeters beside the king, and all the people of the land rejoicing and blowing trumpets. And Athaliah tore her clothes and cried, “Treason! Treason!”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains who were set over the army, “Bring her out between the ranks, and put to death with the sword anyone who follows her.” For the priest said, “Let her not be put to death in the house of the LORD.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  So they laid hands on her; and she went through the horses’ entrance to the king’s house, and there she was put to death.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and people, that they should be the LORD’s people, and also between the king and the people.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then all the people of the land went to the house of Baal and tore it down; his altars and his images they broke in pieces, and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest posted watchmen over the house of the LORD.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he took the captains, the Carites, the guards, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king down from the house of the LORD, marching through the gate of the guards to the king’s house. And he took his seat on the throne of the kings.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet after Athaliah had been put to death with the sword at the king’s house.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And Jehoash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all his days, because Jehoiada the priest instructed him.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued to sacrifice and make offerings on the high places.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money of the holy things that is brought into the house of the LORD, the money for which each man is assessed—the money from the assessment of persons—and the money that a man’s heart prompts him to bring into the house of the LORD,


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  let the priests take, each from his donor, and let them repair the house wherever any need of repairs is discovered.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Therefore King Jehoash summoned Jehoiada the priest and the other priests and said to them, “Why are you not repairing the house? Now therefore take no more money from your donors, but hand it over for the repair of the house.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  So the priests agreed that they should take no more money from the people, and that they should not repair the house.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole in the lid of it and set it beside the altar on the right side as one entered the house of the LORD. And the priests who guarded the threshold put in it all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And whenever they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king’s secretary and the high priest came up and they bagged and counted the money that was found in the house of the LORD.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then they would give the money that was weighed out into the hands of the workmen 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,


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  and to the masons and the stonecutters, as well as to buy timber and quarried stone for making repairs on the house of the LORD, and for any outlay for the repairs of the house.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  But there were not made for the house of the LORD basins of silver, snuffers, bowls, trumpets, or any vessels of gold, or of silver, from the money that was brought into the house of the LORD,


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And they did not ask for an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to pay out to the workmen, for they dealt honestly.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  The money from the guilt offerings and the money from the sin offerings was not brought into the house of the LORD; it belonged to the priests.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  At that time Hazael king of Syria went up and fought against Gath and took it. But when Hazael set his face to go up against Jerusalem,


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Jehoash king of Judah took all the sacred gifts that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah his fathers, the kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own sacred gifts, and all the gold that was found in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and of the king’s house, and sent these to Hazael king of Syria. Then Hazael went away from Jerusalem.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  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?


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  His servants arose and made a conspiracy and struck down Joash in the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  It was Jozacar the son of Shimeath and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, who struck him down, so that he died. And they buried him with his fathers in the city of David, and Amaziah his son reigned in his place. 


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  In the twenty-third year of Joash the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned seventeen years.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin; he did not depart from them.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he gave them continually into the hand of Hazael king of Syria and into the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then Jehoahaz sought the favor of the LORD, and the LORD listened to him, for he saw the oppression of Israel, how the king of Syria oppressed them.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  (Therefore the LORD gave Israel a savior, so that they escaped from the hand of the Syrians, and the people of Israel lived in their homes as formerly.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Nevertheless, they did not depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, which he made Israel to sin, but walked in them; and the Asherah also remained in Samaria.)


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  For there was not left to Jehoahaz an army of more than fifty horsemen and ten chariots and ten thousand footmen, for the king of Syria had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz and all that he did, and his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  So Jehoahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria, and Joash his son reigned in his place.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  In the thirty-seventh year of Joash king of Judah, Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned sixteen years.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  He also did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. He did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin, but he walked in them.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Now the rest of the acts of Joash and all that he did, and the might with which he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  So Joash slept with his fathers, and Jeroboam sat on his throne. And Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Now when Elisha had fallen sick with the illness of which he was to die, Joash king of Israel went down to him and wept before him, crying, “My father, my father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then he said to the king of Israel, “Draw the bow,” and he drew it. And Elisha laid his hands on the king’s hands.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he said, “Open the window eastward,” and he opened it. Then Elisha said, “Shoot,” and he shot. And he said, “The LORD’s arrow of victory, the arrow of victory over Syria! For you shall fight the Syrians in Aphek until you have made an end of them.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he said, “Take the arrows,” and he took them. And he said to the king of Israel, “Strike the ground with them.” And he struck three times and stopped.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then the man of God was angry with him and said, “You should have struck five or six times; then you would have struck down Syria until you had made an end of it, but now you will strike down Syria only three times.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  So Elisha died, and they buried him. Now bands of Moabites used to invade the land in the spring of the year.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And as a man was being buried, behold, a marauding band was seen and the man was thrown into the grave of Elisha, and as soon as the man touched the bones of Elisha, he revived and stood on his feet.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  But the LORD was gracious to them and had compassion on them, and he turned toward them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, nor has he cast them from his presence until now.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again from Ben-hadad the son of Hazael the cities that he had taken from Jehoahaz his father in war. Three times Joash defeated him and recovered the cities of Israel. 


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  In the second year of Joash the son of Joahaz, king of Israel, Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, began to reign.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, yet not like David his father. He did in all things as Joash his father had done.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  But the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And as soon as the royal power was firmly in his hand, he struck down his servants who had struck down the king his father.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  But he did not put to death the children of the murderers, according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, where the LORD commanded, “Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. But each one shall die for his own sin.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  He struck down ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt and took Sela by storm, and called it Joktheel, which is its name to this day.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come, let us look one another in the face.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And Jehoash king of Israel sent word to Amaziah king of Judah, “A thistle on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son for a wife,’ and a wild beast of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thistle.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  You have indeed struck down Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Be content with your glory, and stay at home, for why should you provoke trouble so that you fall, you and Judah with you?”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  But Amaziah would not listen. So Jehoash king of Israel went up, and he and Amaziah king of Judah faced one another in battle at Beth-shemesh, which belongs to Judah.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash, son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem for four hundred cubits, from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he seized all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the king’s house, also hostages, and he returned to Samaria.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash that he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And Jehoash slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel, and Jeroboam his son reigned in his place.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, lived fifteen years after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Now the rest of the deeds of Amaziah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But they sent after him to Lachish and put him to death there.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And they brought him on horses; and he was buried in Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, began to reign in Samaria, and he reigned forty-one years.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. He did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  He restored the border of Israel from Lebo-hamath as far as the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word of the LORD, the God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was from Gath-hepher.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  For the LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter, for there was none left, bond or free, and there was none to help Israel.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  But the LORD had not said that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, so he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did, and his might, how he fought, and how he restored Damascus and Hamath to Judah in Israel, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, the kings of Israel, and Zechariah his son reigned in his place. 


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah the son of Amaziah, king of Judah, began to reign.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  He was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And the LORD touched the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death, and he lived in a separate house. And Jotham the king’s son was over the household, governing the people of the land.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Now the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And Azariah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David, and Jotham his son reigned in his place.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah, Zechariah the son of Jeroboam reigned over Israel in Samaria six months.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fathers had done. He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him and struck him down at Ibleam and put him to death and reigned in his place.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Now the rest of the deeds of Zechariah, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  (This was the promise of the LORD that he gave to Jehu, “Your sons shall sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation.” And so it came to pass.)


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah, and he reigned one month in Samaria.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then Menahem the son of Gadi came up from Tirzah and came to Samaria, and he struck down Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria and put him to death and reigned in his place.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Now the rest of the deeds of Shallum, and the conspiracy that he made, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  At that time Menahem sacked Tiphsah and all who were in it and its territory from Tirzah on, because they did not open it to him. Therefore he sacked it, and he ripped open all the women in it who were pregnant.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  In the thirty-ninth year of Azariah king of Judah, Menahem the son of Gadi began to reign over Israel, and he reigned ten years in Samaria.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. He did not depart all his days from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Pul the king of Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that he might help him to confirm his hold on the royal power.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Menahem exacted the money from Israel, that is, from all the wealthy men, fifty shekels of silver from every man, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back and did not stay there in the land.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Now the rest of the deeds of Menahem and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned two years.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. He did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And Pekah the son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him with fifty men of the people of Gilead, and struck him down in Samaria, in the citadel of the king’s house with Argob and Arieh; he put him to death and reigned in his place.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Now the rest of the deeds of Pekahiah and all that he did, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned twenty years.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he carried the people captive to Assyria.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah and struck him down and put him to death and reigned in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Now the rest of the acts of Pekah and all that he did, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, Jotham the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, began to reign.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah had done.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Nevertheless, the high places were not removed. The people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of the LORD.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Now the rest of the acts of Jotham and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  In those days the LORD began to send Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah against Judah.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Jotham slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father, and Ahaz his son reigned in his place. 


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham, king of Judah, began to reign.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD his God, as his father David had done,


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  but he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. He even burned his son as an offering, according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he sacrificed and made offerings on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up to wage war on Jerusalem, and they besieged Ahaz but could not conquer him.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  At that time Rezin the king of Syria recovered Elath for Syria and drove the men of Judah from Elath, and the Edomites came to Elath, where they dwell to this day.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son. Come up and rescue me from the hand of the king of Syria and from the hand of the king of Israel, who are attacking me.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Ahaz also took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the LORD and in the treasures of the king’s house and sent a present to the king of Assyria.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And the king of Assyria listened to him. The king of Assyria marched up against Damascus and took it, carrying its people captive to Kir, and he killed Rezin.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  When King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, he saw the altar that was at Damascus. And King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest a model of the altar, and its pattern, exact in all its details.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And Uriah the priest built the altar; in accordance with all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so Uriah the priest made it, before King Ahaz arrived from Damascus.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And when the king came from Damascus, the king viewed the altar. Then the king drew near to the altar and went up on it


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  and burned his burnt offering and his grain offering and poured his drink offering and threw the blood of his peace offerings on the altar.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And the bronze altar that was before the LORD he removed from the front of the house, from the place between his altar and the house of the LORD, and put it on the north side of his altar.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, saying, “On the great altar burn the morning burnt offering and the evening grain offering and the king’s burnt offering and his grain offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their grain offering and their drink offering. And throw on it all the blood of the burnt offering and all the blood of the sacrifice, but the bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And King Ahaz cut off the frames of the stands and removed the basin from them, and he took down the sea from off the bronze oxen that were under it and put it on a stone pedestal.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And the covered way for the Sabbath that had been built inside the house and the outer entrance for the king he caused to go around the house of the LORD, because of the king of Assyria.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And Ahaz slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David, and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place. 


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hoshea the son of Elah began to reign in Samaria over Israel, and he reigned nine years.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, yet not as the kings of Israel who were before him.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  But the king of Assyria found treachery in Hoshea, for he had sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year. Therefore the king of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then the king of Assyria invaded all the land and came to Samaria, and for three years he besieged it.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria, and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And this occurred because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  and walked in the customs of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel, and in the customs that the kings of Israel had practiced.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And the people of Israel did secretly against the LORD their God things that were not right. They built for themselves high places in all their towns, from watchtower to fortified city.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  and there they made offerings on all the high places, as the nations did whom the LORD carried away before them. And they did wicked things, provoking the LORD to anger,


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Yet the LORD warned Israel and Judah by every prophet and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the Law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  But they would not listen, but were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the LORD their God.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  They despised his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after false idols and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the LORD had commanded them that they should not do like them.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And they abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made for themselves metal images of two calves; and they made an Asherah and worshiped all the host of heaven and served Baal.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings and used divination and omens and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight. None was left but the tribe of Judah only.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Judah also did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the customs that Israel had introduced.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel and afflicted them and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until he had cast them out of his sight.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  When he had torn Israel from the house of David, they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king. And Jeroboam drove Israel from following the LORD and made them commit great sin.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had spoken by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was exiled from their own land to Assyria until this day.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the people of Israel. And they took possession of Samaria and lived in its cities.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And at the beginning of their dwelling there, they did not fear the LORD. Therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which killed some of them.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  So the king of Assyria was told, “The nations that you have carried away and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the law of the god of the land. Therefore he has sent lions among them, and behold, they are killing them, because they do not know the law of the god of the land.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then the king of Assyria commanded, “Send there one of the priests whom you carried away from there, and let him go and dwell there and teach them the law of the god of the land.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and lived in Bethel and taught them how they should fear the LORD.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  But every nation still made gods of its own and put them in the shrines of the high places that the Samaritans had made, every nation in the cities in which they lived.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  They also feared the LORD and appointed from among themselves all sorts of people as priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the shrines of the high places.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  So they feared the LORD but also served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  To this day they do according to the former manner. They do not fear the LORD, and they do not follow the statutes or the rules or the law or the commandment that the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  The LORD made a covenant with them and commanded them, “You shall not fear other gods or bow yourselves to them or serve them or sacrifice to them,


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  but you shall fear the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt with great power and with an outstretched arm. You shall bow yourselves to him, and to him you shall sacrifice.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And the statutes and the rules and the law and the commandment that he wrote for you, you shall always be careful to do. You shall not fear other gods,


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  So these nations feared the LORD and also served their carved images. Their children did likewise, and their children’s children—as their fathers did, so they do to this day. 


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  In the third year of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel, Hezekiah the son of Ahaz, king of Judah, began to reign.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  He removed the high places and broke the pillars and cut down the Asherah. And he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the people of Israel had made offerings to it (it was called Nehushtan).


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  He trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel, so that there was none like him among all the kings of Judah after him, nor among those who were before him.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  For he held fast to the LORD. He did not depart from following him, but kept the commandments that the LORD commanded Moses.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And the LORD was with him; wherever he went out, he prospered. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and would not serve him.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  In the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it,


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  and at the end of three years he took it. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  The king of Assyria carried the Israelites away to Assyria and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  because they did not obey the voice of the LORD their God but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded. They neither listened nor obeyed.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have done wrong; withdraw from me. Whatever you impose on me I will bear.” And the king of Assyria required of Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the king’s house.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  At that time Hezekiah stripped the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD and from the doorposts that Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid and gave it to the king of Assyria.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rab-saris, and the Rabshakeh with a great army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. When they arrived, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway to the Washer’s Field.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And when they called for the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebnah the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And the Rabshakeh said to them, “Say to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: On what do you rest this trust of yours?


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war? In whom do you now trust, that you have rebelled against me?


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Behold, you are trusting now in Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of any man who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  But if you say to me, “We trust in the LORD our God,” is it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and to Jerusalem, “You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem”?


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Come now, make a wager with my master the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  How then can you repulse a single captain among the least of my master’s servants, when you trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Moreover, is it without the LORD that I have come up against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, “Go up against this land and destroy it.”’”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah, said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Do not speak to us in the language of Judah within the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  But the Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are doomed with you to eat their own dung and to drink their own urine?”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out in a loud voice in the language of Judah: “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria!


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Thus says the king: ‘Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you out of my hand.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Do not let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD by saying, The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria: ‘Make your peace with me and come out to me. Then each one of you will eat of his own vine, and each one of his own fig tree, and each one of you will drink the water of his own cistern,


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey, that you may live, and not die. And do not listen to Hezekiah when he misleads you by saying, “The LORD will deliver us.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Who among all the gods of the lands have delivered their lands out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  But the people were silent and answered him not a word, for the king’s command was, “Do not answer him.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and told him the words of the Rabshakeh. 


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  As soon as King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the LORD.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and the senior priests, covered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace; children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  It may be that the LORD your God heard all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words that the LORD your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Isaiah said to them, “Say to your master, ‘Thus says the LORD: Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have reviled me.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Behold, I will put a spirit in him, so that he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land, and I will make him fall by the sword in his own land.’”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  The Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he heard that the king had left Lachish.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Now the king heard concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, “Behold, he has set out to fight against you.” So he sent messengers again to Hezekiah, saying,


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  “Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah: ‘Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you by promising that Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, devoting them to destruction. And shall you be delivered?


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations that my fathers destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar?


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, the king of Hena, or the king of Ivvah?’”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it; and Hezekiah went up to the house of the LORD and spread it before the LORD.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD and said: “O LORD, the God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Incline your ear, O LORD, and hear; open your eyes, O LORD, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. Therefore they were destroyed.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  So now, O LORD our God, save us, please, from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, O LORD, are God alone.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Your prayer to me about Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  This is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning him: “She despises you, she scorns you— the virgin daughter of Zion; she wags her head behind you— the daughter of Jerusalem.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  “Whom have you mocked and reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes to the heights? Against the Holy One of Israel!


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  By your messengers you have mocked the Lord, and you have said, ‘With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon; I felled its tallest cedars, its choicest cypresses; I entered its farthest lodging place, its most fruitful forest.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  I dug wells and drank foreign waters, and I dried up with the sole of my foot all the streams of Egypt.’


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  “Have you not heard that I determined it long ago? I planned from days of old what now I bring to pass, that you should turn fortified cities into heaps of ruins,


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  while their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded, and have become like plants of the field and like tender grass, like grass on the housetops, blighted before it is grown.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Because you have raged against me and your complacency has come into my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will turn you back on the way by which you came.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  “And this shall be the sign for you: this year eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs of the same. Then in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the LORD will do this.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  “Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city or shoot an arrow there, or come before it with a shield or cast up a siege mound against it.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come into this city, declares the LORD.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And that night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, struck him down with the sword and escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place. 


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him and said to him, “Thus says the LORD, ‘Set your house in order, for you shall die; you shall not recover.’”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  “Now, O LORD, please remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  “Turn back, and say to Hezekiah the leader of my people, Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the LORD,


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  and I will add fifteen years to your life. I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city for my own sake and for my servant David’s sake.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And Isaiah said, “Bring a cake of figs. And let them take and lay it on the boil, that he may recover.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “What shall be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of the LORD on the third day?”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And Isaiah said, “This shall be the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that he has promised: shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And Hezekiah answered, “It is an easy thing for the shadow to lengthen ten steps. Rather let the shadow go back ten steps.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And Isaiah the prophet called to the LORD, and he brought the shadow back ten steps, by which it had gone down on the steps of Ahaz.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  At that time Merodach-baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent envoys with letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that Hezekiah had been sick.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And Hezekiah welcomed them, and he showed them all his treasure house, the silver, the gold, the spices, the precious oil, his armory, all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his house or in all his realm that Hezekiah did not show them.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah, and said to him, “What did these men say? And from where did they come to you?” And Hezekiah said, “They have come from a far country, from Babylon.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  He said, “What have they seen in your house?” And Hezekiah answered, “They have seen all that is in my house; there is nothing in my storehouses that I did not show them.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Behold, the days are coming, when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up till this day, shall be carried to Babylon. Nothing shall be left, says the LORD.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And some of your own sons, who will come from you, whom you will father, shall be taken away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the LORD that you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “Why not, if there will be peace and security in my days?”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  The rest of the deeds of Hezekiah and all his might and how he made the pool and the conduit and brought water into the city, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hephzibah.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  For he rebuilt the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed, and he erected altars for Baal and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel had done, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem will I put my name.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he burned his son as an offering and used fortune-telling and omens and dealt with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And the carved image of Asherah that he had made he set in the house of which the LORD said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And I will not cause the feet of Israel to wander anymore out of the land that I gave to their fathers, if only they will be careful to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the Law that my servant Moses commanded them.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  But they did not listen, and Manasseh led them astray to do more evil than the nations had done whom the LORD destroyed before the people of Israel.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  “Because Manasseh king of Judah has committed these abominations and has done things more evil than all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has made Judah also to sin with his idols,


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  therefore thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing upon Jerusalem and Judah such disaster that the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria, and the plumb line of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And I will forsake the remnant of my heritage and give them into the hand of their enemies, and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies,


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  because they have done what is evil in my sight and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides the sin that he made Judah to sin so that they did what was evil in the sight of the LORD.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh and all that he did, and the sin that he committed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And Manasseh slept with his fathers and was buried in the garden of his house, in the garden of Uzza, and Amon his son reigned in his place.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  He walked in all the way in which his father walked and served the idols that his father served and worshiped them.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  But the people of the land struck down all those who had conspired against King Amon, and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Now the rest of the acts of Amon that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and walked in all the way of David his father, and he did not turn aside to the right or to the left.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  In the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, son of Meshullam, the secretary, to the house of the LORD, saying,


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may count the money that has been brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the threshold have collected from the people.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And let it be given into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of the LORD, and let them give it to the workmen who are at the house of the LORD, repairing the house


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label: 2King
content:
  (that is, to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons), and let them use it for buying timber and quarried stone to repair the house.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  But no accounting shall be asked from them for the money that is delivered into their hand, for they deal honestly.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the secretary, “I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the LORD.” And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And Shaphan the secretary came to the king, and reported to the king, “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.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then Shaphan the secretary told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a book.” And Shaphan read it before the king.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Micaiah, and Shaphan the secretary, and Asaiah the king’s servant, saying,


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  “Go, inquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book, to do according to all that is written concerning us.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter), and they talked with her.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will bring disaster upon this place and upon its inhabitants, all the words of the book that the king of Judah has read.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Because they have forsaken me and have made offerings to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore my wrath will be kindled against this place, and it will not be quenched.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, thus shall you say to him, Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Regarding the words that you have heard,


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  because your heart was penitent, and you humbled yourself before the LORD, when you heard how I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and you have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, declares the LORD.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Therefore, behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, and your eyes shall not see all the disaster that I will bring upon this place.’” And they brought back word to the king. 


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And the king went up to the house of the LORD, and with him all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the priests and the prophets, all the people, both small and great. And he read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the LORD.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people joined in the covenant.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests of the second order and the keepers of the threshold to bring out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels made for Baal, for Asherah, and for all the host of heaven. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he deposed the priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to make offerings in the high places at the cities of Judah and around Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and the moon and the constellations and all the host of the heavens.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he brought out the Asherah from the house of the LORD, outside Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron and beat it to dust and cast the dust of it upon the graves of the common people.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he broke down the houses of the male cult prostitutes who were in the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had made offerings, from Geba to Beersheba. And he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on one’s left at the gate of the city.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  However, the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brothers.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he defiled Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, that no one might burn his son or his daughter as an offering to Molech.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he removed the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun, at the entrance to the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the precincts. And he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And the altars on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars that Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, he pulled down and broke in pieces and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And the king defiled the high places that were east of Jerusalem, to the south of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he broke in pieces the pillars and cut down the Asherim and filled their places with the bones of men.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Moreover, the altar at Bethel, the high place erected by Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, that altar with the high place he pulled down and burned, reducing it to dust. He also burned the Asherah.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the mount. And he sent and took the bones out of the tombs and burned them on the altar and defiled it, according to the word of the LORD that the man of God proclaimed, who had predicted these things.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then he said, “What is that monument that I see?” And the men of the city told him, “It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and predicted these things that you have done against the altar at Bethel.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he said, “Let him be; let no man move his bones.” So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came out of Samaria.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And Josiah removed all the shrines also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which kings of Israel had made, provoking the LORD to anger. He did to them according to all that he had done at Bethel.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he sacrificed all the priests of the high places who were there, on the altars, and burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And the king commanded all the people, “Keep the Passover to the LORD your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  For no such Passover had been kept since the days of the judges who judged Israel, or during all the days of the kings of Israel or of the kings of Judah.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Moreover, Josiah put away the mediums and the necromancers and the household gods and the idols and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might establish the words of the law that were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Before him there was no king like him, who turned to the LORD with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might, according to all the Law of Moses, nor did any like him arise after him.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Still the LORD did not turn from the burning of his great wrath, by which his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked him.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And the LORD said, “I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and I will cast off this city that I have chosen, Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Now the rest of the acts of Josiah and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  In his days Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt went up to the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates. King Josiah went to meet him, and Pharaoh Neco killed him at Megiddo, as soon as he saw him.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And his servants carried him dead in a chariot from Megiddo and brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father’s place.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And Pharaoh Neco put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem, and laid on the land a tribute of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And 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 he came to Egypt and died there.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh, but he taxed the land to give the money according to the command of Pharaoh. He exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, from everyone according to his assessment, to give it to Pharaoh Neco.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  In his days, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years. Then he turned and rebelled against him.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldeans and bands of the Syrians and bands of the Moabites and bands of the Ammonites, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD that he spoke by his servants the prophets.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Surely this came upon Judah at the command of the LORD, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done,


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  and also for the innocent blood that he had shed. For he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD would not pardon.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Now the rest of the deeds of Jehoiakim and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And the king of Egypt did not come again out of his land, for the king of Babylon had taken all that belonged to the king of Egypt from the Brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  and Jehoiachin the king of Judah gave himself up to the king of Babylon, himself and his mother and his servants and his officials and his palace officials. The king of Babylon took him prisoner in the eighth year of his reign


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  and carried off all the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king’s house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold in the temple of the LORD, which Solomon king of Israel had made, as the LORD had foretold.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  He carried away all Jerusalem and all the officials and all the mighty men of valor, 10,000 captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths. None remained, except the poorest people of the land.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon. The king’s mother, the king’s wives, his officials, and the chief men of the land he took into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon all the men of valor, 7,000, and the craftsmen and the metal workers, 1,000, all of them strong and fit for war.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s uncle, king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  For because of the anger of the LORD it came to the point in Jerusalem and Judah that he cast them out from his presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. 


