Kish was the father of Saul, and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel. Then she said to the king, It was a true report which I heard in my own land about your words and your wisdom. Now Achish said, "Where have you made a raid today?" 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? Then he said, "Go, bring him." Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread and a jug of wine and a young goat, and sent them to Saul by David his son. So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. And he answered, "Here I am, my lord." And Jehu drew his bow with his full strength and shot Joram between his arms; and the arrow went through his heart and he sank in his chariot. Then the LORD raised up an adversary to Solomon, Hadad the Edomite; he was of the royal line in Edom. But the people of the land killed all the conspirators against King Amon, and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place. Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white for harvest. And Doeg the Edomite turned around and attacked the priests, and he killed that day eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod. Then Jeroboam's wife arose and departed and came to Tirzah As she was entering the threshold of the house, the child died. But he forsook the counsel of the elders which they had given him, and consulted with the young men who grew up with him and served him. Then David said, "You must not do so, my brothers, with what the LORD has given us, who has kept us and delivered into our hand the band that came against us. 'Then you shall strike every fortified city and every choice city, and fell every good tree and stop all springs of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.'" But he forsook the counsel of the elders which they had given him, and consulted with the young men who grew up with him and served him. So the king and all the sons of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD. He said to her, "Give me your son." Now Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen; and he had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen, and he stationed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem. So David departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam; and when his brothers and all his father's household heard of it, they went down there to him. Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the princes of Judah who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and he said to them, "Thus says the LORD, 'You have forsaken Me, so I also have forsaken you to Shishak.'" None but the tribe of Judah followed the house of David. They came to Jerusalem with harps, lyres and trumpets to the house of the LORD. Then the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam the son of Shaphan, Achbor the son of Micaiah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king's servant saying, "Go, inquire of the LORD for me and the people and all Judah concerning the words of this book that has been found, for great is the wrath of the LORD that burns against us, because our fathers have not listened to the words of this book, to do according to all that is written concerning us." 'You need not fight in this battle; station yourselves, stand and see the salvation of the LORD on your behalf, O Judah and Jerusalem ' Do not fear or be dismayed; tomorrow go out to face them, for the LORD is with you." Then King Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests and said to them, "Why do you not repair the damages of the house? When Elisha became sick with the illness of which he was to die, Joash the king of Israel came down to him and wept over him and said, "My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!" But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. So they sent and summoned him. "Moreover, the LORD will raise up for Himself a king over Israel who will cut off the house of Jeroboam this day and from now on. And you shall speak to him, saying, 'Thus says the LORD, "In the place where the dogs licked up the blood of Naboth the dogs will lick up your blood, even yours."'" About ten days later, the LORD struck Nabal and he died. "If I am still alive, will you not show me the lovingkindness of the LORD, that I may not die? And it will be that the king will enrich the man who kills him with great riches and will give him his daughter and make his father's house free in Israel." with three layers of huge stones and one layer of timbers. And the LORD said to David, "Go and attack the Philistines and deliver Keilah." Nevertheless Saul did not speak anything that day, for he thought, "It is an accident, he is not clean, surely he is not clean." So the prophet departed and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with a bandage over his eyes. "Here I am; bear witness against me before the LORD and His anointed Whose ox have I taken, or whose donkey have I taken, or whom have I defrauded? After all, a king who cultivates the field is an advantage to the land. Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Hephzibah. And the king bowed himself on the bed. But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was observed to the LORD in Jerusalem. And the people did not know that Jonathan had gone. Thus Manasseh misled Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to do more evil than the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the sons of Israel. And they saddled it. Then it came about, as soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the royal officers, "Go in, kill them; let none come out." Then Elisha said, "Shoot!" "And behold, I will send the lad, saying, 'Go, find the arrows.' 'You shall strike the house of Ahab your master, that I may avenge the blood of My servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel. WebKing James Bible Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. They know that we are hungry; therefore they have gone from the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, 'When they come out of the city, we will capture them alive and get into the city.'" The watchman reported, "He came even to them, and he did not return; and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi, for he drives furiously." Then they went to their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the LORD had shown to David His servant and to Israel His people. They also brought barley and straw for the horses and swift steeds to the place where it should be, each according to his charge. He did evil in the sight of the LORD, though not like his father and his mother; for he put away the sacred pillar of Baal which his father had made. He makes me lie down in green pastures. But Amaziah would not listen. Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, "Do you see how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? But David escaped from his presence twice. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small without disclosing it to me. So Joram reined about and fled and said to Ahaziah, "There is treachery, O Ahaziah!" He was a widow's son from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze; and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill for doing any work in bronze So he came to King Solomon and performed all his work. "The LORD will repay each man for his righteousness and his faithfulness; for the LORD delivered you into my hand today, but I refused to stretch out my hand against the LORD'S anointed. If the LORD is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him." And when they went into the house of Baal, the house of Baal was filled from one end to the other. Then he took his oldest son who was to reign in his place, and offered him as a burnt offering on the wall. Saul was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty two years over Israel. Also in the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olive wood, each ten cubits high. But Samuel said to Saul, "I will not return with you; for you have rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD has rejected you from being king over Israel." For the Lord had caused the army of the Arameans to hear a sound of chariots and a sound of horses, even 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 the Egyptians, to come upon us." Thus David delivered the inhabitants of Keilah. For the priest said, "Let her not be put to death in the house of the LORD." 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! David was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned forty years. Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. So he allied himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish, and they made the ships in Ezion-geber. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD dispossessed before the sons of Israel. Thus the land became Pharaohs. So Jonathan told David saying, "Saul my father is seeking to put you to death. "Let them deliver it 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 in the house of the LORD to repair the damages of the house, to the carpenters and the builders and the masons and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the house. So Jehoshaphat grew greater and greater, and he built fortresses and store cities in Judah. Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out to meet Jehu and found him in the property of Naboth the Jezreelite. Now Elisha spoke to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, "Arise and go with your household, and sojourn wherever you can sojourn; for the LORD has called for a famine, and it will even come on the land for seven years." When all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them the people answered the king, saying, "What portion do we have in David? And he said, 'I will go out and be a deceiving spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' The king also said to Shimei, "You know all the evil which you acknowledge in your heart, which you did to my father David; therefore the LORD shall return your evil on your own head. "He will also take your male servants and your female servants and your best young men and your donkeys and use them for his work. He will tell you what will happen to the boy." Then Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day as the king had directed, saying, Return to me on the third day.. Now Nadab the son of Jeroboam became king over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and he reigned over Israel two years. So the people rescued Jonathan and he did not die. And Jehu said, "For which one of us?" "There I have set a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of the LORD, which He made with our fathers when He brought them from the land of Egypt." And David put his hand into his bag and took from it a stone and slung it, and struck the Philistine on his forehead. Now when Saul returned from pursuing the Philistines, he was told, saying, "Behold, David is in the wilderness of Engedi." Now in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, camped against it and built a siege wall all around it. So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. Now Elisha said to the king of Israel, "What do I have to do with you? And David fled and escaped that night. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him. Jesus answered him, Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus said to him, How can a man be born when he is old? When Joram saw Jehu, he said, "Is it peace, Jehu?" He will slay your daughters on the mainland with the sword; and he will make siege walls against you, cast up a ramp against you and raise up a large shield against you. Now there came a day when Elisha passed over to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman, and she persuaded him to eat food. Surely at the command of the LORD it came upon Judah, to remove them from His sight because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done, and also for the innocent blood which he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; and the LORD would not forgive. Then he mustered the young men of the rulers of the provinces, and there were 232; and after them he mustered all the people, even all the sons of Israel, 7,000. Then he said to them, "Depart for three days, then return to me." David also defeated Hadadezer king of Zobah as far as Hamath, as he went to establish his rule to the Euphrates River.read more.David took from him 1,000 chariots and 7,000 horsemen and 20,000 foot soldiers, and David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved enough of them for 100 chariots. So he said to the messengers of Ben-hadad, "Tell my lord the king, 'All that you sent for to your servant at the first I will do, but this thing I cannot do.'" Then he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved engravings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, inner and outer sanctuaries. So David and Abishai came to the people by night, and behold, Saul lay sleeping inside the circle of the camp with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the people were lying around him. 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. Why did you not tell me that she was your wife? Then he looked and behold, there was at his head a bread cake baked on hot stones, and a jar of water. 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? Samuel said, Is it not true, though you were little in your own eyes, you were made the head of the tribes of Israel? The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits in length, twenty cubits in width, and twenty cubits in height, and he overlaid it with pure gold. Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, "Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh will be restored to you and you will be clean." And Agag said, "Surely the bitterness of death is past." 39 views, 0 likes, 1 loves, 0 comments, 0 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Gethsemane Baptist Church, Idaho Falls: Sunday Evening February 5, 2023 Then Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king And Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk; so she did not tell him anything at all until the morning light. So Joram slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and Ahaziah his son became king in his place. Jehoash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, "The thorn bush which was in Lebanon sent to the cedar which was in Lebanon, saying, 'Give your daughter to my son in marriage.' So Pharaoh said to Joseph, Since God has informed you of all this, there is no one so discerning and wise as you are. Now look after your own house, David!" He brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, "And now as this letter comes to you, behold, I have sent Naaman my servant to you, that you may cure him of his leprosy."