And she answered, "This woman said to me, 'Give your son that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.' From the city he took one official who was overseer of the men of war, and five of the kings advisers who were found in the city; and the scribe of the captain 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. And he urged him to take it, but he refused. Then Saul clothed David with his garments and put a bronze helmet on his head, and he clothed him with armor. "And may these words of mine, with which I have made supplication before the LORD, be near to the LORD our God day and night, that He may maintain the cause of His servant and the cause of His people Israel, as each day requires, so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God; there is no one else. And Samuel arose and went to Ramah. So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him. For as his share is who goes down to the battle, so shall his share be who stays by the baggage; they shall share alike." Now Solomon had 70,000 transporters, and 80,000 hewers of stone in the mountains, besides Solomon's 3,300 chief deputies who were over the project and who ruled over the people who were doing the work. So Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied. "Only fear the LORD and serve Him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things He has done for you. Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds. And he sought many wives for them. Then he built the walls of the house on the inside with boards of cedar; from the floor of the house to the ceiling he overlaid the walls on the inside with wood, and he overlaid the floor of the house with boards of cypress. So David went, he and the six hundred men who were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those left behind remained. "The LORD will return his blood on his own head, because he fell upon two men more righteous and better than he and killed them with the sword, while my father David did not know it: Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah. But the king said, "You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father's household!" Then all the people said to Samuel, "Pray for your servants to the LORD your God, so that we may not die, for we have added to all our sins this evil by asking for ourselves a king." He did evil in the sight of the LORD, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD dispossessed before the sons of Israel. He is Micaiah, son of Imla." "Now therefore, behold, the LORD has put a deceiving spirit in the mouth of these your prophets, for the LORD has proclaimed disaster against you." When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it, and she painted her eyes and adorned her head and looked out the window. A truth from which He will not turn back: Of the fruit of your body I will set upon your throne. I saw the LORD sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing by Him on His right and on His left. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest. 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. Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. For we are powerless before this great multitude who are coming against us; nor do we know what to do, but our eyes are on You." So a horseman went to meet him and said, "Thus says the king, 'Is it peace?'" Then he took him from her bosom and carried him up to the upper room where he was living, and laid him on his own bed. On the top of the pillars was lily design. And the Lord helped David wherever he went. They killed each his man; and the Arameans fled and Israel pursued them, and Ben-hadad king of Aram escaped on a horse with horsemen. Now Saul's watchmen in Gibeah of Benjamin looked, and behold, the multitude melted away; and they went here and there. "As for the agreement of which you and I have spoken, behold, the LORD is between you and me forever." He said, "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who spoke with His mouth to my father David and has fulfilled it with His hand, saying, 'Since the day that I brought My people Israel from Egypt, I did not choose a 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.' So he turned and went away in a rage. but My lovingkindness shall not depart from him, as I took it away from Saul, whom I removed from before you. Why should I put you to death?'" the food of his table, the seating of his servants, the attendance of his waiters and their attire, his cupbearers, and his stairway by which he went up to the house of the Lord, there was no more spirit in her. And Achish said to David, "Know assuredly that you will go out with me in the camp, you and your men." Therefore the LORD brought the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria against them, and they captured Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze chains and took him to Babylon. He made his sons pass through the fire in the valley of Ben-hinnom; and he practiced witchcraft, used divination, practiced sorcery and dealt with mediums and spiritists. Then the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "Did I not tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?" He also made two capitals of molten 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. "The LORD said to him, 'How?' Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain You, how much less this house which I have built! 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 Elisha answered, "The LORD has shown me that you will be king over Aram." "Now it was in the heart of my father David to build a house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel. Then David and the people who were with him lifted their voices and wept until there was no strength in them to weep. Indeed, the world is firmly established, it will not be moved; He is enthroned above the cherubim, let the earth shake! So Ahab came into his house sullen and vexed because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him; for he said, "I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers." ", Since the word of the king is authoritative, who will say to him, What are you doing?. The king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. "Moreover the LORD will also give over Israel along with you into the hands of the Philistines, therefore tomorrow you and your sons will be with me. Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? And Jehu said, "What have you to do with peace? "And I issued a decree that any man who violates this edict, a timber shall be drawn from his house and he shall be impaled on it and his house shall be made a refuse heap on account of this. 