You shall say thus and thus to her, for it will be when she arrives that she will pretend to be another woman." TopicalBible So he said to them, "What counsel do you give that we may answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, 'Lighten the yoke which your father put on us'?" He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen mother, because she had made a horrid image as an Asherah; and Asa cut down her horrid image and burned it at the brook Kidron. Now each stand had four bronze wheels with bronze axles, and its four feet had supports; beneath the basin were cast supports with wreaths at each side. Act resolutely, and the Lord be with the upright.. Therefore they returned and told him. But they feared greatly and said, "Behold, the two kings did not stand before him; how then can we stand?" Then Jonathan said to David, "Whatever you say, I will do for you." The foundation was of costly stones, even large stones, stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits. "Now therefore, please pardon my sin and return with me, that I may worship the LORD." Now then, here is your wife, take her and go.. Why did you not tell me that she was your wife? Michal took the household idol and laid it on the bed, and put a quilt of goats' hair at its head, and covered it with clothes. 'The dogs shall eat Jezebel in the territory of Jezreel, and none shall bury her.'" When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood in the entrance of the cave And behold, a voice came to him and said, "What are you doing here, Elijah?" Thus he built Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa, Beth-zur, Soco, Adullam, Gath, Mareshah, Ziph, Adoraim, Lachish, Azekah, Zorah, Aijalon and Hebron, which are fortified cities in Judah and in Benjamin. The Levites, from the sons of the Kohathites and of the sons of the Korahites, stood up to praise the LORD God of Israel, with a very loud voice. I know your insolence and the wickedness of your heart; for you have come down in order to see the battle." Then he stretched himself upon the child three times, and called to the LORD and said, "O LORD my God, I pray You, let this child's life return to him." Then he said, "Please speak to Solomon the king, for he will not refuse you, that he may give me Abishag the Shunammite as a wife." Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all. So all Israel went down to the Philistines, each to sharpen his plowshare, his mattock, his axe, and his hoe. So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom; and they made a circuit of seven days' journey, and there was no water for the army or for the cattle that followed them. And she said, "An old man is coming up, and he is wrapped with a robe " And Saul knew that it was Samuel, and he bowed with his face to the ground and did homage. When Joram saw Jehu, he said, "Is it peace, Jehu?" So Ahab came into his house sullen and vexed because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him; for he said, "I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers." When Joram saw Jehu, he said, "Is it peace, Jehu?" He brought out the Asherah from the house of the LORD outside Jerusalem to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and ground it to dust, and threw its dust on the graves of the common people. Jehoash king of Judah took all the sacred things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own sacred things and all the gold that was found among the treasuries of the house of the LORD and of the king's house, and sent them to Hazael king of Aram. So David arose early, he and his men, to depart in the morning to return to the land of the Philistines. Now he was ruddy, with, In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned seven days at Tirzah. Is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?" And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be registered with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child. And Abishai said, "I will go down with you." It shall be with him and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, by carefully observing all the words of this law and these statutes. Then it happened as often as the king entered the house of the LORD, that the guards would carry them and would bring them back into the guards' room. So Joram slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and Ahaziah his son became king in his place. Now David's two wives had been taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess and Abigail the widow of Nabal the Carmelite. Consecrate yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice." The watchman reported, "He came even to them, and he did not return; and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi, for he drives furiously." So Samuel did what the LORD said, and came to Bethlehem And the elders of the city came trembling to meet him and said, "Do you come in peace?" Saul took him that day and did not let him return to his father's house. Then Joram crossed over to Zair, and all his chariots with him. It happened as they were coming, when David returned from killing the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with joy and with musical instruments. Nevertheless, you are not pleasing in the sight of the lords. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan who read it. Now the king of Aram had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, saying, "Do not fight with small or great, but with the king of Israel alone." which He will bring about at the proper timeHe who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords. Then Baasha the son of Ahijah of the house of Issachar conspired against him, and Baasha struck him down at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines, while Nadab and all Israel were laying siege to Gibbethon. And so it was, as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat food. David said to his men, "Each of you gird on his sword." If the LORD has stirred you up against me, let Him accept an offering; but if it is men, cursed are they before the LORD, for they have driven me out today so that I would have no attachment with the inheritance of the LORD, saying, 'Go, serve other gods.' "Yet the men were very good to us, and we were not insulted, nor did we miss anything as long as we went about with them, while we were in the fields. And he said, "For you, O captain." So Achish believed David, saying, "He has surely made himself odious among his people Israel; therefore he will become my servant forever." Now the rest of the acts of Menahem and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? But the man refused to strike him. So the captains of hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded. Also for the house he made windows with artistic frames. "How blessed are your men, how blessed are these your servants who stand before you continually and hear your wisdom. But as for the sons of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them. Elijah took the child and brought him down from the upper room into the house and gave him to his mother; and Elijah said, "See, your son is alive." Then Elisha said, "Listen to the word of the LORD; thus says the LORD, 'Tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour will be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.'" He also spoke 3,000 proverbs, and his songs were 1,005. And one said this while another said that. David also said, "As the LORD lives, surely the LORD will strike him, or his day will come that he dies, or he will go down into battle and perish. I see him, but not now;I behold him, but not near;A star shall come forth from Jacob,A scepter shall rise from Israel,And shall crush through the forehead of Moab,And tear down all the sons of Sheth.
1 SAMUEL CHAPTER 16 (ORIGINAL 1611 KJV) Micaiah said, "If you indeed return safely, the LORD has not spoken by me." But he forsook the counsel of the elders which they had given him, and consulted with the young men who grew up with him and served him. And when the man touched the bones of Elisha he revived and stood up on his feet. In John 8:12 [emphasis mine], Jesus says, "I AM the Light (the manifest radiance of God's life) of the world, and the one following (or co-walking Now the king appointed the royal officer on whose hand he leaned to have charge of the gate; but the people trampled on him at the gate, and he died just as the man of God had said, who spoke when the king came down to him. Why did this mad fellow come to you?" "Now it shall come about when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself a copy of this law on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests. So the priests agreed that they would take no more money from the people, nor repair the damages of the house. But the LORD said to Samuel, "Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart." 'Nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son who will be born to you, he will build the house for My name.' And when I extinguish you,I will cover the heavens and darken their stars;I will cover the sun with a cloudAnd the moon will not give its light. The woman came to Saul and saw that he was terrified, and said to him, "Behold, your maidservant has obeyed you, and I have taken my life in my hand and have listened to your words which you spoke to me. I will make many peoples appalled at you, and their kings will be horribly afraid of you when I brandish My sword before them; and they will tremble every moment, every man for his own life, on the day of your fall., For this very purpose I raised you up, to demonstrate My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed. Consecrate yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice." And they made his chariot ready. And the one who was over the household, and he who was over the city, the elders, and the guardians of the children, sent word to Jehu, saying, "We are your servants, all that you say to us we will do, we will not make any man king; do what is good in your sight." Then he sent out a second horseman, who came to them and said, "Thus says the king, 'Is it peace?'" The one woman said, "Oh, my lord, this woman and I live in the same house; and I gave birth to a child while she was in the house. "So act according to your wisdom, and do not let his gray hair go down to Sheol in peace. And he said, "Bring up Samuel for me." For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org. He also said, "Why then is my lord pursuing his servant? "May the LORD judge between you and me, and may the LORD avenge me on you; but my hand shall not be against you. Then Zimri went in and struck him and put him to death in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and became king in his place. So the king of Assyria returned and did not remain there in the land. Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. Now it came about, as soon as the kingdom was firmly in his hand, that he killed his servants who had slain the king his father. Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, "Behold now, the place before you where we are living is too limited for us. "This day the LORD will deliver you up into my hands, and I will strike you down and remove your head from you. Then all the guests of Adonijah were terrified; and they arose and each went on his way. Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel and he saw the company of Jehu as he came, and said, "I see a company." And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of his father David, and Jehoram his son became king in his place. Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did and his might which he showed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? "Now then, O king, come down according to all the desire of your soul to do so; and our part shall be to surrender him into the king's hand." Then David said to Jonathan, "Who will tell me if your father answers you harshly?" And all the people entered into the covenant. He did away with the horses which the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the official, which was in the precincts; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire. And Saul answered, "I am greatly distressed; for the Philistines are waging war against me, and God has departed from me and no longer answers me, either through prophets or by dreams; therefore I have called you, that you may make known to me what I should do." In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. In those days the LORD began to cut off portions from Israel; and Hazael defeated them throughout the territory of Israel: from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites and the Reubenites and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan. The battle went heavily against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was badly wounded by the archers. And Solomon slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David, and his son Rehoboam reigned in his place. "But there is some good in you, for you have removed the Asheroth from the land and you have set your heart to seek God." 'The dogs shall eat Jezebel in the territory of Jezreel, and none shall bury her.'" Now the Philistines assembled to fight with Israel, 30,000 chariots and 6,000 horsemen, and people like the sand which is on the seashore in abundance; and they came up and camped in Michmash, east of Beth-aven. Then David put garrisons among the Arameans of Damascus; and the Arameans became servants to David, bringing tribute. Thus all the work that King Solomon performed in the house of the LORD was finished And Solomon brought in the things dedicated by his father David, the silver and the gold and the utensils, and he put them in the treasuries of the house of the LORD. And they made his chariot ready. Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the LORD, the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, surely there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word." Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground, and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before the LORD, worshiping the LORD. He killed of Edom in the Valley of Salt 10,000 and took Sela by war, and named it Joktheel to this day. All the men of valor, seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths, one thousand, all strong and fit for war, and these the king of Babylon brought into exile to Babylon. All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah. For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should taunt the armies of the living God?" "The one belonging to Ahab, who dies in the city, the dogs will eat, and the one who dies in the field the birds of heaven will eat." Now it happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, that Shishak the king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem. For to which of the angels did God ever say, You are my Son, today I have begotten you? To Him be honor and eternal dominion! "As for the agreement of which you and I have spoken, behold, the LORD is between you and me forever." Furthermore, the altar that was at Bethel and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he broke down Then he demolished its stones, ground them to dust, and burned the Asherah. So Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. When Ahijah heard the sound of her feet coming in the doorway, he said, "Come in, wife of Jeroboam, why do you pretend to be another woman? Then Hazael king of Aram went up and fought against Gath and captured it, and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem. He also put away the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols which his fathers had made. "So she arose in the middle of the night and took my son from beside me while your maidservant slept, and laid him in her bosom, and laid her dead son in my bosom. So he said, "I saw all Israel Scattered on the mountains, Like sheep which have no shepherd. It came about at noon, that Elijah mocked them and said, "Call out with a loud voice, for he is a god; either he is occupied or gone aside, or is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep and needs to be awakened." And the king of Israel said to him, "No, for the LORD has called these three kings together to give them into the hand of Moab." Then Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem and tore down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate, 400 cubits. She gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and a very great amount of spices and precious stones. And he said, "The LORD has not chosen this one either." Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven. And David said, "It is my voice, my lord the king." Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did and his might, how he fought and how he recovered for Israel, Damascus and Hamath, which had belonged to Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, O my enemy?" Then he answered, "Because I know the evil that you will do to the sons of Israel: their strongholds you will set on fire, and their young men you will kill with the sword, and their little ones you will dash in pieces, and their women with child you will rip up." Then the woman whose child was the living one spoke to the king, for she was deeply stirred over her son and said, "Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and by no means kill him." The king answered the people harshly, for he forsook the advice of the elders which they had given him, and he spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, saying, "My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions."