Here you will find all biblical passages where / in which the word (or term) ‘King’ occurs and how often this word occurs per biblical book. We searched the New and Old Testaments to find all the verses and occurrences of the Word. his article is part of our small concordance.
The term ‘King’ occurs 3127 times in the Bible. Below you will find all matching biblical passages divided according to the corresponding book.
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Bible passages with ‘King’ in the book Genesis
Genesis 14:1 Now it happened in that time that Amraphel, king of Shinar, and Arioch, king of Pontus, and Chedorlaomer, king of the Elamites, and Tidal, king of the Nations,Genesis 14:1
Genesis 14:2 went to war against Bera, king of Sodom, and against Birsha, king of Gomorrah, and against Shinab, king of Admah, and against Shemeber, king of Zeboiim, and against the king of Bela, that is Zoar.Genesis 14:2
Genesis 14:5 Therefore, in the fourteenth year, Chedorlaomer arrived, and the kings who were with him. And they struck the Rephaim at Ashteroth of the two horns, and the Zuzim with them, and the Emim at Shaveh-Kiriathaim.Genesis 14:5
Genesis 14:8 And the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and indeed the king of Bela, which is Zoar, went forth. And they directed their point against them in the wooded valley,Genesis 14:8
Genesis 14:9 namely, against Chedorlaomer, king of the Elamites, and Tidal, king of the Nations, and Amraphel, king of Shinar, and Arioch, king of Pontus: four kings against five.Genesis 14:9
Genesis 14:10 Now the wooded valley had many pits of bitumen. And so the king of Sodom and the king of Gomorrah turned back and they fell there. And those who remained, fled to the mountain.Genesis 14:10
Genesis 14:17 Then the king of Sodom went out to meet him, after he returned from the slaughter at Chedorlaomer, and the kings who were with him at the valley of Shaveh, which is the valley of the king.Genesis 14:17
Genesis 14:18 Then in truth, Melchizedek, the king of Salem, brought forth bread and wine, for he was a priest of the Most High God;Genesis 14:18
Genesis 14:21 Then the king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me these souls, and take the rest for yourself.”Genesis 14:21
Genesis 17:6 And I will cause you to increase very greatly, and I will set you among the nations, and kings will come forth from you.Genesis 17:6
Genesis 17:16 And I will bless her, and from her I will give you a son, whom I will bless, and he will be among the nations, and the kings of the peoples will rise from him.”Genesis 17:16
Genesis 20:2 And he said about his wife Sarah: “She is my sister.” Therefore, Abimelech, the king of Gerar, sent for her and took her.Genesis 20:2
Genesis 26:1 Then, when a famine arose over the land, after that barrenness which had happened in the days of Abraham, Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Palestinians, in Gerar.Genesis 26:1
Genesis 26:8 And when very many days had passed, and he had remained in the same place, Abimelech, king of the Palestinians, gazing through a window, saw him being playful with Rebekah, his wife.Genesis 26:8
Genesis 35:11 and he said to him: “I am Almighty God: increase and multiply. Tribes and peoples of nations will be from you, and kings will go forth from your loins.Genesis 35:11
Genesis 36:31 Now before the sons of Israel had a king, the kings who ruled in the land of Edom were these:Genesis 36:31
Genesis 39:20 And he delivered Joseph into prison, where the prisoners of the king were kept, and he was enclosed in that place.Genesis 39:20
Genesis 40:1 While these things were going on, it happened that two eunuchs, the cupbearer of the king of Egypt, and the miller of grain, offended their lord.Genesis 40:1
Genesis 41:10 The king, being angry with his servants, ordered me and the chief miller of grain to be forced into the prison of the leader of the military.Genesis 41:10
Genesis 41:25 Joseph responded: “The dream of the king is one. What God will do, he has revealed to Pharaoh.Genesis 41:25
Genesis 41:33 Now therefore, let the king provide a wise and industrious man, and place him over the land of Egypt,Genesis 41:33
Genesis 41:44 Likewise, the king said to Joseph: “I am Pharaoh: apart from your authority, no one will move hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.”Genesis 41:44
Genesis 41:46 (Now he was thirty years old when he stood in the sight of king Pharaoh.) And he traveled throughout the regions of Egypt.Genesis 41:46
Genesis 47:2 Likewise, he stood in the sight of the king five men, the last of his brothers.Genesis 47:2
Genesis 47:5 And so the king said to Joseph: “Your father and brothers have come to you.Genesis 47:5
Genesis 47:7 After this, Joseph brought in his father to the king, and he stood him in his sight. He blessed him,Genesis 47:7
Genesis 47:10 And blessing the king, he went outside.Genesis 47:10
Genesis 47:14 from which he gathered together all the money for the grain that they bought, and he took it into the treasury of the king.Genesis 47:14
Genesis 47:22 except the land of the priests, which had been delivered to them by the king. To these also a portion of food was supplied out of the public storehouses, and, for this reason, they were not compelled to sell their possessions.Genesis 47:22
Genesis 47:24 so that you may be able to have grain. One fifth part you will give to the king; the remaining four I permit to you, as seed and as food for your families and children.Genesis 47:24
Genesis 47:25 And they responded: “Our health is in your hand; only let our lord look kindly upon us, and we will serve the king with gladness.”Genesis 47:25
Genesis 47:26 From that time, even to the present day, in the entire land of Egypt, the fifth part is turned over to the kings, and it has become like a law, except in the land of the priests, which was free from this condition.Genesis 47:26
Genesis 49:20 Asher: his bread will be fat, and he will provide delicacies to the kings.Genesis 49:20
Number of the word / term King in Genesis: 33
Bible passages with ‘King’ in the book Exodus
Exodus 1:8 Meanwhile, there arose a new king over Egypt, who was ignorant of Joseph.Exodus 1:8
Exodus 1:15 Then the king of Egypt spoke to the midwives of the Hebrews, (one of whom one was called Shiphrah, another Puah)Exodus 1:15
Exodus 1:17 But the midwives feared God, and so they did not act according to the precept of the king of Egypt, but they kept the males safe.Exodus 1:17
Exodus 1:18 And summoning them, the king said, “What did you intend to do, so that you would save the boys?”Exodus 1:18
Exodus 2:23 In truth, after a long time, the king of Egypt was dead. And the sons of Israel, groaning, cried out because of the works. And their cry ascended to God from the works.Exodus 2:23
Exodus 3:18 And they shall hear your voice. And you shall enter, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you shall say to him: ‘The Lord God of the Hebrews has called us. We shall go three days’ journey into the wilderness, in order to offer sacrifice to the Lord our God.’Exodus 3:18
Exodus 3:19 But I know that the king of Egypt will not release you, unless you go out by a powerful hand.Exodus 3:19
Exodus 5:4 The king of Egypt said to them: “Why do you, Moses and Aaron, distract the people from their works? Go back to your burdens.”Exodus 5:4
Exodus 6:11 “Enter and speak to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, so that he may release the sons of Israel from his land.”Exodus 6:11
Exodus 6:13 And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, and he gave them a commandment for the sons of Israel, and for Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, that they should lead the sons of Israel away from the land of Egypt.Exodus 6:13
Exodus 6:27 These are those who speak to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, in order to lead the sons of Israel out of Egypt. These are Moses and Aaron,Exodus 6:27
Exodus 6:29 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: “I am the Lord. Speak to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, all that I speak to you.”Exodus 6:29
Exodus 14:5 And it was reported to the king of the Egyptians that the people had fled. And the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed about the people, and they said, “What did we intend to do, so that we released Israel from serving us?”Exodus 14:5
Exodus 14:8 And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and he pursued the sons of Israel. But they were taken away by an exalted hand.Exodus 14:8
Number of the word / term King in Exodus: 14
Bible passages with ‘King’ in the book Numbers
Numbers 20:14 Meanwhile, Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom. They said: “Your brother Israel says this: You know of all the hardships which have overtaken us,Numbers 20:14
Numbers 21:1 And when king Arad the Canaanite, who was living toward the south, had heard this, namely, that Israel had arrived by the way of spies, he fought against them. And proving to be the victor, he led away prey from them.Numbers 21:1
Numbers 21:21 Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon, the king of the Amorites, saying:Numbers 21:21
Numbers 21:26 Heshbon was the city of Sihon, the king of the Amorites, who fought against the king of Moab. And he took all the land, which had been under his sovereignty, as far as Arnon.Numbers 21:26
Numbers 21:29 Woe to you, Moab! You are perishing, O people of Chemosh. He gave flight to his sons, and he gave the daughters into captivity, to the king of the Amorites, Sihon.Numbers 21:29
Numbers 21:33 And they turned themselves and ascended, along the way of Bashan. And Og, the king of Bashan, met them with all his people, to fight at Edrei.Numbers 21:33
Numbers 21:34 And the Lord said to Moses: “Do not be afraid of him. For I have delivered him, and all his people, as well as his land, into your hand. And you shall do to him just as you did to Sihon, the king of the Amorites, the inhabitant of Heshbon.”Numbers 21:34
Numbers 22:4 said to those greater by birth of Midian: “So will this people wipe away all those who are dwelling within our borders, in the same way that the ox is accustomed to tear out grass, all the way to the roots.” At that time, he was king of Moab.Numbers 22:4
Numbers 22:10 He responded, “Balak, the son of Zippor, the king of the Moabites has sent to me,Numbers 22:10
Numbers 23:7 And taking up his parable, he said: “Balak, king of the Moabites, has led me from Aram, from the mountains of the east. ‘Come forth,’ he said, ‘and curse Jacob. Hurry and condemn Israel.’Numbers 23:7
Numbers 24:7 Water shall flow from his jar, and his offspring shall be amid many waters, because Agag, his king, shall be taken, and his kingdom shall be removed.Numbers 24:7
Numbers 31:8 And they put to death by the sword their kings: Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the five leaders of the nation, and also Balaam the son of Beor.Numbers 31:8
Numbers 32:33 And so, Moses gave to the sons of Gad and of Ruben, and to half the tribe of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og, king of Bashan, and their land with its surrounding cities.Numbers 32:33
Numbers 33:40 And king Arad the Canaanite, who lived toward the south, heard that the sons of Israel had arrived in the land of Canaan.Numbers 33:40
Number of the word / term King in Numbers: 14
Bible passages with ‘King’ in the book Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 1:4 after he had struck down Sihon, the king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, and Og, the king of Bashan, who resided at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,Deuteronomy 1:4
Deuteronomy 2:24 ‘Rise up and cross the torrent Arnon! Behold, I have delivered Sihon, the king of Heshbon, the Amorite, into your hand, and so, begin to possess his land and to engage in battle against him.Deuteronomy 2:24
Deuteronomy 2:26 Therefore, I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon, the king of Heshbon, with peaceful words, saying:Deuteronomy 2:26
Deuteronomy 2:30 And Sihon, the king of Heshbon, was not willing to grant passage to us. For the Lord your God had hardened his spirit, and had fastened his heart, so that he would be delivered into your hands, just as you now see.Deuteronomy 2:30
Deuteronomy 3:1 “And so, having turned back, we ascended by the way of Bashan. And Og, the king of Bashan, went forth with his people to meet us in warfare at Edrei.Deuteronomy 3:1
Deuteronomy 3:2 And the Lord said to me: ‘You should not fear him. For he has been delivered into your hand, with all his people as well as his land. And you shall do to him just as you have done to Sihon, the king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.’Deuteronomy 3:2
Deuteronomy 3:3 Therefore, the Lord our God delivered into our hands, now Og, the king of Bashan, and all his people. And we struck them down unto utter annihilation,Deuteronomy 3:3
Deuteronomy 3:6 And we wiped them out, just as we had done to Sihon, the king of Heshbon, destroying every city, and its men, as well as women and children.Deuteronomy 3:6
Deuteronomy 3:8 And at that time, we took the land from the hand of the two kings of the Amorites, who were across the Jordan: from the torrent Arnon as far as Mount Hermon,Deuteronomy 3:8
Deuteronomy 3:11 For only Og, the king of Bashan, was left behind out of the race of the giants. His bed of iron is on display, (it is in Rabbah, among the sons of Ammon) being nine cubits in length, and four in width, according to the measure of the cubit of a man’s hand.Deuteronomy 3:11
Deuteronomy 3:21 Likewise, I instructed Joshua at that time, saying: ‘Your eyes have seen what the Lord your God has done to these two kings. So also will he do to all the kingdoms through which you shall pass.Deuteronomy 3:21
Deuteronomy 4:46 across the Jordan, in the valley opposite the shrine of Peor, in the land of Sihon, the king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses struck down. Accordingly, the sons of Israel, having departed from Egypt,Deuteronomy 4:46
Deuteronomy 4:47 possessed his land, and the land of Og, the king of Bashan, the land of the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun:Deuteronomy 4:47
Deuteronomy 7:8 But it is because the Lord has loved you, and has kept his oath, which he swore to your fathers. And he has led you away with a strong hand, and he has redeemed you from the house of servitude, from the hand of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt.Deuteronomy 7:8
Deuteronomy 7:24 And he shall deliver their kings into your hands, and you shall abolish their names from under heaven. No one will be able to withstand you, until you crush them.Deuteronomy 7:24
Deuteronomy 11:3 the signs and works that he did in the midst of Egypt, to Pharaoh, the king, and to his entire land,Deuteronomy 11:3
Deuteronomy 17:14 When you will have entered into the land which the Lord your God will give to you, and you possess it, and you live in it, and you say, ‘I will appoint a king over me, just as all the surrounding nations have done,’Deuteronomy 17:14
Deuteronomy 17:15 you shall appoint him whom the Lord your God will choose from among the number of your brothers. You cannot make a man of another people king, one who is not your brother.Deuteronomy 17:15
Deuteronomy 17:16 And when he will have been appointed king, he shall not multiply horses for himself, nor lead the people back into Egypt, having been exalted by the number of his horsemen, especially since the Lord has instructed you never to return along the same way.Deuteronomy 17:16
Deuteronomy 28:36 May the Lord lead you and your king, whom you will have appointed over yourself, into a nation which you and your fathers have not known. And there you will serve foreign gods, of wood and of stone.Deuteronomy 28:36
Deuteronomy 29:7 And you arrived at this place. And Sihon, the king of Heshbon, and Og, the king of Bashan, went out to meet us in battle. And we struck them down.Deuteronomy 29:7
Deuteronomy 31:4 And the Lord will do to them just as he did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, and he will wipe them away.Deuteronomy 31:4
Deuteronomy 33:5 The king shall have great righteousness, at the gathering of the princes of the people with the tribes of Israel.Deuteronomy 33:5
Number of the word / term King in Deuteronomy: 23
Bible passages with ‘King’ in the book Joshua
Joshua 2:2 And it was reported to the king of Jericho, and it was said: “Behold, men have entered to this place in the night, from the sons of Israel, so that they might explore the land.”Joshua 2:2
Joshua 2:3 And the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying: “Bring out the men who came to you, and who entered into your house. For certainly they are spies, and they have arrived to consider the entire land.”Joshua 2:3
Joshua 2:10 We have heard that the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea upon your arrival, when you were departing from Egypt, and we heard of the things that you did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom you put to death.Joshua 2:10
Joshua 5:1 Therefore, after all the kings of the Amorites, who were living across the Jordan toward the western region, and all the kings of Canaan, who possessed the places beside the great sea, had heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the sons of Israel, until they crossed over it, their heart was broken, and there remained in them no spirit, out of fear at the entrance of the sons of Israel.Joshua 5:1
Joshua 6:2 And the Lord said to Joshua: “Behold, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and all the strong men.Joshua 6:2
Joshua 8:1 Then the Lord said to Joshua: “You should not fear, and you should not dread. Take with you the entire multitude of fighters, and rising up, ascend to the town of Ai. Behold, I have delivered into your hand its king and people, and the city and the land.Joshua 8:1
Joshua 8:2 And you shall do to the city of Ai, and to its king, just as you did to Jericho, and to its king. Yet truly, the spoils, and all the living things, you shall plunder for yourselves. Set an ambush against the city behind it.”Joshua 8:2
Joshua 8:14 And when the king of Ai had seen this, he hurried in the morning, and he went out with the entire army of the city. And he arranged them in a line opposite the desert, not knowing that an ambush lay hidden behind his back.Joshua 8:14
Joshua 8:23 Also, they apprehended the king of the city of Ai, alive, and they brought him before Joshua.Joshua 8:23
Joshua 8:29 Also, he suspended the king on a gallows, until evening and the setting of the sun. And Joshua instructed, and they took down his dead body from the hanging tree. And they cast it at the very entrance of the city, gathering a great pile of stones upon it, which remains even to the present day.Joshua 8:29
Joshua 9:1 And when these things were heard, all the kings across the Jordan, who lived among the mountains and plains, along the coastline and shores of the great sea, also those who were living near Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite,Joshua 9:1
Joshua 9:10 and to the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan: Sihon, the king of Heshbon, and Og, the king of Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth.Joshua 9:10
Joshua 10:1 When Adonizedek, the king of Jerusalem, had heard these things, specifically, that Joshua had seized Ai, and had overthrown it, (for just as he had done to Jericho and its king, so did he do to Ai and its king,) and that the Gibeonites had fled over to Israel, and were now their confederates,Joshua 10:1
Joshua 10:3 Therefore, Adonizedek, the king of Jerusalem, sent to Hoham, the king of Hebron, and to Piram, the king of Jarmuth, and also to Japhia, the king of Lachish, and to Debir, the king of Eglon, saying:Joshua 10:3
Joshua 10:5 And so, having assembled, the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, together with their armies, went up and encamped around Gibeon, laying siege to it.Joshua 10:5
Joshua 10:6 But the inhabitants of the city of Gibeon, when it was besieged, sent to Joshua, who was then staying in the camp at Gilgal. And they said to him: “May you not draw back your hands from helping your servants. Come quickly, and free us, and bring troops. For all the kings of the Amorites, who live in the mountains, have gathered together against us.”Joshua 10:6
Joshua 10:16 For the five kings had fled, and had hidden themselves in a cave, near the city of Makkedah.Joshua 10:16
Joshua 10:17 And it was reported to Joshua that the five kings had been found hidden in a cave, near the city of Makkedah.Joshua 10:17
Joshua 10:22 And Joshua instructed, saying, “Open the mouth of the cave, and bring forward to me the five kings, who are hidden within it.”Joshua 10:22
Joshua 10:23 And the ministers did just as they had been ordered. And they led out to him the five kings from the cave: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon.Joshua 10:23
Joshua 10:24 And when they had been led out to him, he called all the men of Israel, and he said to the leaders of the army who were with him, “Go, and place your feet upon the necks of these kings.” And when they had gone and had tread their feet upon the necks of those who were thrown down,Joshua 10:24
Joshua 10:28 Also on the same day, Joshua seized Makkedah, and he struck it with the edge of the sword, and he put to death its king and all its inhabitants. He did not leave in it even the smallest remains. And he did to the king of Makkedah, just as he had done to the king of Jericho.Joshua 10:28
Joshua 10:30 And the Lord delivered it, with its king, into the hands of Israel. And they struck the city with the edge of the sword, and all its inhabitants. They did not leave in it any remains. And they did to the king of Libnah, just as they had done to the king of Jericho.Joshua 10:30
Joshua 10:33 At that time, Horam, the king of Gezer, went up so that he might assist Lachish. And Joshua struck him with all his people, even unto utter annihilation.Joshua 10:33
Joshua 10:37 He seized it and struck it with the edge of the sword, likewise with its king, and all the towns of that region, and all the souls that were staying in it. He did not leave any remains in it. Just as he had done to Eglon, so also did he do to Hebron, consuming with the sword all that he found within it.Joshua 10:37
Joshua 10:39 he seized it and laid waste to it, likewise with its king. And all the surrounding towns, he struck with the edge of the sword. He did not leave in it any remains. Just as he had done to Hebron and Libnah, and to their kings, so did he do to Debir and to its king.Joshua 10:39
Joshua 10:40 And so Joshua struck the entire land, the mountains, and the south, and the plains, and the descending slopes, with their kings. He did not leave in it any remains, but he put to death all that was able to breathe, just as the Lord, the God of Israel, had instructed him,Joshua 10:40
Joshua 10:42 And all their kings and their regions, he seized and destroyed with a single attack. For the Lord, the God of Israel, fought on his behalf.Joshua 10:42
Joshua 11:1 And when Jabin, the king of Hazor, had heard these things, he sent to Jobab, the king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,Joshua 11:1
Joshua 11:2 also to the kings of the north, who were living in the mountains, and in the plains opposite the southern region of Chinneroth, and also in the plains and the regions of Dor, beside the sea,Joshua 11:2
Joshua 11:5 And all these kings assembled at the waters of Merom, so that they might fight against Israel.Joshua 11:5
Joshua 11:10 And turning back, he immediately seized Hazor. And he struck down its king with the sword. For Hazor, from antiquity, held the first position among all these kingdoms.Joshua 11:10
Joshua 11:12 And he seized, struck, and destroyed all the surrounding cities and their kings, just as Moses, the servant of God, had instructed him.Joshua 11:12
Joshua 11:17 As for the part of the mountain that ascends to Seir, as far as Baalgad, along the plain of Lebanon under mount Hermon, all their kings he seized, struck down, and killed.Joshua 11:17
Joshua 11:18 For a long time, Joshua fought against these kings.Joshua 11:18
Joshua 12:1 These are the kings whom the sons of Israel struck down, and whose land they possessed beyond the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun, from the torrent Arnon as far as mount Hermon, with the entire eastern region that looks out toward the wilderness:Joshua 12:1
Joshua 12:2 Sihon, the king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, and who had dominion from Aroer, which is situated on the bank of the torrent Arnon, and the valley in the middle, and one half of Gilead, as far as the torrent Jabbok, which is the border of the sons of Ammon,Joshua 12:2
Joshua 12:4 to the border of Og, the king of Bashan; from the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived in Ashtaroth, and at Edrei, and who had dominion on mount Hermon, and at Salecah, and into all of Bashan, even to its limits;Joshua 12:4
Joshua 12:5 with Geshur and Maacati, and one half of Gilead, these were the borders of Sihon, the king of Heshbon.Joshua 12:5
Joshua 12:7 These are the kings of the land, whom Joshua and the sons of Israel struck down across the Jordan, toward the western region, from Baalgad in the field of Lebanon, as far as the mountain, part of which ascends to Seir. And Joshua delivered it as a possession to the tribes of Israel, to each one in their divisions,Joshua 12:7
Joshua 12:9 The king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;Joshua 12:9
Joshua 12:10 the king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;Joshua 12:10
Joshua 12:11 the king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;Joshua 12:11
Joshua 12:12 the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;Joshua 12:12
Joshua 12:13 the king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one;Joshua 12:13
Joshua 12:14 the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;Joshua 12:14
Joshua 12:15 the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;Joshua 12:15
Joshua 12:16 the king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one;Joshua 12:16
Joshua 12:17 the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;Joshua 12:17
Joshua 12:18 the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one;Joshua 12:18
Joshua 12:19 the king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one;Joshua 12:19
Joshua 12:20 the king of Shimron, one; the king of Achshaph, one;Joshua 12:20
Joshua 12:21 the king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;Joshua 12:21
Joshua 12:22 the king of Kadesh, one; the king of Jokneam of Carmel, one;Joshua 12:22
Joshua 12:23 the king of Dor and of the province of Dor, one; the king of the nations of Gilgal, one;Joshua 12:23
Joshua 12:24 the king of Tirzah, one. All the kings were thirty-one.Joshua 12:24
Joshua 13:10 and all the cities of Sihon, the king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, even to the borders of the sons of Ammon;Joshua 13:10
Joshua 13:21 and all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdoms of Sihon, the king of the Amorites, who reigned at Heshbon, whom Moses struck down with the leaders of Midian: Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the commanders of Sihon, inhabitants of the land.Joshua 13:21
Joshua 13:27 also, in the valley Beth-haram and Beth-nimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the remaining part of the kingdom of Sihon, the king of Heshbon; the limit of this also is the Jordan, as far as the furthest part of the sea of Chinnereth, beyond the Jordan on the eastern side.Joshua 13:27
Joshua 13:30 the beginning of which is this: from Mahanaim, all of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Og, the king of Bashan, and all the villages of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty towns;Joshua 13:30
Joshua 24:9 Then Balak, the son of Zippor, the king of Moab, rose up and fought against Israel. And he sent and called for Balaam, the son of Beor, so that he might curse you.Joshua 24:9
Joshua 24:12 And I sent wasps before you. And I drove them from their places, the two kings of the Amorites, but not by your sword, and not by your bow.Joshua 24:12
Number of the word / term King in Joshua: 62
Bible passages with ‘King’ in the book Judges
Judges 1:7 And Adonibezek said: “Seventy kings, with the ends of their hands and feet amputated, have been gathering the remnants of food under my table. Just as I have done, so has God repaid me.” And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.Judges 1:7
Judges 3:8 And the Lord, having become angry with Israel, delivered them into the hands of Cushan-Rishathaim, the king of Mesopotamia, and they served him for eight years.Judges 3:8
Judges 3:10 And the Spirit of the Lord was in him, and he judged Israel. And he went out to fight, and the Lord delivered Cushan-Rishathaim, the king of Syria, and he overwhelmed him.Judges 3:10
Judges 3:12 Then the sons of Israel resumed doing evil in the sight of the Lord, who strengthened Eglon, the king of Moab, against them because they did evil in his sight.Judges 3:12
Judges 3:14 And the sons of Israel served Eglon, the king of Moab, for eighteen years.Judges 3:14
Judges 3:15 And afterward, they cried out to the Lord, who raised up for them a savior, called Ehud, the son of Gera, the son of Benjamin, who used either hand as well as the right hand. And the sons of Israel sent gifts to Eglon, the king of Moab, by him.Judges 3:15
Judges 3:17 And he offered the gifts to Eglon, the king of Moab. Now Eglon was exceedingly fat.Judges 3:17
Judges 3:19 And then, returning from Gilgal where the idols were, he said to the king, “I have a secret word for you, O king.” And he ordered silence. And when all those who were around him had departed,Judges 3:19
Judges 3:24 he departed by a back exit. And the servants of the king, entering, saw that the doors of the upper room were closed, and they said, “Perhaps he is emptying his bowels in the summer room.”Judges 3:24
Judges 4:2 And the Lord delivered them into the hands of Jabin, the king of Canaan, who reigned at Hazor. And he had a commander of his army named Sisera, but this man lived at Harosheth of the Gentiles.Judges 4:2
Judges 4:17 But Sisera, while fleeing, arrived at the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber, the Kenite. For there was peace between Jabin, the king of Hazor, and the house of Heber, the Kenite.Judges 4:17
Judges 4:23 Thus did God humble Jabin, the king of Canaan, on that day, before the sons of Israel.Judges 4:23
Judges 4:24 And they increased every day. And with a strong hand they overpowered Jabin, the king of Canaan, until they wiped him out.Judges 4:24
