# bible_fts_content

c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Then Jonathan said, "Far be it from you! For if I know for certain that {my father decided evil should come upon you},Literally "the evil is determined from with my father to come over you" would I not have told it to you?"


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And Jonathan said to David, "Come, let us go out to the field." So the two of them went out to the field. 


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Then Jonathan said to David, "Yahweh the God of Israel is my witnessThe phrase "is my witness" is supplied based on the Syriac version that I will question my father {by this time the day after tomorrow}.Literally "as the time tomorrow the third" And look, {if he is well disposed toward you},Literally "if he is good to David" will I not send word to you and {disclose it to you}?Literally "I will reveal it to your ear"


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 13
c3content:
{So may Yahweh punish Jonathan and more}Literally "So may Yahweh do to Jonathan and so may he add" if {my father decides to do you harm}Literally "the evil over you is regarded as good by my father" and if {I fail to disclose it to you}Literally "I will reveal it to your ear" and send word to you that you can go safely. And may Yahweh be with you, as he has been with my father.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And not while I am still alive, will you not show the loyal love of Yahweh with me, that I may not die?Or perhaps "and if I die, may you not ..."


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And do not cut off your loyal love from {my family}Literally "my house" forever, not even when Yahweh {exterminates}Literally "cuts off" each of the enemies of David from the face of the earth."


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 16
c3content:
So Jonathan {made a covenant}Literally "cut a covenant" with the house of David, saying, "May Yahweh {call the enemies of David to account}."Literally "seek from the hand of the enemies of David"


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And Jonathan again made David swear an oath, because he loved him; for with the love of his soul he loved him. 


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Then Jonathan said to him, "Tomorrow is the new moon, and you will be missed, for your seat will stay empty.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 19
c3content:
On the third day you must go down quickly and go to the place where you hid yourself {on the day all this started}Literally "on the day of the deed" and remain beside the stone Ezel.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 21
c3content:
{Then}Literally "And look" I will send word to my servant, 'Go, find the arrows!' If I clearly say to the boy, 'Look, the arrows are {on this side of you};Literally "from you and here" {bring}Literally "take" it,' thenHebrew "and" come, for it means peace for you. And there is no problem, {as Yahweh lives}.Literally "the life of Yahweh"


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 22
c3content:
But if I say this to the young man, 'Look, the arrows are {beyond you},'Literally "from you and beyond" go, for Yahweh has sent you away.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 24
c3content:
So David hid himself in the field. {When the new moon came},Literally "And it was the new moon" {the king was seated at the feast}.Literally "the king sat at the food to eat"


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 25
c3content:
The king sat at his seat {as before},Literally "as occurrence at occurrence" the seat by the wall, and Jonathan got up, and Abner sat beside Saul, but David's place was empty.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 26
c3content:
But Saul said nothing on that day, for he thought, "{Something happened to him}.Literally "It is incident" He is not ceremonially clean; surely he is not clean."


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 27
c3content:
{And then}Literally "And it happened" on the next day, the second day of the new moon, that David's place was empty. So Saul asked Jonathan his son, "Why did the son of Jesse not come either yesterday or today to the feast?"


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 29
c3content:
He said, 'Send me away, please, for our clan sacrifice is in the city, and my brother commandedOr "urged" me to be present. So then, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me slip away and see my brothers.' Therefore he has not come to the table of the king."


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 30
c3content:
Then {Saul became angry}Literally "the nose of Saul became hot" at Jonathan and said to him, "You son of a perverse, rebellious woman!Or "bastard of a wayward woman" (HALOT 796) Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your shame and to the shame of your mother's nakedness?


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 31
c3content:
For {as long as}Literally "all the days which" the son of Jesse is alive on the earth, you and your kingdom will not be established! So then, send and bring him to me, for {he will surely die}!"Literally "he is a son of death"


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 32
c3content:
But Jonathan answered his father Saul and said to him, "Why should he be put to death? What has he done?"


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 33
c3content:
Then Saul hurled hisHebrew "the" spear at him to kill him. So Jonathan knew {that his father had decided}Literally "it was complete from with his father" to kill David. 


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 34
c3content:
Jonathan got up from the table {enraged},Literally "with burning of nose" and did not eat on the second day of the new moon because he was upset about David, because his father had disgraced him.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 35
c3content:
{And then}Literally "And it happened" in the morning Jonathan went out to the field for the appointment with David, and a young boyOr "young servant" was with him.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 36
c3content:
He said to his servant,Or "boy" "Run, please find the arrows that I am shooting!" The boyOr "servant" ran, and he shot the arrow to pass over him.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 37
c3content:
When the boy came up to the place of the arrow that Jonathan had shot, Jonathan called out after the boy and said, "Is not the arrow {beyond you}?"Literally "from you and beyond"


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 38
c3content:
Then Jonathan called out after the boy, "Quick, hurry, do not linger!" And Jonathan's servant collected the arrows and came to his master.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 41
c3content:
The boy left, and then David got up from the south side,So Masoretic Hebrew text; LXX reads "from the mound" (of stones) and he fell on his face to the ground and bowed three times. And they kissed {each other}Literally "each his friend" and wept {together},Literally "each with his friend" but David wept the most.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 42
c3content:
Jonathan said to David, "Go in peace, because we have sworn, the two of us, an oath in the name of Yahweh, saying, "Yahweh will be between me and you, and between my offspring and your offspring forever."In the Hebrew Bible, 1 Sam 21 begins here. 1 Samuel 20:42b-21:15 in the English Bible is 21:1-16 in the Hebrew Bible Then he got up and left, and Jonathan went into the city. 


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Now David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And Ahimelech came trembling to meet David, and he said to him, "Why are you alone and there are no men with you?"