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem and laid siege to it. And they built siegeworks all around it.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  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.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by the king’s garden, and the Chaldeans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the Arabah.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and they passed sentence on him.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in chains and took him to Babylon.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  In the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month—that was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon—Nebuzaradan, the captain of the bodyguard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he burned the house of the LORD and the king’s house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And all the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down the walls around Jerusalem.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, together with the rest of the multitude, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried into exile.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And the pillars of bronze that were in the house of the LORD, and the stands and the bronze sea that were in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans broke in pieces and carried the bronze to Babylon.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And they took away the pots and the shovels and the snuffers and the dishes for incense and all the vessels of bronze used in the temple service,


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  the fire pans also and the bowls. What was of gold the captain of the guard took away as gold, and what was of silver, as silver.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  As for the two pillars, the one sea, and the stands that Solomon had made for the house of the LORD, the bronze of all these vessels was beyond weight.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and on it was a capital of bronze. The height of the capital was three cubits. A latticework and pomegranates, all of bronze, were all around the capital. And the second pillar had the same, with the latticework.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest and Zephaniah the second priest and the three keepers of the threshold;


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  and from the city he took an officer who had been in command of the men of war, and five men of the king’s council who were found in the city; and the secretary of the commander of the army, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the city.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was taken into exile out of its land.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And over the people who remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, he appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, governor.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Now when all the captains and their men heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah governor, they came with their men to Gedaliah at Mizpah, namely, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And Gedaliah swore to them and their men, saying, “Do not be afraid because of the Chaldean officials. Live in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.”


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  But in the seventh month, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, son of Elishama, of the royal family, came with ten men and struck down Gedaliah and put him to death along with the Jews and the Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  Then all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the forces arose and went to Egypt, for they were afraid of the Chaldeans.


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label: 2King
content:
  And in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, graciously freed Jehoiachin king of Judah from prison.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  And he spoke kindly to him and gave him a seat above the seats of the kings who were with him in Babylon.


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  So Jehoiachin put off his prison garments. And every day of his life he dined regularly at the king’s table,


book: 2Kings
label: 2King
content:
  and for his allowance, a regular allowance was given him by the king, according to his daily needs, as long as he lived. 


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram. And the sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg (for in his days the earth was divided), and his brother’s name was Joktan.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  The sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: she bore Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  The sons of Midian: Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the descendants of Keturah.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the people of Israel: Bela the son of Beor, the name of his city being Dinhabah.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  Baal-hanan died, and Hadad reigned in his place, the name of his city being Pai; and his wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  The sons of Judah: Er, Onan and Shelah; these three Bath-shua the Canaanite bore to him. Now Er, Judah’s firstborn, was evil in the sight of the LORD, and he put him to death.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  The son of Carmi: Achan, the troubler of Israel, who broke faith in the matter of the devoted thing;


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  Caleb the son of Hezron fathered children by his wife Azubah, and by Jerioth; and these were her sons: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  Afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was sixty years old, and she bore him Segub.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  But Geshur and Aram took from them Havvoth-jair, Kenath, and its villages, sixty towns. All these were descendants of Machir, the father of Gilead.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  After the death of Hezron, Caleb went in to Ephrathah, the wife of Hezron his father, and she bore him Ashhur, the father of Tekoa.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  The sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel: Mareshah his firstborn, who fathered Ziph. The son of Mareshah: Hebron.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  She also bore Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbenah and the father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  These were the descendants of Caleb. The sons of Hur the firstborn of Ephrathah: Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim,


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  And the clans of Kiriath-jearim: the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; from these came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Atroth-beth-joab and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  The clans also of the scribes who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites and the Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab. 


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  These are the sons of David who were born to him in Hebron: the firstborn, Amnon, by Ahinoam the Jezreelite; the second, Daniel, by Abigail the Carmelite,


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label: 1Chron
content:
  the third, Absalom, whose mother was Maacah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah, whose mother was Haggith;


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  six were born to him in Hebron, where he reigned for seven years and six months. And he reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  These were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, Shobab, Nathan and Solomon, four by Bath-shua, the daughter of Ammiel;


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  The sons of Josiah: Johanan the firstborn, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  and the sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel and Shimei; and the sons of Zerubbabel: Meshullam and Hananiah, and Shelomith was their sister;


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  The sons of Hananiah: Pelatiah and Jeshaiah, his son Rephaiah, his son Arnan, his son Obadiah, his son Shecaniah.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  The son of Shecaniah: Shemaiah. And the sons of Shemaiah: Hattush, Igal, Bariah, Neariah, and Shaphat, six.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  Reaiah the son of Shobal fathered Jahath, and Jahath fathered Ahumai and Lahad. These were the clans of the Zorathites.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  These were the sons of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash; and the name of their sister was Hazzelelponi,


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  and Penuel fathered Gedor, and Ezer fathered Hushah. These were the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, the father of Bethlehem.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  Jabez was more honorable than his brothers; and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.”


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  Jabez called upon the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that you would bless me and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from harm so that it might not bring me pain!” And God granted what he asked.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  Eshton fathered Beth-rapha, Paseah, and Tehinnah, the father of Ir-nahash. These are the men of Recah.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  Meonothai fathered Ophrah; and Seraiah fathered Joab, the father of Ge-harashim, so-called because they were craftsmen.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  The sons of Ezrah: Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon. These are the sons of Bithiah, the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered married; and she conceived and bore Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah, the father of Eshtemoa.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  And his Judahite wife bore Jered the father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  The sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the fathers of Keilah the Garmite and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  The sons of Shelah the son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the clans of the house of linen workers at Beth-ashbea;


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  and Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who ruled in Moab and returned to Lehem (now the records are ancient).


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  These were the potters who were inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah. They lived there in the king’s service.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers did not have many children, nor did all their clan multiply like the men of Judah.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  along with all their villages that were around these cities as far as Baal. These were their settlements, and they kept a genealogical record.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  They journeyed to the entrance of Gedor, to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks,


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  where they found rich, good pasture, and the land was very broad, quiet, and peaceful, for the former inhabitants there belonged to Ham.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  These, registered by name, came in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and destroyed their tents and the Meunites who were found there, and marked them for destruction to this day, and settled in their place, because there was pasture there for their flocks.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  And some of them, five hundred men of the Simeonites, went to Mount Seir, having as their leaders Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  And they defeated the remnant of the Amalekites who had escaped, and they have lived there to this day. 


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn, but because he defiled his father’s couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel, so that he could not be enrolled as the oldest son;


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label: 1Chron
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  though Judah became strong among his brothers and a chief came from him, yet the birthright belonged to Joseph),


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  Beerah his son, whom Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria carried away into exile; he was a chief of the Reubenites.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  And his kinsmen by their clans, when the genealogy of their generations was recorded: the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  and Bela the son of Azaz, son of Shema, son of Joel, who lived in Aroer, as far as Nebo and Baal-meon.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  He also lived to the east as far as the entrance of the desert this side of the Euphrates, because their livestock had multiplied in the land of Gilead.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  And in the days of Saul they waged war against the Hagrites, who fell into their hand. And they lived in their tents throughout all the region east of Gilead.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  And their kinsmen according to their fathers’ houses: Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jacan, Zia and Eber, seven.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  These were the sons of Abihail the son of Huri, son of Jaroah, son of Gilead, son of Michael, son of Jeshishai, son of Jahdo, son of Buz.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  and they lived in Gilead, in Bashan and in its towns, and in all the pasturelands of Sharon to their limits.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  All of these were recorded in genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  The Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh had valiant men who carried shield and sword, and drew the bow, expert in war, 44,760, able to go to war.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  And when they prevailed over them, the Hagrites and all who were with them were given into their hands, for they cried out to God in the battle, and he granted their urgent plea because they trusted in him.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  They carried off their livestock: 50,000 of their camels, 250,000 sheep, 2,000 donkeys, and 100,000 men alive.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  The members of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land. They were very numerous from Bashan to Baal-hermon, Senir, and Mount Hermon.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  These were the heads of their fathers’ houses: Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty warriors, famous men, heads of their fathers’ houses.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  But they broke faith with the God of their fathers, and whored after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, the spirit of Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and he took them into exile, namely, the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and the river Gozan, to this day. 