Judges 5:3 Listen, O kings! Pay attention, O princes! It is I, it is I, who will sing to the Lord. I will sing a psalm to the Lord, the God of Israel!Judges 5:3
Judges 5:19 The kings came and fought; the kings of Canaan fought at Taanach, beside the waters of Megiddo. And yet they took no spoils.Judges 5:19
Judges 8:5 And he said to the men of Succoth, “I beg you, give bread to the people who are with me, for they are greatly weakened, so that we may be able to pursue Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”Judges 8:5
Judges 8:18 And he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, “What kind of men were those whom you killed at Tabor?” They responded, “They were like you, and one of them was like the son of a king.”Judges 8:18
Judges 8:26 And the weight of the earrings that he requested was one thousand seven hundred shekels of gold, aside from the ornaments, and necklaces, and purple garments, which the kings of Midian were accustomed to use, and aside from the gold chains on the camels.Judges 8:26
Judges 9:6 Then all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the families of the city of Millo, and they went and appointed Abimelech as king, beside the oak that stood at Shechem.Judges 9:6
Judges 9:8 The trees went to anoint a king over themselves. And they said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us.’Judges 9:8
Judges 9:15 And it responded to them: ‘If truly you would appoint me as king, come and rest under my shadow. But if you are not willing, let fire go forth from the bramble, and let it devour the cedars of Lebanon.’ ”Judges 9:15
Judges 9:16 So now, if you are upright and without sin in appointing Abimelech as a king over you, and if you have acted well with Jerubbaal, and with his house, and if you have repaid, in turn, the benefits of him who fought on your behalf,Judges 9:16
Judges 9:18 though you now have risen up against my father’s house, and have killed his sons, seventy men, upon one stone, and have appointed Abimelech, the son of his handmaid, as a king over the inhabitants of Shechem, since he is your brother,Judges 9:18
Judges 11:12 And he sent messengers to the king of the sons of Ammon, who said on his behalf, “What is there between you and me, that you would approach against me, so that you might lay waste to my land?”Judges 11:12
Judges 11:14 And Jephthah again commissioned them, and he ordered them to say to the king of Ammon:Judges 11:14
Judges 11:17 And he sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Permit me to pass through your land.’ But he was not willing to agree to his petition. Likewise, he sent to the king of Moab, who also refused to offer him passage. And so he delayed in Kadesh,Judges 11:17
Judges 11:19 And so Israel sent messengers to Sihon, the king of the Amorites, who was living at Heshbon. And they said to him, “Permit me to cross through your land as far as the river.”Judges 11:19
Judges 11:25 Or are you, perhaps, better than Balak, the son of Zippor, the king of Moab? Or are you able to explain what his argument was against Israel, and why he fought against him?Judges 11:25
Judges 11:28 But the king of the sons of Ammon was not willing to agree to the words of Jephthah that he commissioned by the messengers.Judges 11:28
Judges 17:6 In those days, there was no king in Israel. Instead, each one did what seemed right to himself.Judges 17:6
Judges 18:1 In those days, there was no king in Israel. And the tribe of Dan sought a possession for themselves, so that they might live in it. For even to that day, they had not received their lot among the other tribes.Judges 18:1
Judges 18:31 And the idol of Micah remained with them during the entire time that the house of God was in Shiloh. In those days, there was no king in Israel.Judges 18:31
Judges 21:25 In those days, there was no king in Israel. Instead, each one did what seemed right to himself.Judges 21:25
Number of the word / term King in Judges: 33
Bible passages with ‘King’ in the book 1 Samuel
1 Samuel 2:10 The adversaries of the Lord will dread him. And over them, he will thunder in the heavens. The Lord will judge the parts of the earth, and he will give dominion to his king, and he will lift up the horn of his Christ.”1 Samuel 2:10
1 Samuel 8:5 And they said to him: “Behold, you are elderly, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Appoint for us a king, so that he may judge us, just as all the nations have.”1 Samuel 8:5
1 Samuel 8:6 And the word was displeasing in the eyes of Samuel, for they had said, “Give us a king to judge us.” And Samuel prayed to the Lord.1 Samuel 8:6
1 Samuel 8:9 Now therefore, hear their voice. Yet truly, testify to them and foretell to them the rights of the king who will reign over them.”1 Samuel 8:9
1 Samuel 8:10 And so, Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people, who had petitioned a king from him.1 Samuel 8:10
1 Samuel 8:11 And he said: “This will be the right of the king who will have authority over you: He will take your sons, and place them in his chariots. And he will make them his horsemen and his runners before his four-horse chariots.1 Samuel 8:11
1 Samuel 8:18 And you will cry out, in that day, from the face of the king, whom you have chosen for yourselves. And the Lord will not heed you, in that day. For you requested a king for yourselves.”1 Samuel 8:18
1 Samuel 8:19 But the people were not willing to listen to the voice of Samuel. Instead, they said: “By no means! For there shall be a king over us,1 Samuel 8:19
1 Samuel 8:20 and we shall be just like all the Gentiles. And our king will judge us, and he will go out before us, and he will fight our wars for us.”1 Samuel 8:20
1 Samuel 8:22 Then the Lord said to Samuel, “Listen to their voice, and appoint a king over them.” And Samuel said to the men of Israel, “Let each one go to his own city.”1 Samuel 8:22
1 Samuel 10:18 And he said to the sons of Israel: “Thus says the Lord God of Israel: I led Israel away from Egypt, and I rescued you from the hand of the Egyptians, and from the hand of all the kings who were afflicting you.1 Samuel 10:18
1 Samuel 10:19 But today you have rejected your God, who alone saved you from all your evils and tribulations. And you have said: ‘By no means! Instead, appoint a king over us.’ Now therefore, stand in the sight of the Lord, by your tribes and by your families.”1 Samuel 10:19
1 Samuel 10:24 And Samuel said to all the people: “Certainly, you see the one whom the Lord has chosen, that there is not anyone like him among all the people.” And all the people cried out and said, “Long live the king!”1 Samuel 10:24
1 Samuel 11:15 And all the people traveled to Gilgal. And there they made Saul king, in the sight of the Lord at Gilgal. And there they immolated victims of peace, before the Lord. And there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced exceedingly.1 Samuel 11:15
1 Samuel 12:1 Then Samuel said to all of Israel: “Behold, I have listened to your voice, according to all that you have said to me, and I have appointed a king over you.1 Samuel 12:1
1 Samuel 12:2 And now the king advances before you. But I am old and have gray hair. Moreover, my sons are with you. And so, having conversed before you from my youth, even until this day, behold, I am here.1 Samuel 12:2
1 Samuel 12:9 But they forgot the Lord their God, and so he delivered them into the hand of Sisera, master of the army of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab. And they fought against them.1 Samuel 12:9
1 Samuel 12:12 Then, seeing that Nahash, the king of the sons of Ammon, had arrived against you, you said to me, ‘By no means! Instead, a king shall reign over us,’ even though the Lord your God was reigning over you.1 Samuel 12:12
1 Samuel 12:13 Now therefore, your king is present, whom you chose and requested. Behold, the Lord has given you a king.1 Samuel 12:13
1 Samuel 12:14 If you will fear the Lord, and serve him, and listen to his voice, and not provoke the mouth of the Lord, then both you, and the king who rules over you, will be following the Lord your God.1 Samuel 12:14
1 Samuel 12:17 Is it not the harvest of the wheat today? I will call upon the Lord, and he will send thunder and rain. And you will know and see that you have done a great evil in the sight of the Lord, by petitioning for a king over you.”1 Samuel 12:17
1 Samuel 12:19 And all the people feared the Lord and Samuel exceedingly. And all the people said to Samuel: “Pray, on behalf of your servants, to the Lord your God, so that we may not die. For we have added to all our sins this evil, that we would petition for a king.”1 Samuel 12:19
1 Samuel 12:25 But if you persevere in wickedness, both you and your king will perish together.”1 Samuel 12:25
1 Samuel 14:47 And Saul, his kingdom having been confirmed over Israel, was fighting against all his enemies on all sides: against Moab, and the sons of Ammon, and Edom, and the kings of Zobah, and the Philistines. And wherever he turned himself, he was successful.1 Samuel 14:47
1 Samuel 15:1 And Samuel said to Saul: “The Lord sent me, so that I would anoint you as king over his people Israel. Now therefore, listen to the voice of the Lord.1 Samuel 15:1
1 Samuel 15:8 And he apprehended Agag, the king of Amalek, alive. But all the common people he put to death with the edge of the sword.1 Samuel 15:8
1 Samuel 15:11 “It displeases me that I have appointed Saul as king. For he has forsaken me, and he has not fulfilled the work of my words.” And Samuel was greatly saddened, and he cried out to the Lord, all night long1 Samuel 15:11
1 Samuel 15:17 And Samuel said: “Was it not when you were little in your own eyes that you were made the head of the tribes of Israel? And the Lord anointed you as king over Israel.1 Samuel 15:17
1 Samuel 15:20 And Saul said to Samuel: “On the contrary, I did listen to the voice of the Lord, and I walked in the way along which the Lord sent me, and I led back Agag, the king of Amalek, and I put to death Amalek.1 Samuel 15:20
1 Samuel 15:23 Therefore, it is like the sin of paganism to rebel. And it is like the crime of idolatry to refuse to obey. For this reason, therefore, because you have rejected the word of the Lord, the Lord has also rejected you from being king.”1 Samuel 15:23
1 Samuel 15:26 And 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.”1 Samuel 15:26
1 Samuel 15:32 And Samuel said, “Bring near to me Agag, the king of Amalek.” And Agag, very fat and trembling, was presented to him. And Agag said, “Does bitter death separate in this manner?”1 Samuel 15:32
1 Samuel 15:35 And Samuel did not see Saul any more, until the day of his death. Yet truly, Samuel mourned for Saul, because the Lord regretted that he had appointed him as king over Israel.1 Samuel 15:35
1 Samuel 16:1 And the Lord said to Samuel: “How long will you mourn for Saul, though I have rejected him, so that he would not reign over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and approach, so that I may send you to Jesse of Bethlehem. For I have provided a king from among his sons for myself.”1 Samuel 16:1
1 Samuel 17:25 And someone of Israel said: “Have you seen this man, who has risen up. For he ascended in order to reproach Israel. Therefore, the man who will strike him down, the king will enrich with great wealth, and will give to him his daughter, and will cause his father’s house to be free of tribute in Israel.”1 Samuel 17:25
1 Samuel 17:55 Now at the time that Saul had seen David going out against the Philistines, he said to Abner, the leader of the military, “From what stock is this youth descended, Abner?” And Abner said, “As your soul lives, O king, I do not know.”1 Samuel 17:55
1 Samuel 17:56 And the king said, “You shall inquire as to whose son this boy may be.”1 Samuel 17:56
1 Samuel 18:6 Now when David returned, after he had struck down the Philistine, the women went out, from all the cities of Israel, leading the singing and dancing, rejoicing with timbrels and bells, so as to meet king Saul.1 Samuel 18:6
1 Samuel 18:22 And Saul commanded his servants to speak to David privately, saying: “Behold, you are pleasing to the king, and all his servants love you. Now therefore, be the son-in-law of the king.”1 Samuel 18:22
1 Samuel 18:25 Then Saul said, “Speak in this way to David: The king does not have need of any dowry, but only one hundred foreskins from the Philistine men, so that he may be vindicated from the enemies of the king.” So did Saul think to deliver David into the hands of the Philistines.1 Samuel 18:25
1 Samuel 18:26 And when his servants had repeated to David the words that Saul had spoken, the word was pleasing in the eyes of David, so that he would become son-in-law of the king.1 Samuel 18:26
1 Samuel 18:27 And after a few days, David, rising up, went with the men who were under him, and he struck down two hundred men of the Philistines. And he brought their foreskins, and he counted them out for the king, so that he might be his son-in-law. And so, Saul gave to him his daughter Michal as wife.1 Samuel 18:27
1 Samuel 19:4 Then Jonathan spoke good things about David to his father Saul. And he said to him: “You should not sin, O king, against your servant David. For he has not sinned against you, and his works toward you are very good.1 Samuel 19:4
1 Samuel 20:5 Then David said to Jonathan: “Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I am accustomed to sit in a seat beside the king to eat. Therefore, permit me that I may be hidden in the field, until the evening of the third day.1 Samuel 20:5
1 Samuel 20:24 Therefore, David was hidden in the field. And the new moon came, and the king sat down to eat bread.1 Samuel 20:24
1 Samuel 20:25 And when the king had sat down on his chair, (according to custom) which was beside the wall, Jonathan rose up, and Abner sat beside Saul, and David’s place appeared empty.1 Samuel 20:25
1 Samuel 20:29 and he said: ‘Permit me. For there is a solemn sacrifice in the city. One of my brothers has summoned me. Now therefore, if I have found favor in your eyes, I will go quickly, and I will see my brothers.’ For this reason, he has not come to the table of the king.”1 Samuel 20:29
1 Samuel 21:2 And David said to the priest Ahimelech: “The king has instructed to me a word, and he said: ‘Let no one know the matter about which you have been sent by me, and what type of instructions I have given to you. For I have also summoned servants to one and another place.’1 Samuel 21:2
1 Samuel 21:8 Then David said to Ahimelech: “Do you have, here at hand, a spear or a sword? For I did not take my own sword, or my own weapons with me. For the word of the king was urgent.”1 Samuel 21:8
1 Samuel 21:10 And so, David rose up, and he fled on that day from the face of Saul. And he went to Achish, the king of Gath.1 Samuel 21:10
1 Samuel 21:11 And the servants of Achish, when they had seen David, said to him: “Is this not David, the king of the land? Were they not singing about him, while dancing, saying, ‘Saul has struck down a thousand, and David ten thousand?’ ”1 Samuel 21:11
1 Samuel 21:12 Then David took these words to his heart, and he became exceedingly afraid before the face of Achish, the king of Gath.1 Samuel 21:12
1 Samuel 22:3 And David set out from there to Mizpah, which is of Moab. And he said to the king of Moab, “I beg you, let my father and my mother remain with you, until I know what God will do for me.”1 Samuel 22:3
1 Samuel 22:4 And he left them before the face of the king of Moab. And they stayed with him for all the days that David was in the stronghold.1 Samuel 22:4
1 Samuel 22:11 Then the king sent to summon Ahimelech, the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all of his father’s house, the priests who were in Nob, and they all came before the king.1 Samuel 22:11
1 Samuel 22:14 And responding to the king, Ahimelech said: “But who among all your servants is as faithful as David? And he is the son-in-law of the king, and he goes forth at your order, and he is a glory within your house.1 Samuel 22:14
1 Samuel 22:15 Did I begin to consult the Lord for him today? May this be far from me! Let not the king suspect this kind of thing against his servant, nor against anyone in all my father’s house. For your servant did not know anything about this matter, either small or great.”1 Samuel 22:15
1 Samuel 22:16 And the king said, “You shall die a death, Ahimelech, you and all your father’s house!”1 Samuel 22:16
1 Samuel 22:17 And the king said to the emissaries who were standing around him: “You shall turn, and put to death the priests of the Lord. For their hand is with David. They knew that he had fled, and they did not reveal it to me.” But the servants of the king were not willing to extend their hands against the priests of the Lord.1 Samuel 22:17
1 Samuel 22:18 And the king said to Doeg, “You shall turn and rush against the priests.” And Doeg, the Edomite, turned and rushed against the priests. And he massacred, on that day, eighty-five men, vested with the linen ephod.1 Samuel 22:18
1 Samuel 23:20 Now therefore, if your soul has desired to descend, then descend. Then it will be for us to deliver him into the hands of the king.”1 Samuel 23:20
1 Samuel 24:8 Then David also rose up after him. And departing from the cave, he cried out behind the back of Saul, saying: “My lord, the king!” And Saul looked behind him. And David, bowing himself face down to the ground, reverenced.1 Samuel 24:8
1 Samuel 24:14 Whom are you pursuing, O king of Israel? Whom are you pursuing? You are pursuing a dead dog, a single flea.1 Samuel 24:14
1 Samuel 24:20 And now I know certainly that you shall be king, and you shall have the kingdom of Israel in your hand.1 Samuel 24:20
1 Samuel 25:25 Let not my lord, the king, I beseech you, set his heart upon this iniquitous man, Nabal. For in accord with his name, he is senseless, and foolishness is with him. But I, your handmaid, did not see your servants, my lord, whom you had sent.1 Samuel 25:25
1 Samuel 25:36 Then Abigail went to Nabal. And behold, he was holding a feast for himself in his house, like the feast of a king. And the heart of Nabal was cheerful. For he was greatly inebriated. And she did not reveal a word to him, small or great, until morning.1 Samuel 25:36
1 Samuel 26:15 And David said to Abner: “Are you not a man? And who else is like you in Israel? Then why have you not guarded your lord the king? For one of the people entered, so that he might kill the king, your lord.1 Samuel 26:15
1 Samuel 26:17 Then Saul recognized the voice of David, and he said, “Is this not your voice, my son David?” And David said, “It is my voice, my lord the king.”1 Samuel 26:17
1 Samuel 26:19 Now therefore, listen, I beg you, my lord the king, to the words of your servant. If the Lord has stirred you up against me, let him make the sacrifice fragrant. But if the sons of men have done so, they are accursed in the sight of the Lord, who has cast me out this day, so that I would not live within the inheritance of the Lord, saying, ‘Go, serve strange gods.’1 Samuel 26:19
1 Samuel 26:20 And now, let not my blood be poured out upon the earth before the Lord. For the king of Israel has gone out, so that he might seek a flea, just as the partridge is pursued amid the mountains.”1 Samuel 26:20
1 Samuel 26:22 And responding, David said: “Behold, the king’s spear. Let one of the servants of the king cross over and take it.1 Samuel 26:22
1 Samuel 27:2 And David rose up and went away, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish, the son of Maoch, the king of Gath.1 Samuel 27:2
1 Samuel 27:5 And David said to Achish: “If I have found favor in your eyes, let a place be given to me in one of the cities of this region, so that I may live there. For why should your servant stay in the city of the king with you?”1 Samuel 27:5
1 Samuel 27:6 And so, Achish gave Ziklag to him on that day. And for this reason, Ziklag belongs to the kings of Judah, even to this day.1 Samuel 27:6
1 Samuel 28:13 And the king said to her: “Do not be afraid. What have you seen?” And the woman said to Saul, “I saw gods ascending from the earth.”1 Samuel 28:13
1 Samuel 29:3 And the leaders of the Philistines said to Achish, “What do these Hebrews intend to do?” And Achish said to the leaders of the Philistines: “Could you be ignorant about David, who was the servant of Saul, the king of Israel, and who has been with me for many days, even years, and I have not found within him anything, from the day that he fled to me, even to this day?”1 Samuel 29:3
Number of the word / term King in 1 Samuel: 76
Bible passages with ‘King’ in the book 2 Samuel
2 Samuel 2:7 Let your hands be strengthened, and be sons of fortitude. For even though your lord Saul has died, still the house of Judah has anointed me as king over them.”2 Samuel 2:7
2 Samuel 2:9 And he appointed him as king over Gilead, and over Geshuri, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all of Israel.2 Samuel 2:9
2 Samuel 3:3 And after him, there was Chileab, from Abigail, the wife of Nabal of Carmel. Then the third was Absalom, the son of Maacah, the daughter of Talmai, the king of Geshur.2 Samuel 3:3
2 Samuel 3:21 And Abner said to David, “I will rise up, so that I may gather all of Israel to you, my lord the king, and so that I may enter into a pact with you, and so that you may reign over all, just as your soul desires.” Then, when David had led Abner away, and he had departed in peace,2 Samuel 3:21
2 Samuel 3:23 And Joab, and the entire army that was with him, had arrived afterward. And so, it was reported to Joab, explaining that Abner, the son of Ner, went to the king, and he dismissed him, and he went away in peace.2 Samuel 3:23
2 Samuel 3:24 And Joab entered to the king, and he said: “What have you done? Behold, Abner came to you. Why did you dismiss him, so that he has gone and departed?2 Samuel 3:24
2 Samuel 3:31 Then David said to Joab, and to all the people who were with him, “Tear your garments, and gird yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn before the funeral procession of Abner.” Moreover, king David himself was following the casket.2 Samuel 3:31
2 Samuel 3:32 And when they had buried Abner in Hebron, king David lifted up his voice, and he wept over the burial mound of Abner. And all the people also wept.2 Samuel 3:32
2 Samuel 3:33 And the king, mourning and lamenting Abner, said: “By no means has Abner died the way that cowards usually die.2 Samuel 3:33
2 Samuel 3:36 And all the people heard it, and everything that the king did in the sight of the entire people was pleasing to them.2 Samuel 3:36
2 Samuel 3:37 And every common person, and all of Israel, realized on that day that the killing of Abner, the son of Ner, had not been done by the king.2 Samuel 3:37
2 Samuel 3:38 The king also said to his servants: “Could you be ignorant that a leader and a very great man has fallen today in Israel?2 Samuel 3:38
2 Samuel 3:39 But I am still tender, and yet anointed king. And these men of the sons of Zeruiah are too harsh for me. May the Lord repay whoever does evil in accord with his malice.”2 Samuel 3:39
2 Samuel 4:8 And they brought the head of Ishbosheth to David in Hebron. And they said to the king: “Behold, the head of Ishbosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who was seeking your life. And so, the Lord has avenged my lord the king, this day, from Saul and from his offspring.”2 Samuel 4:8
2 Samuel 5:2 Moreover, yesterday and the day before, when Saul was king over us, you were the one leading out and leading back Israel. Then the Lord said to you, ‘You shall pasture my people Israel, and you shall be the leader over Israel.’ ”2 Samuel 5:2
2 Samuel 5:3 Also, the elders of Israel went to the king at Hebron, and king David struck a pact with them at Hebron in the sight of the Lord. And they anointed David as king over Israel.2 Samuel 5:3
2 Samuel 5:6 And the king, and all the men who were with him, went away to Jerusalem, to the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land. And it was said to David by them, “You shall not enter here, unless you will take away the blind and the lame, who say, ‘David shall not enter here.’ ”2 Samuel 5:6
2 Samuel 5:11 Also, Hiram, the king of Tyre, sent messengers to David, with cedar wood, and with builders of wood and builders of stone, in order to make walls. And they built a house for David.2 Samuel 5:11
2 Samuel 5:12 And David knew that the Lord had confirmed him as king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom over his people Israel.2 Samuel 5:12
2 Samuel 5:17 Then the Philistines heard that they had anointed David as king over Israel. And they all ascended, so that they might seek David. And when David had heard of it, he descended to a stronghold.2 Samuel 5:17
2 Samuel 6:12 And it was reported to king David that the Lord had blessed Obededom, and all that was his, because of the ark of God. Therefore, David went and brought the ark of God, from the house of Obededom, into the city of David with joy. And there were with David seven choirs, and calves for victims.2 Samuel 6:12
2 Samuel 6:16 And when the ark of the Lord had entered into the city of David, Michal, the daughter of Saul, looking out through a window, saw king David leaping and dancing before the Lord. And she despised him in her heart.2 Samuel 6:16
2 Samuel 6:20 And David returned, so that he might bless his own house. And Michal, the daughter of Saul, going out to meet David, said: “How glorious was the king of Israel today, uncovering himself before the handmaids of his servants, and being unclothed, as if one of the performers were unclothed.”2 Samuel 6:20
2 Samuel 7:1 Now it happened that, when the king had settled in his house, and the Lord had given him rest on every side from all his enemies,2 Samuel 7:1
2 Samuel 7:3 And Nathan said to the king: “Go, do all that is in your heart. For the Lord is with you.”2 Samuel 7:3
2 Samuel 7:18 Then king David entered and sat before the Lord, and he said: “Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house, that you would bring me to this point?2 Samuel 7:18
2 Samuel 8:3 And David struck Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, the king of Zobah, when he set out to rule over the river Euphrates.2 Samuel 8:3
2 Samuel 8:5 And the Syrians of Damascus arrived, so that they might bring reinforcements to Hadadezer, the king of Zobah. And David struck down twenty-two thousand men of the Syrians.2 Samuel 8:5
2 Samuel 8:8 And from Betah and Beeroth, cities of Hadadezer, king David took an exceedingly great amount of brass.2 Samuel 8:8
2 Samuel 8:9 Then Toi, the king of Hamath, heard that David had struck down the entire strength of Hadadezer.2 Samuel 8:9
2 Samuel 8:10 And so, Toi sent his son Joram to king David, so that he might greet him with congratulations, and give thanks, because he had fought against Hadadezer and had struck him down. For indeed, Toi was the enemy of Hadadezer. And in his hand were vessels of gold, and vessels of silver, and vessels of brass.2 Samuel 8:10
2 Samuel 8:11 And king David also sanctified these things to the Lord, with the silver and gold that he had sanctified from all the peoples whom he had subdued:2 Samuel 8:11
2 Samuel 8:12 from Syria, and Moab, and the sons Ammon, and the Philistines, and Amalek, and from the best spoils of Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, the king of Zobah.2 Samuel 8:12
2 Samuel 9:2 Now there was, from the house of Saul, a servant named Ziba. And when the king had called him to himself, he said to him, “Are you not Ziba?” And he responded, “I am your servant.”2 Samuel 9:2
2 Samuel 9:3 And the king said, “Could there be anyone alive from the house of Saul, so that I may show the mercy of God to him?” And Ziba said to the king, “There is left alive a son of Jonathan, with disabled feet.”2 Samuel 9:3
2 Samuel 9:4 “Where is he?” he said. And Ziba said to the king, “Behold, he is in the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel, in Lodebar.”2 Samuel 9:4
2 Samuel 9:5 Therefore, king David sent and brought him from the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel, from Lodebar.2 Samuel 9:5
2 Samuel 9:9 And so, the king called Ziba, the servant of Saul, and he said to him: “Everything whatsoever that belonged to Saul, and his entire house, I have given to the son of your lord.2 Samuel 9:9
2 Samuel 9:11 And Ziba said to the king: “Just as my lord has ordered your servant, so will your servant do. And Mephibosheth shall eat at my table, like one of the sons of the king.”2 Samuel 9:11
2 Samuel 9:13 But Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem. For he was fed always from the table of the king. And he was lame in both feet.2 Samuel 9:13
2 Samuel 10:1 Now after these things, it happened that the king of the sons of Ammon died, and his son Hanun reigned after him.2 Samuel 10:1
2 Samuel 10:6 Now the sons of Ammon, seeing that they had done an injury to David, sent for, and paid wages to, the Syrians of Rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah, twenty thousand foot soldiers, and from the king of Maacah, one thousand men, and from Tob, twelve thousand men.2 Samuel 10:6
2 Samuel 10:19 Then all the kings who were in the reinforcements of Hadadezer, seeing themselves to be defeated by Israel, were very afraid and they fled: fifty-eight thousand men before Israel. And they made peace with Israel, and they served them. And the Syrians were afraid to offer assistance to the sons of Ammon anymore.2 Samuel 10:19
2 Samuel 11:1 Now it happened that, at the turn of the year, in the time when kings usually go forth to war, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all of Israel, and they laid waste to the sons of Ammon, and they besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem.2 Samuel 11:1
2 Samuel 11:3 Therefore, the king sent and inquired who the woman might be. And it was reported to him that she was Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah, the Hittite.2 Samuel 11:3
2 Samuel 11:8 And David said to Uriah, “Go into your house, and wash your feet.” And Uriah departed from the house of the king. And a meal from the king followed after him.2 Samuel 11:8
2 Samuel 11:19 And he instructed the messenger, saying: “When you have completed all the words about the war to the king,2 Samuel 11:19
2 Samuel 12:7 But Nathan said to David: “You are that man. Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: ‘I anointed you as king over Israel, and I rescued you from the hand of Saul.2 Samuel 12:7
2 Samuel 12:30 And he took the crown of their king from his head. The weight of it was a talent of gold, having the most precious gems. And it was placed upon the head of David. Moreover, he carried away the spoils of the city, which were very many.2 Samuel 12:30