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 2
c3content:
So David said to Ahimelech the priest, "The king charged me with a matter and said to me, 'No one must know anything about this matter on which I am sending you, with which I have charged you and the servants.'" So {I have arranged to meet with my servants at a certain place}.Literally "I have made an appointment with my servants/young men to a place, a certain one"


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Now then, {what do you have at hand}?Literally "what is there under your hand" Give me five loaves of bread or {whatever is here}."Literally "that which is found"


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 4
c3content:
The priest answered David and said, "There is no ordinary bread {here at hand};Literally "under my hand" there is only holy bread, but only if the young men have kept themselves from women."


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 5
c3content:
David answered the priest and said to him, "Indeed, women were held back from us {as it has been when I've gone out before}.Literally "as yesterday three days ago my going out" And the thingsOr possibly "equipment" or "weapons" of the young men are holy whenOr "and" it is an ordinary journey. {How much more}Literally "And even that" {today}Literally "the day" will the thingsOr possibly "equipment" or "weapons" be holy?"


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 6
c3content:
So the priest gave him the holy bread, for there was no bread there except the bread of the Presence, which was removed from before Yahweh, in order to set hot bread there on the day when it was taken away. 


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Now there was a man from the servants of Saul on that day, detained before Yahweh, whose name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief of Saul's shepherds.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 8
c3content:
David asked Ahimelech, "Is there not {at your disposal}Literally "under your hand" a spear or a sword? For I took neither my sword nor my weapons with me because the king's matter was urgent."


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 9
c3content:
So the priest said, "The sword of Goliath the Philistine whom you killed in the valley of Elah is here, wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you want to take it for yourself, then take it, for there is no other except it here." And David said, "There is none like it; give it to me." 


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 10
c3content:
So David got up and fled on that day from the presence of Saul, and he came to Achish the king of Gath.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 11
c3content:
The servants of Achish said to him, "Is not this David the king of the land? Is it not for this one that they sang in the dances, saying, 'Saul killed his thousands, but David his ten thousands?'"


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 12
c3content:
{David took these words seriously}Literally "David put these words in his heart" and {felt severely threatened by}Literally "he was very afraid from the face of" Achish the king of Gath.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 13
c3content:
So he changed his behavior {before them}Literally "in their eyes" and pretended to be mad {in their presence}.Literally "in their hands" He made scratches on the doors of the gate and let his saliva run down into his beard.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Do I lack madmen that you have brought this one to act like a madman before me? Should this one enter my household?" 


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 1
c3content:
David went from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and all his father's householdOr "family" heard, they came down to him there.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Every man in distress and every man who had a creditor and every embittered man gathered to him, and he became {their commander}.Literally "over them as commander" Now there were about four hundred men with him.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And David went up from there to Mizpah of Moab. He said to the king of Moab, "Please let my father and my mother {stay}Literally "come/go out" with you until I know what God will do for me."


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 4
c3content:
So {he brought them before the king of Moab},Literally "he led them into the presence of the king of Moab" and they stayed with him all the days David was in the stronghold. 


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Then Gad the prophet said to David, "You should not stay in the stronghold; leave and go into the land of Judah." So David left and came to the forest of Hereth.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Now Saul heard that David and the men who were with him had been located. Saul was sitting at Gibeah under the tamarisk tree at Ramah. Now his spear was in his hand and all his servants were stationed around him.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Then Saul said to the servants who were standing around him, "Please listen, {Benjaminites}!Literally "children of Benjamin" Will the son of Jesse give you all fields and vineyards? Will he make all of you commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds?


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 8
c3content:
For all of you have conspired against me, and {no one discloses to me}Literally "there is no one revealing to my ear" the {making}Literally "cutting" of an agreement between my son and the son of Jesse! None of you have had sympathy for me or {disclosed to me}Literally "revealing to my ear" that {my son commissioned my servant against me to ambush me}Literally "my son has raised my servant against me to an ambush" as has been done this day!" 


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 9
c3content:
But Doeg the Edomite, who was stationed among the servants of Saul, answered and said, "I saw the son of Jesse going to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And he inquired of Yahweh for him and gave him provisions and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine."


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 11
c3content:
So the king sent to summon Ahimelech the son of Ahitub the priest, and all his father's household, the priests who were at Nob. So all of them came to the king.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Then Saul said to him, "Why did you conspire against me, you and the son of Jesse, when you gave to him bread and a sword, and by inquiring of God for him so that he might arise against me to ambush me as has been done this day?"


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 14
c3content:
But Ahimelech answered the king and said, "And who among all your servants is as faithful as David? He is the son-in-law of the king who moves quickly to safeguard you and is honored in your house.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Only today I began to inquire of God for him. Far be it from me that {the king should impute anything against his servant}Literally "the king will not put against his servant a matter" or against my father's household, for your servant has not known any of this matter, little or much."


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 17
c3content:
So the king said to the runners who were stationed around him, "Turn and kill the priests of Yahweh, because {they also support David}Literally "also their hand is with David" and because they knew that he was fleeing and {did not disclose it to me}."Literally "did not reveal it to his ear"; the Masoretic Hebrew text (Kethib) reads "his," but the reading tradition (Qere) has "my" But the servants of the king were not willing to raise their hand to attack the priests of Yahweh.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Then the king said to Doeg, "You turn and attack the priests!" So Doeg the Edomite turned and attacked the priests himself, and on that day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And {he put to the sword}Literally "he killed with the mouth of the sword" Nob, the city of the priests, from man to woman, from child to infant, and ox and donkey and sheep;Or "goats"; literally, "small livestock animals" all {to the sword}.Literally "with the mouth of the sword" 


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 20
c3content:
But, one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, whose name was Abiathar, escaped and fled after David.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Then David said to Abiathar, "I knew on that day that Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would certainly tell Saul. {I am responsible for the deaths of all your father's household}!Literally "I have turned against all the life of your father's house"


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Stay with me! Do not fear, because he who seeks my life seeks your life. You are in good care with me." 