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  The children of Amram: Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  and Johanan fathered Azariah (it was he who served as priest in the house that Solomon built in Jerusalem).


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  and Jehozadak went into exile when the LORD sent Judah and Jerusalem into exile by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  These are the men whom David put in charge of the service of song in the house of the LORD after the ark rested there.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  They ministered with song before the tabernacle of the tent of meeting until Solomon built the house of the LORD in Jerusalem, and they performed their service according to their order.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  These are the men who served and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer the son of Joel, son of Samuel,


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  and his brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, namely, Asaph the son of Berechiah, son of Shimea,


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  On the left hand were their brothers, the sons of Merari: Ethan the son of Kishi, son of Abdi, son of Malluch,


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  And their brothers the Levites were appointed for all the service of the tabernacle of the house of God.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  But Aaron and his sons made offerings on the altar of burnt offering and on the altar of incense for all the work of the Most Holy Place, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  These are their dwelling places according to their settlements within their borders: to the sons of Aaron of the clans of Kohathites, for theirs was the first lot,


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  To the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge: Hebron, Libnah with its pasturelands, Jattir, Eshtemoa with its pasturelands,


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  and from the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon, Geba with its pasturelands, Alemeth with its pasturelands, and Anathoth with its pasturelands. All their cities throughout their clans were thirteen.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  To the rest of the Kohathites were given by lot out of the clan of the tribe, out of the half-tribe, the half of Manasseh, ten cities.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  To the Gershomites according to their clans were allotted thirteen cities out of the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali and Manasseh in Bashan.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  To the Merarites according to their clans were allotted twelve cities out of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  They gave by lot out of the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin these cities that are mentioned by name.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  And some of the clans of the sons of Kohath had cities of their territory out of the tribe of Ephraim.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  They were given the cities of refuge: Shechem with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer with its pasturelands,


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Aner with its pasturelands, and Bileam with its pasturelands, for the rest of the clans of the Kohathites.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  To the Gershomites were given out of the clan of the half-tribe of Manasseh: Golan in Bashan with its pasturelands and Ashtaroth with its pasturelands;


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  and out of the tribe of Naphtali: Kedesh in Galilee with its pasturelands, Hammon with its pasturelands, and Kiriathaim with its pasturelands.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  To the rest of the Merarites were allotted out of the tribe of Zebulun: Rimmono with its pasturelands, Tabor with its pasturelands,


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  and beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, out of the tribe of Reuben: Bezer in the wilderness with its pasturelands, Jahzah with its pasturelands,


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label: 1Chron
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  and out of the tribe of Gad: Ramoth in Gilead with its pasturelands, Mahanaim with its pasturelands,


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers’ houses, namely of Tola, mighty warriors of their generations, their number in the days of David being 22,600.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  The son of Uzzi: Izrahiah. And the sons of Izrahiah: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah, all five of them were chief men.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  And along with them, by their generations, according to their fathers’ houses, were units of the army for war, 36,000, for they had many wives and sons.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  Their kinsmen belonging to all the clans of Issachar were in all 87,000 mighty warriors, enrolled by genealogy.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri, five, heads of fathers’ houses, mighty warriors. And their enrollment by genealogies was 22,034.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  The sons of Becher: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  And their enrollment by genealogies, according to their generations, as heads of their fathers’ houses, mighty warriors, was 20,200.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  The son of Jediael: Bilhan. And the sons of Bilhan: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  All these were the sons of Jediael according to the heads of their fathers’ houses, mighty warriors, 17,200, able to go to war.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his Aramean concubine bore; she bore Machir the father of Gilead.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  And Machir took a wife for Huppim and for Shuppim. The name of his sister was Maacah. And the name of the second was Zelophehad, and Zelophehad had daughters.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  And Maacah the wife of Machir bore a son, and she called his name Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  Zabad his son, Shuthelah his son, and Ezer and Elead, whom the men of Gath who were born in the land killed, because they came down to raid their livestock.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  And Ephraim went in to his wife, and she conceived and bore a son. And he called his name Beriah, because disaster had befallen his house.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  Their possessions and settlements were Bethel and its towns, and to the east Naaran, and to the west Gezer and its towns, Shechem and its towns, and Ayyah and its towns;


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  also in possession of the Manassites, Beth-shean and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, Dor and its towns. In these lived the sons of Joseph the son of Israel.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  All of these were men of Asher, heads of fathers’ houses, approved, mighty warriors, chiefs of the princes. Their number enrolled by genealogies, for service in war, was 26,000 men. 


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  These are the sons of Ehud (they were heads of fathers’ houses of the inhabitants of Geba, and they were carried into exile to Manahath):


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  And Shaharaim fathered sons in the country of Moab after he had sent away Hushim and Baara his wives.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  and Beriah and Shema (they were heads of fathers’ houses of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who caused the inhabitants of Gath to flee);


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  These were the heads of fathers’ houses, according to their generations, chief men. These lived in Jerusalem.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  and Mikloth (he fathered Shimeah). Now these also lived opposite their kinsmen in Jerusalem, with their kinsmen.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  Azel had six sons, and these are their names: Azrikam, Bocheru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  The sons of Ulam were men who were mighty warriors, bowmen, having many sons and grandsons, 150. All these were Benjaminites. 


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  So all Israel was recorded in genealogies, and these are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. And Judah was taken into exile in Babylon because of their breach of faith.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  Now the first to dwell again in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the temple servants.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  Uthai the son of Ammihud, son of Omri, son of Imri, son of Bani, from the sons of Perez the son of Judah.


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label: 1Chron
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  Ibneiah the son of Jeroham, Elah the son of Uzzi, son of Michri, and Meshullam the son of Shephatiah, son of Reuel, son of Ibnijah;


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label: 1Chron
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  and their kinsmen according to their generations, 956. All these were heads of fathers’ houses according to their fathers’ houses.


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label: 1Chron
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  and Azariah the son of Hilkiah, son of Meshullam, son of Zadok, son of Meraioth, son of Ahitub, the chief officer of the house of God;


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label: 1Chron
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  and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, son of Pashhur, son of Malchijah, and Maasai the son of Adiel, son of Jahzerah, son of Meshullam, son of Meshillemith, son of Immer;


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label: 1Chron
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  besides their kinsmen, heads of their fathers’ houses, 1,760, mighty men for the work of the service of the house of God.


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label: 1Chron
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  Of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, son of Azrikam, son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari;


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label: 1Chron
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  and Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, son of Galal, son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of the Netophathites.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  until then they were in the king’s gate on the east side as the gatekeepers of the camps of the Levites.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  Shallum the son of Kore, son of Ebiasaph, son of Korah, and his kinsmen of his fathers’ house, the Korahites, were in charge of the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent, as their fathers had been in charge of the camp of the LORD, keepers of the entrance.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was the chief officer over them in time past; the LORD was with him.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  All these, who were chosen as gatekeepers at the thresholds, were 212. They were enrolled by genealogies in their villages. David and Samuel the seer established them in their office of trust.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  So they and their sons were in charge of the gates of the house of the LORD, that is, the house of the tent, as guards.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  And their kinsmen who were in their villages were obligated to come in every seven days, in turn, to be with these,


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  for the four chief gatekeepers, who were Levites, were entrusted to be over the chambers and the treasures of the house of God.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  And they lodged around the house of God, for on them lay the duty of watching, and they had charge of opening it every morning.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  Some of them had charge of the utensils of service, for they were required to count them when they were brought in and taken out.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  Others of them were appointed over the furniture and over all the holy utensils, also over the fine flour, the wine, the oil, the incense, and the spices.


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  and Mattithiah, one of the Levites, the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, was entrusted with making the flat cakes.


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  Also some of their kinsmen of the Kohathites had charge of the showbread, to prepare it every Sabbath.


