Saul was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty two years over Israel. When Saul saw the camp of the Philistines, he was afraid and his heart trembled greatly. And Jehu said, "Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal " And they proclaimed it. Then the king said to him, "How many times must I adjure you to speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of the LORD?" Then they took the ox which was given them and they prepared it and called on the name of Baal from morning until noon saying, "O Baal, answer us." besides that from the traders and the wares of the merchants and all the kings of the Arabs and the governors of the country. But Jehu did it in cunning, so that he might destroy the worshipers of Baal. For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns. Micaiah said, "If you indeed return safely the LORD has not spoken by me " And he said, "Listen, all you people." "Behold, there is with you Shimei the son of Gera the Benjamite, of Bahurim; now it was he who cursed me with a violent curse on the day I went to Mahanaim But when he came down to me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the LORD, saying, 'I will not put you to death with the sword.' Saul then said, "Thus you shall say to David, 'The king does not desire any dowry except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to take vengeance on the king's enemies '" Now Saul planned to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines. Now the rest of the acts of Zechariah, behold they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel. "Also the Glory of Israel will not lie or change His mind; for He is not a man that He should change His mind. But the lad was not aware of anything; only Jonathan and David knew about the matter. "The LORD forbid that I should stretch out my hand against the LORD'S anointed; but now please take the spear that is at his head and the jug of water, and let us go." In a multitude of people is a kings glory,But in the dearth of people is a princes ruin. The Philistine came forward morning and evening for forty days and took his stand. Now the rest of the acts of Abijam and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? But Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, "If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be put to death." "Why then did you not obey the voice of the LORD, but rushed upon the spoil and did what was evil in the sight of the LORD?" He said, "Throw her down." He took all the gold and silver and all the utensils which were found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasuries of the king's house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria. And Joram said, "Take a horseman and send him to meet them and let him say, 'Is it peace?'" His servants said to him, "Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings, please let us put sackcloth on our loins and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel; perhaps he will save your life." Now an old prophet was living in Bethel; and his sons came and told him all the deeds which the man of God had done that day in Bethel; the words which he had spoken to the king, these also they related to their father. She brought it before Saul and his servants, and they ate. "So look, and learn about all the hiding places where he hides himself and return to me with certainty, and I will go with you; and if he is in the land, I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah." The king said to the man of God, "Please entreat the LORD your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored to me " So the man of God entreated the LORD, and the king's hand was restored to him, and it became as it was before. As David's time to die drew near, he charged Solomon his son, saying, "I am going the way of all the earth Be strong, therefore, and show yourself a man. And a great and strong wind was rending the mountains and breaking in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind. ", and they said to him, Behold, you have grown old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Moreover, Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, "Please inquire first for the word of the LORD." And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David; and his son Abijah became king in his place. God also raised up another adversary to him, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah. Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him; and they escorted him away, with his wife and all that belonged to him. Then Menahem exacted the money from Israel, even from all the mighty men of wealth, from each man fifty shekels of silver to pay the king of Assyria. And he answered, "The way of the wilderness of Edom." Then Saul said to his armor bearer, "Draw your sword and pierce me through with it, otherwise these uncircumcised will come and pierce me through and make sport of me " But his armor bearer would not, for he was greatly afraid So Saul took his sword and fell on it. 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. When Abigail saw David, she hurried and dismounted from her donkey, and fell on her face before David and bowed herself to the ground. The king is not saved by a mighty army;A warrior is not delivered by great strength. Never again did such abundance of spices come in as that which the queen of Sheba gave King Solomon. For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim made a covering over the ark and its poles from above. Who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. Now there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days. But all Israel and Judah loved David, and he went out and came in before them. Naaman said, "Be pleased to take two talents." Now the Philistines gathered their armies for battle; and they were gathered at Socoh which belongs to Judah, and they camped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim. "Now therefore, behold, the LORD has put a deceiving spirit in the mouth of these your prophets, for the LORD has proclaimed disaster against you." Then Asa took all the silver and the gold which were left in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the treasuries of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants And King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Aram, who lived in Damascus, saying, "Let there be a treaty between you and me, as between my father and your father. So the people departed. Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah and said to him, Behold, you are old and your sons do not walk in your ways. So Achish believed David, saying, "He has surely made himself odious among his people Israel; therefore he will become my servant forever." It came about as she was riding on her donkey and coming down by the hidden part of the mountain, that behold, David and his men were coming down toward her; so she met them. The days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years he reigned in Hebron and thirty-three years he reigned in Jerusalem. The KJV does not get more original or authentic than this. Now the rest of the acts of Abijam and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? Then Ziphites came up to Saul at Gibeah, saying, "Is David not hiding with us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon? And Jonathan was taken. So all the people went to Gilgal, and there they made Saul king before the LORD in Gilgal There they also offered sacrifices of peace offerings before the LORD; and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly. This event became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to blot it out and destroy it from off the face of the earth. Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, "Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who is in Samaria; behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth where he has gone down to take possession of it. When the lad was gone, David rose from the south side and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed three times And they kissed each other and wept together, but David wept the more. Did they not sing of this one as they danced, saying, 'Saul has slain his thousands, And David his ten thousands'?" read more. He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Then she said to the king, It was a true report which I heard in my own land about your words and your wisdom. His house where he was to live, the other court inward from the hall, was of the same workmanship. And the king arose to meet her, bowed before her, and sat on his throne; then he had a throne set for the king's mother, and she sat on his right. And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel, and Zechariah his son became king in his place. Then they hurried and each man took his garment and placed it under him on the bare steps, and blew the trumpet, saying, "Jehu is king!" So each man girded on his sword. Saul and the men of Israel were gathered and camped in the valley of Elah, and drew up in battle array to encounter the Philistines. Thus Jehu eradicated Baal out of Israel. So the king did not listen to the people; for it was a turn of events from the LORD, that He might establish His word, which the LORD spoke through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat. Then Nebuchadnezzar in rage and anger gave orders to bring Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego; then these men were brought before the king. Then he set the carved image of Asherah that he had made, in the house of which the LORD said to David and to his son Solomon, "In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever. And Jehu drew his bow with his full strength and shot Joram between his arms; and the arrow went through his heart and he sank in his chariot. Then Saul and all the people who were with him rallied and came to the battle; and behold, every man's sword was against his fellow, and there was very great confusion. 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'?" And Jonathan, Saul's son, arose and went to David at Horesh, and encouraged him in God. Now David became aware that Saul had come out to seek his life while David was in the wilderness of Ziph at Horesh. They struck among the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. 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." But consider now, and see how he is seeking a quarrel against me." For the Lord had caused the army of the Arameans to hear a sound of chariots and a sound of horses, even the sound of a great army, so that they said to one another, "Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us." Then the other woman said, "No! He acted wickedly in so doing. When he came, behold, the captains of the army were sitting, and he said, "I have a word for you, O captain." read more. "You have indeed defeated Edom, and your heart has become proud. For I am sent to you with a harsh message. And he answered, "You." He said to her, "What is his form?" Now no blacksmith could be found in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, "Otherwise the Hebrews will make swords or spears." So Saul gave him Michal his daughter for a wife. Then the royal officer answered the man of God and said, "Now behold, if the LORD should make windows in heaven, could such a thing be?" Then one of the people said, "Your father strictly put the people under oath, saying, 'Cursed be the man who eats food today.'" "For You have separated them from all the peoples of the earth as Your inheritance, as You spoke through Moses Your servant, when You brought our fathers forth from Egypt, O Lord GOD." And Jehu slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria. So Joram reined about and fled and said to Ahaziah, "There is treachery, O Ahaziah!" So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah went up against Ramoth-gilead. For through the anger of the LORD this came about in Jerusalem and Judah until He cast them out from His presence And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. So he put out his hand and took it. "Also concerning the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel, when he comes from a far country for Your name's sake (for they will hear of Your great name and Your mighty hand, and of Your outstretched arm); when he comes and prays toward this house, hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know Your name, to fear You, as do Your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by Your name. When the Philistine looked and saw David, he disdained him; for he was but a youth, and ruddy, with a handsome appearance. So they seized her, and when she arrived at the horses' entrance of the king's house, she was put to death there. 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." "May the LORD our God be with us, as He was with our fathers; may He not leave us or forsake us, that He may incline our hearts to Himself, to walk in all His ways and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His ordinances, which He commanded our fathers. These are their names: Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim; Ben-deker in Makaz and Shaalbim and Beth-shemesh and Elonbeth-hanan; Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (Socoh was his and all the land of Hepher); Ben-abinadab, in all the height of Dor (Taphath the daughter of Solomon was his wife); Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean which is beside Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah as far as the other side of Jokmeam; Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead (the towns of Jair, the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead were his: the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars were his); Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim; Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also married Basemath the daughter of Solomon); Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth; Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar; Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin; Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only deputy who was in the land. He set up priests of his own for the high places, for the satyrs and for the calves which he had made. 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." Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. So he returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which they had inflicted on him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. Now Solomon the son of David established himself securely over his kingdom, and the Lord his God was with him and exalted him greatly. Men came from all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all the kings of the earth who had heard of his wisdom. When it was told Saul that David had come to Keilah, Saul said, "God has delivered him into my hand, for he shut himself in by entering a city with double gates and bars." 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. 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. For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and captured Gezer and burned it with fire, and killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and had given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon's wife. He put garrisons in Edom. And Jehu drew his bow with his full strength and shot Joram between his arms; and the arrow went through his heart and he sank in his chariot. "Listen to the supplication of Your servant and of Your people Israel, when they pray toward this place; hear in heaven Your dwelling place; hear and forgive. "For thus says the LORD, 'You shall not see wind nor shall you see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, so that you shall drink, both you and your cattle and your beasts. But Amaziah would not listen. They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days. Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, O my enemy?" So David's young men retraced their way and went back; and they came and told him according to all these words. Then Joram said, "Get ready." There were also male cult prostitutes in the land. "Is it not the wheat harvest today? The altar also was split apart and the ashes were poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the LORD. He laid his body in his own grave, and they mourned over him, saying, "Alas, my brother!" The man was also a valiant warrior, but he was a leper. One of his servants said, "No, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom." When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too fierce for him, he took with him 700 men who drew swords, to break through to the king of Edom; but they could not. Selah. He said, "This will be the procedure of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and place them for himself in his chariots and among his horsemen and they will run before his chariots. Moreover those who were near to them, even as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought food on donkeys, camels, mules and on oxen, great quantities of flour cakes, fig cakes and bunches of raisins, wine, oil, oxen and sheep. So a horseman went to meet him and said, "Thus says the king, 'Is it peace?'" No one comes to the Father except through me. Moreover, they did not require an accounting from the men into whose hand they gave the money to pay to those who did the work, for they dealt faithfully. He also made two capitals of molten bronze to set on the tops of the pillars; the height of the one capital was five cubits and the height of the other capital was five cubits. Now all the Moabites heard that the kings had come up to fight against them.