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Now they told David, "Look, the Philistines are fighting in Keilah and they are raiding the threshing floors."


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 2
c3content:
So David inquired of Yahweh, saying, "Shall I go and attack these Philistines?" And Yahweh said to David, "Go and attack the Philistines and saveOr "deliver" or "rescue" Keilah."


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 3
c3content:
But David's men said to him, "Look, we are afraid here in Judah. {How much more}Literally "also for" if we go to Keilah to the battle lines of the Philistines?"


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 4
c3content:
So David again inquired of Yahweh, and Yahweh answered him and said, "Get up, go down to Keilah, for I am giving the Philistines into your hand."


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 5
c3content:
So David and his men went to Keilah and fought with the Philistines. They drove off their livestock and {dealt them a heavy blow}.Literally "he struck them with a great smiting" So David savedOr "delivered" or "rescued" the inhabitants of Keilah. 


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 6
c3content:
{Now when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled}Literally "And it happened that at the fleeing of Abiathar son of Ahimelech" to David at Keilah, he went down with an ephod in his hand.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 7
c3content:
When it was told to Saul that David had gone to Keilah, Saul said, "God {has given him}Literally "has made him a stranger" into my hand, because he has shut himself in by going into a city with {two barred gates}.Literally "two gates and a bar"


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Saul then summoned all of the army for the battle, to go down to Keilah to lay a siege against David and his men.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 9
c3content:
When David learned that Saul was plotting evil against him, he said to Abiathar the priest, "Bring the ephod here."


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And David said, "O Yahweh, God of Israel, your servant has clearly heard that Saul is seeking to come to Keilah to destroy the city because of me.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Will the rulers of Keilah deliver me into his hand? Will Saul come down as your servant has heard? O Yahweh, God of Israel, please tell your servant!" And Yahweh said, "He will come down."


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Then David said, "Will the rulers of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?" And Yahweh said, "They will deliver you."


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 13
c3content:
So David and his men got up, about six hundred men, and went out from Keilah and wandered wherever they could go. When it was told to Saul that David had escaped from Keilah, {he stopped his pursuit}.Literally "he ceased to go out" 


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 14
c3content:
David remained in the wilderness, in the strongholds, and in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him {continually},Literally "all the days" but God did not give him into his hand.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 15
c3content:
When David realized that Saul had gone out to seek his life, David was in the wilderness of Ziph at Horesh.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 16
c3content:
So Jonathan the son of Saul got up and went to David at Horesh, and {encouraged him}Literally "he strengthened his hand" through God.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 17
c3content:
He said to him, "Do not be afraid, for the hand of my father Saul will not find you. You will be king over Israel, and {I will be second to you}.Literally "I shall be for you as second" My father Saul knows this also."


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Then the two of them {made}Literally "cut" a covenant before Yahweh. David remained at Horesh, and Jonathan went to his house. 


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Then the Ziphites went up to Saul at Gibeah, saying, "Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh on the hill of Hakilah, which is south of Jeshimon?


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 20
c3content:
So then, O king, {whenever you want}Literally "for all the wanting of your soul" to come down, come down, and it will be for us to deliver him into the hand of the king."


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Go, please, make certain again! Find out and see {exactly where he is}Literally "his place where his foot is" and who has seen him there! For they have said to me, 'He is very cunning.'


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Look, find out all of the hiding places where he hides. Then return to me {with dependable information},Literally "to being established" and I will go with you. And then if he is there in the land, then I will seek him among all the thousands of Judah."


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And Saul and his men went to seek him, and they told David, so he went down to the rock and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. When Saul heard this, he pursued David into the wilderness of Maon.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Saul went {on one side of the mountain},Literally "from the side of the mountain from this" and David and his men {went on the other side of the mountain}.Literally "from the side of the mountain from this" David was hurrying to get away from Saul, while Saul and his men were closing in on David and his men to capture them.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 27
c3content:
But a messenger came to Saul, saying, "Hurry and come, because the Philistines have made a raid on the land!"


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 28
c3content:
So Saul returned from pursuing David, and he went to confrontHebrew "to meet" the Philistines. Therefore, they called that place the Rock of Division.Hebrew "Sela' Hammahlekot"


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 29
c3content:
1 Sam 23:29-24:22 in the English Bible is 24:1-23 in the Hebrew Bible David went up from there and stayed in the strongholds of En Gedi. 


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 1
c3content:
When Saul returned from pursuing the Philistines, they told him, "Look, David is in the wilderness of En Gedi."


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 2
c3content:
So Saul took three thousand chosen men from all Israel, and he and his men went to search for David {in the direction of}Literally "on the face of" the Rocks of the Mountain Goats.Hebrew "of the Jael"


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 3
c3content:
He came to the sheep pens beside the road, and a cave was there. Then Saul went in {to relieve himself}.Literally "to cover his feet" Now David and his men were sitting in the innermost part of the cave.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And David's men said to him, "Look, today is the day about which Yahweh said to you, 'See, I am giving your enemyThe Masoretic Hebrew text (Kethib) reads "enemies," but the reading tradition (Qere) has the singular "enemy" into your hand, and you can do to him {whatever seems good to you}.'"Literally "as that which is good in your eyes" So David got up and secretly cut the hem of Saul's robe.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 5
c3content:
{And then}Literally "And it happened" afterward David {felt guilty},Literally "the heart of David struck him" because he had cut {the hem of Saul's robe}.Literally "the hem which was for Saul"


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 6
c3content:
He said to his men, "Far be it from me inHebrew "from" Yahweh, that I do this thing to my lord, to Yahweh's anointed one, by stretching out my hand against him! For he is the anointed one of Yahweh."