2 Samuel 13:6 And so, Amnon lay down, and he began to act as if he were ill. And when the king had come to visit him, Amnon said to the king, “I beg you to let my sister Tamar come to me, and make in my sight two little portions of food, so that I take it from her hand.”2 Samuel 13:6
2 Samuel 13:13 For I will not be able to bear my shame. And you will be like one of the foolish in Israel. For it is better to speak to the king, and he will not deny me to you.”2 Samuel 13:13
2 Samuel 13:18 Now she was clothed with an ankle-length robe. For the virgin daughters of the king made use of this kind of garment. And so, his servant cast her out, and he closed the door behind her.2 Samuel 13:18
2 Samuel 13:21 And when king David had heard about these things, he was deeply grieved. But he was not willing to afflict the spirit of his son Amnon. For he loved him, since he was his firstborn.2 Samuel 13:21
2 Samuel 13:23 Then, after the time of two years, it happened that the sheep of Absalom were being shorn in Baal-hazor, which is near Ephraim. And Absalom invited all the sons of the king.2 Samuel 13:23
2 Samuel 13:24 And he went to the king, and he said to him: “Behold, the sheep of your servant are being shorn. I ask that the king, with his servants, may come to his servant.”2 Samuel 13:24
2 Samuel 13:25 And the king said to Absalom: “Do not, my son, do not choose to ask that we may all come and be a burden to you.” Then, after he urged him, and he had refused to go, he blessed him.2 Samuel 13:25
2 Samuel 13:26 And Absalom said, “If you are not willing to come, I beg you, at least let my brother Amnon come with us.” And the king said to him, “It is not necessary that he go with you.”2 Samuel 13:26
2 Samuel 13:27 But Absalom pressed him, and so he sent with him Amnon and all the sons of the king. And Absalom made a feast, like the feast of a king.2 Samuel 13:27
2 Samuel 13:29 Therefore, the servants of Absalom acted against Amnon, just as Absalom had commanded them. And all the sons of the king rose up, and each one climbed upon his mule and fled.2 Samuel 13:29
2 Samuel 13:30 And while they were still traveling on the journey, a rumor reached David, saying, “Absalom has struck down all the sons of the king, and there is not one of them remaining.”2 Samuel 13:30
2 Samuel 13:31 And so the king rose up, and he tore his garments, and he fell upon the ground. And all his servants, who were standing near him, tore their garments.2 Samuel 13:31
2 Samuel 13:32 But Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David’s brother, responding, said: “My lord the king should not consider that all the sons of the king have been slain. Amnon alone is dead. For he was set against by the mouth of Absalom from the day that he raped his sister Tamar.2 Samuel 13:32
2 Samuel 13:33 Now therefore, let not my lord the king set this word in his heart, saying, ‘All the sons of the king have been slain.’ For only Amnon is dead.”2 Samuel 13:33
2 Samuel 13:35 And Jonadab said to the king: “Behold, the sons of the king are here. In accord with the word of your servant, so it has happened.”2 Samuel 13:35
2 Samuel 13:36 And when he had ceased speaking, the sons of the king also appeared. And entering, they lifted up their voice, and they wept. And the king also, and all his servants, wept with an exceedingly great weeping.2 Samuel 13:36
2 Samuel 13:37 But Absalom, fleeing, went to Talmai, the son of Ammihud, the king of Geshur. Then David mourned for his son every day.2 Samuel 13:37
2 Samuel 13:39 And king David ceased to pursue Absalom, because he had been consoled over the passing of Amnon.2 Samuel 13:39
2 Samuel 14:1 Now Joab, the son of Zeruiah, understood that the heart of the king had been turned toward Absalom,2 Samuel 14:1
2 Samuel 14:3 And you shall enter to the king, and you shall speak words to him in this manner.” Then Joab put the words in her mouth.2 Samuel 14:3
2 Samuel 14:4 And so, when the woman of Tekoa had entered to the king, she fell before him on the ground, and she reverenced, and she said, “Save me, O king.”2 Samuel 14:4
2 Samuel 14:5 And the king said to her, “What problem do you have?” And she responded: “Alas, I am a woman who is a widow. For my husband has died.2 Samuel 14:5
2 Samuel 14:8 And the king said to the woman, “Go to your own house, and I will make a decree on your behalf.”2 Samuel 14:8
2 Samuel 14:9 And the woman of Tekoa said to the king: “May the iniquity be upon me, my lord, and upon the house of my father. But may the king and his throne be innocent.”2 Samuel 14:9
2 Samuel 14:10 And the king said, “Whoever will contradict you, bring him to me, and he will never touch you again.”2 Samuel 14:10
2 Samuel 14:11 And she said, “Let the king remember the Lord his God, so that close blood relatives may not be multiplied in order to take revenge, and so that they may by no means kill my son.” And he said, “As the Lord lives, not one hair from your son shall fall to the ground.”2 Samuel 14:11
2 Samuel 14:12 Then the woman said, “Let your handmaid speak a word to my lord the king.” And he said, “Speak.”2 Samuel 14:12
2 Samuel 14:13 And the woman said: “Why have you thought such a thing against the people of God, and why has the king spoken this word, so that he sins and does not lead back the one whom he rejected?2 Samuel 14:13
2 Samuel 14:15 Therefore, now I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, in the presence of the people. And your handmaid said: I will speak to the king, for perhaps there may be some way for the king to accomplish the word of his handmaid.2 Samuel 14:15
2 Samuel 14:16 And the king listened, and he freed his handmaid from the hand of all who were willing to take away me and my son together, from the inheritance of God.2 Samuel 14:16
2 Samuel 14:17 Therefore, let your handmaid speak, so that the word of my lord the king may be like a sacrifice. For even like an Angel of God, so is my lord the king, so that he is moved by neither a blessing, nor a curse. Then too, the Lord your God is with you.”2 Samuel 14:17
2 Samuel 14:18 And in response, the king said to the woman, “You shall not conceal from me a word of what I ask you.” And the woman said to him, “Speak, my lord the king.”2 Samuel 14:18
2 Samuel 14:19 And the king said, “Is not the hand of Joab with you in all this?” And the woman answered and said: “By the welfare of your soul, my lord the king, it is neither to the left, nor to the right, in all these things that my lord the king has spoken. For your servant Joab himself instructed me, and he himself placed all these words in the mouth of your handmaid.2 Samuel 14:19
2 Samuel 14:20 Thus did I turn to this figure of speech, because your servant Joab instructed it. But you, my lord the king, are wise, just as an Angel of God has wisdom, so that you understand all that is upon the earth.”2 Samuel 14:20
2 Samuel 14:21 And the king said to Joab: “Behold, your word has succeeded in appeasing me. Therefore, go and call back the boy Absalom.”2 Samuel 14:21
2 Samuel 14:22 And falling to the ground upon his face, Joab reverenced, and he blessed the king. And Joab said: “Today your servant has understood that I have found grace in your sight, my lord the king. For you have accomplished the word of your servant.”2 Samuel 14:22
2 Samuel 14:24 But the king said, “Let him return to his own house, but let him not see my face.” And so, Absalom returned to his own house, but he did not see the face of the king.2 Samuel 14:24
2 Samuel 14:28 And Absalom remained for two years in Jerusalem, and he did not see the face of the king.2 Samuel 14:28
2 Samuel 14:29 And so, he sent to Joab, so that he might send him to the king. But he refused to come to him. And when he had sent a second time, and he had refused to come to him,2 Samuel 14:29
2 Samuel 14:32 And Absalom responded to Joab: “I sent to you, begging that you might come to me, and that I might send you to the king, and that you might say to him: ‘Why was I brought from Geshur? It would have been better for me to be there.’ I beg you, therefore, that I may see the face of the king. And if he is mindful of my iniquity, let him put me to death.”2 Samuel 14:32
2 Samuel 14:33 And so, Joab, entering to the king, reported everything to him. And Absalom was summoned. And he entered to the king, and he reverenced on the face of the earth. And the king kissed Absalom.2 Samuel 14:33
2 Samuel 15:3 And Absalom would answer him: “Your words seem good and just to me. But there is no one appointed by the king to hear you.” And Absalom would say:2 Samuel 15:3
2 Samuel 15:6 And he was doing this to all those of Israel arriving for judgment to be heard by the king. And he solicited the hearts of the men of Israel.2 Samuel 15:6
2 Samuel 15:7 Then, after forty years, Absalom said to king David: “I should go and pay my vows, which I have vowed to the Lord at Hebron.2 Samuel 15:7
2 Samuel 15:9 And king David said to him, “Go in peace.” And he rose up and went away to Hebron.2 Samuel 15:9
2 Samuel 15:15 And the servants of the king said to him, “Everything whatsoever that our lord the king will command, we your servants shall carry out willingly.”2 Samuel 15:15
2 Samuel 15:16 Therefore, the king departed, with his entire household on foot. And the king left behind ten women of the concubines to care for the house.2 Samuel 15:16
2 Samuel 15:17 And having gone forth on foot, the king and all of Israel stood at a distance from the house.2 Samuel 15:17
2 Samuel 15:18 And all his servants were walking beside him. And the legions of the Cerethites and Phelethites, and all the Gittites, powerful fighters, six hundred men who had followed him from Gath on foot, were preceding the king.2 Samuel 15:18
2 Samuel 15:19 Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite: “Why do you come with us? Return and live with the king. For you are a stranger, and you departed from your own place.2 Samuel 15:19
2 Samuel 15:21 And Ittai responded to the king, by saying, “As the Lord lives, and as my lord the king lives, in whatever place you will be, my lord the king, whether in death or in life, your servant will be there.”2 Samuel 15:21
2 Samuel 15:23 And they all wept with a great voice, and all the people passed over. The king also passed over the torrent Kidron. And all the people advanced opposite the way which looks out toward the desert.2 Samuel 15:23
2 Samuel 15:25 And the king said to Zadok: “Carry back the ark of God into the city. If I shall find grace in the sight of the Lord, he will lead me back. And he will show it to me in his tabernacle.2 Samuel 15:25
2 Samuel 15:27 And the king said to Zadok the priest: “O seer, return into the city in peace. And let your son Ahimaaz, and Jonathan, the son of Abiathar, your two sons, be with you.2 Samuel 15:27
2 Samuel 15:34 But if you return to the city, and you say to Absalom, ‘I am your servant, O king; just as I have been the servant of your father, so too will I be your servant,’ you will destroy the counsel of Ahithophel2 Samuel 15:34
2 Samuel 15:35 And you have with you the priests Zadok and Abiathar. And any word whatsoever that you will hear from the house of the king, you shall reveal it to Zadok and Abiathar, the priests.2 Samuel 15:35
2 Samuel 16:2 And the king said to Ziba, “What do you intend to do with these things?” And Ziba responded: “The donkeys are for the household of the king, so that they may sit. And the loaves and dried figs are for your servants to eat. But the wine is for anyone to drink who may be faint in the desert.”2 Samuel 16:2
2 Samuel 16:3 And the king said, “Where is the son of your lord?” And Ziba answered the king: “He remained in Jerusalem, saying, ‘Today, the house of Israel will restore the kingdom of my father to me.’ ”2 Samuel 16:3
2 Samuel 16:4 And the king said to Ziba, “All the things which were for Mephibosheth are now yours.” And Ziba said, “I beg you that I may find grace before you, my lord the king.”2 Samuel 16:4
2 Samuel 16:5 Then king David went as far as Bahurim. And behold, a man from the kindred of the house of Saul, named Shimei, the son of Gera, went out from there. And going out, he continued on, and he was cursing,2 Samuel 16:5
2 Samuel 16:6 and throwing stones against David and against all the servants of king David. And all the people and all the warriors were traveling to the right and to the left sides of the king.2 Samuel 16:6
2 Samuel 16:7 And so, as he was cursing the king, Shimei said: “Go away, go away, you man of blood, and you man of Belial!2 Samuel 16:7
2 Samuel 16:9 Then Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, said to the king: “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go and cut off his head.”2 Samuel 16:9
2 Samuel 16:10 And the king said: “What is it to me and to all of you, O sons of Zeruiah? Permit him, so that he may curse. For the Lord has commanded him to curse David. And who is the one who would dare to say, ‘Why has he done so?’ ”2 Samuel 16:10
2 Samuel 16:11 And the king said to Abishai and to all his servants: “Behold, my son, who went forth from my loins, is seeking my life. How much more does a son of Benjamin do so now? Permit him, so that he may curse, in accord with the command of the Lord.2 Samuel 16:11
2 Samuel 16:14 And the king and the entire people with him, being weary, went and refreshed themselves there.2 Samuel 16:14
2 Samuel 16:16 And when Hushai the Archite, David’s friend, had gone to Absalom, he said to him: “May you be well, O king! May you be well, O king!”2 Samuel 16:16
2 Samuel 17:2 And rushing against him, for he is weary and has weakened hands, I will strike him. And when all the people who are with him will have fled, I will strike down the king in isolation.2 Samuel 17:2
2 Samuel 17:16 Now therefore, send quickly, and report to David, saying: ‘You shall not stay this night in the plains of the desert. Instead, without delay, go across. Otherwise the king may be engulfed, and all the people who are with him.’ ”2 Samuel 17:16
2 Samuel 17:17 But Jonathan and Ahimaaz remained beside the Fountain of Rogel. And a handmaid went away and reported it to them. And they set out, so that they might carry the report to king David. For they could not be seen, nor enter into the city.2 Samuel 17:17
2 Samuel 17:21 And when they had gone, they ascended from the well. And traveling, they reported to king David, and they said: “Rise up, and go across the river quickly. For Ahithophel has given a counsel of this kind against you.”2 Samuel 17:21
2 Samuel 18:2 And he placed a third part of the people under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, the brother of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Ittai, who was from Gath. And the king said to the people, “I, too, will go forth with you.”2 Samuel 18:2
2 Samuel 18:4 And the king said to them, “I will do whatever seems good to you.” Therefore, the king stood beside the gate. And the people went out by their troops, by hundreds and by thousands.2 Samuel 18:4
2 Samuel 18:5 And the king ordered Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, “Preserve for me the boy Absalom.” And all the people heard the king commanding all the leaders on behalf of Absalom.2 Samuel 18:5
2 Samuel 18:12 And he said to Joab: “Even if you weighed out to my hands one thousand silver coins, I would never lay my hands on the son of the king. For in our hearing the king ordered you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, ‘Keep for me the boy Absalom.’2 Samuel 18:12
2 Samuel 18:13 Then too, if I had acted with such audacity, against my own life, this would never have been able to be hidden from the king. And would you then have stood by my side?”2 Samuel 18:13
2 Samuel 18:18 Now Absalom had raised up for himself, when he was still alive, a monument, which is in the Valley of the King. For he said, “I have no son, and so this shall be the memorial to my name.” And he called the monument by his own name. And it is called the Hand of Absalom, even to this day.2 Samuel 18:18
2 Samuel 18:19 Then Ahimaaz, the son of Zadok, said, “I will run and report to the king that the Lord has accomplished judgment for him, from the hand of his enemies.”2 Samuel 18:19
2 Samuel 18:20 And Joab said to him: “You shall not be the messenger on this day. Instead, you shall report on another day. I am not willing for you to give the report today, because the son of the king is dead.”2 Samuel 18:20
2 Samuel 18:21 Then Joab said to Hushai, “Go, and report to the king what you have seen.” Hushai reverenced Joab, and he ran.2 Samuel 18:21
2 Samuel 18:25 And crying out, he told the king. And the king said, “If he is alone, there is good news in his mouth.” But as he was advancing and drawing nearer,2 Samuel 18:25
2 Samuel 18:26 the watchman saw another man running. And so, crying out from the height, he said: “Another man has appeared, running alone.” And the king said, “This one also is a good messenger.”2 Samuel 18:26
2 Samuel 18:27 Then the watchman said, “The running of the closest one seems like the running of Ahimaaz, the son of Zadok.” And the king said, “He is a good man, and he arrives bearing good news.”2 Samuel 18:27
2 Samuel 18:28 Then, Ahimaaz, crying out, said to the king, “Be well, O king.” And reverencing the king prone on the ground before him, he said, “Blessed be the Lord your God, who has enclosed the men who had lifted up their hands against my lord the king.”2 Samuel 18:28
2 Samuel 18:29 And the king said, “Is there peace for the boy Absalom?” And Ahimaaz said: “I saw a great tumult, O king, when your servant Joab sent me, your servant. I know nothing else.”2 Samuel 18:29
2 Samuel 18:30 And the king said to him, “Pass, and stand here.” And when he had passed and stood still,2 Samuel 18:30
2 Samuel 18:31 Hushai appeared. And approaching, he said: “I bear good news, my lord the king. For today the Lord has judged for you, from the hand of all who had risen up against you.”2 Samuel 18:31
2 Samuel 18:32 But the king said to Hushai, “Is there peace for the boy Absalom?” And responding, Hushai said to him, “May the enemies of my lord the king, and all who rise against him for evil, be as the boy is.”2 Samuel 18:32
2 Samuel 18:33 And so the king, being greatly saddened, ascended to the upper room of the gate, and he wept. And as he went, he was speaking in this manner: “My son Absalom! Absalom my son! Who can grant to me that I may die on your behalf? Absalom, my son! My son, Absalom!”2 Samuel 18:33
2 Samuel 19:1 Now it was reported to Joab that the king was weeping and mourning for his son.2 Samuel 19:1
2 Samuel 19:2 And so the victory on that day was turned into mourning for all the people. For the people heard it said on that day, “The king is grieving over his son.”2 Samuel 19:2
2 Samuel 19:4 And the king covered his head, and he was crying out in a great voice: “My son, Absalom! Absalom, my son, my son!”2 Samuel 19:4
2 Samuel 19:5 Therefore, Joab, entering to the king in the house, said: “Today you have shamed the faces of all your servants, who saved your life, and the lives of your sons and your daughters, and the lives of your wives, and the lives of your concubines.2 Samuel 19:5
2 Samuel 19:8 Therefore, the king rose up, and he sat at the gate. And it was announced to all the people that the king was sitting at the gate. And the entire multitude went before the king. But Israel fled to their own tents.2 Samuel 19:8
2 Samuel 19:9 And all the people were conflicted, in all the tribes of Israel, saying: “The king has freed us from the hand of our enemies. He himself saved us from the hand of the Philistines. But now he flees from the land for the sake of Absalom.2 Samuel 19:9
2 Samuel 19:11 Then truly, king David sent to Zadok and Abiathar, the priests, saying: “Speak to those greater by birth of Judah, saying: ‘Why have you arrived last to lead back the king into his house? (For the talk in all of Israel had reached the king in his house.)2 Samuel 19:11
2 Samuel 19:14 And he inclined the heart of all the men of Judah, as if one man. And they sent to the king, saying, “Return, you and all your servants.”2 Samuel 19:14
2 Samuel 19:15 And the king returned. And he went as far as the Jordan, and all of Judah went as far as Gilgal, so as to meet the king, and to lead him across the Jordan.2 Samuel 19:15
2 Samuel 19:16 And Shimei, the son of Gera, the son of Benjamin, from Bahurim, hurried and descended with the men of Judah to meet king David,2 Samuel 19:16
2 Samuel 19:18 they crossed the fords before the king, so that they might lead across the house of the king, and might act in accord with his order. Then, Shimei, the son of Gera, prostrating himself before the king after he had now gone across the Jordan,2 Samuel 19:18
2 Samuel 19:19 said to him: “May you not impute to me, my lord, the iniquity, nor call to mind the injuries, of your servant in the day that you, my lord the king, departed from Jerusalem. And may you not store it up in your heart, O king.2 Samuel 19:19
2 Samuel 19:20 For as your servant, I acknowledge my sin. And for this reason, today, I arrive as the first from all the house of Joseph, and I descend to meet my lord the king.”2 Samuel 19:20
2 Samuel 19:22 And David said: “What is it to me and to all of you, O sons of Zeruiah? Why are you acting toward me this day like Satan? Why should any man be put to death on this day in Israel? Or do you not know that today I have been made king over Israel?”2 Samuel 19:22
2 Samuel 19:23 And the king said to Shimei, “You shall not die.” And he swore to him.2 Samuel 19:23
2 Samuel 19:24 And Mephibosheth, the son of Saul, descended to meet the king, with unwashed his feet and uncut beard. And he had not washed his garments from the day that the king had departed, until the day of his return in peace.2 Samuel 19:24
2 Samuel 19:25 And when he had met the king at Jerusalem, the king said to him, “Why did you not go with me, Mephibosheth?”2 Samuel 19:25
2 Samuel 19:26 And in response, he said: “My lord the king, my servant spurned me. And I, your servant, spoke to him so that he might saddle a donkey for me, and I might climb upon it and go with the king. For I, your servant, am lame.2 Samuel 19:26
2 Samuel 19:27 Moreover, he also accused me, your servant, to you, my lord the king. But you, my lord the king, are like an Angel of God. Do whatever is pleasing to you.2 Samuel 19:27
2 Samuel 19:28 For my father’s house was deserving of nothing but death before my lord the king. Yet you have placed me, your servant, among the guests of your table. Therefore, what just complaint might I have? Or what else can I cry out to the king?”2 Samuel 19:28
2 Samuel 19:29 Then the king said to him: “Why are you still speaking? What I have spoken is fixed. You and Ziba shall divide the possessions.”2 Samuel 19:29
2 Samuel 19:30 And Mephibosheth responded to the king, “But now let him take it all, since my lord the king has been returned peacefully into his own house.”2 Samuel 19:30
2 Samuel 19:31 Likewise, Barzillai the Gileadite, descending from Rogelim, led the king across the Jordan, having prepared also to follow him beyond the river.2 Samuel 19:31
2 Samuel 19:32 Now Barzillai the Gileadite was very old, that is, eighty years old. And he provided the king with sustenance when he was staying at the encampment. For indeed, he was an exceedingly rich man.2 Samuel 19:32
2 Samuel 19:33 And so the king said to Barzillai, “Come with me, so that you may rest securely with me in Jerusalem.”2 Samuel 19:33
2 Samuel 19:34 And Barzillai said to the king: “How many days remain in the years of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?2 Samuel 19:34
2 Samuel 19:37 But I beg you that I, your servant, may be returned and may die in my own city, and may be buried beside the sepulcher of my father and my mother. But there is your servant Chimham; let him go with you, my lord the king. And do for him whatever seems good to you.”2 Samuel 19:37
2 Samuel 19:38 And so the king said to him: “Let Chimham cross over with me, and I will do for him whatever will be pleasing to you. And all that you ask of me, you shall obtain.”2 Samuel 19:38
2 Samuel 19:39 And when the entire people and the king had crossed over the Jordan, the king kissed Barzillai, and he blessed him. And he returned to his own place.2 Samuel 19:39
2 Samuel 19:40 Then the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went with him. Now all the people of Judah had led the king across, but only as much as one half part of the people of Israel were there.2 Samuel 19:40
2 Samuel 19:41 And so, all the men of Israel, running to the king, said to him: “Why have our brothers, the men of Judah, stolen you away. And why have they led the king and his house across the Jordan, and all the men of David with him?”2 Samuel 19:41
2 Samuel 19:42 And all the men of Judah responded to the men of Israel: “Because the king is nearer to me. Why are you angry over this matter? Have we eaten anything belonging to the king, or have any gifts been given to us?”2 Samuel 19:42
2 Samuel 19:43 And the men of Israel responded to the men of Judah, and said: “I have the greater amount, ten parts, with the king, and so David belongs to me more so than to you. Why have you caused me injury, and why was it not announced to me first, so that I might lead back my king?” But the men of Judah answered more firmly than the men of Israel.2 Samuel 19:43
2 Samuel 20:2 And all of Israel separated from David, and they were following Sheba, the son of Bichri. But the men of Judah clung to their king, from the Jordan as far as Jerusalem.2 Samuel 20:2
2 Samuel 20:3 And when the king had entered his house at Jerusalem, he took the ten women concubines, whom he had left behind to care for the house, and he put them into custody, allowing them provisions. But he did not enter to them. Instead, they were enclosed, even until the day of their deaths, living as widows.2 Samuel 20:3
2 Samuel 20:4 Then the king said to Amasa, “Summon to me all the men of Judah on the third day, and you shall be present also.”2 Samuel 20:4
2 Samuel 20:5 Therefore, Amasa went away, so that he might summon Judah. But he delayed beyond the agreed time that the king had appointed to him.2 Samuel 20:5
2 Samuel 20:21 The matter is not as you said. Rather, a man from mount Ephraim, Sheba, the son of Bichri, by name, has lifted up his hand against king David. Deliver him alone, and we will withdraw from the city.” And the woman said to Joab, “Behold, his head will be thrown down to you from the wall.’2 Samuel 20:21
2 Samuel 20:22 Therefore, she entered to all the people, and she spoke to them wisely. And they cut off the head of Sheba, the son of Bichri, and they threw it down to Joab. And he sounded the trumpet, and they withdrew from the city, each one to his own tent. But Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.2 Samuel 20:22
2 Samuel 21:2 Therefore, the king, calling for the Gibeonites, spoke to them. Now the Gibeonites were not of the sons of Israel, but were the remnant of the Amorites. And the sons of Israel had sworn an oath to them, but Saul wished to strike them in zeal, as if on behalf of the sons of Israel and Judah.2 Samuel 21:2
2 Samuel 21:4 And the Gibeonites said to him: “There is no quarrel for us over silver or gold, but against Saul and against his house. And we do not desire that any man of Israel be put to death.” The king said to them, “Then what do you wish that I should do for you?”2 Samuel 21:4
2 Samuel 21:5 And they said to the king: “The man who unjustly afflicted and oppressed us, we ought to destroy in such manner that not even one of his stock may be left behind in all the parts of Israel.2 Samuel 21:5
2 Samuel 21:6 Let seven men from his sons be given to us, so that we may crucify them to the Lord in Gibeon of Saul, formerly the chosen place of the Lord.” And the king said, “I will give them.”2 Samuel 21:6
2 Samuel 21:7 But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of the oath of the Lord which had been made between David and Jonathan, the son of Saul.2 Samuel 21:7
2 Samuel 21:8 And so 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 Michal, the daughter of Saul, whom she conceived of Adriel, the son of Barzillai, who was from Meholath,2 Samuel 21:8
2 Samuel 21:14 And they buried them with the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan, in the land of Benjamin, to the side of the sepulcher of his father Kish. And they did all that the king had instructed. And after these things, God showed favor again to the land.2 Samuel 21:14
2 Samuel 22:51 magnifying the salvation of his king, and showing mercy to David, his Christ, and to his offspring forever.”2 Samuel 22:51
2 Samuel 24:2 And the king said to Joab, the leader of his army, “Travel through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, and number the people, so that I may know their number.”2 Samuel 24:2
2 Samuel 24:3 And Joab said to the king: “May the Lord your God increase your people, who are already great in number, and may he again increase them, one hundredfold, in the sight of my lord the king. But what does my lord the king intend for himself by this kind of thing?”2 Samuel 24:3
2 Samuel 24:4 But the words of the king prevailed over the words of Joab and the leaders of the army. And so Joab and the leaders of the military departed from the face of the king, so that they might number the people of Israel.2 Samuel 24:4
2 Samuel 24:9 Then Joab gave the number of the description of the people to the king. And there were found of Israel eight hundred thousand able-bodied men, who might draw the sword; and of Judah, five hundred thousand fighting men.2 Samuel 24:9
2 Samuel 24:20 And looking out, Araunah turned his attention to the king and his servants, passing toward him.2 Samuel 24:20
2 Samuel 24:21 And going out, he adored the king, lying prone with his face to the ground, and he said, “What is the reason that my lord the king has come to his servant?” And David said to him, “So as to purchase the threshing floor from you, and to build an altar to the Lord, and to quiet the plague that rages among the people.”2 Samuel 24:21
2 Samuel 24:22 And Araunah said to David: “May my lord the king offer and accept whatever is pleasing to him. You have oxen for a holocaust, and the cart and the yokes of the oxen to use for wood.”2 Samuel 24:22
2 Samuel 24:23 All these things Araunah gave, as a king to a king. And Araunah said to the king, “May the Lord your God accept your vow.”2 Samuel 24:23
2 Samuel 24:24 And in response, the king said to him: “It shall not be as you wish. Instead, I will purchase it from you at a price. For I will not offer to the Lord, my God, holocausts that cost nothing.” Therefore, David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.2 Samuel 24:24
Number of the word / term King in 2 Samuel: 194
Bible passages with ‘King’ in the book 1 Kings
