He acted very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites had done, whom the LORD cast out before the sons of Israel. It came about afterward that David's conscience bothered him because he had cut off the edge of Saul's robe. So the king consulted, and made two golden calves, and he said to them, "It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem; behold your gods, O Israel, that brought you up from the land of Egypt." So Jehoash slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son became king in his place. A king who sits on the throne of justiceDisperses all evil with his eyes. Power and might are in Your hand so that no one can stand against You. And he answered him, "Go up and succeed, and the LORD will give it into the hand of the king." For they will drink and forget what is decreed. "For the thing shall surely come to pass which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria." She is his mother." Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. Now the rest of the acts of Joash and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? "If it please my father to do you harm, may the LORD do so to Jonathan and more also, if I do not make it known to you and send you away, that you may go in safety And may the LORD be with you as He has been with my father. For the Levites left their pasture lands and their property and came to Judah and Jerusalem, for Jeroboam and his sons had excluded them from serving as priests to the LORD. You exceed in wisdom and prosperity the report which I heard. So Mephibosheth ate at David's table as one of the king's sons. 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. So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. "I will shoot three arrows to the side, as though I shot at a target. Then Samuel said to Jesse, "Send and bring him; for we will not sit down until he comes here." When Jesus said to them, I am he, they drew back and fell to the ground. Then he put the carved image of the idol which he had made in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever; and I will not again remove the foot of Israel from the land which I have appointed for your fathers, if only they will observe to do all that I have commanded them according to all the law, the statutes and the ordinances given through Moses." And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags with two changes of clothes and gave them to two of his servants; and they carried them before him. He was buried in his grave in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son became king in his place. And he said, "Your servant went nowhere." The king of Israel went out and struck the horses and chariots, and killed the Arameans with a great slaughter. "Now therefore, O LORD, the God of Israel, keep with Your servant David my father that which You have promised him, saying, 'You shall not lack a man to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your sons take heed to their way to walk before Me as you have walked.' And she said, "Speak." "Shall I then take my bread and my water and my meat that I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give it to men whose origin I do not know?" Behold, Amariah the chief priest will be over you in, So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah. "Yet, the LORD, the God of Israel, chose me from all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever For He has chosen Judah to be a leader; and in the house of Judah, my father's house, and among the sons of my father He took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel. But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho and all his army was scattered from him. Is it a time to receive money and to receive clothes and olive groves and vineyards and sheep and oxen and male and female servants? I make a decree that in all the dominion of my kingdom men are to fear and tremble before the God of Daniel;For He is the living God and enduring forever,And His kingdom is one which will not be destroyed,And His dominion will be forever. And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel, and Zechariah his son became king in his place. He acted very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites had done, whom the LORD cast out before the sons of Israel. "Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD by ceasing to pray for you; but I will instruct you in the good and right way. So he made a covenant with him and let him go. Now when the prophet who brought him back from the way heard it, he said, "It is the man of God, who disobeyed the command of the LORD; therefore the LORD has given him to the lion, which has torn him and killed him, according to the word of the LORD which He spoke to him." Now the king was talking with Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, saying, "Please relate to me all the great things that Elisha has done." Then Samuel went to Ramah, but Saul went up to his house at Gibeah of Saul. Samuel said to the people, "Do not fear. "Has it not been told to my master what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of the LORD, that I hid a hundred prophets of the LORD by fifties in a cave, and provided them with bread and water? And the people were very weary. Now King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre. "Please, let us make a little walled upper chamber and let us set a bed for him there, and a table and a chair and a lampstand; and it shall be, when he comes to us, that he can turn in there." "He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his servants. But David said to Saul, "Your servant was tending his father's sheep. Who is this King of glory?The Lord of hosts,He is the King of glory. Through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared. "How blessed are your men, how blessed are these your servants who stand before you continually and hear your wisdom. If they spare us, we will live; and if they kill us, we will but die." The young men who grew up with him spoke to him, saying, "Thus you shall say to this people who spoke to you, saying, 'Your father made our yoke heavy, now you make it lighter for us!' Now let one of the young men come over and take it. 'This is but a slight thing in the sight of the LORD; He will also give the Moabites into your hand. So he finished the house. King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon while he was still alive, saying, "How do you counsel me to answer this people?" For he had taken eighteen wives and sixty concubines and fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters. So he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, along with the evil that Hadad did; and he abhorred Israel and reigned over Aram. However, as for the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel sin, from these Jehu did not depart, even the golden calves that were at Bethel and that were at Dan. And his servants said to him, "Behold, there is a woman who is a medium at En-dor." So he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow. And Hadoram brought all kinds of articles of gold and silver and bronze. 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. Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he made war and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel. And I will satisfy the beasts of the whole earth with you. So they listened to the words of the LORD and returned from going against Jeroboam. Now in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, camped against it and built a siege wall all around it. Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the place of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. Righteous lips are the delight of kings,And he who speaks right is loved. Now the king of Aram had commanded the captains of his chariots, saying, "Do not fight with small or great, but with the king of Israel alone." And two or three officials looked down at him. And let the cost be paid from the royal treasury. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs. and especially those who indulge the flesh in its corrupt desires and despise authority.Daring, self-willed, they do not tremble when they revile angelic majesties. The three older sons of Jesse had gone after Saul to the battle. Then they burned the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its fortified buildings with fire and destroyed all its valuable articles. Then David left his baggage in the care of the baggage keeper, and ran to the battle line and entered in order to greet his brothers. Then they arose and went to Ziph before Saul. Now it came about after this that the sons of Moab and the sons of Ammon, together with some of the Meunites, came to make war against Jehoshaphat. But he did not tell his father. When he was in distress, he entreated the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. Then she turned and went to her own land together with her servants. It came about when he became king, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he killed all the household of Baasha; he did not leave a single male, neither of his relatives nor of his friends. Solomon held fast to these in love. Then Saul summoned the people and numbered them in Telaim, 200,000 foot soldiers and 10,000 men of Judah. And he said to them, The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Also in the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olive wood, each ten cubits high. "And you shall go in and shut the door behind you and your sons, and pour out into all these vessels, and you shall set aside what is full." Jehu went into the house of Baal with Jehonadab the son of Rechab; and he said to the worshipers of Baal, "Search and see that there is here with you none of the servants of the LORD, but only the worshipers of Baal." The king said, "Get me a sword." "Please let us go to the Jordan and each of us take from there a beam, and let us make a place there for ourselves where we may live." Now as Obadiah was on the way, behold, Elijah met him, and he recognized him and fell on his face and said, "Is this you, Elijah my master?" It happened after a while that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land. Now in the eleventh year of Joram, the son of Ahab, Ahaziah became king over Judah. Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled before the Philistines and fell slain on Mount Gilboa. And He said to him, "Pursue, for you will surely overtake them, and you will surely rescue all." Ahab king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, "Will you go with me against Ramoth-gilead?" 'Now go and strike Amalek and utterly destroy all that he has, and do not spare him; but put to death both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.'" Now Hadad found great favor before Pharaoh, so that he gave him in marriage the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen. And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, "I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses." "So now swear to me by the LORD that you will not cut off my descendants after me and that you will not destroy my name from my father's household." Amen. Now he was ruddy, with beautiful eyes and a handsome appearance And the LORD said, "Arise, anoint him; for this is he." And there was a trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all the people. Then Shimei arose and saddled his donkey, and went to Gath to Achish to look for his servants. He also overlaid the cherubim with gold. Now she wrote in the letters, saying, "Proclaim a fast and seat Naboth at the head of the people; and seat two worthless men before him, and let them testify against him, saying, 'You cursed God and the king ' Then take him out and stone him to death." There were capitals on the two pillars, even above and close to the rounded projection which was beside the network; and the pomegranates numbered two hundred in rows around both capitals.
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