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 7
c3content:
So David rebuked his men with the words and did not allow them to rise against Saul. And Saul got up from the cave, and he went on hisHebrew "the" way. 


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Then David got up afterward and went out of the cave and called after Saul, "My lord the king!" When Saul looked after him, David knelt down with his face to the ground and bowed down.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Then David said to Saul, "Why do you listen to the words of people who say: 'Look, David is {seeking to do you harm}'?Literally "seeking your evil"


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Look, this day your eyes have seen that Yahweh gave you today into my hand in the cave, and some said to kill you. But {I took pity}Literally "she took pity," with "she" = "my eye," a common Hebrew expression on you and said, 'I will not stretch out my hand against my lord, because he is Yahweh's anointed one.'


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Now, my father, see, yes, see, the hem of your robe in my hand! For {when I cut}Literally "at my cutting" the hem of your robe I did not kill you. Know and {realize}Literally "see" that there is no evil or rebellion in my hand. I did not sin against you, but you are hunting down my life to take it.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 12
c3content:
May Yahweh judge between me and you, and may Yahweh avenge me on you, but my hand will not be against you!


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Just as the ancient proverb says, 'From the wicked, wickedness goes out,' but my hand will not be against you!


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 14
c3content:
After whom did the king of Israel go out? After whom are you pursuing? After a dead dog? After one flea?


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 15
c3content:
May Yahweh be the judge, and let him judge between me and you, and may he see and plead my case. {May he vindicate me against you}!"Literally "May he judge me from your hand" 


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 16
c3content:
When David finished speaking these words to Saul, Saul said, "Is this your voice, my son David?" And Saul lifted up his voice and wept.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Then he said to David, "You are more righteous than I, for you have repaid me the good, but I have repaid you the evil.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 18
c3content:
You have explained to me today that you have dealt well with me, howHebrew "that" Yahweh delivered me into your hand but you did not kill me.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 19
c3content:
For a man has found his enemy but sent him on his way safely. Now may Yahweh reward you with good in return for this day, for what you have done for me.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 20
c3content:
So now then, look, I know that you will certainly be king and the kingdom of Israel will be established in your hand.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 21
c3content:
So then, swear to me by Yahweh that you will not cut off my {descendants}Literally "seed" after me and that you will not wipe out my name from my father's house."


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 22
c3content:
So David swore this on oath to Saul, and Saul went to his house, but David and his men went up to the stronghold. 


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Now Samuel died, and all Israel assembled and mourned for him. They buried him at his house at Ramah. Then David got up and went down to the wilderness of Paran. 


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Now there was a man in Maon, whose business was in Carmel. The man was very rich and {owned}Literally "there were for him" three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. {Now}Literally "And it happened" the shearing of his sheep was taking place in Carmel.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 3
c3content:
The name of the man was Nabal,The name "Nabal" means "foolish" and the name of his wife was Abigail.The name "Abigail" means "my father delights" Now the woman was wise and beautiful, but the man was stubborn and {mean},Literally "bad of deeds" and he was as his heart.The Masoretic Hebrew text (Kethib) reads "as his heart," whereas the reading tradition (Qere) reads "Calebite"


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 5
c3content:
So David sent ten young men, and David said to the young men, "Go up to Carmel and go to Nabal; {you will greet him in my name}.Literally "you will ask for him in my name as far as peace"


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Then you must say to him, 'Long life to you, and {may it go well with you, with your house, and with all that is yours}.Literally "you are peace and your house is peace and all that is yours is peace"


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Now I have heard that {you have shearers}.Literally "shearing is for you" Now while your shepherds were with us, we did not mistreat them, and nothing of theirs was missing, all the days they were in Carmel.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Ask your servantsOr "young men" and they will tell you! Let the young menOr "the servants"; "young men" is used here to connect with v. 5 find favor in your eyes because we have come on a feast day. Please give {whatever you have on hand}Literally "what your hand finds" for your servants and for your son David." 


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 9
c3content:
So David's young men came and they spoke all these words to Nabal in the name of David. Then they waited.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 10
c3content:
But Nabal answered David's servants and said, "Who is David? And who is the son of Jesse? Today, there are many servants breaking away from the presence of their masters.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Should I take my bread and my water and my meat which I have slaughtered for my shearers and give it to men whom I do not know where they are from?


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 12
c3content:
So David's young men turned on their way and returned and came and told him according to all these words.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Then David said to his men, "Each man strap on his sword!" So each one strapped on his sword, and David also strapped on his sword. About four hundred men went up after David, while two hundred remained with the baggage. 


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 14
c3content:
But a young man of the servants told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, "Look, David sent messengers from the desert to greetHebrew "bless" our master, but he addressed them angrily,


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 15
c3content:
even though the men were very good to us; we were not mistreated and did not miss anything all the days we went about with them {while we were}Literally "at our being" in the field.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 16
c3content:
They were a wall to us both night and day, all {the days we were}Literally "the days of our being" with them keeping the sheep.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And so then, know and {consider}Literally "see" what you should do, for evil has been decided against our master and against all his household, and he is such {a wicked man},Literally "a son of uselessness" {nobody can reason with him}!"Literally "from speaking to him" 


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Then Abigail {quickly took}Literally "hastened and took" two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five prepared sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred raisin cakes, and two hundred fig cakes, and she put them on the donkeys.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Then she said to her servants, "Go ahead before me; look, I am coming after you," but she did not tell her husband Nabal.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 20
c3content:
{And then},Literally "And it happened" as she was riding on the donkey and was going down the ravine of the mountain, David and his men were coming down to meet her, and she met them.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Now David had said, "Surely {in vain}Literally "for the vanity" I guarded all that this fellow had in the desert. And nothing was missed of all that was his, but he returned evil against me in place of good!