1 Kings 1:1 Now king David had become elderly, and he had many days in his lifetime. And though he was covered with clothes, he was not warmed.1 Kings 1:1
1 Kings 1:2 Therefore, his servants said to him: “Let us seek, for our lord the king, a young virgin. And let her stand before the king, and warm him, and sleep in his bosom, and provide warmth for our lord the king.”1 Kings 1:2
1 Kings 1:3 And so they sought a beautiful young woman in all the parts of Israel. And they found Abishag, a Shunammite, and they led her to the king.1 Kings 1:3
1 Kings 1:4 Now the girl was exceedingly beautiful. And she slept with the king, and she ministered to him. Yet truly, the king did not know her.1 Kings 1:4
1 Kings 1:5 Then Adonijah, the son of Haggith, exalted himself, saying, “I shall reign!” And he appointed for himself chariots and horsemen, with fifty men who would run before him.1 Kings 1:5
1 Kings 1:6 Neither did his father chastise him at any time, saying, “Why have you done this?” Now he, too, was very beautiful, the second in birth, after Absalom.1 Kings 1:6
1 Kings 1:7 And he conferred with Joab, the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar, the priest, who gave assistance to the side of Adonijah.1 Kings 1:7
1 Kings 1:8 Yet truly, Zadok, the priest, and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan, the prophet, and Shimei and Rei, and the mature men of the army of David were not with Adonijah.1 Kings 1:8
1 Kings 1:9 Then Adonijah, having immolated rams and calves and every kind of fat cattle beside the Stone of the Serpent, which was in the vicinity of the fountain Rogel, summoned all his brothers, the sons of the king, and all the men of Judah, the servants of the king.1 Kings 1:9
1 Kings 1:10 But he did not summon Nathan, the prophet, and Benaiah, and all the mature men, and Solomon, his brother.1 Kings 1:10
1 Kings 1:11 And so Nathan said to Bathsheba, the mother of Solomon: “Have you not heard that Adonijah, the son of Haggith, has begun to reign, and that our lord David is ignorant of this?1 Kings 1:11
1 Kings 1:12 Now then, come, accept my counsel, and save your life and the life of your son Solomon.1 Kings 1:12
1 Kings 1:13 Go and enter to king David, and say to him: ‘Did you not, my lord the king, swear to me, your handmaid, saying: “Your son Solomon shall reign after me, and he himself shall sit on my throne?” Then why does Adonijah reign?’1 Kings 1:13
1 Kings 1:14 And while you are still speaking with the king there, I will enter after you, and I will complete your words.”1 Kings 1:14
1 Kings 1:15 And so Bathsheba entered to the king in the bedroom. Now the king was very old, and Abishag, the Shunammite, was ministering to him.1 Kings 1:15
1 Kings 1:16 Bathsheba bowed herself, and she reverenced the king. And the king said to her, “What do you wish?”1 Kings 1:16
1 Kings 1:17 And responding, she said: “My lord, you swore to your handmaid, by the Lord your God: ‘your son Solomon will reign after me, and he himself shall sit upon my throne.’1 Kings 1:17
1 Kings 1:18 And now behold, Adonijah reigns, while you, my lord the king, are ignorant of it.1 Kings 1:18
1 Kings 1:19 He has slain oxen, and every kind of fattened cattle, and many rams. And he has summoned all the sons of the king, as well as Abiathar, the priest, and Joab, the leader of the military. But Solomon, your servant, he did not summon.1 Kings 1:19
1 Kings 1:20 Truly now, my lord the king, the eyes of all of Israel look with favor upon you, that you may indicate to them who ought to sit upon your throne, my lord the king, after you.1 Kings 1:20
1 Kings 1:21 Otherwise, this will be: when my lord the king sleeps with his fathers, I and my son Solomon will be as sinners.”1 Kings 1:21
1 Kings 1:22 And while she was still speaking with the king, Nathan, the prophet, arrived.1 Kings 1:22
1 Kings 1:23 And they announced to the king, saying, “Nathan, the prophet, is here.” And when he had entered in the sight of the king, and he had reverenced prone on the ground,1 Kings 1:23
1 Kings 1:24 Nathan said: “My lord the king, did you say, ‘Let Adonijah reign after me, and let him sit upon my throne?’1 Kings 1:24
1 Kings 1:25 For today, he descended, and he immolated oxen, and fattened cattle, and many rams. And he summoned all the sons of the king, and the leaders of the army, along with Abiathar, the priest. And they are eating and drinking before him, and saying, ‘As king Adonijah lives.’1 Kings 1:25
1 Kings 1:26 But he did not summon me, your servant, and Zadok, the priest, and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, and Solomon, your lowly servant.1 Kings 1:26
1 Kings 1:27 Could this word have gone out from my lord the king, and could you not have revealed it to me, your servant, as to who would be seated upon the throne of my lord the king after him?”1 Kings 1:27
1 Kings 1:28 And king David responded, saying, “Summon to me Bathsheba.” And when she had entered before the king, and she had stood before him,1 Kings 1:28
1 Kings 1:29 the king swore and said: “As the Lord lives, who has rescued my soul from all distress,1 Kings 1:29
1 Kings 1:30 just as I swore to you by the Lord God of Israel, saying: ‘Your son Solomon shall reign after me, and he himself shall sit upon my throne in my place,’ so shall I do this day.”1 Kings 1:30
1 Kings 1:31 And Bathsheba, having lowered her face to the ground, reverenced the king, saying, “May my lord David live forever.”1 Kings 1:31
1 Kings 1:32 And king David said, “Summon to me Zadok, the priest, and Nathan, the prophet, and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada.” And when they had entered before the king,1 Kings 1:32
1 Kings 1:33 he said to them: “Take with you the servants of your lord, and place my son Solomon upon my mule. And lead him to Gihon.1 Kings 1:33
1 Kings 1:34 And let Zadok, the priest, and Nathan, the prophet, anoint him in that place as the king over Israel. And you shall sound the trumpet, and you shall say, ‘As king Solomon lives.’1 Kings 1:34
1 Kings 1:35 And you shall ascend after him, and he shall arrive and shall sit upon my throne. And he himself shall reign in my place. And I will command that he be the ruler over Israel and over Judah.”1 Kings 1:35
1 Kings 1:36 And Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, responded to the king, saying: “Amen. So says the Lord, the God of my lord the king.1 Kings 1:36
1 Kings 1:37 In the same way that the Lord has been with my lord the king, so may he be with Solomon. And may he make his throne more sublime than the throne of my lord, king David.”1 Kings 1:37
1 Kings 1:38 Then Zadok, the priest, and Nathan, the prophet, descended, with Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and Pelethites. And they placed Solomon on the mule of king David, and they led him to Gihon.1 Kings 1:38
1 Kings 1:39 And Zadok, the priest, took the horn of oil from the tabernacle, and he anointed Solomon. And they sounded the trumpet. And all the people said, “As king Solomon lives.”1 Kings 1:39
1 Kings 1:40 And the entire multitude ascended after him. And the people were playing on pipes, and rejoicing with great joy. And the earth resounded before the noise of them.1 Kings 1:40
1 Kings 1:41 Then Adonijah, and all who had been summoned by him, heard it. And now the feast had ended. Then, too, Joab, hearing the voice of the trumpet, said, “What is the meaning of this clamor from the tumultuous city?”1 Kings 1:41
1 Kings 1:42 While he was still speaking, Jonathan, the son of Abiathar the priest, arrived. And Adonijah said to him, “Enter, for you are a valiant man, and you report good news.”1 Kings 1:42
1 Kings 1:43 And Jonathan answered Adonijah: “By no means. For our lord king David has appointed Solomon as king.1 Kings 1:43
1 Kings 1:44 And he has sent with him Zadok, the priest, and Nathan, the prophet, and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and Pelethites. And they have placed him on the mule of the king.1 Kings 1:44
1 Kings 1:45 And Zadok, the priest, and Nathan, the prophet, have anointed him king, at Gihon. And they are ascending from there, rejoicing, and so the city resounds. This is the noise that you have heard.1 Kings 1:45
1 Kings 1:46 But also, Solomon sits upon the throne of the kingdom.1 Kings 1:46
1 Kings 1:47 And the servants of the king, entering, have blessed our lord king David, saying: ‘May God amplify the name of Solomon above your name, and may he magnify his throne above your throne.’ And the king reverenced from his bed.1 Kings 1:47
1 Kings 1:48 And he said: ‘Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel, who today has bestowed someone to sit upon my throne, while my eyes may see it.’ ”1 Kings 1:48
1 Kings 1:49 Therefore, all those who had been summoned by Adonijah were terrified. And they all rose up, and each one went his own way.1 Kings 1:49
1 Kings 1:50 Then Adonijah, fearing Solomon, rose up and went away. And he took hold of the horn of the altar.1 Kings 1:50
1 Kings 1:51 And they reported to Solomon, saying: “Behold, Adonijah, fearing king Solomon, has taken hold of the horn of the altar, saying: ‘May king Solomon swear to me this day that he will not put to death his servant with the sword.’ ”1 Kings 1:51
1 Kings 1:52 And Solomon said: “If he is a good man, not so much as one hair of his head shall fall to the ground. But if evil is found in him, he shall die.”1 Kings 1:52
1 Kings 1:53 Therefore, king Solomon sent and brought him from the altar. And entering, he reverenced king Solomon. And Solomon said to him, “Go to your own house.”1 Kings 1:53
1 Kings 2:1 Now the days of David had drawn near, so that he would die, and he instructed his son Solomon, saying:1 Kings 2:1
1 Kings 2:2 “I am entering the way of all the earth. Be strengthened and be a good man.1 Kings 2:2
1 Kings 2:3 And observe the care of the Lord your God, so that you walk in his ways, so that you care for his ceremonies, and his precepts, and judgments, and testimonies, just as it is written in the law of Moses. So may you understand everything that you do, in any direction that you may turn yourself.1 Kings 2:3
1 Kings 2:4 So may the Lord confirm his words, which he has spoken about me, saying: ‘If your sons will guard their ways, and if they will walk before me in truth, with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not be taken away from you a man on the throne of Israel.’1 Kings 2:4
1 Kings 2:5 Also, you know what Joab, the son of Zeruiah, has done to me, what he did to the two leaders of the army of Israel, to Abner, the son of Ner, and to Amasa, the son of Jether. He killed them, and so he shed the blood of war in peace time, and he set the bloodshed of battle on his belt, which was around his waist, and in his shoes, which were on his feet.1 Kings 2:5
1 Kings 2:6 Therefore, act according to your wisdom. And you shall not allow his gray head to be led away to death in peace.1 Kings 2:6
1 Kings 2:7 Then, too, repay grace to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite. And you shall allow them to eat at your table. For they met me when I fled from the face of Absalom, your brother.1 Kings 2:7
1 Kings 2:8 Also, you have with you Shimei, the son of Gera, the son of Benjamin, from Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse, when I went away to the camp. And he descended to meet me when I crossed over the Jordan, and I swore to him by the Lord, saying, ‘I will not put you to death by the sword,’1 Kings 2:8
1 Kings 2:9 yet do not choose to treat him as if he were innocent. Since you are a wise man, you will know what to do with him. And you shall lead away his grey hair to death with blood.”1 Kings 2:9
1 Kings 2:10 And so, David slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David.1 Kings 2:10
1 Kings 2:11 Now the days during which David reigned over Israel are forty years: he reigned seven years in Hebron, thirty-three in Jerusalem.1 Kings 2:11
1 Kings 2:12 Then Solomon sat upon the throne of his father David, and his kingdom was strengthened exceedingly.1 Kings 2:12
1 Kings 2:13 And Adonijah, the son of Haggith, entered to Bathsheba, the mother of Solomon. And she said to him, “Is your entrance peaceful?” He responded, “It is peaceful.”1 Kings 2:13
1 Kings 2:14 And he added, “My word is for you.” She said to him, “Speak.” And he said:1 Kings 2:14
1 Kings 2:15 “You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all of Israel had preferred me for themselves as king. But the kingdom was transferred, and has become my brother’s. For it was appointed to him by the Lord.1 Kings 2:15
1 Kings 2:16 Now therefore, I beg of you one petition. May you not confound my face.” And she said to him, “Speak.”1 Kings 2:16
1 Kings 2:17 And he said: “I beg that you may speak to king Solomon, for he is not able to refuse anything to you, so that he may give Abishag the Shunammite to me as wife.”1 Kings 2:17
1 Kings 2:18 And Bathsheba said: “It is well. I will speak to the king on your behalf.”1 Kings 2:18
1 Kings 2:19 Then Bathsheba went to king Solomon, so that she might speak to him on behalf of Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and he reverenced her, and he sat down upon his throne. And a throne was stationed for the mother of the king, and she sat at his right hand.1 Kings 2:19
1 Kings 2:20 And she said to him: “I petition one small request from you. May you not confound my face.” And the king said to her: “Ask, my mother. For it is not right that I turn away your face.”1 Kings 2:20
1 Kings 2:21 And she said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah, your brother, as wife.”1 Kings 2:21
1 Kings 2:22 And king Solomon responded, and he said to his mother: “Why do you request Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Why not request the kingdom for him! For he is my older brother, and he has Abiathar, the priest, and Joab, the son of Zeruiah.”1 Kings 2:22
1 Kings 2:23 And so king Solomon swore by the Lord, saying: “May God do these things to me, and may he add these other things! For Adonijah has spoken this word against his own life.1 Kings 2:23
1 Kings 2:24 And now, as the Lord lives, who has confirmed me and placed me upon the throne of my father David, and who, just as he said, has made a house for me: Adonijah shall be put to death this day.”1 Kings 2:24
1 Kings 2:25 And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, who put him to death, and so he died.1 Kings 2:25
1 Kings 2:26 Also, the king said to Abiathar, the priest: “Go into Anathoth, to your own land, for you are a man worthy of death. But I will not put you to death this day, since you carried the ark of the Lord God before David, my father, and since you have endured hardship in all the things, for which my father labored.”1 Kings 2:26
1 Kings 2:27 Therefore, Solomon cast out Abiathar, so that he would not be the priest of the Lord, so that the word of the Lord might be fulfilled, which he spoke over the house of Eli at Shiloh.1 Kings 2:27
1 Kings 2:28 And the news came to Joab, for Joab had turned aside after Adonijah, and he had not turned aside after Solomon. And so, Joab fled into the tabernacle of the Lord, and he took hold of the horn of the altar.1 Kings 2:28
1 Kings 2:29 And it was reported to king Solomon that Joab had fled into the tabernacle of the Lord, and that he was beside the altar. And Solomon sent Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go, put him to death.”1 Kings 2:29
1 Kings 2:30 And Benaiah went to the tabernacle of the Lord, and he said to him: “The king says this: ‘Come out.’ ” But he said: “I will not come out. Instead, I will die here.” Benaiah sent word back to the king, saying, “Joab said this, and he responded to me in this way.”1 Kings 2:30
1 Kings 2:31 And the king said to him, “Do just as he has said. And put him to death, and bury him. And so shall you take away the innocent blood, which was shed by Joab, from me and from my father’s house.1 Kings 2:31
1 Kings 2:32 And the Lord shall repay his blood upon his own head. For he killed two men, just and better than himself, and he killed them with the sword, while my father, David, did not know it: Abner, the son of Ner, leader of the military of Israel, and Amasa, the son of Jether, leader of the army of Judah.1 Kings 2:32
1 Kings 2:33 And their blood shall be turned back upon the head of Joab, and upon the head of his offspring forever. But as for David, and his offspring and house, and his throne, may there be peace from the Lord, even unto eternity.”1 Kings 2:33
1 Kings 2:34 And so Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, went up and, attacking him, put him to death. And he was buried in his own house in the desert.1 Kings 2:34
1 Kings 2:35 And the king appointed Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, in his place over the army. And he appointed Zadok, the priest, in place of Abiathar.1 Kings 2:35
1 Kings 2:36 Also, the king sent for and summoned Shimei, and he said to him: “Build a house for yourself in Jerusalem, and live there. And do not depart from that place to here or to there.1 Kings 2:36
1 Kings 2:37 For on whatever day you will have departed and crossed the torrent Kidron, know that you shall be put to death. Your blood will be upon your own head.”1 Kings 2:37
1 Kings 2:38 And Shimei said to the king: “The word is good. Just as my lord the king has said, so will your servant do.” And so Shimei lived in Jerusalem for many days.1 Kings 2:38
1 Kings 2:39 But it happened that, after three years, the servants of Shimei fled to Achish, the son of Maacah, the king of Gath. And it was reported to Shimei that his servants had gone away to Gath.1 Kings 2:39
1 Kings 2:40 And Shimei rose up, and he saddled his donkey. And went away to Achish in Gath, in order to seek his servants. And he led them away from Gath.1 Kings 2:40
1 Kings 2:41 And it was reported to Solomon that Shimei had gone away from Jerusalem to Gath, and had returned.1 Kings 2:41
1 Kings 2:42 And sending, he summoned him, and he said to him: “Did I not testify to you by the Lord, and warn you in advance, ‘On whatever day, having departed, you go forth to here or to there, know that you shall die?’ And you responded to me, ‘The word that I have heard is good.’1 Kings 2:42
1 Kings 2:43 Then why have you not kept the oath to the Lord, and the commandment which I instructed to you?”1 Kings 2:43
1 Kings 2:44 And the king said to Shimei: “You know all the evil, of which your heart is conscious, which you did to David, my father. The Lord has repaid your wickedness upon your own head.”1 Kings 2:44
1 Kings 2:45 And king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the Lord, even forever.1 Kings 2:45
1 Kings 2:46 And so the king commanded Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada. And going out, he struck him down, and he died.1 Kings 2:46
1 Kings 3:1 And so the kingdom was confirmed in the hand of Solomon, and he was joined with Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, by affinity. For he took his daughter, and he led her into the city of David, until he completed building his own house, and the house of the Lord, and the wall of Jerusalem all around.1 Kings 3:1
1 Kings 3:2 But still the people immolated in the high places. For no temple had been built to the name of the Lord, even to that day.1 Kings 3:2
1 Kings 3:3 Now Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the precepts of David, his father, except that he immolated in the high places, and he burned incense.1 Kings 3:3
1 Kings 3:4 And so, he went away to Gibeon, so that he might immolate there; for that was the greatest high place. Solomon offered upon that altar, at Gibeon, one thousand victims as holocausts.1 Kings 3:4
1 Kings 3:5 Then the Lord appeared to Solomon, through a dream in the night, saying, “Request whatever you wish, so that I may give it to you.”1 Kings 3:5
1 Kings 3:6 And Solomon said: “You have shown great mercy to your servant David, my father, because he walked in your sight in truth and justice, and with an upright heart before you. And you have kept your great mercy for him, and you have given him a son sitting upon his throne, just as it is this day.1 Kings 3:6
1 Kings 3:7 And now, O Lord God, you have caused your servant to reign in place of David, my father. But I am a small child, and I am ignorant of my entrance and departure.1 Kings 3:7
1 Kings 3:8 And your servant is in the midst of the people that you have chosen, an immense people, who are not able to be numbered or counted because of their multitude.1 Kings 3:8
1 Kings 3:9 Therefore, give to your servant a teachable heart, so that he may be able to judge your people, and to discern between good and evil. For who will be able to judge this people, your people, who are so many?”1 Kings 3:9
1 Kings 3:10 And the word was pleasing before the Lord, that Solomon had requested this kind of thing.1 Kings 3:10
1 Kings 3:11 And the Lord said to Solomon: “Since you have requested this word, and you have not asked for many days or for wealth for yourself, nor for the lives of your enemies, but instead you have requested for yourself wisdom in order to discern judgment:1 Kings 3:11
1 Kings 3:12 behold, I have done for you according to your words, and I have given you a wise and understanding heart, so much so that there has been no one like you before you, nor anyone who will rise up after you.1 Kings 3:12
1 Kings 3:13 But also the things for which you did not ask, I have given to you, namely wealth and glory, so that no one has been like you among the kings in the all days before.1 Kings 3:13
1 Kings 3:14 And if you will walk in my ways, and keep my precepts and my commandments, just as your father walked, I will lengthen your days.”1 Kings 3:14
1 Kings 3:15 Then Solomon awakened, and he understood that it was a dream. And when he had arrived in Jerusalem, he stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and he offered holocausts and made victims of peace offerings, and he held a great feast for all his servants.1 Kings 3:15
1 Kings 3:16 Then two women harlots went to the king, and they stood before him.1 Kings 3:16
1 Kings 3:17 And one of them said: “I beg you, my lord, I and this woman were living in one house, and I gave birth, with her in the room.1 Kings 3:17
1 Kings 3:18 Then, on the third day after I gave birth, she also gave birth. And we were together, with no other person with us in the house, only the two of us.1 Kings 3:18
1 Kings 3:19 Then this woman’s son died in the night. For while sleeping, she smothered him.1 Kings 3:19
1 Kings 3:20 And rising up in the silent depths of the night, she took my son from my side, while I, your handmaid, was sleeping, and she set him in her bosom. Then she placed her dead son in my bosom.1 Kings 3:20
1 Kings 3:21 And when I had arisen in the morning, so that I might give milk to my son, he appeared to be dead. But gazing upon him more diligently in the light of day, I realized that he was not mine, whom I had born.”1 Kings 3:21
1 Kings 3:22 And the other woman responded: “It is not such as you say. Instead, your son is dead, but mine is alive.” To the contrary, she said: “You are lying. For my son lives, and your son is dead.” And in this manner, they were contending before the king.1 Kings 3:22
1 Kings 3:23 Then said the king: “This one says, ‘My son is alive, and your son is dead.’ And the other responds, ‘No, instead your son is dead, but mine lives.’ ”1 Kings 3:23
1 Kings 3:24 Therefore the king said, “Bring a sword to me.” And when they had brought a sword before the king,1 Kings 3:24
1 Kings 3:25 he said, “Divide the living infant in two parts, and give a half part to the one and a half part to the other.”1 Kings 3:25
1 Kings 3:26 But the woman, whose son was alive, said to the king, for her heart was moved concerning her son, “I beg you, my lord, give the living infant to her, and do not kill him.” To the contrary, the other said, “Let it be neither for me, nor for you, instead divide it.”1 Kings 3:26
1 Kings 3:27 The king responded and said: “Give the living infant to this woman, and do not kill it. For she is his mother.”1 Kings 3:27
1 Kings 3:28 Then all of Israel heard about the judgment that the king had judged, and they feared the king, seeing that the wisdom of God was in him to accomplish judgment.1 Kings 3:28
1 Kings 4:1 Now king Solomon was reigning over all of Israel.1 Kings 4:1
1 Kings 4:2 And these were the leaders that he had: Azariah, the son of Zadok, the priest;1 Kings 4:2
1 Kings 4:3 Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, the scribes; Jehoshaphat, the son of Ahilud, the keeper of records;1 Kings 4:3
1 Kings 4:4 Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, over the army; and Zadok, and Abiathar, priests;1 Kings 4:4
1 Kings 4:5 Azariah, the son of Nathan, over those who were assisting the king; Zabud, the son of Nathan, the priest, the friend of the king;1 Kings 4:5
1 Kings 4:6 and Ahishar, first ruler of the house; and Adoniram, the son of Abda, over the tribute.1 Kings 4:6
1 Kings 4:7 And Solomon had twelve commanders over all of Israel, who offered yearly provisions for the king and his house. For each was ministering the necessities, by each month of the year.1 Kings 4:7
1 Kings 4:8 And these are their names: Benhur, on mount Ephraim;1 Kings 4:8
1 Kings 4:9 Bendeker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and in Beth-shemesh, and in Elon, and in Beth-hanan;1 Kings 4:9
1 Kings 4:10 Benhesed, in Arubboth: his was Socoh and the entire land of Hepher;1 Kings 4:10
1 Kings 4:11 Benabinadab, to whom was all of Naphath-Dor, who had Taphath, the daughter of Solomon, as wife;1 Kings 4:11
1 Kings 4:12 Baana, the son of Ahilud, who was reigning in Taanach, and Megiddo, and all of Bethshean, which is beside Zarethan and below Jezreel, from Bethshean as far as Abelmeholah, opposite Jokmeam;1 Kings 4:12
1 Kings 4:13 Bengeber, in Ramoth Gilead, who had the town of Jair, the son of Manasseh, in Gilead; the same was first in the entire region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls that had bronze bars;1 Kings 4:13
1 Kings 4:14 Ahinadab, the son of Iddo, who was first in Mahanaim;1 Kings 4:14
1 Kings 4:15 Ahimaaz, in Naphtali, and he also had Basemath, the daughter of Solomon, in marriage;1 Kings 4:15
1 Kings 4:16 Baana, the son of Hushai, in Asher and in Bealoth;1 Kings 4:16
1 Kings 4:17 Jehoshaphat, the son of Paruah, in Issachar;1 Kings 4:17
1 Kings 4:18 Shimei, the son of Ela, in Benjamin;1 Kings 4:18
1 Kings 4:19 Geber, the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, in the land of Sihon, king of the Amorites, and of Og, king of Bashan, over all who were in that land.1 Kings 4:19
1 Kings 4:20 Judah and Israel were innumerable, like the sand of the sea in multitude: eating and drinking, and rejoicing.1 Kings 4:20
1 Kings 4:21 Now Solomon had, in his dominion, all the kingdoms, from the river to the land of the Philistines, even to the border of Egypt. And they offered gifts to him, and they served him all the days of his life.1 Kings 4:21
1 Kings 4:22 And the provisions of Solomon, for each day, were thirty cor of fine wheat flour, and sixty cor of meal,1 Kings 4:22
1 Kings 4:23 ten fattened oxen, and twenty oxen from the pastures, and one hundred rams, aside from the venison of stags, roe deer, and gazelles, and fattened poultry.1 Kings 4:23
1 Kings 4:24 For he had obtained the entire region which was beyond the river, from Tiphsah as far as Gaza, and all the kings of those regions. And he had peace on every side all around.1 Kings 4:24
1 Kings 4:25 And so, Judah and Israel were living without any fear, each one under his own vine and under his own fig tree, from Dan as far as Beersheba, during all the days of Solomon.1 Kings 4:25
1 Kings 4:26 And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of chariot horses, and twelve thousand riding horses.1 Kings 4:26
1 Kings 4:27 And the above-stated commanders of the king nourished these. And they also offered the necessities for the table of king Solomon, with immense diligence, each in his time.1 Kings 4:27
1 Kings 4:28 Also, they brought barley and straw for the horses and beasts of burden, to the place where the king was, just as it was appointed to them.1 Kings 4:28
1 Kings 4:29 And God gave wisdom to Solomon, and an exceedingly great prudence, and a spacious heart, like the sand which is on the shore of the sea.1 Kings 4:29
1 Kings 4:30 And the wisdom of Solomon surpassed the wisdom of all the East, and of the Egyptians.1 Kings 4:30
1 Kings 4:31 And he was wiser than all men: wiser than Ethan, the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol. And he was renowned in all the nations on every side.1 Kings 4:31
1 Kings 4:32 Solomon also spoke three thousand parables. And his verses were one thousand and five.1 Kings 4:32
1 Kings 4:33 And he discoursed about trees, from the cedar which is in Lebanon, to the hyssop which grows out from the wall. And he explained about beasts, and birds, and reptiles, and fish.1 Kings 4:33
1 Kings 4:34 And they came from all the peoples in order to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and from all the kings of the earth, who were hearing about his wisdom.1 Kings 4:34
1 Kings 5:1 Hiram, the king of Tyre, also sent his servants to Solomon. For he heard that they had anointed him king in place of his father. Now Hiram had been a friend to David the entire time.1 Kings 5:1
1 Kings 5:3 “You know the will of my father David, and that he was not able to build a house to the name of the Lord his God, because of the wars that were imminent all around him, until the Lord set them under the steps of his feet.1 Kings 5:3
1 Kings 5:4 But now the Lord my God has given rest to me on all sides. And there is no adversary, nor occurrence of evil.1 Kings 5:4
1 Kings 5:5 For this reason, I intend to build a temple to the name of the Lord my God, just as the Lord spoke to my father David, saying: ‘Your son, whom I will set in your place, upon your throne, he himself shall build a house to my name.’1 Kings 5:5
1 Kings 5:6 Therefore, order that your servants may cut down for me cedars from Lebanon. And let my servants be with your servants. Then I will give to you, for the wages of your servants, whatever you will ask. For you know that there is not a man among my people who knows how to cut wood as well as the Sidonians.”1 Kings 5:6
1 Kings 5:7 Therefore, when Hiram had heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced greatly, and he said, “Blessed be the Lord God this day, who gave to David a very wise son over this numerous people!”1 Kings 5:7
1 Kings 5:8 And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying: “I have heard the things that you would entrust to me. And I will do your whole will concerning the cedar trees and spruce trees.1 Kings 5:8
1 Kings 5:9 My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon to the sea. And I will arrange them together as rafts on the sea, as far as the place that you will indicate to me. And I will land them there, and you will take them. And you shall offer to me what is necessary to give food to my house.”1 Kings 5:9
1 Kings 5:10 And so, Hiram gave to Solomon cedar trees and spruce trees, in accord with his whole will.1 Kings 5:10
1 Kings 5:11 Then Solomon offered to Hiram twenty thousand cor of wheat, as food for his house, and twenty cor of the purest oil. These things Solomon gave as a tribute to Hiram every year.1 Kings 5:11
1 Kings 5:12 And the Lord gave wisdom to Solomon, just as he said to him. And there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two struck a pact.1 Kings 5:12
1 Kings 5:13 And king Solomon chose workers from all of Israel, and the conscription was of thirty thousand men.1 Kings 5:13
1 Kings 5:14 And he sent them into Lebanon, ten thousand each month, in turns, so that for two months they were in their own houses. And Adoniram was over this type of conscription.1 Kings 5:14
1 Kings 5:15 And Solomon had seventy thousand of those who were carrying burdens, and eighty thousand of those who cut stones from the mountain,1 Kings 5:15
1 Kings 5:16 aside from the commanders who were over each work, in number three thousand and three hundred, who gave orders to the people and to those who were doing the work.1 Kings 5:16
1 Kings 5:17 And the king ordered them to bring great stones, precious stones, for the foundation of the temple, and to square them.1 Kings 5:17
1 Kings 5:18 And these were shaped by the stoneworkers of Solomon and the stoneworkers of Hiram. And the men of Gebal also prepared the wood and the stones in order to build the house.1 Kings 5:18
1 Kings 6:1 Then it happened that, in the four hundred and eightieth year after the sons of Israel departed from the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of the reign of Solomon over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, the house of the Lord began to be built.1 Kings 6:1
1 Kings 6:2 Now the house, which king Solomon was building to the Lord, was sixty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in width, and thirty cubits in height.1 Kings 6:2
1 Kings 6:3 And a portico was before the temple, of twenty cubits in length, in accord with the measure of the width of the temple. And it had ten cubits of width before the face of the temple.1 Kings 6:3
1 Kings 6:4 And he made oblique windows in the temple.1 Kings 6:4
1 Kings 6:5 And upon the wall of the temple, he built panels on all sides, in the walls of the house around the temple and the oracle. And he made side chambers all around.1 Kings 6:5
1 Kings 6:6 The flooring on the bottom level held five cubits in width, and the middle floor was six cubits in width, and the third floor held seven cubits in width. Then he positioned beams on the house all around the outside, in such a way that they would not be fastened to the walls of the temple.1 Kings 6:6
1 Kings 6:7 Now the house, while it was being built, was made from cut and finished stones. And so, neither mallet, nor chisel, nor any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was being built.1 Kings 6:7
1 Kings 6:8 The door at the side of the middle section was to the right of the house. And they would ascend along winding stairs to the middle level, and from the middle level to the third level.1 Kings 6:8
1 Kings 6:9 And he built the house, and finished it. And he overlaid the house with boards of cedar.1 Kings 6:9
1 Kings 6:10 And he built a paneling over the entire house, five cubits in height, and he covered the house with cedar wood.1 Kings 6:10
1 Kings 6:11 And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying:1 Kings 6:11
1 Kings 6:12 “Concerning this house, which you are building: if you will walk in my precepts, and carry out my judgments, and keep all my commandments, advancing by them, I will confirm my word to you, which I spoke to your father David.1 Kings 6:12
1 Kings 6:13 And I will dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel, and I will not forsake my people Israel.”1 Kings 6:13
1 Kings 6:14 And so, Solomon built the house, and finished it.1 Kings 6:14
1 Kings 6:15 And he built the walls of the house, on the interior, with panels of cedar, from the floor of the house, to the top of the walls, and even to the ceiling. He covered it with cedar wood on the interior. And he overlaid the floor of the house with panels of spruce.1 Kings 6:15
1 Kings 6:16 And he built panels of cedar, of twenty cubits, at the back part of the temple, from the floor even to the top. And he made the inner house of the oracle as the Holy of Holies.1 Kings 6:16
1 Kings 6:17 And the temple itself, before the doors of the oracle, was forty cubits.1 Kings 6:17
1 Kings 6:18 And the entire house was clothed with cedar on the interior, having its turnings and junctures artfully wrought, with carvings projecting outward. Everything was clothed with panels of cedar. And no stone at all was able to be seen in the wall.1 Kings 6:18
1 Kings 6:19 Now he made the oracle in the middle of the house, in the inner part, so that he might station the ark of the covenant of the Lord there.1 Kings 6:19
1 Kings 6:20 And the oracle held twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in width, and twenty cubits in height. And he covered and clothed it with the purest gold. Then, too, he clothed the altar in cedar.1 Kings 6:20
1 Kings 6:21 Also, the house before the oracle, he covered with the purest gold, and he fastened the plates with nails of gold.1 Kings 6:21
1 Kings 6:22 And there was nothing in the temple that was not covered with gold. Moreover, the entire altar of the oracle he overlaid with gold.1 Kings 6:22
1 Kings 6:23 And he made in the oracle two cherubim from wood of the olive tree, of ten cubits in height.1 Kings 6:23
1 Kings 6:24 One wing of a cherub was five cubits, and the other wing of a cherub was five cubits, that is, having ten cubits from the summit of one wing even to the summit of the other wing.1 Kings 6:24
1 Kings 6:25 Likewise, the second cherub was ten cubits. And the measure was equal and the work was one, in the two cherubim,1 Kings 6:25
1 Kings 6:26 that is, one cherub had a height of ten cubits, and similarly the second cherub.1 Kings 6:26
1 Kings 6:27 And he stationed the cherubim in the middle of the inner temple. And the cherubim extended their wings, and the wing of the one was touching the wall, and the wing of the second cherub was touching the other wall. But the other wings, in the middle of the temple, were touching each another.1 Kings 6:27
1 Kings 6:28 He also overlaid the cherubim with gold.1 Kings 6:28
1 Kings 6:29 And all the walls of the temple all around he engraved with diverse carvings and turnings. And he made in them cherubim, and palm trees, and various images, as if these were projecting out, and going forth from, the wall.1 Kings 6:29
1 Kings 6:30 Then, too, the floor of the house he overlaid with gold within and without.1 Kings 6:30
1 Kings 6:31 And at the entrance of the oracle, he made little doors, from wood of the olive tree, with posts of five corners.1 Kings 6:31
1 Kings 6:32 And there were two doors, from wood of the olive tree. And he carved upon them pictures of cherubim, and images of palm trees, and very prominent figures. And he overlaid these with gold. And he covered the cherubim, as well as the palm trees and the other things, with gold.1 Kings 6:32
1 Kings 6:33 And he made, at the entrance of the temple, posts from wood of the olive tree, with four corners,1 Kings 6:33
1 Kings 6:34 and two doors, from wood of the spruce tree, on the other side. And each door was double, and so it opened by folding upon itself.1 Kings 6:34
1 Kings 6:35 And he carved cherubim, and palm trees, and very prominent engravings. And he covered everything with gold plates, worked to be perfectly square.1 Kings 6:35
1 Kings 6:36 And he built the inner atrium with three rows of polished stones, and one row of cedar wood.1 Kings 6:36
1 Kings 6:37 In the fourth year, the house of the Lord was founded, in the month of Ziv.1 Kings 6:37
1 Kings 6:38 And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was perfected in all its works and in all its equipment. And he built it for seven years.1 Kings 6:38
1 Kings 7:1 Now Solomon built his own house for thirteen years, and he brought it to perfection.1 Kings 7:1
1 Kings 7:2 And he built the house from the forest of Lebanon: one hundred cubits in length, and fifty cubits in width, and thirty cubits in height, with four walkways between columns of cedar. For he had hewn the cedar trees into columns.1 Kings 7:2
1 Kings 7:3 And he clothed the entire vaulted room with panels of cedar. And it was supported by forty-five columns. Now one row held fifteen columns,1 Kings 7:3
1 Kings 7:4 each positioned opposite another,1 Kings 7:4
1 Kings 7:5 and looking toward one another, with equal spacing between the columns. And above the columns there were square beams equal in all things.1 Kings 7:5
1 Kings 7:6 And he made a portico of columns, fifty cubits in length and thirty cubits in width, and another portico, facing the greater portico, with columns and with crossbeams upon the columns.1 Kings 7:6
1 Kings 7:7 He also made the portico of the throne, in which is the tribunal. And he overlaid it with cedar wood, from the floor even to the summit.1 Kings 7:7
1 Kings 7:8 And in the midst of the portico, there was a small house, where he would sit in judgment, similar in workmanship. He also made a house for the daughter of Pharaoh (whom Solomon had taken as wife) of the same work and type as this portico.1 Kings 7:8
1 Kings 7:9 All was of precious stones, which had been sawed by a particular standard and measure, as much within as without, from the foundation even to the summit of the walls, and outside even to the great atrium.1 Kings 7:9
1 Kings 7:10 Now the foundations were of precious stones: great stones of eight or ten cubits.1 Kings 7:10
1 Kings 7:11 And above these, there were precious stones, of equal measure, which had been cut in a manner similar to boards of cedar.1 Kings 7:11
1 Kings 7:12 And the great atrium was round, with three rows of cut stones and one row of cut cedar, even as it also was in the interior atrium of the house of the Lord, and in the portico of the house.1 Kings 7:12
1 Kings 7:13 And king Solomon sent and brought Hiram of Tyre,1 Kings 7:13
1 Kings 7:14 the son of a widowed woman, from the tribe of Naphtali, whose father was a Tyrian, an artisan in brass, and full of wisdom, and understanding, and knowledge in order to form every work of brass. And when he had gone to king Solomon, he wrought all his work.1 Kings 7:14
1 Kings 7:15 And he cast two columns of brass. Each column was eighteen cubits in height, and a line of twelve cubits encompassed both columns.1 Kings 7:15
1 Kings 7:16 Also, he made two heads of molten brass, which would be set upon the tops of the columns: one head was five cubits in height, and the other head was five cubits in height.1 Kings 7:16
1 Kings 7:17 And there was something like a network of chains, woven together in a wonderful manner. Both heads of the columns were cast, and seven rows of little nets traversed one head, and seven little nets were on the other head.1 Kings 7:17
1 Kings 7:18 And he finished the columns with two rows all around each network, so that these covered the heads, which were at the top, with pomegranates. And he did in like manner to the second head.1 Kings 7:18
1 Kings 7:19 Now the heads that were at the top of the columns, in the portico of four cubits, had been fabricated with a work of lilies.1 Kings 7:19
1 Kings 7:20 And again, there were other heads at the tops of the columns above, in accord with the measure of the column opposite the netting. And there were two hundred of the pomegranates, in rows around the second head.1 Kings 7:20
1 Kings 7:21 And he stationed the two columns in the portico of the temple. And when he had stationed the column on the right, he called its name Jachin. Similarly, he erected the second column, and he called its name Boaz.1 Kings 7:21
1 Kings 7:22 And above the tops of the columns, he set a work in the manner of lilies. And the work of the columns was perfected.1 Kings 7:22
1 Kings 7:23 He also made a molten sea, of ten cubits from brim to brim, rounded on all sides. Its height was five cubits, and a thin rope of thirty cubits wrapped it all around.1 Kings 7:23
1 Kings 7:24 And a sculpted work under the brim encircled it for ten cubits going around the sea. There were two rows cast of striated sculptures.1 Kings 7:24
1 Kings 7:25 And it was standing upon twelve oxen, of which three were looking toward the north, and three toward the west, and three toward the south, and three toward the east. And the sea above was over them. And their posteriors were entirely hidden within.1 Kings 7:25
1 Kings 7:26 And the basin was the thickness of three twelfths. And its brim was like the brim of a chalice, or like the outturned petal of a lily. It contained two thousand baths.1 Kings 7:26
1 Kings 7:27 And he made ten bases of brass: each base was four cubits in length, and four cubits in width, and three cubits in height.1 Kings 7:27
1 Kings 7:28 And the work itself of the bases was engraved; and there were sculptures between the junctures.1 Kings 7:28
1 Kings 7:29 And between the little crowns and the edges, there were lions, and oxen, and cherubim; and similarly in the junctures above. And under the lions and oxen were something like bands of brass hanging down.1 Kings 7:29
1 Kings 7:30 And each base had four wheels, with axels of brass. And at the four sides were something like little arms, under the cast basin, facing away from one another.1 Kings 7:30
1 Kings 7:31 Also, the mouth of the interior of the basin was at the top of the head. And what was visible outside was of one cubit all around, and altogether it had one cubit and a half. Now at the corners of the columns were diverse engravings. And the spaces between the columns were square, not round.1 Kings 7:31
1 Kings 7:32 And the four wheels, which were at the four corners of the base, were joined to one another under the base. The height of one wheel held one cubit and a half.1 Kings 7:32
1 Kings 7:33 Now these were the kind of wheels such as are often made for a chariot. And their axels, and spokes, and tires, and centers were all cast.1 Kings 7:33
1 Kings 7:34 And the four little arms, which were at each corner of a base, were cast and joined together as part of the base itself.1 Kings 7:34
1 Kings 7:35 And at the summit of the base, there was a round stand of one half cubit, fabricated so that the basin could be placed upon it, having its engravings, and various sculptures of its own.1 Kings 7:35
1 Kings 7:36 He also engraved those plates, which were of brass. And at the corners were cherubim, and lions, and palm trees, standing out, as if in the likeness of a man, so that they seemed not to be engraved, but placed adjacent on all sides.1 Kings 7:36
1 Kings 7:37 In this manner, he made ten bases with the same casting and measure, and very similar engravings.1 Kings 7:37
1 Kings 7:38 He also made ten hand basins of brass. One hand basin contained four baths, and was of four cubits. And each basin he set upon a base, which is ten bases.1 Kings 7:38
1 Kings 7:39 And he stationed the ten bases, five to the right side of the temple, and five to the left. And the sea he placed to the right side of the temple, opposite the east, toward the south.1 Kings 7:39
1 Kings 7:40 Then Hiram made cooking pots, and trays, and small hooks. And he completed all the work of king Solomon in the temple of the Lord:1 Kings 7:40
1 Kings 7:41 the two columns, and the two cords of the heads over the tops of the columns, and the two networks which covered the two cords that were above the tops of the columns;1 Kings 7:41
1 Kings 7:42 and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two turnings of pomegranates for each network, in order to cover the cords of the heads, which were above the tops of the columns;1 Kings 7:42
1 Kings 7:43 and the ten bases, and the ten basins on the bases;1 Kings 7:43
1 Kings 7:44 and the one sea, and the twelve oxen under the sea;1 Kings 7:44
1 Kings 7:45 and the cooking pots, and the trays, and the small hooks. All of the items that Hiram made for king Solomon, for the house of the Lord, were of golden brass.1 Kings 7:45
1 Kings 7:46 In the open regions near the Jordan, the king cast these, in the clay soil between Succoth and Zarethan.1 Kings 7:46
1 Kings 7:47 And Solomon positioned all the items. But because of its exceedingly great amount, the brass was not weighed.1 Kings 7:47
1 Kings 7:48 And Solomon made all the furniture for the house of the Lord: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, upon which the bread of the presence would be placed;1 Kings 7:48
1 Kings 7:49 and the gold lampstands, five to the right, and five to the left, opposite the oracle, of pure gold; and likenesses of lily blossoms, with lamps above them, of gold; and gold tongs;1 Kings 7:49
1 Kings 7:50 and waters pots, and little forks, and bowls, and little mortars, and censers, of the purest gold; and the hinges of the doors, for the interior house of the Holy of Holies and for the doors of the house of the temple, which were of gold.1 Kings 7:50
1 Kings 7:51 And Solomon perfected all the work that he was doing in the house of the Lord. And he brought in the things that his father David had sanctified: the silver, and the gold, and the vessels. And he stored these in the treasuries of the house of the Lord.1 Kings 7:51
1 Kings 8:1 Then all those greater by birth of Israel, with the leaders of the tribes and the rulers of the families of the sons of Israel, gathered together before king Solomon at Jerusalem, so that they might carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord, from the city of David, that is, from Zion.1 Kings 8:1
1 Kings 8:2 And all of Israel assembled before king Solomon, on the solemn day in the month of Ethanim, which is the seventh month.1 Kings 8:2
1 Kings 8:3 And all the elders of Israel arrived, and the priests took up the ark.1 Kings 8:3
1 Kings 8:4 And they carried the ark of the Lord, and the tabernacle of the covenant, and all the vessels of the Sanctuary, which were in the tabernacle; and the priests and the Levites carried these.1 Kings 8:4
1 Kings 8:5 Then king Solomon, and the entire multitude of Israel, who had assembled before him, advanced with him before the ark. And they immolated sheep and oxen, which could not be numbered or estimated.1 Kings 8:5
1 Kings 8:6 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its place, into the oracle of the temple, in the Holy of Holies, under the wings of the cherubim.1 Kings 8:6
1 Kings 8:7 For indeed, the cherubim extended their wings over the place of the ark, and they protected the ark and its bars from above.1 Kings 8:7
1 Kings 8:8 And since the bars projected outward, their ends were visible from without, in the Sanctuary before the oracle; but they were not visible farther outward. And they have been in that place even to the present day.1 Kings 8:8
1 Kings 8:9 Now inside the ark, there was nothing other than the two tablets of stone, which Moses had placed in it at Horeb, when the Lord formed a covenant with the sons of Israel, when they departed from the land of Egypt.1 Kings 8:9
1 Kings 8:10 Then it happened that, when the priests had exited from the Sanctuary, a cloud filled the house of the Lord.1 Kings 8:10
1 Kings 8:11 And the priests were unable to stand and minister, because of the cloud. For the glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord.1 Kings 8:11
1 Kings 8:12 Then Solomon said: “The Lord has said that he would dwell in a cloud.1 Kings 8:12
1 Kings 8:13 Building, I have built a house as your dwelling place, your most firm throne forever.”1 Kings 8:13
1 Kings 8:14 And the king turned his face, and he blessed the entire assembly of Israel. For the entire assembly of Israel was standing.1 Kings 8:14
1 Kings 8:15 And Solomon said: “Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to my father David, and who, with his own hands, has perfected it, saying:1 Kings 8:15
1 Kings 8:16 ‘From the day when I led my people Israel away from Egypt, I did not choose any city out of all the tribes of Israel, so that a house would be built, and so that my name might be there. Instead, I chose David to be over my people Israel.’1 Kings 8:16
1 Kings 8:17 And my father David wanted to build a house to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.1 Kings 8:17
1 Kings 8:18 But the Lord said to my father David: ‘Since you have planned in your heart to build a house to my name, you have done well by considering this plan in your mind.1 Kings 8:18
1 Kings 8:19 Yet truly, you shall not build a house for me. Instead, your son, who shall go forth from your loins, he himself shall build a house to my name.’1 Kings 8:19
1 Kings 8:20 The Lord has confirmed his word which he spoke. And so I stand in place of my father David, and I sit upon the throne of Israel, just as the Lord said. And I have built a house to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.1 Kings 8:20
1 Kings 8:21 And there I have appointed a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of the Lord that he struck with our fathers, when they went forth from the land of Egypt.”1 Kings 8:21
1 Kings 8:22 Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord, in the sight of the assembly of Israel, and he extended his hands toward heaven.1 Kings 8:22
1 Kings 8:23 And he said: “Lord God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above, nor on the earth below. You preserve covenant and mercy with your servants, who walk before you with all their heart.1 Kings 8:23
1 Kings 8:24 You have fulfilled, for your servant David, my father, that which you said to him. With your mouth, you spoke; and with your hands, you completed; just this day proves.1 Kings 8:24
1 Kings 8:25 Now therefore, O Lord God of Israel, fulfill, for your servant David, my father, that which you spoke to him, saying, ‘There shall not be taken away from you a man before me, who may sit upon the throne of Israel, if only your sons will guard their way, so that they walk before me, just as you have walked in my sight.’1 Kings 8:25
1 Kings 8:26 And now, O Lord God of Israel, establish your words, which you spoke to your servant David, my father.1 Kings 8:26
1 Kings 8:27 Is it, then, to be understood that truly God would dwell upon the earth? For if heaven, and the heavens of heavens, are not able to contain you, how much less this house, which I have built?1 Kings 8:27
1 Kings 8:28 Yet look with favor upon the prayer of your servant and upon his petitions, O Lord, my God. Listen to the hymn and the prayer, which your servant prays before you this day,1 Kings 8:28
1 Kings 8:29 so that your eyes may be open over this house, night and day, over the house about which you said, ‘My name shall be there,’ so that you may heed the prayer that your servant is praying in this place to you.1 Kings 8:29
1 Kings 8:30 So may you heed the supplication of your servant and of your people Israel, whatever they will pray for in this place, and so may you heed them in your dwelling place in heaven. And when you heed, you will be gracious.1 Kings 8:30
1 Kings 8:31 But if any man sins against his neighbor, and he has any kind of an oath by which he is bound, and he arrives because of the oath, before your altar in your house,1 Kings 8:31
1 Kings 8:32 you will hear in heaven, and you will act and judge your servants, condemning the impious, and repaying his own way upon his own head, but justifying the just, and rewarding him in accord with his justice.1 Kings 8:32
1 Kings 8:33 And if your people Israel will have fled from their enemies, because they have sinned against you, and doing penance and confessing to your name, shall arrive and pray and petition you in this house,1 Kings 8:33
1 Kings 8:34 listen in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and lead them back to the land, which you gave to their fathers.1 Kings 8:34
1 Kings 8:35 And if the heavens have closed, so that there is no rain, because of their sins, and they, praying in this place, shall do penance to your name, and shall be converted from their sins, by occasion of their afflictions,1 Kings 8:35
1 Kings 8:36 hear them from heaven, and forgive the sins of your servants and of your people Israel. And reveal to them the good way, along which they should walk, and grant rain upon your land, which you have given to your people as a possession.1 Kings 8:36
1 Kings 8:37 Then, if famine rises over the land, or pestilence, or corrupt air, or blight, or locust, or mildew, or if their enemy afflicts them, besieging the gates, or any harm or infirmity,1 Kings 8:37
1 Kings 8:38 or whatever curse or divine intervention may happen to any man among your people Israel, if anyone understands, having been wounded in his heart, and if he will have extended his hands in this house,1 Kings 8:38
1 Kings 8:39 you will hear in heaven, in your dwelling place, and you will forgive. And you will act so that you give to each one in accord with his own ways, just as you see in his heart, for you alone know the heart of all the sons of men.1 Kings 8:39
1 Kings 8:40 So may they fear you, all the days that they live upon the face of the land, which you have given to our fathers.1 Kings 8:40
1 Kings 8:41 Moreover, the foreigner too, who is not of your people Israel, when he will have arrived from a distant land because of your name, for they shall hear about your great name, and your strong hand,1 Kings 8:41
1 Kings 8:42 and your outstretched arm everywhere: so when he arrives and prays in this place,1 Kings 8:42
1 Kings 8:43 you will listen in heaven, in the firmament of your dwelling place. And you will do all the things, for which that foreigner will have called upon you. So may all the peoples of the earth learn to fear your name, just as your people Israel do. And so may they show that your name has been invoked over this house, which I have built.1 Kings 8:43
1 Kings 8:44 And if your people have gone out to war against their enemies, along whatever way you will send them, they shall pray to you in the direction of the city, which you have chosen, and toward the house, which I have built to your name.1 Kings 8:44
1 Kings 8:45 And you will hear in heaven their prayers and their petitions. And you will accomplish judgment for them.1 Kings 8:45
1 Kings 8:46 But if they sin against you, for there is no man who does not sin, and you, being angry, deliver them to their enemies, and they will have been led away as captives to the land of their enemies, whether far or near,1 Kings 8:46
1 Kings 8:47 and if they do penance in their heart, in the place of captivity, and having been converted, make supplication to you in their captivity, saying, ‘We have sinned; we acted unjustly; we committed impiety,’1 Kings 8:47
1 Kings 8:48 and they return to you with all their heart and all their soul, in the land of their enemies, to which they have been led away as captives, and if they pray to you in the direction of their land, which you gave to their fathers, and of the city, which you have chosen, and of the temple, which I have built to your name:1 Kings 8:48
1 Kings 8:49 you will hear in heaven, in the firmament of your throne, their prayers and their petitions. And you will accomplish their judgment.1 Kings 8:49
1 Kings 8:50 And you will forgive your people, who have sinned against you, and all their iniquities, by which they have transgressed against you. And you will grant to them mercy in the sight of those who have made them captives, so that they may take pity on them.1 Kings 8:50
1 Kings 8:51 For they are your people and your inheritance, whom you have led away from the land of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron.1 Kings 8:51
1 Kings 8:52 So may your eyes be open to the supplication of your servant and of your people Israel. And so may you heed them in all the things about which they will call upon you.1 Kings 8:52
1 Kings 8:53 For you have separated them to yourself as an inheritance, from among all the peoples of the earth, just as you spoke by Moses, your servant, when you led our fathers away from Egypt, O Lord God.”1 Kings 8:53
1 Kings 8:54 And it happened that, when Solomon had completed praying this entire prayer and supplication to the Lord, he rose up from the sight of the altar of the Lord. For he had fixed both knees upon the ground, and he had extended his hands toward heaven.1 Kings 8:54
1 Kings 8:55 Then he stood and blessed the entire assembly of Israel in a great voice, saying:1 Kings 8:55
1 Kings 8:56 “Blessed is the Lord, who has given rest to his people Israel, in accord with all that he said. Not even one word, out of all the good things that he spoke by his servant Moses, has fallen away.1 Kings 8:56
1 Kings 8:57 May the Lord our God be with us, just as he was with our fathers, not abandoning us, and not rejecting us.1 Kings 8:57
1 Kings 8:58 But may he incline our hearts to himself, so that we may walk in all his ways, and keep his commandments, and his ceremonies, and whatever judgments he commanded to our fathers.1 Kings 8:58
1 Kings 8:59 And may these my words, by which I have prayed before the Lord, be near to the Lord our God, day and night, so that he may accomplish judgment for his servant and for his people Israel, throughout each day.1 Kings 8:59
1 Kings 8:60 So may all the peoples of the earth know that the Lord himself is God, and there is no other beside him.1 Kings 8:60
1 Kings 8:61 Also, may our hearts be perfect with the Lord our God, so that we may walk in his decrees, and keep his commandments, as also on this day.”1 Kings 8:61
1 Kings 8:62 Then the king, and all of Israel with him, immolated victims before the Lord.1 Kings 8:62
1 Kings 8:63 And Solomon slew sacrifices of peace offerings, which he immolated to the Lord: twenty-two thousand oxen, and twenty thousand one hundred sheep. And the king and all the sons of Israel dedicated the temple of the Lord.1 Kings 8:63
1 Kings 8:64 On that day, the king sanctified the middle of the atrium, which was before the house of the Lord. For in that place, he offered holocaust, and sacrifice, and the fat of peace offerings. For the bronze altar, which was before the Lord, was too small and was not able to hold the holocaust, and the sacrifice, and the fat of the peace offerings.1 Kings 8:64
1 Kings 8:65 Then Solomon made, at that time, a celebratory festival, and all of Israel with him, a great multitude, from the entrance of Hamath to the river of Egypt, in the sight of the Lord our God, for seven days plus seven days, that is, fourteen days.1 Kings 8:65
1 Kings 8:66 And on the eighth day, he dismissed the people. And blessing the king, they set out for their tents, rejoicing and cheerful in heart over all the good things that the Lord had done for his servant David and for his people Israel.1 Kings 8:66
1 Kings 9:1 Now it happened that, when Solomon had perfected the building of the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and all that he had desired and had willed to do,1 Kings 9:1
1 Kings 9:2 the Lord appeared to him a second time, just as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.1 Kings 9:2
1 Kings 9:3 And the Lord said to him: “I have heard your prayer and your petition, which you prayed before me. I have sanctified this house, which you have built, so that I may place my name there forever, and so that my eyes and my heart will be there for all days.1 Kings 9:3
1 Kings 9:4 Also, if you will walk before me, just as your father walked, in simplicity of heart and in equity, and you do all that I have instructed to you, and you keep my laws and my judgments,1 Kings 9:4
1 Kings 9:5 then I will set the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, just as I promised your father David, saying: ‘A man from your stock shall not be taken away from the throne of Israel.’1 Kings 9:5
1 Kings 9:6 But if you and your sons, wandering, will have turned away, not following me, and not keeping my commandments and my ceremonies, which I have proposed to you, but instead you go away, and you serve strange gods and adore them,1 Kings 9:6
1 Kings 9:7 then I will take away Israel from the face of the land, which I have given to them. And the temple, which I have sanctified to my name, I will cast out from my sight. And Israel will be a proverb and a parable among all the peoples.1 Kings 9:7
1 Kings 9:8 And this house will become an example: anyone who passes by it will be stupefied, and he will hiss and say, ‘Why has the Lord acted in this way to this land and to this house?’1 Kings 9:8
1 Kings 9:9 And they will respond: ‘Because they abandoned the Lord their God, who led their fathers away from the land of Egypt, and they followed strange gods, and they adored them and served them. For this reason, the Lord led all this evil over them.’ ”1 Kings 9:9
1 Kings 9:10 Then, when twenty years were fulfilled, after Solomon had built the two houses, that is, the house of the Lord, and the house of the king,1 Kings 9:10
1 Kings 9:11 Hiram, the king of Tyre, having supplied Solomon with cedar wood, and spruce wood, and gold, in accord with all that he needed, then Solomon gave Hiram twenty towns in the land of Galilee.1 Kings 9:11
1 Kings 9:12 And Hiram went out of Tyre, so that he might view the towns that Solomon had given to him. And they did not please him.1 Kings 9:12
1 Kings 9:13 And he said, “Are these the cities that you have given to me, brother?” And he called them the land of Cabul, even to this day.1 Kings 9:13
1 Kings 9:14 And Hiram sent to king Solomon one hundred twenty talents of gold.1 Kings 9:14
1 Kings 9:15 This is the sum of the expenses that king Solomon offered for the building of the house of the Lord, and his own house, and for Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.1 Kings 9:15
1 Kings 9:16 Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, ascended and seized Gezer, and he burned it with fire. And he put to death the Canaanite who was living in the city, and he gave it as a dowry for his daughter, the wife of Solomon.1 Kings 9:16
1 Kings 9:17 Therefore, Solomon built up Gezer, and lower Beth-horon,1 Kings 9:17
1 Kings 9:18 and Baalath, and Palmira in the land of the wilderness.1 Kings 9:18
1 Kings 9:19 And all the towns which belonged to him, and which were without walls, he walled, along with the cities of the chariots, and the cities of the horsemen, and whatever was pleasing to him that he might build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in the entire land of his dominion.1 Kings 9:19
1 Kings 9:20 All the people who had remained of the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the sons of Israel,1 Kings 9:20
1 Kings 9:21 their sons, who had remained in the land, namely, those whom the sons of Israel had not been able to destroy, Solomon made tributary, even to this day.1 Kings 9:21
1 Kings 9:22 But from the sons of Israel, Solomon did not appoint anyone at all to serve, except the men of war, and his ministers, and leaders, and commanders, and the overseers of the chariots and the horses.1 Kings 9:22
1 Kings 9:23 Now there were five hundred fifty leaders in the first place over all the works of Solomon, and they had people subject to them, and these were given orders for the appointed works.1 Kings 9:23
1 Kings 9:24 And the daughter of Pharaoh went up from the city of David to her house, which Solomon had built for her. Then he built up Millo.1 Kings 9:24
1 Kings 9:25 Also, three times each year, Solomon offered holocausts and victims of peace offerings, upon the altar that he had built to the Lord, and he burned incense before the Lord. And the temple was perfected.1 Kings 9:25
1 Kings 9:26 And king Solomon made a navy at Ezion Geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shores of the Red Sea, in the land of Idumea.1 Kings 9:26
1 Kings 9:27 And Hiram sent his servants to that navy, the sailors and those knowledgeable about the sea, with the servants of Solomon.1 Kings 9:27
1 Kings 9:28 And when they had gone to Ophir, taking from there four hundred twenty talents of gold, they brought it to king Solomon.1 Kings 9:28
1 Kings 10:1 Then, too, the queen of Sheba, having heard of the fame of Solomon in the name of the Lord, arrived to test him with enigmas.1 Kings 10:1
1 Kings 10:2 And entering into Jerusalem with a great retinue, and with riches, and with camels carrying aromatics, and with an exceedingly great quantity of gold and precious stones, she went to king Solomon. And she spoke to him all that she held in her heart.1 Kings 10:2
1 Kings 10:3 And Solomon taught her, in all the words that she had proposed to him. There was not any word which was able to be hidden from the king, or which he did not answer for her.1 Kings 10:3
1 Kings 10:4 Then, when the queen of Sheba saw all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,1 Kings 10:4
1 Kings 10:5 and the food of his table, and the dwelling places of his servants, and the rows of his ministers, and their apparel, and the cupbearers, and the holocausts that he was offering in the house of the Lord, she had no longer any spirit in her.1 Kings 10:5
1 Kings 10:6 And she said to the king: “The word is true, which I have heard in my own land,1 Kings 10:6
1 Kings 10:7 about your words and your wisdom. But I did not believe those who explained it to me, until I went myself and saw it with my own eyes. And I have discovered that the half of it has not been told to me: your wisdom and works are greater than the report that I have heard.1 Kings 10:7
1 Kings 10:8 Blessed are your men, and blessed are your servants, who stand before you always, and who hear your wisdom.1 Kings 10:8
1 Kings 10:9 Blessed is the Lord your God, whom you have greatly pleased, and who has placed you upon the throne of Israel. For the Lord loves Israel forever, and he has appointed you as king, so that you may accomplish judgment and justice.”1 Kings 10:9
1 Kings 10:10 Then she gave the king one hundred twenty talents of gold, and an exceedingly great amount of aromatics and precious stones. No greater quantity of aromatics was ever again brought forth as these, which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.1 Kings 10:10
1 Kings 10:11 Then, too, the navy of Hiram, which carried gold from Ophir, brought an exceedingly great quantity of thyine wood and precious stones from Ophir.1 Kings 10:11
1 Kings 10:12 And the king made, from the thyine wood, the posts of the house of the Lord, and of the house of the king, and citharas and lyres for the musicians. No thyine trees of this kind were ever again brought forth or seen, even to the present day.1 Kings 10:12
1 Kings 10:13 Then king Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all that she desired and requested of him, aside from what he himself had offered to her from his royal bounty. And she returned and went away to her own land, with her servants.1 Kings 10:13
1 Kings 10:14 Now the weight of the gold that was brought to Solomon each year was six hundred sixty-six talents of gold,1 Kings 10:14
1 Kings 10:15 aside from what was brought to him by the men who were over the tributes, and by the merchants, and by those selling every kind of small item, and by all the kings of Arabia, and by the rulers of the land.1 Kings 10:15
1 Kings 10:16 Also, king Solomon made two hundred large shields from the purest gold. He dispensed six hundred shekels of gold for the layers of one shield.1 Kings 10:16
1 Kings 10:17 And for the three hundred crescent-shaped shields of tested gold, there were three hundred minas of gold covering one shield. And the king placed these in the house of the forest of Lebanon.1 Kings 10:17
1 Kings 10:18 Also, king Solomon made a great throne from ivory. And he clothed it with a great quantity of red gold.1 Kings 10:18
1 Kings 10:19 The throne had six steps, and the summit of the throne was rounded in the back section. And there were two hands, on one side and the other, holding the seat. And two lions were standing beside each hand,1 Kings 10:19
1 Kings 10:20 with twelve little lions standing upon the six steps, on one side and the other. No similar work has been made, ever in any kingdom.1 Kings 10:20
1 Kings 10:21 Moreover, all the vessels from which king Solomon would drink were of gold. And all the items in the house of the forest of Lebanon were of the purest gold. There was no silver, nor was any accounting made of silver in the days of Solomon.1 Kings 10:21
1 Kings 10:22 For the navy of the king, once every three years, went with the navy of Hiram by sea to Tarshish, bringing from there gold, and silver, and elephant tusks, and primates, and peacocks.1 Kings 10:22
1 Kings 10:23 And so, king Solomon was magnified above all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.1 Kings 10:23
1 Kings 10:24 And all the earth desired to see the face of Solomon, so as to hear his wisdom, which God had granted to his heart.1 Kings 10:24
1 Kings 10:25 And each one brought him gifts, vessels of silver and of gold, clothing and weapons of war, as well as aromatics, and horses, and mules, throughout each year.1 Kings 10:25
1 Kings 10:26 And Solomon gathered together the chariots and horsemen. And he had one thousand four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. And he placed them in the walled cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.1 Kings 10:26
1 Kings 10:27 And he caused silver to be as abundant in Jerusalem as stones, and he supplied a multitude of cedars like the sycamores that grow in the plains.1 Kings 10:27
1 Kings 10:28 And horses were brought for Solomon from Egypt and from Kue. For the merchants of the king were buying these from Kue. And they paid out the established price.1 Kings 10:28
1 Kings 10:29 Now a four-horse chariot would be sent from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for one hundred and fifty. And in this manner, all the kings of the Hittites and of Syria were selling horses.1 Kings 10:29
1 Kings 11:1 But king Solomon loved many foreign women, including the daughter of Pharaoh, and women of Moab, and of Ammon, and of Idumea, and of Sidon, and of the Hittites.1 Kings 11:1
1 Kings 11:2 These were of the nations about whom the Lord said to the sons of Israel: “You shall not enter to them, and none of them shall enter to anyone of yours. For they will most certainly turn aside your hearts, so that you follow their gods.” And yet, to these Solomon was joined with a greatly enflamed love.1 Kings 11:2
1 Kings 11:3 And for him, there were seven hundred wives, as if they were queens, and three hundred concubines. And the women turned aside his heart.1 Kings 11:3
1 Kings 11:4 And when now he was old, his heart was perverted by the women, so that he followed strange gods. And his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of his father David.1 Kings 11:4
1 Kings 11:5 For Solomon worshipped Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, and Milcom, the idol of the Ammonites.1 Kings 11:5
1 Kings 11:6 And Solomon did what was not pleasing in the sight of the Lord. And he did not continue to follow the Lord, as his father David did.1 Kings 11:6
1 Kings 11:7 Then Solomon built a shrine for Chemosh, the idol of Moab, on the mount that is opposite Jerusalem, and for Milcom, the idol of the sons of Ammon.1 Kings 11:7
1 Kings 11:8 And he acted in this manner for all his foreign wives, who were burning incense and immolating to their gods.1 Kings 11:8
1 Kings 11:9 And so, the Lord became angry with Solomon, because his mind had been turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,1 Kings 11:9
1 Kings 11:10 and who had instructed him about this matter, lest he follow strange gods. But he did not observe what the Lord commanded to him.1 Kings 11:10
1 Kings 11:11 And so, the Lord said to Solomon: “Because you have this with you, and because you have not kept my covenant and my precepts, which I commanded to you, I will tear apart your kingdom, and I will give it to your servant.1 Kings 11:11
1 Kings 11:12 Yet truly, I will not do it in your days, for the sake of your father David. From the hand of your son, I will tear it away.1 Kings 11:12
1 Kings 11:13 Neither will I take away the whole kingdom. Instead, I will grant one tribe to your son, for the sake of David, my servant, and Jerusalem, which I have chosen.”1 Kings 11:13
1 Kings 11:14 Then the Lord raised up an adversary to Solomon, Hadad of Idumea, from an offspring of the king who was in Idumea.1 Kings 11:14
1 Kings 11:15 For when David was in Idumea, Joab, the leader of the military, had ascended to bury those who had been killed, and he had killed every male in Idumea.1 Kings 11:15
1 Kings 11:16 And Joab remained in that place for six months, with all of Israel, until he had put to death every male in Idumea.1 Kings 11:16
1 Kings 11:17 Then Hadad fled, he and some men of Idumea from among the servants of his father with him, so that he might enter into Egypt. But Hadad was then a little boy.1 Kings 11:17
1 Kings 11:18 And when they had risen up from Midian, they went into Paran, and they took with them some men from Paran. And they went into Egypt, to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. And he gave him a house, and he appointed food for him, and he assigned land to him.1 Kings 11:18
1 Kings 11:19 And Hadad found great favor before Pharaoh, so much so that he gave to him as wife, the sister of his own wife, queen Tahpenes.1 Kings 11:19
1 Kings 11:20 And the sister of Tahpenes bore to him a son, Genubath. And Tahpenes raised him in the house of Pharaoh. And Genubath was living with Pharaoh and his sons.1 Kings 11:20
1 Kings 11:21 And when Hadad had heard in Egypt that David had slept with his fathers, and that Joab, the leader of the military, had died, he said to Pharaoh, “Release me, so that I may go to my own land.”1 Kings 11:21
1 Kings 11:22 And Pharaoh said to him, “But what is lacking to you with me, so that you would seek to go to your own land?” But he responded: “Nothing. Yet I beg you that you may release me.”1 Kings 11:22
1 Kings 11:23 Also, God raised up against him an adversary, Rezon, the son of Eliada, who had fled from his lord, Hadad-Ezer, the king of Zobah.1 Kings 11:23
1 Kings 11:24 And he gathered together men against him. And when David put those of Zobah to death, he became a leader of robbers. And they went away to Damascus, and they lived there. And they appointed him to be king of Damascus.1 Kings 11:24
1 Kings 11:25 And he was an adversary to Israel during all the days of Solomon. And such is the evil of Hadad and of his hatred against Israel. And he reigned in Syria.1 Kings 11:25
1 Kings 11:26 Also, there was Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite from Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother was named Zeruah, a widowed woman. He lifted up his hand against the king.1 Kings 11:26
1 Kings 11:27 And this is the reason for his rebellion against him: that Solomon built up Millo, and that he filled in a deep hole in the city of David, his father.1 Kings 11:27
1 Kings 11:28 Now Jeroboam was a valiant and powerful man. And perceiving the young man to be ingenious and industrious, Solomon appointed him as first ruler over the tributes of the entire house of Joseph.1 Kings 11:28
1 Kings 11:29 And it happened, in that time, that Jeroboam departed from Jerusalem. And the prophet Ahijah, the Shilonite, wearing with a new cloak, found him on the way. And the two were alone in the field.1 Kings 11:29
1 Kings 11:30 And taking his new cloak, with which he was covered, Ahijah tore it into twelve parts.1 Kings 11:30
1 Kings 11:31 And he said to Jeroboam: “Take ten pieces for yourself. For thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: ‘Behold, I will tear the kingdom from the hand of Solomon, and I will give to you ten tribes.1 Kings 11:31
1 Kings 11:32 Yet one tribe shall remain with him, for the sake of my servant, David, as well as Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.1 Kings 11:32
1 Kings 11:33 For he has abandoned me, and he has adored Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, and Chemosh, the god of Moab, and Milcom, the god of the sons of Ammon. And he has not walked in my ways, so that he would do justice before me, and so that he would carry out my precepts and judgments, as his father David did.1 Kings 11:33
1 Kings 11:34 But I will not take the entire kingdom from his hand. Instead, I will establish him as the ruler during all the days of his life, for the sake of my servant David, whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my precepts.1 Kings 11:34
1 Kings 11:35 But I will take away the kingdom from the hand of his son, and I will give to you ten tribes.1 Kings 11:35
1 Kings 11:36 Then, to his son, I will give one tribe, so that there may remain a lamp for my servant David before me, for all days, in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen, so that my name would be there.1 Kings 11:36
1 Kings 11:37 And I will take you up, and you shall reign over all that your soul desires. And you shall be king over Israel.1 Kings 11:37
1 Kings 11:38 Therefore, if you will listen to all that I will command you, and if you will walk in my ways, and do what is right in my sight, keeping my commandments and my precepts, just as my servant David did, then I will be with you, and I will build for you a faithful house, in the way that I built a house for David, and I will deliver Israel to you.1 Kings 11:38
1 Kings 11:39 And I will afflict the offspring of David over this, but truly not for all days.’ ”1 Kings 11:39
1 Kings 11:40 Therefore, Solomon wanted to kill Jeroboam. But he rose up and fled away to Egypt, to Shishak, the king of Egypt. And he was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.1 Kings 11:40
1 Kings 11:41 Now the rest of the words of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom: behold, these are all written in the book of the words of the days of Solomon.1 Kings 11:41
1 Kings 11:42 And the days that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem, over all of Israel, were forty years.1 Kings 11:42
1 Kings 11:43 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David, his father. And Rehoboam, his son, reigned in his place.1 Kings 11:43
1 Kings 12:1 Then Rehoboam went to Shechem. For in that place, all of Israel had gathered to appoint him as king.1 Kings 12:1
1 Kings 12:2 Yet truly, Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, while he was still in Egypt as a fugitive from the face of king Solomon, hearing of his death, returned from Egypt.1 Kings 12:2
1 Kings 12:3 And they sent and called him. Therefore, Jeroboam went, with the entire multitude of Israel, and they spoke to Rehoboam, saying:1 Kings 12:3
1 Kings 12:4 “Your father imposed a very harsh yoke upon us. And so, you should now take away a little from the very harsh rule of your father and from his very grievous yoke, which he imposed upon us, and we will serve you.”1 Kings 12:4
1 Kings 12:5 And he said to them, “Go away, until the third day, and then return to me.” And when the people had gone away,1 Kings 12:5
1 Kings 12:6 king Rehoboam took counsel with the elders who had assisted before his father Solomon while he was still living. And he said, “What counsel do you give to me, so that I may respond to this people?”1 Kings 12:6
1 Kings 12:7 They said to him, “If today you will obey and serve this people, and yield to their petition, and if you will speak lenient words to them, they will be your servants for all days.”1 Kings 12:7
1 Kings 12:8 But he abandoned the counsel of the old men, which they had given to him. And he consulted the young men who had been raised with him, and who were assisting him.1 Kings 12:8
1 Kings 12:9 And he said to them: “What counsel do you give to me, so that I may respond to this people, who have said to me: ‘Make light the yoke that your father imposed on us?’ ”1 Kings 12:9
1 Kings 12:10 And the young men who had been raised with him, said: “You shall speak in this way to this people, who have spoken to you, saying: ‘Your father weighed down our yoke. You should relieve us.’ You shall say this to them: ‘My little finger is thicker than the back of my father.1 Kings 12:10
1 Kings 12:11 And now, my father placed a heavy yoke upon you, but I will add more upon your yoke. My father cut you with whips, but I will beat you with scorpions.’ ”1 Kings 12:11
1 Kings 12:12 Therefore, Jeroboam and all the people went to Rehoboam on the third day, just as the king had spoken, saying, “Return to me on the third day.”1 Kings 12:12
1 Kings 12:13 And the king responded to the people harshly, leaving behind the counsel of the elders that they had given to him.1 Kings 12:13
1 Kings 12:14 And he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying: “My father weighed down your yoke, but I will add more to your yoke. My father cut you with whips, but I will beat you with scorpions.”1 Kings 12:14
1 Kings 12:15 And the king did not acquiesce to the people. For the Lord had turned him away, so that he might raise up his word, which he had spoken by the hand of Ahijah, the Shilonite, to Jeroboam, the son of Nebat.1 Kings 12:15
1 Kings 12:16 And so the people, seeing that the king had not been willing to listen to them, responded to him, saying: “What part do we have in David? Or what inheritance do we have in the son of Jesse? Go to your own tents, O Israel. Now David, see to your own house.” And Israel went away to their own tents.1 Kings 12:16
1 Kings 12:17 But over all the sons of Israel who were living in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned.1 Kings 12:17
1 Kings 12:18 Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the tribute. And all of Israel stoned him, and he died. Therefore, king Rehoboam hurrying, climbed into the chariot, and fled to Jerusalem.1 Kings 12:18
1 Kings 12:19 And Israel drew away from the house of David, even to the present day.1 Kings 12:19
1 Kings 12:20 And it happened that, when all of Israel had heard that Jeroboam had returned, gathering an assembly, they sent and called him, and they appointed him as king over all of Israel. And no one followed the house of David, except the tribe of Judah alone.1 Kings 12:20
1 Kings 12:21 Then Rehoboam went to Jerusalem, and he gathered together the entire house of Judah, and the tribe of Benjamin, one hundred and eighty thousand elect men of war, so that they might fight against the house of Israel, and might bring the kingdom back to Rehoboam, the son of Solomon.1 Kings 12:21
1 Kings 12:22 But the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah, the man of God, saying:1 Kings 12:22
1 Kings 12:23 “Speak to Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, the king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah, and to Benjamin, and to the rest of the people, saying:1 Kings 12:23
1 Kings 12:24 ‘Thus says the Lord: You shall not go up, and you shall not make war against your brothers, the sons of Israel. Let each man return to his own house. For this word came from me.’ ” And they listened to the word of the Lord, and they returned from the journey, as the Lord had instructed them.1 Kings 12:24
1 Kings 12:25 Then Jeroboam built up Shechem, on mount Ephraim, and he lived there. And departing from there, he built up Penuel.1 Kings 12:25
1 Kings 12:26 And Jeroboam said in his heart: “Now the kingdom will return to the house of David,1 Kings 12:26
1 Kings 12:27 if this people ascend to offer sacrifices in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem. And the heart of this people will be converted to their lord Rehoboam, the king of Judah, and they will put me to death, and return to him.”1 Kings 12:27
1 Kings 12:28 And devising a plan, he made two golden calves. And he said to them: “No longer choose to ascend to Jerusalem. Behold, these are your gods, O Israel, who led you away from the land of Egypt!”1 Kings 12:28
1 Kings 12:29 And he stationed one in Bethel, and the other in Dan.1 Kings 12:29
1 Kings 12:30 And this word became an occasion of sin. For the people went to adore the calf, even to Dan.1 Kings 12:30
1 Kings 12:31 And he made shrines on the high places, and he made priests out of the lowest people, who were not of the sons of Levi.1 Kings 12:31
1 Kings 12:32 And he appointed a solemn day in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, in imitation of the solemnity that was celebrated in Judah. And ascending to the altar, he acted similarly in Bethel, so that he immolated to the calves, which he had made. And in Bethel, he appointed priests of the high places, which he had made.1 Kings 12:32
1 Kings 12:33 And he ascended to the altar, which he had raised up in Bethel, on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, the day that he had decided in his own heart. And he made a solemnity to the sons of Israel, and he ascended to the altar, so that he might burn incense.1 Kings 12:33
1 Kings 13:1 And behold, by the word of the Lord, a man of God went from Judah to Bethel, when Jeroboam was standing over the altar, and burning incense.1 Kings 13:1
1 Kings 13:2 And by the word of the Lord, he cried out against the altar. And he said: “O altar, O altar! Thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, a son will be born to the house of David, Josiah by name. And upon you, he will immolate the priests of the high places, who now burn incense upon you. And upon you, he will burn up the bones of men.’ ”1 Kings 13:2
1 Kings 13:3 And he gave a sign on the same day, saying: “This will be the sign that the Lord has spoken. Behold, the altar shall be torn apart, and the ashes that are upon it shall be poured out.”1 Kings 13:3
1 Kings 13:4 And when the king had heard the word of the man of God, which he had cried out against the altar at Bethel, he extended his hand from the altar, saying, “Apprehend him!” But his hand, which he had extended against him, withered. And he was unable to draw it back to himself.1 Kings 13:4
1 Kings 13:5 Also, the altar was torn apart, and the ashes were poured out from the altar, in accord with the sign that the man of God had predicted by the word of the Lord.1 Kings 13:5
1 Kings 13:6 And the king said to the man of God, “Entreat the face of the Lord your God, and pray for me, so that my hand may be restored to me.” And the man of God prayed before the face of the Lord, and the hand of the king was restored to him, and it became as it had been before.1 Kings 13:6
1 Kings 13:7 Then the king said to the man of God: “Come home with me, so that you may dine. And I will give you gifts.”1 Kings 13:7
1 Kings 13:8 And the man of God responded to the king: “Even if you will give me one half part of your house, I will not go with you, nor eat bread, nor drink water in this place.1 Kings 13:8
1 Kings 13:9 For so it was commanded to me by the word of the Lord, ordering: ‘You shall not eat bread, and you shall not drink water, nor shall you return by the way that you came.’ ”1 Kings 13:9
1 Kings 13:10 Then he departed by another way, and he did not return along the way that he had traveled to Bethel.1 Kings 13:10
1 Kings 13:11 Now a certain elderly prophet was living in Bethel. His sons went to him, and they described to him all the works which the man of God had accomplished on that day in Bethel. And they described to their father the words that he had spoken to the king.1 Kings 13:11
1 Kings 13:12 And their father said to them, “By which way did he depart?” His sons showed him the way by which the man of God, who had come from Judah, had departed.1 Kings 13:12
1 Kings 13:13 And he said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” And when they had saddled it, he climbed on,1 Kings 13:13
1 Kings 13:14 and he went away after the man of God. And he found him sitting under a terebinth tree. And he said to him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” And he responded, “I am.”1 Kings 13:14
1 Kings 13:15 And he said to him, “Come home with me, so that you may eat bread.”1 Kings 13:15
1 Kings 13:16 But he said: “I am not able to turn back, nor to go with you. Neither will I eat bread, or drink water in this place.1 Kings 13:16
1 Kings 13:17 For the Lord has spoken to me, by the word of the Lord, saying, “You shall not eat bread, and you shall not drink water in that place, nor shall you return by the way that you arrived.”1 Kings 13:17
1 Kings 13:18 And he said to him: “I, too, am a prophet like you. And an Angel spoke to me, by the word of the Lord, saying, ‘Lead him back with you to your house, so that he may eat bread, and drink water.’ ” And so he deceived him.1 Kings 13:18
1 Kings 13:19 And he led him back with him. Then he ate bread and drank water in his house.1 Kings 13:19
1 Kings 13:20 And while they were sitting at table, the word of the Lord came to the prophet who had led him back.1 Kings 13:20
1 Kings 13:21 And he cried out to the man of God who had arrived from Judah, saying: “Thus says the Lord: Because you were not obedient to the mouth of the Lord, and you did not keep the commandment that the Lord your God instructed to you,1 Kings 13:21
1 Kings 13:22 and you turned back, and ate bread, and drank water in the place where he commanded you that you should not eat bread, nor drink water: your dead body shall not be carried back to the sepulcher of your fathers.”1 Kings 13:22
1 Kings 13:23 And when he had eaten and had drunk, he saddled his donkey for the prophet whom he had led back.1 Kings 13:23