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  Now these, the singers, the heads of fathers’ houses of the Levites, were in the chambers of the temple free from other service, for they were on duty day and night.


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label: 1Chron
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  These were heads of fathers’ houses of the Levites, according to their generations, leaders. These lived in Jerusalem.


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  and Mikloth was the father of Shimeam; and these also lived opposite their kinsmen in Jerusalem, with their kinsmen.


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  Azel had six sons and these are their names: Azrikam, Bocheru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan; these were the sons of Azel. 


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label: 1Chron
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  Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before the Philistines and fell slain on Mount Gilboa.


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  Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and mistreat me.” But his armor-bearer would not, for he feared greatly. Therefore Saul took his own sword and fell upon it.


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  And when all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that the army had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their cities and fled, and the Philistines came and lived in them.


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label: 1Chron
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  The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.


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  And they stripped him and took his head and his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to carry the good news to their idols and to the people.


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  all the valiant men arose and took away the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh. And they buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh and fasted seven days.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  So Saul died for his breach of faith. He broke faith with the LORD in that he did not keep the command of the LORD, and also consulted a medium, seeking guidance.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  He did not seek guidance from the LORD. Therefore the LORD put him to death and turned the kingdom over to David the son of Jesse. 


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label: 1Chron
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  In times past, even when Saul was king, it was you who led out and brought in Israel. And the LORD your God said to you, ‘You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over my people Israel.’”


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label: 1Chron
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  So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the LORD. And they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the LORD by Samuel.


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  And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, that is, Jebus, where the Jebusites were, the inhabitants of the land.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  The inhabitants of Jebus said to David, “You will not come in here.” Nevertheless, David took the stronghold of Zion, that is, the city of David.


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label: 1Chron
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  David said, “Whoever strikes the Jebusites first shall be chief and commander.” And Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first, so he became chief.


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  And he built the city all around from the Millo in complete circuit, and Joab repaired the rest of the city.


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label: 1Chron
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  Now these are the chiefs of David’s mighty men, who gave him strong support in his kingdom, together with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word of the LORD concerning Israel.


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  This is an account of David’s mighty men: Jashobeam, a Hachmonite, was chief of the three. He wielded his spear against 300 whom he killed at one time.


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  He was with David at Pas-dammim when the Philistines were gathered there for battle. There was a plot of ground full of barley, and the men fled from the Philistines.


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  But he took his stand in the midst of the plot and defended it and killed the Philistines. And the LORD saved them by a great victory.


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label: 1Chron
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  Three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David at the cave of Adullam, when the army of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.


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  And David said longingly, “Oh that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem that is by the gate!”


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  Then the three mighty men broke through the camp of the Philistines and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate and took it and brought it to David. But David would not drink it. He poured it out to the LORD


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  and said, “Far be it from me before my God that I should do this. Shall I drink the lifeblood of these men? For at the risk of their lives they brought it.” Therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.


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label: 1Chron
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  Now Abishai, the brother of Joab, was chief of the thirty. And he wielded his spear against 300 men and killed them and won a name beside the three.


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  And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was a valiant man of Kabzeel, a doer of great deeds. He struck down two heroes of Moab. He also went down and struck down a lion in a pit on a day when snow had fallen.


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  And he struck down an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits tall. The Egyptian had in his hand a spear like a weaver’s beam, but Benaiah went down to him with a staff and snatched the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand and killed him with his own spear.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  Now these are the men who came to David at Ziklag, while he could not move about freely because of Saul the son of Kish. And they were among the mighty men who helped him in war.


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  They were bowmen and could shoot arrows and sling stones with either the right or the left hand; they were Benjaminites, Saul’s kinsmen.


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  The chief was Ahiezer, then Joash, both sons of Shemaah of Gibeah; also Jeziel and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; Beracah, Jehu of Anathoth,


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label: 1Chron
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  Ishmaiah of Gibeon, a mighty man among the thirty and a leader over the thirty; Jeremiah, Jahaziel, Johanan, Jozabad of Gederah,


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label: 1Chron
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  From the Gadites there went over to David at the stronghold in the wilderness mighty and experienced warriors, expert with shield and spear, whose faces were like the faces of lions and who were swift as gazelles upon the mountains:


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  These Gadites were officers of the army; the least was a match for a hundred men and the greatest for a thousand.


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label: 1Chron
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  These are the men who crossed the Jordan in the first month, when it was overflowing all its banks, and put to flight all those in the valleys, to the east and to the west.


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  David went out to meet them and said to them, “If you have come to me in friendship to help me, my heart will be joined to you; but if to betray me to my adversaries, although there is no wrong in my hands, then may the God of our fathers see and rebuke you.”


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label: 1Chron
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  Then the Spirit clothed Amasai, chief of the thirty, and he said, “We are yours, O David, and with you, O son of Jesse! Peace, peace to you, and peace to your helpers! For your God helps you.” Then David received them and made them officers of his troops.


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label: 1Chron
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  Some of the men of Manasseh deserted to David when he came with the Philistines for the battle against Saul. (Yet he did not help them, for the rulers of the Philistines took counsel and sent him away, saying, “At peril to our heads he will desert to his master Saul.”)


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label: 1Chron
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  As he went to Ziklag, these men of Manasseh deserted to him: Adnah, Jozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, and Zillethai, chiefs of thousands in Manasseh.


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label: 1Chron
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  They helped David against the band of raiders, for they were all mighty men of valor and were commanders in the army.


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label: 1Chron
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  For from day to day men came to David to help him, until there was a great army, like an army of God.


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label: 1Chron
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  These are the numbers of the divisions of the armed troops who came to David in Hebron to turn the kingdom of Saul over to him, according to the word of the LORD.


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  Of the Benjaminites, the kinsmen of Saul, 3,000, of whom the majority had to that point kept their allegiance to the house of Saul.


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  Of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, 200 chiefs, and all their kinsmen under their command.


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  Of Zebulun 50,000 seasoned troops, equipped for battle with all the weapons of war, to help David with singleness of purpose.


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  Of the Reubenites and Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh from beyond the Jordan, 120,000 men armed with all the weapons of war.


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  All these, men of war, arrayed in battle order, came to Hebron with a whole heart to make David king over all Israel. Likewise, all the rest of Israel were of a single mind to make David king.


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  And they were there with David for three days, eating and drinking, for their brothers had made preparation for them.


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  And also their relatives, from as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, came bringing food on donkeys and on camels and on mules and on oxen, abundant provisions of flour, cakes of figs, clusters of raisins, and wine and oil, oxen and sheep, for there was joy in Israel. 


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  And David said to all the assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you and from the LORD our God, let us send abroad to our brothers who remain in all the lands of Israel, as well as to the priests and Levites in the cities that have pasturelands, that they may be gathered to us.


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label: 1Chron
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  So David assembled all Israel from the Nile of Egypt to Lebo-hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim.


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  And David and all Israel went up to Baalah, that is, to Kiriath-jearim that belongs to Judah, to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the name of the LORD who sits enthroned above the cherubim.


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label: 1Chron
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  And they carried the ark of God on a new cart, from the house of Abinadab, and Uzzah and Ahio were driving the cart.


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label: 1Chron
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  And David and all Israel were celebrating before God with all their might, with song and lyres and harps and tambourines and cymbals and trumpets.


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  And when they came to the threshing floor of Chidon, Uzzah put out his hand to take hold of the ark, for the oxen stumbled.


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label: 1Chron
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  And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah, and he struck him down because he put out his hand to the ark, and he died there before God.


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label: 1Chron
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  And David was angry because the LORD had broken out against Uzzah. And that place is called Perez-uzza to this day.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  So David did not take the ark home into the city of David, but took it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  And the ark of God remained with the household of Obed-edom in his house three months. And the LORD blessed the household of Obed-edom and all that he had. 


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, also masons and carpenters to build a house for him.


book: 1Chronicles
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  And David knew that the LORD had established him as king over Israel, and that his kingdom was highly exalted for the sake of his people Israel.


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label: 1Chron
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  When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to search for David. But David heard of it and went out against them.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  And David inquired of God, “Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you give them into my hand?” And the LORD said to him, “Go up, and I will give them into your hand.”


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  And he went up to Baal-perazim, and David struck them down there. And David said, “God has broken through my enemies by my hand, like a bursting flood.” Therefore the name of that place is called Baal-perazim.