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 22
c3content:
{May God severely punish the enemies of David}Literally "May God do so to the enemies of David"; following the LXX some English versions omit the words "the enemies of" and again do thus if I leave behind {anything that is his}Literally "from all that is for him" until the morning, not even {one male}!"Literally "from one urinating against a wall"


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 23
c3content:
When Abigail saw David, she hurried and got down from the donkey and fell on her face before {David's anger},Literally "the nostrils of David" and she bowed down to the ground.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 24
c3content:
She fell at his feet and said, "On me, my lord, be the guilt! Please let your female servant speak {to you personally}!Literally "in your ears" Hear the words of your female servant!


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Please do not let my lord set his heart against {this worthless man},Literally "this man of wickedness" Nabal; for as his name, so is he. Nabal is his name, and stupidity is with him! But I, your female servant, did not see the young menOr "the servants" of my lord whom you sent.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 26
c3content:
So then, my lord, {as Yahweh lives and as your soul lives},Literally "the life of Yahweh and the life of your soul" since Yahweh restrained you from bloodguilt {by taking matters into your own hand},Literally "saving your hand for you" so then, may your enemies be like Nabal, even {those who seek to do my lord harm}.Literally "the seeking to my lord evil"


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 27
c3content:
So then, this gift which your female servant has brought to my lord, may it be given to the young men {who follow my lord}.Literally "the ones going about at the feet of my lord"


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 28
c3content:
Please forgive the transgression of your female servant, because Yahweh will certainly make a lasting houseThat is, a lasting dynasty for my lord, because my lord is fighting the battles of Yahweh, and evil will not be found in you {as long as you live}.Literally "from your days"


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 29
c3content:
Should a man arise to pursue you and to seek your life, may the life of my lord be wrapped in the pouchOr "bag" of the living with Yahweh your God. But as for the life of your enemy, he will sling it from withinHebrew "in the midst of" the pocket of the sling!


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 30
c3content:
{And then}Literally "And it will happen" when Yahweh has done for my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you, and has appointed you as leader over Israel,


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 31
c3content:
then this will not be an obstacle for you or a stumbling block of conscience for my lord either by the shedding of blood without cause or by {my lord taking matters into his own hands}.Literally "the saving of my lord for himself" And when Yahweh does good to my lord, then remember your female servant." 


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 32
c3content:
Then David said to Abigail, "Blessed be Yahweh the God of Israel who has sent you this day to meet me!


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 33
c3content:
And blessed be your discretion, and blessed be you who have prevented me this day from bloodguilt and from delivering myself by my own hand.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 34
c3content:
But {as Yahweh lives},Literally "the life of Yahweh" the God of Israel who has prevented me from harming you, if you had not hurried and come to meet me, surely there would not have been {one male}Literally "one urinating against a wall" left alive for Nabal by the light of morning!"


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 35
c3content:
Then David took from her hand what she had brought for him, and he said to her, "Go up to your house in peace. See, I have listened to your voice, and I have {granted your request}."Literally "lifted up your face" 


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 36
c3content:
Then Abigail went to Nabal, and look, {he was holding a feast}Literally "a feast was for him" in his house like the feast of the king. {Nabal was enjoying himself},Literally "the heart of Nabal was good on him" and he was very drunk, so she did not tell him a thing, {nothing at all},Literally "small or large" until the light of morning.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 37
c3content:
{And then}Literally "And it happened" in the morning when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these words. Then his heart died {within him},Literally "in his midst" and he became like a stone.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 39
c3content:
When David heard that Nabal had died, he said, "Blessed be Yahweh who has vindicated the case of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and he has kept back his servant from evil; but Yahweh has returned the evil of Nabal on his own head." Then David sent and spoke with Abigail to take her for his wife.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 40
c3content:
So the servants of David came to Abigail at Carmel, and they spoke to her, saying, "David has sent us to you to take you for his wife."


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 41
c3content:
She got up and bowed down with her face to the ground and said, "Here is your female servant, as a slave to wash the feet of my lord's servants."


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 42
c3content:
Then Abigail {quickly got up}Literally "hastened and got up" and rode on the donkey, along with five of her maidservants who {attended her},Literally "the ones going about at her feet" and she went after the messengers of David and became his wife. 


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 44
c3content:
(Now Saul had given his daughter Michal, David's wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was from Gallim.) 


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 1
c3content:
The Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah, saying, "Is not David hiding on the hill of Hakilah opposite Jeshimon?"


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Then Saul got up and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, and three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph. 


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Now Saul was on the hill of Hakilah, which is opposite Jeshimon by the road, but David was staying in the wilderness. When he realized that Saul had come to the wilderness after him,


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Then David got up and came to the place where Saul had encamped, and David saw the place where Saul was lying down, {as well as}Literally "and" Abner the son of Ner, the commander of his army. (Now Saul was lying in the encampment, and the army was encamping around him.) 


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 6
c3content:
David answered and said to Ahimelech the Hittite and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah the brother of Joab, saying, "Who will go down with me to Saul, in the camp?" And Abishai said, "I will go down with you."


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 7
c3content:
So David and Abishai came to the army by night, and {there was}Literally "look" or "behold" Saul lying asleep in the encampment withHebrew "and" his spear thrust into the ground near his head, and Abner and the army were lying all around him.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Then Abishai said to David, "God has handed over your enemy into your hand today! So then, {please let me pin him to the ground with the spear}Literally "let me strike him please with the spear and in the ground" {one time},Literally "one occurrence" and {I will not strike him twice}."Literally "I will not repeat for him"


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 9
c3content:
But David said to Abishai, "Do not destroyOr "kill" him! For who has stretched out his hand against Yahweh's anointed one and remained blameless?"


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And David said, "{As Yahweh lives},Literally "The life of Yahweh" {certainly}Literally "if surely" Yahweh will strike him, or his day will come and he will die, or he will go down in the battle and {perish}.Literally "will be carried away"


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 11
c3content:
{Yahweh forbid me}Literally "Far be it from me from Yahweh" from stretching out my hand against Yahweh's anointed one! So then, please take the spear that is near his head and the jar of water, and let us go."


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 12
c3content:
So David took the spear and the jar of water from near Saul's head, and they went away. {No one saw, no one knew, and no one awakened},Literally "there was not anyone seeing and there was not anyone knowing and there was not anyone awakening" for all of them were sleeping because a deep sleep of Yahweh had fallen upon them. 


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Then David went to the other side and stood on the top of the hill at a distance; the distance was great between them.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 14
c3content:
David called out to the army and to Abner the son of Ner, "Will you not answer, Abner?" And Abner answered and said, "Who are you that you call to the king?"


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 15
c3content:
So David said to Abner, "Are you not a man? And who is like you in Israel? Why did you not keep watch over your lord the king? For one of the people came to destroyOr "to kill" your lord the king.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 16
c3content:
This thing that you have done is not good. {As Yahweh lives},Literally "the life of Yahweh" {surely you people deserve to die}Literally "you are sons of death" since you have not kept watch over your lord, over Yahweh's anointed one! So then, see where the king's spear is and the jar of water that was near his head!"


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Then Saul recognized David's voice and said, "Is this your voice, my son David?" And David said, "It is my voice, my lord the king."


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Then he said, "Why is my lord pursuing after his servant? For what have I done? And what evil is in my hand?


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And so then, please let my lord the king listen to the words of his servant: If Yahweh has incited you against me, may he delight in an offering; but if {it is mortals},Literally "it is the sons of humankind" may they be accursed {before}Literally "to the face of" Yahweh, for they have driven me away today from sharing in the inheritance of Yahweh, saying, 'Go, serve other gods!'


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And so then, do not let my blood fall to the ground {away from}Literally "from before" the presence of Yahweh, for the king of Israel has gone out to seek a single flea, as one hunts a partridge in the mountains." 


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Then Saul said, "I have sinned! Come back, David my son, for I will not harm you again, because my life was precious in your eyes this day. Look, I have acted like a fool and {have made a terrible mistake}."Literally "have gone greatly astray"


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 22
c3content:
David answered and said, "Here is the king's spear; let one of the young menOr "servants" come over and take it.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Yahweh repays to each one his righteousness and his faithfulness, for Yahweh gave you into my hand today, but I was not willing to stretch out my hand against Yahweh's anointed.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Look, as your life was precious in my eyes this day, may my life be great in the eyes of Yahweh, and may he rescue me from all trouble."


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Then Saul said to David, "Blessed are you, my son David; {you will not only do many things, but also will always succeed}!"Literally "you will do many things and also always you will prevail" Then David went on his way and Saul returned to his place. 


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Then David {thought to himself},Literally "said to his heart" "Now I will perish one day by the hand of Saul! There is nothing better for me but that I must certainly escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will desist from searching for me further in all of the territories of Israel, and so I will escape from his hand."


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 2
c3content:
So David got up and crossed over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, the king of Gath.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 3
c3content:
David settled with Achish in Gath, he and his men, each with his household.Or "family" David took along his two wives Ahinoam {from Jezreel}Literally "the Jezreelitess" and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And it was reported to Saul that David had fled to Gath, so {he no longer searched for him}.Literally "he does Qere did not again to seek him longer" 


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Then David said to Achish, "Please, if I have found favor in your eyes, then let them give me a place in one of the {country towns}Literally "towns of the open field" that I can live there. Why should your servant live in {the royal city}Literally "the city of the king" with you?"


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 6
c3content:
So Achish gave him Ziklag on that day. (Therefore, Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah until this day.)


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 7
c3content:
The number of days that David lived in the countryside of the Philistines was one year and four months. 


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites and the Girzites and the Amalekites, for they had been living in the land for a long time {in the direction of}Literally "as you come" Shur and {as far as}Literally "up to" the land of Egypt.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 9
c3content:
So David struck the land and did not leave a man or a woman alive; he took the sheep,Hebrew "flock," referring to either sheep or goats or both the cattle, the donkeys, the camels, and the clothing. Then he returned and came to Achish.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And Achish said, "Against whom have you raided today?" David said, "Against the Negev of Judah and against the Negev of the Jerahmeelites and against the Negev of the Kenites."


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And David did not leave alive a man or a woman to bring them back to Gath, thinking,Hebrew "saying" "So that they will not report about us, saying, 'David did thus and so.'" Thus was his practice all the days that he lived in the countryside of the Philistines.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And Achish trusted David, saying, "{He has made himself utterly hated}Literally "Stinking he stink" = "he really stinks" among his people in Israel, and he will be my servant forever." 


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 1
c3content:
{Now}Literally "And it happened" in those days the Philistines gathered their forces for war to fight against Israel. So Achish said to David, "Certainly you realize that you must go out with me in the army, you and your men."