1 Kings 13:24 And when he had departed, a lion found him along the way, and it killed him, and his dead body was left upon the road. Now the donkey was standing beside him. And the lion was standing beside the dead body.1 Kings 13:24
1 Kings 13:25 And behold, men who were passing by saw the dead body lying in the road, with the lion standing beside the body. And they went and made it widely known in the city where that elderly prophet was living.1 Kings 13:25
1 Kings 13:26 And when that prophet, who had led him back from the way, had heard it, he said: “It is the man of God, who was disobedient to the mouth of the Lord. And the Lord has delivered him to the lion. And it has torn him apart and killed him, in accord with the word of the Lord, which he spoke to him.”1 Kings 13:26
1 Kings 13:27 And he said to his sons, “Saddle a donkey for me.” And when they had saddled it,1 Kings 13:27
1 Kings 13:28 and he had departed, he found the dead body lying on the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside the dead body. The lion did not eat from the dead body, nor did it harm the donkey.1 Kings 13:28
1 Kings 13:29 Then the prophet took the dead body of the man of God, and he placed it upon the donkey, and returning, he brought it into the city of the elderly prophet, so that he might mourn for him.1 Kings 13:29
1 Kings 13:30 And he placed his dead body in his own sepulcher. And they mourned for him, saying: “Alas! Alas! My brother!”1 Kings 13:30
1 Kings 13:31 And when they had mourned over him, he said to his sons: “When I will have died, bury me in the sepulcher in which the man of God was buried. Place my bones beside his bones.1 Kings 13:31
1 Kings 13:32 For certainly, the word will arrived, which he predicted by the word of the Lord, against the altar, which is in Bethel, and against all the shrines of the high places, which are in the cities of Samaria.”1 Kings 13:32
1 Kings 13:33 After these words, Jeroboam did not turn back from his very evil way. Instead, to the contrary, he made priests for the high places out of the least of the people. Whosoever was willing, he filled his hand, and he became a priest of the high places.1 Kings 13:33
1 Kings 13:34 And for this reason, the house of Jeroboam sinned, and was uprooted, and was wiped from the face of the earth.1 Kings 13:34
1 Kings 14:1 In that time Abijah, the son of Jeroboam, became ill.1 Kings 14:1
1 Kings 14:2 And Jeroboam said to his wife: “Rise up, and change clothing, so that you will not be recognized to be the wife of Jeroboam. And go to Shiloh, where the prophet Ahijah is, who said to me that I should reign over this people.1 Kings 14:2
1 Kings 14:3 Also, take in your hand ten loaves, and dried bread, and a container of honey, and go to him. For he will reveal to you what will happen to this boy.”1 Kings 14:3
1 Kings 14:4 The wife of Jeroboam did just as he had said. And rising up, she went away to Shiloh. And she arrived at the house of Ahijah. But he was unable to see, because his eyes had dimmed due to old age.1 Kings 14:4
1 Kings 14:5 Then the Lord said to Ahijah: “Behold, the wife of Jeroboam enters, so that she may consult you over her son, who is ill. You shall say one thing and another to her.” Therefore, as she was entering, not presenting herself to be who she was,1 Kings 14:5
1 Kings 14:6 Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, entering through the door. And he said: “Enter, O wife of Jeroboam. Why do you pretend to be someone you are not? But I have been sent to you with harsh news.1 Kings 14:6
1 Kings 14:7 Go, and tell Jeroboam: ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Although I exalted you from the midst of the people, and I granted to you to be the leader over my people Israel,1 Kings 14:7
1 Kings 14:8 and I tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and I gave it to you, yet you have not been like David, my servant, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with his whole heart, doing what was pleasing in my sight.1 Kings 14:8
1 Kings 14:9 Instead, you have worked evil beyond all those who were before you. And you have made for yourself strange gods and molten images, so that you provoke me to anger. And you have cast me behind your back.1 Kings 14:9
1 Kings 14:10 For this reason, behold, I will lead evils over the house of Jeroboam, and I will strike down from Jeroboam that which urinates against a wall, and that which is lame, and that which is last in Israel. And I will cleanse that which remains of the house of Jeroboam, just as dung is usually cleaned away, until there is purity.1 Kings 14:10
1 Kings 14:11 Those who will have died of Jeroboam in the city, the dogs will devour them. And those who will have died in the field, the birds of the heavens will devour them. For the Lord has spoken.’1 Kings 14:11
1 Kings 14:12 Therefore, you must rise up, and go to your house. And in the city, at the very entrance of your feet, the boy will die.1 Kings 14:12
1 Kings 14:13 And all of Israel will mourn him, and will bury him. For he alone of Jeroboam shall be brought into a sepulcher. For concerning him, there has been found a good word from the Lord, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.1 Kings 14:13
1 Kings 14:14 But the Lord has appointed for himself a king over Israel, who will strike down the house of Jeroboam, in this day and in this time.1 Kings 14:14
1 Kings 14:15 And the Lord God shall strike Israel, just as a reed is usually shaken in the water. And he will uproot Israel from this good land, which he gave to their fathers. And he will winnow them beyond the river. For they have made for themselves sacred groves, so that they have provoked the Lord.1 Kings 14:15
1 Kings 14:16 And the Lord will hand over Israel, because of the sins of Jeroboam, who has sinned and caused Israel to sin.”1 Kings 14:16
1 Kings 14:17 And so, the wife of Jeroboam rose up, and she went away. And she arrived at Tirzah. And as she was entering the threshold of the house, the boy died.1 Kings 14:17
1 Kings 14:18 And they buried him, and all of Israel mourned for him, in accord with the word of the Lord, which he spoke by the hand of his servant Ahijah, the prophet.1 Kings 14:18
1 Kings 14:19 Now the rest of the words of Jeroboam, the manner in which he fought, and the manner in which he reigned, behold, these were written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel.1 Kings 14:19
1 Kings 14:20 And the days during which Jeroboam reigned were twenty-two years. And he slept with his fathers. And Nadab, his son, reigned in his place.1 Kings 14:20
1 Kings 14:21 Now Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he had begun to reign. And he reigned for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that the Lord chose, out of all the tribes of Israel, so that he might place his name there. And the name of his mother was Naamah, an Ammonite.1 Kings 14:21
1 Kings 14:22 And Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they provoked him beyond all that their fathers had done, by their sins that they committed.1 Kings 14:22
1 Kings 14:23 For they, too, built for themselves altars, and statues, and sacred groves, upon every high hill and under every leafy tree.1 Kings 14:23
1 Kings 14:24 Moreover, the effeminate were in the land, and they committed all the abominations of the peoples that the Lord had destroyed before the face of the sons of Israel.1 Kings 14:24
1 Kings 14:25 Then, in the fifth year of the reign of Rehoboam, Shishak, the king of Egypt, ascended against Jerusalem.1 Kings 14:25
1 Kings 14:26 And he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the royal treasures, and he plundered everything, including the shields of gold that Solomon had made.1 Kings 14:26
1 Kings 14:27 In place of these, king Rehoboam made shields of brass, and he delivered them into the hand of the commanders of the shield bearers, and of those who were keeping the night watch before the gate of the king’s house.1 Kings 14:27
1 Kings 14:28 And when the king entered into the house of the Lord, these were carried by those who held the office to go before him. And afterward, they carried them back to the armory of the shield bearers.1 Kings 14:28
1 Kings 14:29 Now the rest of the words of Rehoboam, and all that he did, behold, these were written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Judah.1 Kings 14:29
1 Kings 14:30 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam, during all the days.1 Kings 14:30
1 Kings 14:31 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and he was buried with them in the city of David. And his mother’s name was Naamah, an Ammonite. And his son Abijam reigned in his place.1 Kings 14:31
1 Kings 15:1 Then, in the eighteenth year of the reign of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, Abijam reigned over Judah.1 Kings 15:1
1 Kings 15:2 He reigned for three years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Maacah, the daughter of Abishalom.1 Kings 15:2
1 Kings 15:3 And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him. Neither was his heart perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David, his father.1 Kings 15:3
1 Kings 15:4 But for the sake of David, the Lord his God gave to him a lamp in Jerusalem, so that he might raise up his son after him, and so that he might establish Jerusalem.1 Kings 15:4
1 Kings 15:5 For David had done what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and he had not declined from all of the things that he had instructed to him, during all the days of his life, except the matter of Uriah, the Hittite.1 Kings 15:5
1 Kings 15:6 Now there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam during the entire time of his life.1 Kings 15:6
1 Kings 15:7 And the rest of the words of Abijam, and all that he did, were these not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Judah? And there was fighting between Abijam and Jeroboam.1 Kings 15:7
1 Kings 15:8 And Abijam slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David. And Asa, his son, reigned in his place.1 Kings 15:8
1 Kings 15:9 Then, in the twentieth year of Jeroboam, the king of Israel, Asa reigned as king of Judah.1 Kings 15:9
1 Kings 15:10 And he reigned for forty-one years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Maacah, the daughter of Abishalom.1 Kings 15:10
1 Kings 15:11 And Asa did what was right before the sight of the Lord, just as his father David did.1 Kings 15:11
1 Kings 15:12 And he took away the effeminate from the land. And he purged all the filth of the idols, which his fathers had made.1 Kings 15:12
1 Kings 15:13 Moreover, he also removed his mother, Maacah, from being the leader in the sacrifices of Priapus, and in his sacred grove which she had consecrated. And he destroyed his grotto. And he shattered the very indecent idol, and he burned it at the torrent Kidron.1 Kings 15:13
1 Kings 15:14 But the high places, he did not take away. Yet truly, the heart of Asa was perfect with the Lord during all his days.1 Kings 15:14
1 Kings 15:15 And he brought the things that his father had sanctified and vowed back to the house of the Lord: the silver, and the gold, and the vessels.1 Kings 15:15
1 Kings 15:16 Now there was war between Asa and Baasha, the king of Israel, during all their days.1 Kings 15:16
1 Kings 15:17 And Baasha, the king of Israel, ascended against Judah. And he built up Ramah, so that no one would be able to exit or enter from the side of Asa, the king of Judah.1 Kings 15:17
1 Kings 15:18 And so, Asa took all the silver and the gold which had remained in the treasuries of the house of the Lord, and in the treasuries of the house of the king, and he gave it into the hands of his servants. And he sent them to Benhadad, the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, the king of Syria, who was living in Damascus, saying:1 Kings 15:18
1 Kings 15:19 “There is a pact between me and you, and between my father and your father. For this reason, I have sent to you gifts of silver and of gold. And I ask you to go and break your pact with Baasha, the king of Israel, so that he may withdraw from me.”1 Kings 15:19
1 Kings 15:20 Benhadad, acquiescing to king Asa, sent the leaders of his army against the cities of Israel. And they struck Ijon, and Dan, and Abel, the house of Maacah, and all of Chinneroth, that is, all the land of Naphtali.1 Kings 15:20
1 Kings 15:21 And when Baasha had heard this, he ceased from fortifying Ramah, and he returned to Tirzah.1 Kings 15:21
1 Kings 15:22 Then king Asa sent an announcement to all of Judah, saying, “Let no one be excused.” And they took away the stones from Ramah, and its timber, with which Baasha had fortified it. And from these things, king Asa built up Geba of Benjamin and Mizpah.1 Kings 15:22
1 Kings 15:23 Now all the rest of the words of Asa, and his entire strength, and all that he did, and the cities that he built, were these not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Judah? Yet truly, in the time of his old age, he was afflicted in his feet.1 Kings 15:23
1 Kings 15:24 And he slept with his fathers, and he was buried with them in the city of David, his father. And Jehoshaphat, his son, reigned in his place.1 Kings 15:24
1 Kings 15:25 Yet truly, Nadab, the son of Jeroboam, reigned over Israel, in the second year of Asa, the king of Judah. And he reigned over Israel for two years.1 Kings 15:25
1 Kings 15:26 And he did what is evil in the sight of the Lord. And he walked in the ways of his father and in his sins, by which he caused Israel to sin.1 Kings 15:26
1 Kings 15:27 Then Baasha, the son of Ahijah, from the house of Issachar, set an ambush against him, and he struck him down at Gibbethon, which is a city of the Philistines. For indeed, Nadab and all of Israel were laying siege to Gibbethon.1 Kings 15:27
1 Kings 15:28 And so Baasha killed him in the third year of Asa, the king of Judah, and he reigned in his place.1 Kings 15:28
1 Kings 15:29 And when he had reigned, he struck down the entire house of Jeroboam. He did not leave behind even one soul from his offspring, until he had wiped him away, in accord with the word of the Lord, which he had spoken by the hand of Ahijah, the Shilonite,1 Kings 15:29
1 Kings 15:30 because of the sin of Jeroboam, which he had committed, and by which he had caused Israel to sin, and because of the offense by which he had provoked the Lord, the God of Israel.1 Kings 15:30
1 Kings 15:31 But the rest of the words of Nadab, and all that he did, were these not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?1 Kings 15:31
1 Kings 15:32 And there was war between Asa and Baasha, the king of Israel, during all their days.1 Kings 15:32
1 Kings 15:33 In the third year of Asa, the king of Judah, Baasha, the son of Ahijah, reigned over all of Israel, at Tirzah, for twenty-four years.1 Kings 15:33
1 Kings 15:34 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord. And he walked in the ways of Jeroboam, and in his sins, by which he caused Israel to sin.1 Kings 15:34
1 Kings 16:1 Then the word of the Lord came to Jehu, the son of Hanani, against Baasha, saying:1 Kings 16:1
1 Kings 16:2 “Even though I exalted you from the dust, and I set you as ruler over my people Israel, still you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, and you have caused my people Israel to sin, so that you have provoked me by their sins.1 Kings 16:2
1 Kings 16:3 Behold, I will cut down the posterity of Baasha, and the posterity of his house. And I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat.1 Kings 16:3
1 Kings 16:4 Whoever will have died of Baasha in the city, the dogs will consume him. And whoever will have died of him in the countryside, the birds of the air will consume him.”1 Kings 16:4
1 Kings 16:5 Now the rest of the words of Baasha, and whatever he did, and his battles, were these not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?1 Kings 16:5
1 Kings 16:6 Then Baasha slept with his fathers, and he was buried at Tirzah. And Elah, his son, reigned in his place.1 Kings 16:6
1 Kings 16:7 And when the word of the Lord had arrived by the hand of the prophet Jehu, the son of Hanani, against Baasha, and against his house, and against every evil that he had done before the Lord, so that he provoked him by the works of his hands, so that he became like the house of Jeroboam: for this reason, he killed him, that is, the prophet Jehu, the son of Hanani.1 Kings 16:7
1 Kings 16:8 In the twenty-sixth year of Asa, the king of Judah, Elah, the son of Baasha, reigned over Israel, at Tirzah, for two years.1 Kings 16:8
1 Kings 16:9 And his servant Zimri, the commander of one half part the horsemen, rebelled against him. Now Elah was drinking at Tirzah, and he became inebriated in the house of Arza, the prefect of Tirzah.1 Kings 16:9
1 Kings 16:10 Then Zimri, rushing in, struck him and killed him, in the twenty-seventh year of Asa, the king of Judah. And he reigned in his place.1 Kings 16:10
1 Kings 16:11 And when he had reigned and had sat upon his throne, he struck down the entire house of Baasha. And he did not leave behind of them anything that urinates against a wall, among both close relatives and his friends.1 Kings 16:11
1 Kings 16:12 And so, Zimri destroyed the entire house of Baasha, in accord with the word of the Lord, which he had spoken to Baasha, by the hand the prophet of Jehu,1 Kings 16:12
1 Kings 16:13 because of all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah, his son, who sinned and caused Israel to sin, provoking the Lord, the God of Israel, with their vanities.1 Kings 16:13
1 Kings 16:14 But the rest of the words of Elah, and all that he did, were these not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?1 Kings 16:14
1 Kings 16:15 In the twenty-seventh year of Asa, the king of Judah, Zimri reigned for seven days in Tirzah. For the army was besieging Gibbethon, a city of the Philistines.1 Kings 16:15
1 Kings 16:16 And when they had heard that Zimri had rebelled, and that he had killed the king, all of Israel made Omri as a king for themselves; he was the leader of the military over Israel in the encampment in that day.1 Kings 16:16
1 Kings 16:17 Therefore, Omri ascended, and all of Israel with him, from Gibbethon, and they besieged Tirzah.1 Kings 16:17
1 Kings 16:18 Then Zimri, seeing that the city was about to be taken, entered the palace, and he set fire to himself along with the royal house. And he died1 Kings 16:18
1 Kings 16:19 in his sins, which he had sinned, doing evil before the Lord, and walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin, by which he caused Israel to sin.1 Kings 16:19
1 Kings 16:20 But the rest of the words of Zimri, and of his treachery and tyranny, were these not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?1 Kings 16:20
1 Kings 16:21 Then the people of Israel were divided into two parts: one half part of the people followed Tibni, the son of Ginath, having appointed him as king, and one half part followed Omri.1 Kings 16:21
1 Kings 16:22 But the people who were with Omri prevailed over the people who were following Tibni, the son of Ginath. And Tibni died, and Omri reigned.1 Kings 16:22
1 Kings 16:23 In the thirty-first year of Asa, the king of Judah, Omri reigned over Israel for twelve years; he reigned for six years at Tirzah.1 Kings 16:23
1 Kings 16:24 And he bought the mount of Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver. And he built upon it, and he called the name of the city that he had built, Samaria, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the mount.1 Kings 16:24
1 Kings 16:25 But Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord, and he wrought wickedness, beyond all who had been before him.1 Kings 16:25
1 Kings 16:26 And he walked in all the ways of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and in his sins, by which he had caused Israel to sin, so that he provoked the Lord, the God of Israel, by their vanities.1 Kings 16:26
1 Kings 16:27 Now the rest of the words of Omri, and his battles that he carried out, were these not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?1 Kings 16:27
1 Kings 16:28 And Omri slept with his fathers, and he was buried in Samaria. And Ahab, his son, reigned in his place.1 Kings 16:28
1 Kings 16:29 Truly, Ahab, the son of Omri, reigned over Israel in the thirty-eighth year of Asa, the king of Judah. And Ahab, the son of Omri, reigned over Israel at Samaria for twenty-two years.1 Kings 16:29
1 Kings 16:30 And Ahab, the son of Omri, did evil in the sight of the Lord, beyond all who had been before him.1 Kings 16:30
1 Kings 16:31 And it was not enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat. In addition, he took as a wife Jezebel, the daughter of Eth-baal, the king of the Sidonians. And he went astray, and he served Baal, and adored him.1 Kings 16:31
1 Kings 16:32 And he set up an altar for Baal, in the temple of Baal, which he had built at Samaria.1 Kings 16:32
1 Kings 16:33 And he planted a sacred grove. And Ahab added to his works, provoking the Lord, the God of Israel, beyond all the kings of Israel who had been before him.1 Kings 16:33
1 Kings 16:34 In his days, Hiel from Bethel built up Jericho. With Abiram, his firstborn, he founded it, and with Segub, his youngest son, he set up its gates, in accord with the word of the Lord, which he had spoken by the hand of Joshua, the son of Nun.1 Kings 16:34
1 Kings 17:1 And Elijah the Tishbite, from the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord lives, the God of Israel, in whose sight I stand, there shall not be dew or rain during these years, except by the words of my mouth.”1 Kings 17:1
1 Kings 17:2 And the word of the Lord came to him, saying:1 Kings 17:2
1 Kings 17:3 “Withdraw from here, and go toward the east, and hide at the torrent Cherith, which is opposite the Jordan.1 Kings 17:3
1 Kings 17:4 And there you shall drink from the torrent. And I have instructed the ravens to feed you there.”1 Kings 17:4
1 Kings 17:5 Therefore, he went and acted in accord with the word of the Lord. And going away, he settled by the torrent Cherith, which is opposite the Jordan.1 Kings 17:5
1 Kings 17:6 And the ravens carried bread and flesh to him in the morning, and likewise bread and flesh in the evening. And he drank from the torrent.1 Kings 17:6
1 Kings 17:7 But after some days, the torrent dried up. For it had not rained upon the earth.1 Kings 17:7
1 Kings 17:8 Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying:1 Kings 17:8
1 Kings 17:9 “Rise up, and go to Zarephath of the Sidonians, and dwell there. For I have instructed a widowed woman there to feed you.”1 Kings 17:9
1 Kings 17:10 He rose up and went away to Zarephath. And when he had arrived at the gate of the city, he saw the widowed woman collecting wood, and he called to her. And he said to her, “Give me a little water in a vessel, so that I may drink.”1 Kings 17:10
1 Kings 17:11 And as she was going to bring it, he called out after her, saying, “Bring me also, I beg you, a morsel of bread in your hand.”1 Kings 17:11
1 Kings 17:12 And she responded: “As the Lord your God lives, I have no bread, except a handful of flour in a jar, and a little oil in a bottle. See, I am collecting a couple of sticks, so that I may go in and make it for myself and my son, so that we may eat it and die.”1 Kings 17:12
1 Kings 17:13 And Elijah said to her: “Do not be afraid. But go and do as you have said. Yet truly, first make for me, from the same flour, a little bread baked under ashes, and bring it to me. Then afterward, make some for yourself and for your son.1 Kings 17:13
1 Kings 17:14 For thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: ‘The jar of flour will not fail, nor the bottle of oil be diminished, until the day when the Lord will grant rain upon the face of the earth.’ ”1 Kings 17:14
1 Kings 17:15 She went and acted in accord with the word of Elijah. And he ate, and she and her household ate. And from that day,1 Kings 17:15
1 Kings 17:16 the jar of flour did not fail, and the bottle of oil was not diminished, in accord with the word of the Lord, which he had spoken by the hand of Elijah.1 Kings 17:16
1 Kings 17:17 Now it happened that, after these things, the son of the woman who was the mother of the family became ill. And the sickness was very powerful, so that no breath remained in him.1 Kings 17:17
1 Kings 17:18 Therefore, she said to Elijah: “What is there between you and me, O man of God? Have you entered to me, so that my iniquities would be remembered, and so that you would put to death my son?”1 Kings 17:18
1 Kings 17:19 And Elijah said to her, “Give your son to me.” And he took him from her bosom, and he carried him to an upper room, where he himself was staying. And he placed him on his own bed.1 Kings 17:19
1 Kings 17:20 And he cried out to the Lord, and he said, “O Lord, my God, have you even afflicted the widow by whom I am, in a sense, sustained, so that you would put to death her son?”1 Kings 17:20
1 Kings 17:21 And he stretched himself out beside the boy three times. And he cried out to the Lord and said, “O Lord, my God, let the soul of this boy, I beg you, return to his body.”1 Kings 17:21
1 Kings 17:22 And the Lord heeded the voice of Elijah. And the soul of the boy returned to him, and he revived.1 Kings 17:22
1 Kings 17:23 And Elijah took the boy, and he brought him down from the upper room to the lower part of the house. And he gave him to his mother. And he said to her, “See, your son lives.”1 Kings 17:23
1 Kings 17:24 And the woman said to Elijah: “By this, I now realize that you are a man of God, and that the word of the Lord in your mouth is true.”1 Kings 17:24
1 Kings 18:1 After many days, the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go and show yourself to Ahab, so that I may grant rain upon the face of the earth.”1 Kings 18:1
1 Kings 18:2 Therefore, Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. For there was a severe famine in Samaria.1 Kings 18:2
1 Kings 18:3 And Ahab called Obadiah, the manager of his household. Now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly.1 Kings 18:3
1 Kings 18:4 For when Jezebel was killing the prophets of the Lord, he took one hundred prophets, and concealed them, fifty and fifty, in caves. And he fed them with bread and water.1 Kings 18:4
1 Kings 18:5 Then Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go into the land, to all fountains of water, and to all the valleys, for perhaps we will be able to find plants, and save the horses and mules, so that the beasts of burden may not perish entirely.”1 Kings 18:5
1 Kings 18:6 And they divided the regions among themselves, so that they might travel through them. Ahab went one way alone, and Obadiah went another way by himself.1 Kings 18:6
1 Kings 18:7 And while Obadiah was on the way, Elijah met him. And when he had recognized him, he fell on his face, and he said, “Are you not my lord Elijah?”1 Kings 18:7
1 Kings 18:8 And he responded to him: “I am. Go and tell your lord that Elijah is here.”1 Kings 18:8
1 Kings 18:9 And he said: “How have I sinned that you would deliver me, your servant, into the hand of Ahab, so that he would put me to death?1 Kings 18:9
1 Kings 18:10 As the Lord your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom to which my lord has not sent, seeking you. And when all responded, ‘He is not here,’ he swore each kingdom and nation to an oath, because you were not found at all.1 Kings 18:10
1 Kings 18:11 And now, you say to me, ‘Go and tell your lord that Elijah is here.’1 Kings 18:11
1 Kings 18:12 And when I will have departed from you, the Spirit of the Lord will transport you to a place that I do not know. And entering, I will report to Ahab. And he, not finding you, will put me to death. Yet your servant has feared the Lord from his infancy.1 Kings 18:12
1 Kings 18:13 Has it not been revealed to you, my lord, what I did when Jezebel was killing the prophets of the Lord: how I hid one hundred men from the prophets of the Lord, fifty and fifty, in caves, and how I fed them with bread and water?1 Kings 18:13
1 Kings 18:14 And now you say: ‘Go and tell your lord that Elijah is here,’ so that he may kill me!”1 Kings 18:14
1 Kings 18:15 And Elijah said, “As the Lord of hosts lives, before whose face I stand, this day I will appear to him.”1 Kings 18:15
1 Kings 18:16 Therefore, Obadiah went away to meet Ahab, and he reported to him. And Ahab went to meet Elijah.1 Kings 18:16
1 Kings 18:17 And when he had seen him, he said, “Are you the one who is disturbing Israel?”1 Kings 18:17
1 Kings 18:18 And he said: “I have not troubled Israel. But it is you, and the house of your father, who have abandoned the commandments of the Lord, and have followed the Baals.1 Kings 18:18
1 Kings 18:19 Yet truly now, send and gather to me all of Israel, on Mount Carmel, with the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal, and the four hundred prophets of the sacred groves, who eat from the table of Jezebel.”1 Kings 18:19
1 Kings 18:20 Ahab sent to all the sons of Israel, and he gathered together the prophets on mount Carmel.1 Kings 18:20
1 Kings 18:21 Then Elijah, drawing near to all the people, said: “How long will you waver between two sides? If the Lord is God, follow him. But if Baal is, then follow him.” And the people did not respond a word to him.1 Kings 18:21
1 Kings 18:22 And Elijah said again to the people: “I alone remain as a prophet of the Lord. But the prophets of Baal are four hundred and fifty men.1 Kings 18:22
1 Kings 18:23 Let two oxen be given to us. And let them choose one ox for themselves, and, cutting it into pieces, let them set it on the wood. But they may not place fire under it. And I will prepare the other ox, and set it on the wood. But I will not place fire under it.1 Kings 18:23
1 Kings 18:24 Call upon the names of your gods. And I will call on the name of my Lord. And the God who will have heeded with fire, let him be God.” And in response, all the people said, “Excellent proposition.”1 Kings 18:24
1 Kings 18:25 Then Elijah said to the prophets of Baal: “Choose for yourselves one ox, and prepare it first. For you are many. And call on the names of your gods, but do not place fire under it.”1 Kings 18:25
1 Kings 18:26 And when they had taken an ox, which he had given to them, they prepared it. And they called on the name of Baal, from morning even until midday, saying, “O Baal, heed us.” And there was no voice, nor did anyone respond. And so they leaped upon the altar that they had made.1 Kings 18:26
1 Kings 18:27 And when it was now midday, Elijah ridiculed them, saying: “Cry out with a louder voice. For he is a god, and perhaps he is talking, or at an inn, or on a journey, or certainly he may be asleep, and must be awakened.”1 Kings 18:27