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. And Gehazi answered, "Truly she has no son and her husband is old." 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." "For all of you have conspired against me so that there is no one who discloses to me when my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you who is sorry for me or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me to lie in ambush, as it is this day." And Adoniram was over the forced laborers. David said to his men, "Each of you gird on his sword." "But there is some good in you, for you have removed the Asheroth from the land and you have set your heart to seek God." The battle went heavily against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was badly wounded by the archers. But the first woman said, "No! Samuel said to the people, "Do not fear. He said to Jeroboam, "Take for yourself ten pieces; for thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon and give you ten tribes (but he will have one tribe, for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel), because they have forsaken Me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the sons of Ammon; and they have not walked in My ways, doing what is right in My sight and observing My statutes and My ordinances, as his father David did. He did right in the sight of the Lord and walked in all the way of his father David, nor did he turn aside to the right or to the left. Then she came and told the man of God. He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done, for the daughter of Ahab became his wife; and he did evil in the sight of the LORD. Nevertheless they did not turn away from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel sin, but walked in them; and the Asherah also remained standing in Samaria. So each man girded on his sword. The LORD said, "I will remove Judah also from My sight, as I have removed Israel And I will cast off Jerusalem, this city which I have chosen, and the temple of which I said, 'My name shall be there.'" Then Saul's anger burned against Jonathan and he said to him, "You son of a perverse, rebellious woman! And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags with two changes of clothes and gave them to two of his servants; and they carried them before him. "If you will fear the LORD and serve Him, and listen to His voice and not rebel against the command of the LORD, then both you and also the king who reigns over you will follow the LORD your God. And one said this while another said that. "And now you are saying, 'Go, say to your master, "Behold, Elijah is here."' And what have you found in your servant from the day when I came before you to this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?" 1 SAMUEL CHAPTER 16 (ORIGINAL 1611 KJV) Now no blacksmith could be found in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, "Otherwise the Hebrews will make swords or spears." Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, "Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a vegetable garden because it is close beside my house, and I will give you a better vineyard than it in its place; if you like, I will give you the price of it in money." And he offered the burnt offering. For he left to Jehoahaz of the army not more than fifty horsemen and ten chariots and 10,000 footmen, for the king of Aram had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing. He said to Jeroboam, "Take for yourself ten pieces; for thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon and give you ten tribes (but he will have one tribe, for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel), because they have forsaken Me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the sons of Ammon; and they have not walked in My ways, doing what is right in My sight and observing My statutes and My ordinances, as his father David did. It came about at the seventh time, that he said, "Behold, a cloud as small as a man's hand is coming up from the sea." Now Jehoshaphat the son of Asa became king over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel. "Now therefore, behold, the LORD has put a deceiving spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and the LORD has proclaimed disaster against you." And the people did not know that Jonathan had gone. So Samuel spoke all the words of the LORD to the people who had asked of him a king. Then two women who were harlots came to the king and stood before him. There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets of stone which Moses put there at Horeb, where the LORD made a covenant with the sons of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt. Thus he said to him, "Do not be afraid, because the hand of Saul my father will not find you, and you will be king over Israel and I will be next to you; and Saul my father knows that also." Now the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD terrorized him. Then he left them with the king of Moab; and they stayed with him all the time that David was in the stronghold. There were capitals on the two pillars, even above and close to the rounded projection which was beside the network; and the pomegranates numbered two hundred in rows around both capitals. It came about afterward that David's conscience bothered him because he had cut off the edge of Saul's robe. Then Solomon awoke, and behold, it was a dream And he came to Jerusalem and stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and made peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants. Then the king said to the man of God, "Come home with me and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward." Now Joram with all Israel was defending Ramoth-gilead against Hazael king of Aram, but King Joram had returned to Jezreel to be healed of the wounds which the Arameans had inflicted on him when he fought with Hazael king of Aram. Now there was no king in Edom; a deputy was king. Did they not sing of this one as they danced, saying, 'Saul has slain his thousands, And David his ten thousands'?" In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years; then he turned and rebelled against him. Saul went on one side of the mountain, and David and his men on the other side of the mountain; and David was hurrying to get away from Saul, for Saul and his men were surrounding David and his men to seize them. When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, "Is this you, you troubler of Israel?" 'Nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son who will be born to you, he will build the house for My name.' Abiathar told David that Saul had killed the priests of the LORD. Mephibosheth had a young son whose name was Mica. Now behold, Saul was coming from the field behind the oxen, and he said, "What is the matter with the people that they weep?" Now afterward David arose and went out of the cave and called after Saul, saying, "My lord the king!" And he said to the king of Israel, "Strike the ground," and he struck it three times and stopped. As he was talking with them, behold, the champion, the Philistine from Gath named Goliath, was coming up from the army of the Philistines, and he spoke these same words; and David heard them. Now Saul chose for himself 3,000 men of Israel, of which 2,000 were with Saul in Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel, while 1,000 were with Jonathan at Gibeah of Benjamin. Jehoash did right in the sight of the LORD all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him. Then it happened when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had made a raid on the Negev and on Ziklag, and had overthrown Ziklag and burned it with fire; and they took captive the women and all who were in it, both small and great, without killing anyone, and carried them off and went their way. But Jehoshaphat said, "Is there not yet a prophet of the LORD here that we may inquire of him?" Then he found another man and said, "Please strike me." The LORD struck the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death And he lived in a separate house, while Jotham the king's son was over the household, judging the people of the land. She arose and bowed with her face to the ground and said, "Behold, your maidservant is a maid to wash the feet of my lord's servants." So the two of them made a covenant before the LORD; and David stayed at Horesh while Jonathan went to his house. As the lad was running, he shot an arrow past him. Now after this it came about that David defeated the Philistines and subdued them; and David took control of the chief city from the hand of the Philistines. Then he put the carved image of the idol which he had made in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever; and I will not again remove the foot of Israel from the land which I have appointed for your fathers, if only they will observe to do all that I have commanded them according to all the law, the statutes and the ordinances given through Moses." So Achish believed David, saying, "He has surely made himself odious among his people Israel; therefore he will become my servant forever." He also chose David His servantAnd took him from the sheepfolds; From the care of the ewes with suckling lambs He brought himTo shepherd Jacob His people,And Israel His inheritance. And Amon his son became king in his place. yet I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these. So he disguised his sanity before them, and acted insanely in their hands, and scribbled on the doors of the gate, and let his saliva run down into his beard. So they seized them; and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there. ASV. Then she went in and fell at his feet and bowed herself to the ground, and she took up her son and went out. Now Hadad found great favor before Pharaoh, so that he gave him in marriage the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen. "But if you or your sons indeed turn away from following Me, and do not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them, then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them, and the house which I have consecrated for My name, I will cast out of My sight So Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples. Some of the Philistines brought gifts and silver as tribute to Jehoshaphat; the Arabians also brought him flocks, 7,700 rams and 7,700 male goats. He did evil because he did not set his heart to seek the LORD. The workmanship of the wheels was like the workmanship of a chariot wheel. 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? But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree; and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, "It is enough; now, O LORD, take my life, for I am not better than my fathers." So Judah gathered together to seek help from the LORD; they even came from all the cities of Judah to seek the LORD. So Edom revolted against Judah to this day Then Libnah revolted at the same time. And when Saul heard it, he pursued David in the wilderness of Maon. "Now you also know what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, what he did to the two commanders of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed; he also shed the blood of war in peace. But he said, "As the LORD lives, before whom I stand, I will take nothing." And kneeling before him, they mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!, But Jesus said, Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.. Now Saul and his son Jonathan and the people who were present with them were staying in Geba of Benjamin while the Philistines camped at Michmash. and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests; So the Lord said to Solomon, Because you have done this, and you have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant. 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. Now David's two wives had been taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess and Abigail the widow of Nabal the Carmelite. He made ten basins of bronze, one basin held forty baths; each basin was four cubits, and on each of the ten stands was one basin. Then he said, "I have been very zealous for the LORD, the God of hosts; for the sons of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars and killed Your prophets with the sword. Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek and said, "How did the Spirit of the LORD pass from me to speak to you?" A king who sits on the throne of justiceDisperses all evil with his eyes. But Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, "If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be put to death." They rose early in the morning, and the sun shone on the water, and the Moabites saw the water opposite them as red as blood. And he said, "Listen, all you people." Then all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark. Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel, and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines and fell slain on Mount Gilboa. The foundation was of costly stones, even large stones, stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits. David attacked the land and did not leave a man or a woman alive, and he took away the sheep, the cattle, the donkeys, the camels, and the clothing. Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan and Ishvi and Malchi-shua; and the names of his two daughters were these: the name of the firstborn Merab and the name of the younger Michal. Now there came a day when Elisha passed over to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman, and she persuaded him to eat food. When your days are complete and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come forth from you, and I will establish his kingdom. "The LORD therefore be judge and decide between you and me; and may He see and plead my cause and deliver me from your hand." They said, "You have not defrauded us or oppressed us or taken anything from any man's hand." They proclaimed a fast and seated Naboth at the head of the people. "I will dwell among the sons of Israel, and will not forsake My people Israel." Then Omri and all Israel with him went up from Gibbethon and besieged Tirzah. "Your father made our yoke hard; now therefore lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke which he put on us, and we will serve you." 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 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?" "Of Jezebel also has the LORD spoken, saying, 'The dogs will eat Jezebel in the district of Jezreel.' In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves. So the people went out and plundered the camp of the Arameans. Now the king of Aram had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, saying, "Do not fight with small or great, but with the king of Israel alone." Hazael said, "Why does my lord weep?" So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. Then he wrote a letter to them a second time saying, "If you are on my side, and you will listen to my voice, take the heads of the men, your master's sons, and come to me at Jezreel tomorrow about this time." Is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?" Then they brought him on horses and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David. The king of Israel replied, "It is according to your word, my lord, O king; I am yours, and all that I have." Then to Abiathar the priest the king said, "Go to Anathoth to your own field, for you deserve to die; but I will not put you to death at this time, because you carried the ark of the Lord GOD before my father David, and because you were afflicted in everything with which my father was afflicted." So he made the pillars, and two rows around on the one network to cover the capitals which were on the top of the pomegranates; and so he did for the other capital. They also brought barley and straw for the horses and. Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, "Behold now, the place before you where we are living is too limited for us. Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD more than all who were before him. "He inquired of the LORD for him, gave him provisions, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine." So Edom revolted against Judah to this day Then Libnah revolted at the same time. The water flowed around the altar and he also filled the trench with water. Furthermore, the altar that was at Bethel and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he broke down Then he demolished its stones, ground them to dust, and burned the Asherah. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, Son, your sins are forgiven. Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Then he sent out a second horseman, who came to them and said, "Thus says the king, 'Is it peace?'" "If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will become your servants; but if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall become our servants and serve us." Then he left them with the king of Moab; and they stayed with him all the time that David was in the stronghold. "Also concerning the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel, when he comes from a far country for Your name's sake (for they will hear of Your great name and Your mighty hand, and of Your outstretched arm); when he comes and prays toward this house, 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, to fear You, as do Your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by Your name. And made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Then the prophet came near to the king of Israel and said to him, "Go, strengthen yourself and observe and see what you have to do; for at the turn of the year the king of Aram will come up against you." Nevertheless they did not turn away from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel sin, but walked in them; and the Asherah also remained standing in Samaria. He killed of Edom in the Valley of Salt 10,000 and took Sela by war, and named it Joktheel to this day. "Also the Glory of Israel will not lie or change His mind; for He is not a man that He should change His mind. Then I heard something like the voice of a great multitude and like the sound of many waters and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, saying,Hallelujah! So Jesus, perceiving that they were intending to come and take Him by force to make Him king, withdrew again to the mountain by Himself alone. Now this was the reason why he rebelled against the king: Solomon built the Millo, and closed up the breach of the city of his father David. The battle raged that day, and the king was propped up in his chariot in front of the Arameans, and died at evening, and the blood from the wound ran into the bottom of the chariot. Now the heart of the king of Aram was enraged over this thing; and he called his servants and said to them, "Will you tell me which of us is for the king of Israel?" And he stood and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying: "Blessed be the LORD, who has given rest to His people Israel, according to all that He promised; not one word has failed of all His good promise, which He promised through Moses His servant. Moreover, Josiah removed the mediums and the spiritists and the teraphim and the idols and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might confirm the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD. Then Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned in safety to his house in Jerusalem. The woman conceived and bore a son at that season the next year, as Elisha had said to her.