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 2
c3content:
David said to Achish, "Very well, you will know what your servant can do." Achish said to David, "Very well, I will make you {my bodyguard}Literally "the keeper of my head" for life." 


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 3
c3content:
(Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him, and they had buried him in Ramah, his own city. And Saul had expelled the mediumsOr "necromancers" and the soothsayers from the land.)


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Then the Philistines assembled and came and encamped at Shunem, so Saul assembled all Israel, and they encamped at Gilboa.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And Saul inquired of Yahweh, but Yahweh did not answer him, not by dreams or by the UrimA device for revealing God's decisions; see Exod 28:30; Num 27:21; Neh 7:65; Prov 16:33 or by the prophets.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 7
c3content:
So Saul said to his servants, "Search for me {a woman who is a medium}Literally "a woman of an owner of a spirit of the dead" (= "a woman who owns a ritual pit for summoning spirits of the dead") so that I may go to her and inquire of her." His servants said to him, "Look there is a woman who is a medium in Endor."


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 8
c3content:
So Saul disguised himself and put on other clothes, and he went {with two of his men}.Literally "and two of his men with him" And they came to the woman by night and he said, "Please consult a spirit for me through {the ritual pit},Literally "the spirit of the dead" and bring up for me the one whom I tell you."


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 9
c3content:
But the woman said to him, "Look, you know what Saul did, how he exterminated the mediumsOr "necromancers" and the soothsayers from the land! Why are you setting a trap for my life to kill me?"


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Then Saul swore to her by Yahweh, "{As Yahweh lives},Literally "The life of Yahweh" {you will not be punished}Literally "guilt will not meet you" for this thing."


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 12
c3content:
When the woman saw Samuel, she cried out with a loud voice, and the woman said to Saul, "Why did you deceive me? You are Saul!"


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 13
c3content:
The king said to her, "Do not be afraid! What do you see?" And the woman said to Saul, "I see a godOr "a divine being" coming up from the ground!"


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Then he said to her, "What is his appearance?" She said, "An old man is coming up, and {he is wrapped in a robe}."Literally "he is wrapping himself with a robe" Then Saul realized that it was Samuel, and he knelt with his face to the ground and bowed down. 


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Then Samuel said to Saul, "Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?" And Saul said, "{I am in distress}!Literally "Great distress is for me" For the Philistines are about to make war against me, but God has turned away from me, and he does not answer me any more, not {by the prophets}Literally "by the hand of the prophets" or by the dreams. So I called to you to let me know what I should do."


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Then Samuel said, "Why do you ask me, since Yahweh has turned away from you and has become your enemy?


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Yahweh has done to you just as he spoke by my hand! Yahweh has torn the kingdom from your hand and has given it to your neighbor, to David.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Because you {did not obey}Literally "did not listen to" Yahweh and did not carry out the fierce anger of his {wrath}Literally "face" against Amalek, therefore Yahweh has done this thing to you today.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And Yahweh will also give Israel with you into the hands of the Philistines, and tomorrow you and your sons will be with me, and Yahweh will also give the army of Israel into the hand of the Philistines."


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 20
c3content:
{Then Saul immediately fell prostrate}Literally "Saul did at once and fell with the fullness of his height" to the ground, and he was very afraid because of the words of Samuel; there was no more strength in him, for he had not eaten food all day and all night.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Then the woman came to Saul and realized that he was absolutelyHebrew "very" terrified, so she said to him, "Look, your female servant {has obeyed you},Literally "has listened to your voice" and I have {risked my life}.Literally "I have put my life in my palm" I have listened to your words that you have spoken to me.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 22
c3content:
So then, you also please listen to the voice of your female servant, and let me set before you a morsel of bread, and you eat so that {you will have strength}Literally "it will be your strength" in you when you go on yourHebrew "the" way."


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 23
c3content:
But he refused and said, "I will not eat!" However, his servants urged him, and the woman also. So he listened {to what they said},Literally "their voice" and he got up from the ground and sat on the bed.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Now the woman had a fattened bull calf in the house, {so she quickly slaughtered it}Literally "and she did quickly and she slaughtered it" and took flour, kneaded dough, and baked him some unleavened bread.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 25
c3content:
She brought it before Saul and his servants, and they ate. Then they got up and went away that very night. 


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Now the Philistines assembled all their forces at Aphek, and Israel was encamped at the spring that is in Jezreel.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 2
c3content:
The rulers of the Philistines were passing on according to hundreds and thousands, David and his men passing on at the rear with Achish.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Then the commanders of the Philistines said, "What are these Hebrews doing here?" And Achish said to the commanders of the Philistines, "Is this not David, the servant of Saul, the king of Israel, who has been with me {for days and years}?Literally "these days or these years" I have not found anything threatening in him from the day of his desertion until this day!"


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 4
c3content:
But the commanders of the Philistines were angry with him and they said to him, "Send the man back so that he might return to his place where you have assigned him! But he will not go down with us into the battle, so that he does not become an adversary to us in the battle. By what could this fellow make himself favorable to his lord? Is it not with the heads of these men?


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 6
c3content:
So Achish called David and said to him, "{As Yahweh lives},Literally "The life of Yahweh" certainly you were honest, and {I am pleased to have you marching with me}Literally "good in my eyes your going out and your coming in with me" in the campaign.Or "army" For I have not found any wrong in you from the day you came to me until this day, but in the eyes of the rulers, you are not good.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 7
c3content:
So then, return and go in peace, so that you do not do {something that displeases}Literally "bad/evil in the eyes of" the rulers of the Philistines."


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Then David said to Achish, "But what have I done? And what have you found in your servant from the day that I {entered your service}Literally "that I was to your face" = "was before you" until this day, that I should not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?"