1 Kings 18:28 Then they cried out with a loud voice, and they cut themselves, in accord with their ritual, with knives and lancets, until they were entirely covered in blood.1 Kings 18:28
1 Kings 18:29 Then, after midday had passed, and they were prophesying, the time had arrived when the sacrifice is usually offered. And there was no voice heard, neither did anyone heed or respond to the praying.1 Kings 18:29
1 Kings 18:30 Elijah said to all the people, “Draw near to me.” And as the people were drawing near to him, he repaired the altar of the Lord, which had been torn down.1 Kings 18:30
1 Kings 18:31 And he took twelve stones, in accord with the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord came, saying, “Israel shall be your name.”1 Kings 18:31
1 Kings 18:32 And he built from the stones an altar to the name of the Lord. And he made a trench for water, like two furrows of plowed land, all around the altar.1 Kings 18:32
1 Kings 18:33 And he arranged the wood, and he cut the ox into pieces, and he placed it on the wood.1 Kings 18:33
1 Kings 18:34 And he said, “Fill four containers with water, and pour it over the holocaust, and over the wood.” And again, he said, “Do this a second time.” And when they had done it a second time, he said, “Do it also a third time.” And they did so a third time.1 Kings 18:34
1 Kings 18:35 And the water was running down around the altar, and the pit of the trench was filled with water.1 Kings 18:35
1 Kings 18:36 And when it was now time for the holocaust to be offered, the prophet Elijah, drawing near, said: “O Lord, God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Israel, reveal this day that you are the God of Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have acted, in all these things, in accord with your precept.1 Kings 18:36
1 Kings 18:37 Heed me, O Lord, heed me, so that this people may learn that you are the Lord God, and that you have converted their heart again.”1 Kings 18:37
1 Kings 18:38 Then the fire of the Lord fell down and devoured the holocaust, and the wood, and the stones, and even the dust, and it absorbed the water that was in the trench.1 Kings 18:38
1 Kings 18:39 And when all the people had seen it, they fell upon their face, and they said: “The Lord himself is God! The Lord himself is God!”1 Kings 18:39
1 Kings 18:40 And Elijah said to them, “Apprehend the prophets of Baal, and do not let even one of them escape.” And when they had apprehended them, Elijah led them down to the torrent Kishon, and he put them to death there.1 Kings 18:40
1 Kings 18:41 And Elijah said to Ahab “Ascend; eat and drink. For there is the sound of an abundance of rain.”1 Kings 18:41
1 Kings 18:42 Ahab ascended, so that he might eat and drink. But Elijah ascended to the top of Carmel, and bending down to the ground, he placed his face between his knees.1 Kings 18:42
1 Kings 18:43 And he said to his servant, “Ascend, and gaze out toward the sea.” And when he had ascended, and had contemplated, he said, “There is nothing.” And again, he said to him, “Return seven times.”1 Kings 18:43
1 Kings 18:44 And at the seventh time, behold, a little cloud ascended from the sea like the footstep of a man. And he said: “Ascend, and say to Ahab, ‘Yoke your chariot, and descend; otherwise, the rain may prevent you.’ ”1 Kings 18:44
1 Kings 18:45 And as he was turning himself this way and that, behold, the heavens were darkened, and there were clouds and wind, and a great rainstorm occurred. And so Ahab, going up, went away to Jezreel.1 Kings 18:45
1 Kings 18:46 And the hand of the Lord was upon Elijah. And cinching his waist, he ran before Ahab, until he arrived at Jezreel.1 Kings 18:46
1 Kings 19:1 Then Ahab reported to Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.1 Kings 19:1
1 Kings 19:2 And so Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “May the gods to these things, and may they add these other things, if by this hour tomorrow I will not have made your life like the life of one of them.”1 Kings 19:2
1 Kings 19:3 Therefore, Elijah was afraid. And rising up, he went away to wherever his will would carry him. And he arrived in Beersheba of Judah. And he dismissed his servant there.1 Kings 19:3
1 Kings 19:4 And he continued on, into the desert, for one day’s journey. And when he had arrived, and was sitting under a juniper tree, he requested for his soul that he might die. And he said: “It is enough for me, O Lord. Take my soul. For I am no better than my fathers.”1 Kings 19:4
1 Kings 19:5 And he stretched himself out, and he slept deeply in the shadow of the juniper tree. And behold, an Angel of the Lord touched him, and said to him, “Rise up and eat.”1 Kings 19:5
1 Kings 19:6 He looked, and behold, at his head was bread baked under ashes, and a container of water. Then he ate and drank, and again he slept deeply.1 Kings 19:6
1 Kings 19:7 And the Angel of the Lord returned a second time, and touched him, and said to him: “Rise up, eat. For a great journey again stands before you.”1 Kings 19:7
1 Kings 19:8 And he when he had risen up, he ate and drank. And he walked by the strength of that food for forty days and forty nights, as far as the mountain of God, Horeb.1 Kings 19:8
1 Kings 19:9 And when he had arrived there, he stayed in a cave. And behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”1 Kings 19:9
1 Kings 19:10 And he responded: “I have been very zealous on behalf of the Lord, the God of hosts. For the sons of Israel have forsaken your covenant. They have torn down your altars. They have killed your prophets with the sword. I alone remain. And they are seeking my life, so that they may take it away.”1 Kings 19:10
1 Kings 19:11 And he said to him, “Go out and stand on the mount before the Lord.” And behold, the Lord passed by. And there was a great and strong wind, tearing apart the mountains, and crushing the rocks before the Lord. But the Lord was not in the wind. And after the wind, there was an earthquake. But the Lord was not in the earthquake.1 Kings 19:11
1 Kings 19:12 And after the earthquake, there was a fire. But the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire, there was the whisper of a gentle breeze.1 Kings 19:12
1 Kings 19:13 And when Elijah had heard it, he covered his face with his cloak, and going out, he stood at the entrance of the cave. And behold, there was a voice to him, saying: “What are you doing here, Elijah?” And he responded:1 Kings 19:13
1 Kings 19:14 “I have been very zealous on behalf of the Lord, the God of hosts. For the sons of Israel have forsaken your covenant. They have torn down your altars. They have killed your prophets with the sword. I alone remain. And they are seeking my life, so that they may take it away.”1 Kings 19:14
1 Kings 19:15 And the Lord said to him: “Go, and return on your way, through the desert, to Damascus. And when you have arrived there, you shall anoint Hazael as king over Syria.1 Kings 19:15
1 Kings 19:16 And you shall anoint Jehu, the son of Nimshi, as king over Israel. But Elisha, the son of Shaphat, who is from Abelmeholah, you shall anoint to be a prophet in your place.1 Kings 19:16
1 Kings 19:17 And this shall be: whoever will have escaped from the sword of Hazael, will be slain by Jehu. And whoever will have escaped from the sword of Jehu, will be put to death by Elisha.1 Kings 19:17
1 Kings 19:18 And I will leave for myself seven thousand men in Israel, whose knees have not been bent before Baal, and every mouth that has not adored him, kissing hands.”1 Kings 19:18
1 Kings 19:19 Therefore, Elijah, setting out from there, found Elisha, the son of Shaphat, plowing with twelve yoke of oxen. And he himself was one of those who were plowing with the twelve yoke of oxen. And when Elijah had gone to him, he cast his mantle over him.1 Kings 19:19
1 Kings 19:20 And immediately, leaving behind the oxen, he ran after Elijah. And he said, “I beg you to let me kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you.” And he said to him: “Go, and turn back. For what was mine to do, I have done concerning you.”1 Kings 19:20
1 Kings 19:21 Then, turning back from him, he took a pair of oxen, and he slew them. And he cooked the flesh with the plow of the oxen. And he gave it to the people, and they ate. And rising up, he went and followed Elijah, and he ministered to him.1 Kings 19:21
1 Kings 20:1 Then Benhadad, the king of Syria, gathered together his entire army. And there were thirty-two kings with him, with horses and chariots. And ascending, he fought against Samaria, and he besieged it.1 Kings 20:1
1 Kings 20:2 And sending messengers into the city, to Ahab, the king of Israel,1 Kings 20:2
1 Kings 20:3 he said: “Thus says Benhadad: Your silver and your gold is mine. And your wives and your best sons are mine.”1 Kings 20:3
1 Kings 20:4 And the king of Israel responded, “In agreement with your word, my lord the king, I am yours, with all that is mine.”1 Kings 20:4
1 Kings 20:5 And the messengers, returning, said: “Thus says Benhadad, who sent us to you: Your silver and your gold, and your wives and your sons, you shall give to me.1 Kings 20:5
1 Kings 20:6 Therefore, tomorrow, at this same hour, I will send my servants to you, and they will search your house and the houses of your servants. And all that pleases them, they will put in their hands and take away.”1 Kings 20:6
1 Kings 20:7 Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and he said: “Let your souls take heed, and see that he commits treachery against us. For he sent to me for my wives and sons, and for silver and gold. And I did not refuse.”1 Kings 20:7
1 Kings 20:8 And all those greater by birth, with all the people, said to him, “You should neither listen, nor acquiesce to him.”1 Kings 20:8
1 Kings 20:9 And so, he responded to the messengers of Benhadad: “Tell my lord the king: Everything about which you sent to me in the beginning, I your servant will do. But this thing, I am not able to do.”1 Kings 20:9
1 Kings 20:10 And returning, the messengers took this to him, and he sent again and said, “May the gods do these things to me, and may they add these other things, if the dust of Samaria is enough to fill the hands of all the people who follow me.”1 Kings 20:10
1 Kings 20:11 And responding, the king of Israel said, “Tell him that one who is girded should not boast the same as one who is ungirded.”1 Kings 20:11
1 Kings 20:12 Then it happened that, when Benhadad had heard this word, he and the kings were drinking in a pavilion. And he said to his servants, “Encircle the city.” And they encircled it.1 Kings 20:12
1 Kings 20:13 And behold, one prophet, drawing near to Ahab, the king of Israel, said to him: “Thus says the Lord: Certainly, you have seen this entire exceedingly great multitude? Behold, I will deliver them into your hand today, so that you may know that I am the Lord.”1 Kings 20:13
1 Kings 20:14 And Ahab said, “By whom?” And he said to him: “Thus says the Lord: By the footmen of the leaders of the provinces.” And he said, “Who should begin to do battle?” And he said, “You should.”1 Kings 20:14
1 Kings 20:15 Therefore, he took a count of the servants of the leaders of the provinces. And he found the number to be two hundred thirty-two. And he set them in order after the people, all the sons of Israel, who were seven thousand.1 Kings 20:15
1 Kings 20:16 And they went out at midday. But Benhadad was drinking; he was inebriated in his pavilion, and the thirty-two kings with him, who had arrived in order to assist him.1 Kings 20:16
1 Kings 20:17 Then the servants of the leaders of the provinces went out to the first place, at the front. And so, Benhadad sent, and they reported to him, saying: “Men have gone out from Samaria.”1 Kings 20:17
1 Kings 20:18 And he said: “If they have arrived for peace, apprehend them alive; if to do battle, capture them alive.”1 Kings 20:18
1 Kings 20:19 Therefore, the servants of the leaders of the provinces went out, and the remainder of the army was following.1 Kings 20:19
1 Kings 20:20 And each one struck down the man who came against him. And the Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them. Also, Benhadad, the king of Syria, fled on a horse, with his horsemen.1 Kings 20:20
1 Kings 20:21 But the king of Israel, going out, struck the horses and the chariots, and he struck the Syrians with a great slaughter.1 Kings 20:21
1 Kings 20:22 Then a prophet, drawing near to the king of Israel, said to him: “Go and be strengthened. And know and see what you are doing. For in the following year, the king of Syria will rise up against you.”1 Kings 20:22
1 Kings 20:23 Then truly, the servants of the king of Syria said to him: “Their gods are the gods of the mountains; because of this, they have overwhelmed us. But it is better that we fight against them in the plains, and then we will prevail over them.1 Kings 20:23
1 Kings 20:24 Therefore, you should do this word: Remove each of the kings from your army, and set commanders in their place.1 Kings 20:24
1 Kings 20:25 And replace the number of soldiers who have been cut down of yours, and the horses, in accord with the earlier number of horses, and the chariots, in accord with the number of chariots that you had before. And we will fight against them in the plains, and you will see that we will prevail over them.” And he trusted in their counsel, and he did so.1 Kings 20:25
1 Kings 20:26 Therefore, after the passing of the year, Benhadad took a count of the Syrians, and he ascended to Aphek, so that he might fight against Israel.1 Kings 20:26
1 Kings 20:27 Then the sons of Israel were numbered, and taking provisions, they set out to the opposite side. And they stretched out the camp facing them, like two little flocks of goats. But the Syrians filled the land.1 Kings 20:27
1 Kings 20:28 And one man of God, drawing near, said to the king of Israel: “Thus says the Lord: Because the Syrians have said, ‘The Lord is the God of the mountains, but he is not the God of the valleys,’ I will deliver this entire great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am the Lord.”1 Kings 20:28
1 Kings 20:29 And for seven days, both sides arranged each of their battle lines. Then, on the seventh day, the war was undertaken. And the sons of Israel struck down, from the Syrians, one hundred thousand foot soldiers in one day.1 Kings 20:29
1 Kings 20:30 Then those who had remained fled to Aphek, into the city. And the wall fell upon twenty-seven thousand men of those who had remained. Then Benhadad, fleeing, entered the city, into a room that was inside another room.1 Kings 20:30
1 Kings 20:31 And his servants said to him: “Behold, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel show clemency. And so, let us put sackcloth around our waists, and ropes on our heads, and let us go out to the king of Israel. Perhaps he will save our lives.”1 Kings 20:31
1 Kings 20:32 So they wrapped sackcloth around their waists, and they placed ropes on their heads. And they went to the king of Israel, and they said to him: “Your servant, Benhadad, says: ‘I beg you to let my soul live.’ ” And he replied, “If he is still alive, he is my brother.”1 Kings 20:32
1 Kings 20:33 The men accepted this as a good sign. And hastily, they took up the word from his mouth, and they said, “Benhadad is your brother.” And he said to them, “Go, and bring him to me.” Therefore, Benhadad went out to him, and he lifted him onto his chariot.1 Kings 20:33
1 Kings 20:34 And he said to him: “The cities that my father took from your father, I will return. And you may make streets for yourself in Damascus, just as my father made in Samaria. And after we have made a pact, I will withdraw from you.” Therefore, he formed a pact with him, and he released him.1 Kings 20:34
1 Kings 20:35 Then a certain man from the sons of the prophets said to his associate, by the word of the Lord, “Strike me.” But he was not willing to strike.1 Kings 20:35
1 Kings 20:36 And he said to him: “Because you were not willing to heed the voice of the Lord, behold, you will depart from me, and a lion will slay you. And when he had departed a short distance from him, a lion found him, and slew him.1 Kings 20:36
1 Kings 20:37 But upon finding another man, he said to him, “Strike me.” And he struck him, and wounded him.1 Kings 20:37
1 Kings 20:38 Then the prophet departed. And he met the king along the way, and he changed his appearance by sprinkling dust around his mouth and eyes.1 Kings 20:38
1 Kings 20:39 And when the king had passed by, he cried out to the king, and he said: “Your servant went out to do battle in close quarters. And when one man had fled, a certain person brought him to me, and he said: ‘Guard this man. For if he slips away, your life will take the place of his life, or you will weigh out one talent of silver.’1 Kings 20:39
1 Kings 20:40 And while I was distracted, turning one way and another, suddenly, he was not to be seen.” And the king of Israel said to him, “This is your judgment, that which you yourself have decreed.”1 Kings 20:40
1 Kings 20:41 Then immediately, he wiped away the dust from his face, and the king of Israel recognized him, that he was one of the prophets.1 Kings 20:41
1 Kings 20:42 And he said to him: “Thus says the Lord: Because you have released from your hand a man worthy of death, your life will take the place of his life, and your people will take the place of his people.”1 Kings 20:42
1 Kings 20:43 And so the king of Israel returned to his house, unwilling to listen, and a fury entered into Samaria.1 Kings 20:43
1 Kings 21:1 And after these things, in that time, there was a vineyard of Naboth, the Jezreelite, who was in Jezreel, beside the palace of Ahab, the king of Samaria.1 Kings 21:1
1 Kings 21:2 Therefore, Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying: “Give your vineyard to me, so that I may make for myself a garden of herbs. For it is nearby and is beside my house. And I will give to you, in place of it, a better vineyard. Or if you consider it to be more convenient for you, I will give you the price in silver, whatever it is worth.”1 Kings 21:2
1 Kings 21:3 Naboth responded to him, “May the Lord be gracious to me, lest I give to you the inheritance of my fathers.”1 Kings 21:3
1 Kings 21:4 Then Ahab went into his house, angry and gnashing his teeth over the word that Naboth, the Jezreelite, had spoken to him, saying, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” And casting himself on his bed, he turned away his face to the wall, and he would not eat bread.1 Kings 21:4
1 Kings 21:5 Then Jezebel, his wife, entered to him, and she said to him: “What is this matter, by which your soul has been saddened? And why do you not eat bread?”1 Kings 21:5
1 Kings 21:6 And he responded to her: “I spoke to Naboth, the Jezreelite, and I said to him: ‘Give your vineyard to me, and accept money. Or if it pleases you, I will give to you a better vineyard, in place of it.’ And he said, ‘I will not give my vineyard to you.’ ”1 Kings 21:6
1 Kings 21:7 Then Jezebel, his wife, said to him: “You are of great authority, and you rule well in the kingdom of Israel. Rise up and eat bread, and be even-tempered. I will give the vineyard of Naboth, the Jezreelite, to you.”1 Kings 21:7
1 Kings 21:8 And so, she wrote letters in the name of Ahab, and she sealed these with his ring. And she sent to those greater by birth, and to the nobles who were in his city and living with Naboth.1 Kings 21:8
1 Kings 21:9 And this was the judgment of the letters: “Proclaim a fast, and cause Naboth to sit among the first rulers of the people.1 Kings 21:9
1 Kings 21:10 And send out two men, sons of Belial, against him. And let them speak the false testimony: ‘He has blasphemed God and king.’ And then lead him away, and stone him, and so let him die.”1 Kings 21:10
1 Kings 21:11 Then his fellow citizens, those greater by birth and the nobles who were living with him in the city, did just as Jezebel had instructed them, and just as it was written in the letters that she had sent to them.1 Kings 21:11
1 Kings 21:12 They proclaimed a fast, and they caused Naboth to sit among the first rulers of the people.1 Kings 21:12
1 Kings 21:13 And bringing forward two men, sons of the devil, they caused them to sit opposite him. And they, acting indeed like diabolical men, spoke testimony against him before the multitude: “Naboth has blasphemed God and king.” For this reason, they led him away, beyond the city, and they put him to death by stoning.1 Kings 21:13
1 Kings 21:14 And they sent to Jezebel, saying, “Naboth has been stoned, and he has died.”1 Kings 21:14
1 Kings 21:15 Then it happened that, when Jezebel had heard that Naboth was stoned and was dead, she said to Ahab: “Rise up and take possession of the vineyard of Naboth, the Jezreelite, who was not willing to acquiesce to you, and to give it to you in exchange for money. For Naboth is not alive, but dead.”1 Kings 21:15
1 Kings 21:16 And when Ahab had heard this, namely, that Naboth was dead, he rose up and descended to the vineyard of Naboth, the Jezreelite, so that he might take possession of it.1 Kings 21:16
1 Kings 21:17 Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah, the Tishbite, saying:1 Kings 21:17
1 Kings 21:18 “Rise up, and descend to meet Ahab, the king of Israel, who is in Samaria. Behold, he is descending to the vineyard of Naboth, so that he may take possession of it.1 Kings 21:18
1 Kings 21:19 And you shall speak to him, saying: ‘Thus says the Lord: You have killed. Moreover you have also taken possession.’ And after this, you shall add: ‘Thus says the Lord: In this place, where the dogs have licked the blood of Naboth, they shall also lick your blood.’ ”1 Kings 21:19
1 Kings 21:20 And Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you discovered me to be your enemy?” And he said: “I have discovered you to have been sold, so that you would do evil in the sight of the Lord:1 Kings 21:20
1 Kings 21:21 ‘Behold, I will lead evil over you. And I will cut down your posterity. And I will put to death of Ahab whatever urinates against a wall, and whatever is lame, and whatever is last in Israel.1 Kings 21:21
1 Kings 21:22 And I will cause your house to be like the house of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha, the son of Ahijah. For you have acted so that you provoked me to anger, and so that you caused Israel to sin.’1 Kings 21:22
1 Kings 21:23 And about Jezebel also, the Lord spoke, saying: ‘The dogs shall consume Jezebel in the field of Jezreel.1 Kings 21:23
1 Kings 21:24 If Ahab will have died in the city, the dogs will consume him. But if he will have died in the field, the birds of the air will consume him.’ ”1 Kings 21:24
1 Kings 21:25 And so, there was no other person similar to Ahab, who was sold so that he did evil in the sight of the Lord. For his wife, Jezebel, urged him on.1 Kings 21:25
1 Kings 21:26 And he became abominable, so much so that he followed the idols that the Amorites had made, whom the Lord consumed before the face of the sons of Israel.1 Kings 21:26
1 Kings 21:27 Then, when Ahab had heard these words, he tore his garments, and he put haircloth on his body, and he fasted, and he slept in sackcloth, and he walked with his head downcast.1 Kings 21:27
1 Kings 21:28 And the word of the Lord came to Elijah, the Tishbite, saying:1 Kings 21:28
1 Kings 21:29 “Have you not seen how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Therefore, since he has humbled himself because of me, I will not lead in the evil during his days. Instead, during the days of his son, I will bring in the evil to his house.”1 Kings 21:29
1 Kings 22:1 Then three years passed without war between Syria and Israel.1 Kings 22:1
1 Kings 22:2 But in the third year, Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, descended to the king of Israel.1 Kings 22:2
1 Kings 22:3 And the king of Israel said to his servants, “Are you ignorant that Ramoth Gilead is ours, and that we have neglected to take it from the hand of the king of Syria?”1 Kings 22:3
1 Kings 22:4 And so he said to Jehoshaphat, “Will you come to the battle with me at Ramoth Gilead?”1 Kings 22:4
1 Kings 22:5 And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel: “As I am, so also are you. My people and your people are one. And my horsemen are your horsemen.” And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “I beg you to inquire today of the word of the Lord.”1 Kings 22:5
1 Kings 22:6 Therefore, the king of Israel gathered together the prophets, about four hundred men, and he said to them, “Should I go to Ramoth Gilead to make war, or should I be at peace?” They responded, “Ascend, and the Lord will give it into the hand of the king.”1 Kings 22:6
1 Kings 22:7 Then Jehoshaphat said, “Is there not here a particular prophet of the Lord, so that we may inquire by him?”1 Kings 22:7
1 Kings 22:8 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat: “One man remains, by whom we may be able to inquire of the Lord: Micaiah, the son of Imlah. But I hate him. For he does not prophecy good to me, but evil.” And Jehoshaphat said, “You should not speak in this way, O king.”1 Kings 22:8
1 Kings 22:9 Therefore, the king of Israel called a certain eunuch, and he said to him, “Hurry to bring here Micaiah, the son of Imlah.”1 Kings 22:9
1 Kings 22:10 Now the king of Israel, and Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, were each sitting upon his own throne, clothed in the habit of royal vestments, in a courtyard beside the entrance of the gate of Samaria. And all the prophets were prophesying in their sight.1 Kings 22:10
1 Kings 22:11 Also, Zedekiah, the son of Chenaanah, made for himself horns of iron, and he said, “Thus says the Lord: With these, you shall threaten Syria, until you destroy it.”1 Kings 22:11
1 Kings 22:12 And all the prophets were prophesying similarly, saying: “Ascend to Ramoth Gilead, and go forth to success. For the Lord will deliver it into the hands of the king.”1 Kings 22:12
1 Kings 22:13 Then truly, the messenger who had gone to summon Micaiah spoke to him, saying: “Behold, the words of the prophets, as if with one mouth, are predicting good to the king. Therefore, let your word be like theirs, and speak what is good.”1 Kings 22:13
1 Kings 22:14 But Micaiah said to him, “As the Lord lives, whatever the Lord will have said to me, this shall I speak.”1 Kings 22:14
1 Kings 22:15 And so he went to the king. And the king said to him, “Micaiah, should we go to Ramoth Gilead to do battle, or should we cease?” And he responded to him, “Ascend, and go forth to success, and the Lord will deliver it into the hands of the king.”1 Kings 22:15
1 Kings 22:16 But the king said to him, “I require you under oath, again and again, that you not say to me anything except what is true, in the name of the Lord.”1 Kings 22:16
1 Kings 22:17 And he said: “I saw all of Israel scattered among the hills, like sheep that have no shepherd. And the Lord said: ‘These have no master. Let each of them return to his own house in peace.’ ”1 Kings 22:17
1 Kings 22:18 Therefore, the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat: “Did I not tell you that he prophesies nothing good to me, but always evil?”1 Kings 22:18
1 Kings 22:19 Yet truly, continuing, he said: “Because of his, listen to the word of the Lord. I saw the Lord sitting upon his throne. And the entire army of heaven was standing beside him, to the right and to the left.1 Kings 22:19
1 Kings 22:20 And the Lord said, ‘Who will mislead Ahab, the king of Israel, so that he may ascend and fall at Ramoth Gilead?’ And one spoke words in this manner, and another spoke otherwise.1 Kings 22:20
1 Kings 22:21 But then a spirit went out and stood before the Lord. And he said, ‘I will mislead him.’ And the Lord said to him, ‘By what means?’1 Kings 22:21
1 Kings 22:22 And he said, ‘I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ And the Lord said: ‘You will deceive him, and you will prevail. Go forth, and do so.’1 Kings 22:22
1 Kings 22:23 So now, behold: the Lord has given a lying spirit into the mouth of all your prophets who are here. And the Lord has spoken evil against you.”1 Kings 22:23
1 Kings 22:24 Then Zedekiah, the son of Chenaanah, drew near and struck Micaiah on the jaw, and he said, “So then, has the Spirit of the Lord left me, and spoken to you?”1 Kings 22:24
1 Kings 22:25 And Micaiah said, “You shall see in the day when you will enter into a room within a room, so that you may conceal yourself.”1 Kings 22:25
1 Kings 22:26 And the king of Israel said: “Take Micaiah, and let him dwell with Amon, the ruler of the city, and with Joash, the son of Amalech.1 Kings 22:26
1 Kings 22:27 And tell them: ‘Thus says the king: Put this man in prison, and sustain him with the bread of affliction, and with the water of distress, until I return in peace.’ ”1 Kings 22:27
1 Kings 22:28 And Micaiah said, “If you will have returned in peace, the Lord has not spoken through me.” And he said, “May all the people hear it.”1 Kings 22:28
1 Kings 22:29 And so, the king of Israel, and Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, ascended to Ramoth Gilead.1 Kings 22:29
1 Kings 22:30 Then the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat: “Take up your armor, and enter the battle. And be clothed in your own garments.” But the king of Israel changed his clothing, and he entered the war.1 Kings 22:30
1 Kings 22:31 Now the king of Syria had instructed the thirty-two commanders of the chariots, saying, “You shall not fight against anyone, small or great, except against the king of Israel alone.”1 Kings 22:31
1 Kings 22:32 Therefore, when the commanders of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they suspected that he was the king of Israel. And making a violent assault, they fought against him. And Jehoshaphat cried out.1 Kings 22:32
1 Kings 22:33 And the commanders of the chariots understood that he was not the king of Israel, and so they turned away from him.1 Kings 22:33
1 Kings 22:34 But a certain man bent his bow, aiming the arrow without certitude, and by chance he struck the king of Israel, between the lungs and the stomach. Then he said to the driver of his chariot, “Turn your hand, and carry me away from the army, for I have been grievously wounded.”1 Kings 22:34
1 Kings 22:35 Then the battle was undertaken throughout that day. And the king of Israel was standing on his chariot opposite the Syrians, and he died in the evening. For the blood was flowing from the wound into the joints of the chariot.1 Kings 22:35
1 Kings 22:36 And a herald proclaimed throughout the entire army, before the setting of the sun, saying: “Let each one return to his own city, and to his own land.”1 Kings 22:36
1 Kings 22:37 Then the king died, and he was carried into Samaria. And they buried the king in Samaria.1 Kings 22:37
1 Kings 22:38 And they washed his chariot in the pool of Samaria. And the do