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label: 1Chron
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  And when David again inquired of God, God said to him, “You shall not go up after them; go around and come against them opposite the balsam trees.


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  And when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, then go out to battle, for God has gone out before you to strike down the army of the Philistines.”


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  And the fame of David went out into all lands, and the LORD brought the fear of him upon all nations. 


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  David built houses for himself in the city of David. And he prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  Then David said that no one but the Levites may carry the ark of God, for the LORD had chosen them to carry the ark of the LORD and to minister to him forever.


book: 1Chronicles
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  And David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the LORD to its place, which he had prepared for it.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  Then David summoned the priests Zadok and Abiathar, and the Levites Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab,


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  and said to them, “You are the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites. Consecrate yourselves, you and your brothers, so that you may bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel, to the place that I have prepared for it.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  Because you did not carry it the first time, the LORD our God broke out against us, because we did not seek him according to the rule.”


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  So the priests and the Levites consecrated themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel.


book: 1Chronicles
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  And the Levites carried the ark of God on their shoulders with the poles, as Moses had commanded according to the word of the LORD.


book: 1Chronicles
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  David also commanded the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their brothers as the singers who should play loudly on musical instruments, on harps and lyres and cymbals, to raise sounds of joy.


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  So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brothers Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari, their brothers, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;


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  and with them their brothers of the second order, Zechariah, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah, and the gatekeepers Obed-edom and Jeiel.


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label: 1Chron
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  Zechariah, Aziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah, and Benaiah were to play harps according to Alamoth;


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  but Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah were to lead with lyres according to the Sheminith.


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  Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, should blow the trumpets before the ark of God. Obed-edom and Jehiah were to be gatekeepers for the ark.


book: 1Chronicles
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  So David and the elders of Israel and the commanders of thousands went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from the house of Obed-edom with rejoicing.


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  And because God helped the Levites who were carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.


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  David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, as also were all the Levites who were carrying the ark, and the singers and Chenaniah the leader of the music of the singers. And David wore a linen ephod.


book: 1Chronicles
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  So all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, to the sound of the horn, trumpets, and cymbals, and made loud music on harps and lyres.


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  And as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King David dancing and celebrating, and she despised him in her heart. 


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  And they brought in the ark of God and set it inside the tent that David had pitched for it, and they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before God.


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label: 1Chron
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  And when David had finished offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD


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  and distributed to all Israel, both men and women, to each a loaf of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  Then he appointed some of the Levites as ministers before the ark of the LORD, to invoke, to thank, and to praise the LORD, the God of Israel.


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  Asaph was the chief, and second to him were Zechariah, Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-edom, and Jeiel, who were to play harps and lyres; Asaph was to sound the cymbals,


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests were to blow trumpets regularly before the ark of the covenant of God.


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  Then on that day David first appointed that thanksgiving be sung to the LORD by Asaph and his brothers.


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  Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; bring an offering and come before him! Worship the LORD in the splendor of holiness;


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  Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice, and let them say among the nations, “The LORD reigns!”


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label: 1Chron
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  Say also: “Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather and deliver us from among the nations, that we may give thanks to your holy name and glory in your praise.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting!” Then all the people said, “Amen!” and praised the LORD.


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  So David left Asaph and his brothers there before the ark of the covenant of the LORD to minister regularly before the ark as each day required,


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  and also Obed-edom and his sixty-eight brothers, while Obed-edom, the son of Jeduthun, and Hosah were to be gatekeepers.


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  And he left Zadok the priest and his brothers the priests before the tabernacle of the LORD in the high place that was at Gibeon


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  to offer burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of burnt offering regularly morning and evening, to do all that is written in the Law of the LORD that he commanded Israel.


book: 1Chronicles
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  With them were Heman and Jeduthun and the rest of those chosen and expressly named to give thanks to the LORD, for his steadfast love endures forever.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  Heman and Jeduthun had trumpets and cymbals for the music and instruments for sacred song. The sons of Jeduthun were appointed to the gate.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  Now when David lived in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, “Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD is under a tent.”


book: 1Chronicles
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  “Go and tell my servant David, ‘Thus says the LORD: It is not you who will build me a house to dwell in.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  For I have not lived in a house since the day I brought up Israel to this day, but I have gone from tent to tent and from dwelling to dwelling.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  In all places where I have moved with all Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people, saying, “Why have you not built me a house of cedar?”’


book: 1Chronicles
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  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 prince over my people Israel,


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  and I have been with you wherever you have gone and have cut off all your enemies from before you. And I will make for you a name, like the name of the great ones of the earth.


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  And I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place and be disturbed no more. And violent men shall waste them no more, as formerly,


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  from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel. And I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover, I declare to you that the LORD will build you a house.


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  When your days are fulfilled to walk with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom.


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  I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. I will not take my steadfast love from him, as I took it from him who was before you,


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  but I will confirm him in my house and in my kingdom forever, and his throne shall be established forever.’”


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  Then King David went in and sat before the LORD and said, “Who am I, O LORD God, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far?


book: 1Chronicles
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  And this was a small thing in your eyes, O God. You have also spoken of your servant’s house for a great while to come, and have shown me future generations, O LORD God!


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label: 1Chron
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  For your servant’s sake, O LORD, and according to your own heart, you have done all this greatness, in making known all these great things.


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  There is none like you, O LORD, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.


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  And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making for yourself a name for great and awesome things, in driving out nations before your people whom you redeemed from Egypt?


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  And now, O LORD, let the word that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house be established forever, and do as you have spoken,


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  and your name will be established and magnified forever, saying, ‘The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, is Israel’s God,’ and the house of your servant David will be established before you.


book: 1Chronicles
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  For you, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build a house for him. Therefore your servant has found courage to pray before you.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  Now you have been pleased to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you, for it is you, O LORD, who have blessed, and it is blessed forever.” 


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  After this David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and he took Gath and its villages out of the hand of the Philistines.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  David also defeated Hadadezer king of Zobah-Hamath, as he went to set up his monument at the river Euphrates.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  And David took from him 1,000 chariots, 7,000 horsemen, and 20,000 foot soldiers. And David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but left enough for 100 chariots.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus, and the Syrians became servants to David and brought tribute. And the LORD gave victory to David wherever he went.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  And from Tibhath and from Cun, cities of Hadadezer, David took a large amount of bronze. With it Solomon made the bronze sea and the pillars and the vessels of bronze.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  he sent his son Hadoram to King David, to ask about his health and to bless him because he had fought against Hadadezer and defeated him; for Hadadezer had often been at war with Tou. And he sent all sorts of articles of gold, of silver, and of bronze.


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label: 1Chron
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  These also King David dedicated to the LORD, together with the silver and gold that he had carried off from all the nations, from Edom, Moab, the Ammonites, the Philistines, and Amalek.


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  Then he put garrisons in Edom, and all the Edomites became David’s servants. And the LORD gave victory to David wherever he went.


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  and Zadok the son of Ahitub and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar were priests; and Shavsha was secretary;


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  and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David’s sons were the chief officials in the service of the king. 


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  And David said, “I will deal kindly with Hanun the son of Nahash, for his father dealt kindly with me.” So David sent messengers to console him concerning his father. And David’s servants came to the land of the Ammonites to Hanun to console him.


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  But the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun, “Do you think, because David has sent comforters to you, that he is honoring your father? Have not his servants come to you to search and to overthrow and to spy out the land?”


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  So Hanun took David’s servants and shaved them and cut off their garments in the middle, at their hips, and sent them away;


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  and they departed. When David was told concerning the men, he sent messengers to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, “Remain at Jericho until your beards have grown and then return.”


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  When the Ammonites saw that they had become a stench to David, Hanun and the Ammonites sent 1,000 talents of silver to hire chariots and horsemen from Mesopotamia, from Aram-maacah, and from Zobah.


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  They hired 32,000 chariots and the king of Maacah with his army, who came and encamped before Medeba. And the Ammonites were mustered from their cities and came to battle.


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  And the Ammonites came out and drew up in battle array at the entrance of the city, and the kings who had come were by themselves in the open country.


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  The rest of his men he put in the charge of Abishai his brother, and they were arrayed against the Ammonites.


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  And he said, “If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me, but if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will help you.


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  Be strong, and let us use our strength for our people and for the cities of our God, and may the LORD do what seems good to him.”


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  So Joab and the people who were with him drew near before the Syrians for battle, and they fled before him.


