Now it happened after many days that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, "Go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain on the face of the earth." Then she went in and fell at his feet and bowed herself to the ground, and she took up her son and went out. Then there was no harm in the pot. "Besides, Solomon has even taken his seat on the throne of the kingdom. So the king of Israel disguised himself, and they went into battle. In the fourth year the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid, in the month of Ziv. "Then you shall surround the king, each with his weapons in his hand; and whoever comes within the ranks shall be put to death. But He did not answer him on that day. He called Gehazi and said, "Call this Shunammite." Then Saul's anger burned against Jonathan and he said to him, "You son of a perverse, rebellious woman! Then Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David, and Jehoram his son became king in his place. Now in the morning he went out and stood and said to all the people, "You are innocent; behold, I conspired against my master and killed him, but who killed all these? You have committed all this evil, yet do not turn aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart. So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death with stones. "If it please my father to do you harm, may the LORD do so to Jonathan and more also, if I do not make it known to you and send you away, that you may go in safety And may the LORD be with you as He has been with my father. David replied, "Behold the spear of the king! He also had bronze greaves on his legs and a bronze javelin slung between his shoulders. In the thirty-ninth year of Azariah king of Judah, Menahem son of Gadi became king over Israel and reigned ten years in Samaria. Now behold, a prophet approached Ahab king of Israel and said, "Thus says the LORD, 'Have you seen all this great multitude? Ahab also made the Asherah Thus Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel than all the kings of Israel who were before him. O LORD God of Israel, I pray, tell Your servant." Thus he built Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa, Beth-zur, Soco, Adullam, Gath, Mareshah, Ziph, Adoraim, Lachish, Azekah, Zorah, Aijalon and Hebron, which are fortified cities in Judah and in Benjamin. The period which he reigned over Israel was forty years; he reigned in Hebron seven years and in Jerusalem thirty-three years. And when she came in to him, he said, "Take up your son." And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Then Elisha said, "Listen to the word of the LORD; thus says the LORD, 'Tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour will be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.'" He said, "Come with me and see my zeal for the LORD." And he said, "Go up, say to Ahab, 'Prepare your chariot and go down, so that the heavy shower does not stop you.'" So he allied himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish, and they made the ships in Ezion-geber. And when he showed him the place, he cut off a stick and threw it in there, and made the iron float. Now the king of Aram was warring against Israel; and he counseled with his servants saying, "In such and such a place shall be my camp." Now each stand had four bronze wheels with bronze axles, and its four feet had supports; beneath the basin were cast supports with wreaths at each side. Behold, they will be in any case like all the multitude of Israel who are left in it; behold, they will be in any case like all the multitude of Israel who have already perished, so let us send and see." And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. The LORD was with Jehoshaphat because he followed the example of his father David's earlier days and did not seek the Baals, read more. He placed the cherubim in the midst of the inner house, and the wings of the cherubim were spread out, so that the wing of the one was touching the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub was touching the other wall. Samuel did not see Saul again until the day of his death; for Samuel grieved over Saul. Then Jonathan called David, and Jonathan told him all these words. There are many servants today who are each breaking away from his master. It came about, as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went to serve Baal and worshiped him. Then he made the ten stands of bronze; the length of each stand was four cubits and its width four cubits and its height three cubits. Then Rehoboam took as a wife Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David and of Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse, and she bore him sons: Jeush, Shemariah and Zaham. Then he sent out a second horseman, who came to them and said, "Thus says the king, 'Is it peace?'" When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it, and she painted her eyes and adorned her head and looked out the window. David swore to Saul. Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him and bound him with bronze chains to take him to Babylon. Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, O my enemy?" Bathsheba said, "Very well; I will speak to the king for you." Behold, Amariah the chief priest will be over you in, So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah. "Behold, I intend to build a house for the name of the LORD my God, as the LORD spoke to David my father, saying, 'Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place, he will build the house for My name.' He wrought wonders before their fathersIn the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. "Nevertheless I will not do it in your days for the sake of your father David, but I will tear it out of the hand of your son. So Edom revolted against Judah to this day Then Libnah revolted at the same time. Then the king arose in the night and said to his servants, "I will now tell you what the Arameans have done to us. The servants of Amon conspired against him and killed the king in his own house. He did away with the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah and in the surrounding area of Jerusalem, also those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and to the moon and to the constellations and to all the host of heaven. "Is it not the wheat harvest today? He shall build a house for My name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived fifteen years after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel. Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers; and the Spirit of the, So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David made a covenant with them before the. May he not leave us or forsake us. Then he put garrisons in Edom, and all the Edomites became servants to David. Asa did what was right in the sight of the LORD, like David his father. So Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, "Send me your son David who is with the flock." "Because they have forsaken Me and have burned incense to other gods that they might provoke Me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore My wrath burns against this place, and it shall not be quenched."' Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh and all that he did and his sin which he committed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? When the king asked the woman, she related it to him. Then the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "Did I not tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?" So they brought a sword before the king. Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census be taken of all the inhabited earth. But David's men said to him, "Behold, we are afraid here in Judah. But the man of God said to the king, "If you were to give me half your house I would not go with you, nor would I eat bread or drink water in this place. All the kings servants and the people of the kings provinces know that for any man or woman who comes to the king to the inner court who is not summoned, he has but one law, that he be put to death, unless the king holds out to him the golden scepter so that he may live. Now the day came that Jonathan, the son of Saul, said to the young man who was carrying his armor, "Come and let us cross over to the Philistines' garrison that is on the other side." And David took them off. So these went out from the city, the young men of the rulers of the provinces, and the army which followed them. Then all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John. And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; now he was a priest of God Most High. And he came and prostrated himself before King Solomon, and Solomon said to him, "Go to your house." I will restore it to you." But he said, "As the LORD lives, before whom I stand, I will take nothing." "Go up to Hilkiah the high priest that he may count the money brought in to the house of the LORD which the doorkeepers have gathered from the people. But the Lord said to him, Go, for he is a chosen instrument of Mine, to bear My name before the Gentiles and kings and the sons of Israel; "King Agrippa, do you believe the Prophets? So he went with them; and when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees. Then Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, "I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD." David said to him, "Do not fear, for I will surely show kindness to you for the sake of your father Jonathan, and will restore to you all the land of your grandfather Saul; and you shall eat at my table regularly." For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. There were nets of network and twisted threads of chainwork for the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital and seven for the other capital. And one of the king of Israel's servants answered and said, "Elisha the son of Shaphat is here, who used to pour water on the hands of Elijah." Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And he sat on the throne of the kings. Solomon then gave Hiram 20,000 kors of wheat as food for his household, and twenty kors of beaten oil; thus Solomon would give Hiram year by year. And someone said, "Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah." The gatekeepers called and told it within the king's household. So he said to her, "Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite and said to him, 'Give me your vineyard for money; or else, if it pleases you, I will give you a vineyard in its place.' For he had not eaten bread or drunk water for three days and three nights. Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him and said to King Jehoshaphat, "Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD and so bring wrath on yourself from the LORD? Elijah took twelve stones according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the LORD had come, saying, "Israel shall be your name." 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? Far from it! Then Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him and struck him before the people and killed him, and reigned in his place. We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse; To your tents, O Israel! Then one of the young men said, "Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite who is a skillful musician, a mighty man of valor, a warrior, one prudent in speech, and a handsome man; and the LORD is with him." even from the day that I commanded judges to be over My people Israel. The LORD heard the voice of Elijah, and the life of the child returned to him and he revived. He said to the judges, "Consider what you are doing, for you do not judge for man but for the LORD who is with you when you render judgment. So they saddled the donkey for him and he rode away on it. Now when the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam stretched out his hand from the altar, saying, "Seize him." Then Samuel died; and all Israel gathered together and mourned for him, and buried him at his house in Ramah And David arose and went down to the wilderness of Paran. Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him; and they escorted him away, with his wife and all that belonged to him. And Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram king of Judah, went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick. The priest answered David and said, "There is no ordinary bread on hand, but there is consecrated bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women." Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, "Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle or shall I refrain?" "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 spoke through His servant Elijah." And the Lord anointed you king over Israel. She looked and behold, the king was standing by the pillar, according to the custom, with the captains and the trumpeters beside the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced and blew trumpets Then Athaliah tore her clothes and cried, "Treason! And behold, the half was not told me. read more. "For on the day you go out and cross over the brook Kidron, you will know for certain that you shall surely die; your blood shall be on your own head." "So we boiled my son and ate him; and I said to her on the next day, 'Give your son, that we may eat him'; but she has hidden her son." 'I will abandon the remnant of My inheritance and deliver them into the hand of their enemies, and they will become as plunder and spoil to all their enemies; because they have done evil in My sight, and have been provoking Me to anger since the day their fathers came from Egypt, even to this day.'" "The one belonging to Ahab, who dies in the city, the dogs will eat, and the one who dies in the field the birds of heaven will eat." V 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 built.