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  And when the Ammonites saw that the Syrians fled, they likewise fled before Abishai, Joab’s brother, and entered the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.


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  But when the Syrians saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they sent messengers and brought out the Syrians who were beyond the Euphrates, with Shophach the commander of the army of Hadadezer at their head.


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  And when it was told to David, he gathered all Israel together and crossed the Jordan and came to them and drew up his forces against them. And when David set the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him.


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  And the Syrians fled before Israel, and David killed of the Syrians the men of 7,000 chariots and 40,000 foot soldiers, and put to death also Shophach the commander of their army.


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  And when the servants of Hadadezer saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with David and became subject to him. So the Syrians were not willing to save the Ammonites anymore. 


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  In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, Joab led out the army and ravaged the country of the Ammonites and came and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. And Joab struck down Rabbah and overthrew it.


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  And David took the crown of their king from his head. He found that it weighed a talent of gold, and in it was a precious stone. And it was placed on David’s head. And he brought out the spoil of the city, a very great amount.


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  And he brought out the people who were in it and set them to labor with saws and iron picks and axes. And thus David did to all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.


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  And after this there arose war with the Philistines at Gezer. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite struck down Sippai, who was one of the descendants of the giants, and the Philistines were subdued.


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  And there was again war with the Philistines, and Elhanan the son of Jair struck down Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.


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  And there was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number, and he also was descended from the giants.


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  These were descended from the giants in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants. 


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  So David said to Joab and the commanders of the army, “Go, number Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, and bring me a report, that I may know their number.”


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  But Joab said, “May the LORD add to his people a hundred times as many as they are! Are they not, my lord the king, all of them my lord’s servants? Why then should my lord require this? Why should it be a cause of guilt for Israel?”


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  But the king’s word prevailed against Joab. So Joab departed and went throughout all Israel and came back to Jerusalem.


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  And Joab gave the sum of the numbering of the people to David. In all Israel there were 1,100,000 men who drew the sword, and in Judah 470,000 who drew the sword.


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  But he did not include Levi and Benjamin in the numbering, for the king’s command was abhorrent to Joab.


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  And David said to God, “I have sinned greatly in that I have done this thing. But now, please take away the iniquity of your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”


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  “Go and say to David, ‘Thus says the LORD, Three things I offer you; choose one of them, that I may do it to you.’”


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  either three years of famine, or three months of devastation by your foes while the sword of your enemies overtakes you, or else three days of the sword of the LORD, pestilence on the land, with the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the territory of Israel.’ Now decide what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”


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  Then David said to Gad, “I am in great distress. Let me fall into the hand of the LORD, for his mercy is very great, but do not let me fall into the hand of man.”


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  And God sent the angel to Jerusalem to destroy it, but as he was about to destroy it, the LORD saw, and he relented from the calamity. And he said to the angel who was working destruction, “It is enough; now stay your hand.” And the angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.


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  And David lifted his eyes and saw the angel of the LORD standing between earth and heaven, and in his hand a drawn sword stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.


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  And David said to God, “Was it not I who gave command to number the people? It is I who have sinned and done great evil. But these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O LORD my God, be against me and against my father’s house. But do not let the plague be on your people.”


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  Now the angel of the LORD had commanded Gad to say to David that David should go up and raise an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.


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  Now Ornan was threshing wheat. He turned and saw the angel, and his four sons who were with him hid themselves.


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  As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David and went out from the threshing floor and paid homage to David with his face to the ground.


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  And David said to Ornan, “Give me the site of the threshing floor that I may build on it an altar to the LORD—give it to me at its full price—that the plague may be averted from the people.”


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  Then Ornan said to David, “Take it, and let my lord the king do what seems good to him. See, I give the oxen for burnt offerings and the threshing sledges for the wood and the wheat for a grain offering; I give it all.”


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  But King David said to Ornan, “No, but I will buy them for the full price. I will not take for the LORD what is yours, nor offer burnt offerings that cost me nothing.”


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  And David built there an altar to the LORD and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings and called on the LORD, and the LORD answered him with fire from heaven upon the altar of burnt offering.


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  At that time, when David saw that the LORD had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed there.


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  For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses had made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering were at that time in the high place at Gibeon,


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  but David could not go before it to inquire of God, for he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the LORD. 


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  Then David said, “Here shall be the house of the LORD God and here the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”


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  David commanded to gather together the resident aliens who were in the land of Israel, and he set stonecutters to prepare dressed stones for building the house of God.


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  David also provided great quantities of iron for nails for the doors of the gates and for clamps, as well as bronze in quantities beyond weighing,


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  and cedar timbers without number, for the Sidonians and Tyrians brought great quantities of cedar to David.


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  For David said, “Solomon my son is young and inexperienced, and the house that is to be built for the LORD must be exceedingly magnificent, of fame and glory throughout all lands. I will therefore make preparation for it.” So David provided materials in great quantity before his death.


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  Then he called for Solomon his son and charged him to build a house for the LORD, the God of Israel.


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  David said to Solomon, “My son, I had it in my heart to build a house to the name of the LORD my God.


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  But the word of the LORD came to me, saying, ‘You have shed much blood and have waged great wars. You shall not build a house to my name, because you have shed so much blood before me on the earth.


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  Behold, a son shall be born to you who shall be a man of rest. I will give him rest from all his surrounding enemies. For his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quiet to Israel in his days.


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  He shall build a house for my name. He shall be my son, and I will be his father, and I will establish his royal throne in Israel forever.’


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  “Now, my son, the LORD be with you, so that you may succeed in building the house of the LORD your God, as he has spoken concerning you.


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  Only, may the LORD grant you discretion and understanding, that when he gives you charge over Israel you may keep the law of the LORD your God.


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  Then you will prosper if you are careful to observe the statutes and the rules that the LORD commanded Moses for Israel. Be strong and courageous. Fear not; do not be dismayed.


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  With great pains I have provided for the house of the LORD 100,000 talents of gold, a million talents of silver, and bronze and iron beyond weighing, for there is so much of it; timber and stone, too, I have provided. To these you must add.


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  You have an abundance of workmen: stonecutters, masons, carpenters, and all kinds of craftsmen without number, skilled in working


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  “Is not the LORD your God with you? And has he not given you peace on every side? For he has delivered the inhabitants of the land into my hand, and the land is subdued before the LORD and his people.


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  Now set your mind and heart to seek the LORD your God. Arise and build the sanctuary of the LORD God, so that the ark of the covenant of the LORD and the holy vessels of God may be brought into a house built for the name of the LORD.” 


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  “Twenty-four thousand of these,” David said, “shall have charge of the work in the house of the LORD, 6,000 shall be officers and judges,


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  4,000 gatekeepers, and 4,000 shall offer praises to the LORD with the instruments that I have made for praise.”


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  And David organized them in divisions corresponding to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.


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  The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the heads of the fathers’ houses of Ladan.


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  Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second; but Jeush and Beriah did not have many sons, therefore they became counted as a single father’s house.


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  The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses. Aaron was set apart to dedicate the most holy things, that he and his sons forever should make offerings before the LORD and minister to him and pronounce blessings in his name forever.


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  The sons of Eliezer: Rehabiah the chief. Eliezer had no other sons, but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.


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  The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.


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  These were the sons of Levi by their fathers’ houses, the heads of fathers’ houses as they were listed according to the number of the names of the individuals from twenty years old and upward who were to do the work for the service of the house of the LORD.


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  For David said, “The LORD, the God of Israel, has given rest to his people, and he dwells in Jerusalem forever.


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  For their duty was to assist the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the LORD, having the care of the courts and the chambers, the cleansing of all that is holy, and any work for the service of the house of God.


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  Their duty was also to assist with the showbread, the flour for the grain offering, the wafers of unleavened bread, the baked offering, the offering mixed with oil, and all measures of quantity or size.


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  and whenever burnt offerings were offered to the LORD on Sabbaths, new moons, and feast days, according to the number required of them, regularly before the LORD.


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  Thus they were to keep charge of the tent of meeting and the sanctuary, and to attend the sons of Aaron, their brothers, for the service of the house of the LORD. 


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  The divisions of the sons of Aaron were these. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.


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  But Nadab and Abihu died before their father and had no children, so Eleazar and Ithamar became the priests.


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  With the help of Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, David organized them according to the appointed duties in their service.