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And Achish answered and said to David, "I know that you are good in my eyes, like an angel of God! However, the commanders of the Philistines have said, 'He must not go up with us into the battle.'


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 10
c3content:
So then, rise early in the morning, you and the servants of your lord who came with you. When you rise early in the morning and it is light enough for you, leave.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 11
c3content:
So David set out early, he and his men, to leave in the morning to return to the land of the Philistines, but the Philistines went up to Jezreel. 


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 1
c3content:
{Now}Literally "And it happened" when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had raided the Negev and Ziklag. When they attacked Ziklag, they burned it with fire.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 2
c3content:
They took captive the womenLXX adds "and all" who were in it, {from the youngest to the oldest}.Literally "from small and up to great" They did not kill anyone, but carried them off and went on their way.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 3
c3content:
When David and his men came to the city, {they saw},Literally "and look" and it was burned with fire, and their wives, their sons, and their daughters had been taken captive.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Then David and the people who were with him raised their voices and wept until there was not enough strength in them to weep.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Two of David's wives had been taken captive. Ahinoam {from Jezreel}Literally "the Jezreelitess" and Abigail, the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And {David was in a very precarious situation},Literally "it was very pressed for David" for the people spoke of stoning him, for the souls of all the people were bitter, each one over his sons and his daughters. But David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God. 


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Then David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, "Please bring the ephod here for me." So Abiathar brought the ephod to David.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And David inquired of Yahweh, saying, "Should I pursue after this band of raiders? Will I overtake them?" He said to him, "Pursue them, for you will certainly overtake them, and you will certainly rescue them."


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 9
c3content:
So David went, he and the six hundred men who were with him, and they came to the WadiA valley that is usually dry but contains a stream during the rainy season Besor, but the rest remained.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 10
c3content:
David pursued, he and four hundred men; but two hundred men stayed because they were too exhausted to pass over the Wadi Besor. 


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Then they found an Egyptian man in the open country and brought him to David, and they gave him food and he ate; they also gave him water.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 12
c3content:
They gave him a slice of fig cake and two raisin cakes; he ate and {this revived him},Literally "his spirit returned to him" because he had not eaten food or drunk water for three days and three nights.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Then David said to him, "{To whom do you belong},Literally "To whom are you" and from where are you? The young man said, "I am an Egyptian young man, a servant of an Amalekite man, but my master abandoned me because I became ill three days ago.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 14
c3content:
We raided the Negev of the Kerethites and that which belongs to Judah and then the Negev of Caleb, and we burned Ziklag with fire."


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 15
c3content:
So David asked him, "Will you take me down to this band of raiders?" He said, "Swear to me by God that you will not kill me and that you will not deliver me into my master's hand! Then I will take you down to this band."


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 16
c3content:
So he took him down, and {there they were},Literally "look" spread out over the surface of all the land, eating and drinking and dancing because of all of the abundant plunder which they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Then David attacked them from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped {except}Literally "but if" four hundred young men who rode off on camels and fled.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 19
c3content:
None of theirs was missing {from the smallest to the greatest},Literally "from the small and up to the great" even sons and daughters, from the plunder up to everything they had taken for themselves; David brought back everything.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And David took all of the sheep,Hebrew "flock," referring to either sheep or goats or both and the cattle they drove along in front of that livestock, and they said, "This is David's plunder." 


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Then David came to the two hundred men {who had been too exhausted to follow}Literally "who were exhausted from going after" David; they had left them behind at the WadiA valley that is usually dry but contains a stream during the rainy season Besor. They went out to meet David and to meet the people who were with him. David came near with the people and {asked them how they were doing}.Literally "asked for them as far as peace"


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Then all the corrupt and useless men among the men who went with David reacted and said, "Because they did not go with us, we will not give them anything from the plunder which we recovered, {except}Literally "but if" each man may take his own wife and children. They must take them along and go!"


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 23
c3content:
But David said to them, "You should not do so, my brothers, with what Yahweh has given to us! He has preserved us and has given the raiding band that came against us into our hand.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And who would listen to you regarding this matter? For as the share of the one who went down into the battle, so the share of the one who remained with the baggage will be. They will share alike."


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Then David came to Ziklag, and he sent some of the plunder to the elders of Judah, to his friends, saying, "{Here is}Literally "Look" a gift for you from the plunder of the enemies of Yahweh!"


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 29
c3content:
for those in Racal, for those in the towns of the Jerahmeelites, for those in the towns of the Kenites,


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 31
c3content:
for those in Hebron, and for all the places {where David and his men had roamed}.Literally "where David had gone about there, he and his men" 


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before the Philistines, and they fell slain on Mount Gilboa.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And the Philistines overtook Saul and his sons, and the Philistines killed Jonathan and Abinadab and Malki-Shua, the sons of Saul.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 3
c3content:
{Saul was in the thick of the battle},Literally "The battle weighed heavily on Saul" and {the archers}Literally "the shooters, the men with the bow" spottedHebrew "found" him, and he was badly wounded by the archers.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Then Saul said to {his armor bearer},Literally "the carrier of his weapons" "Draw your sword and thrust me through with it, so that these uncircumcised do not come and thrust me through and make a fool of me!" But {his armor bearer}Literally "the carrier of his weapons" was not willing to do so because he was very afraid. So Saul took the sword and fell on it.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And when {his armor bearer}Literally "the carrier of his weapons" saw that Saul was dead, he also fell on his sword and died with him.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 6
c3content:
So Saul died, and his three sons, {his armor bearer},Literally "the carrier of his weapons" and all his men together that same day. 


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And when the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley and those who were beyond the Jordan saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned the towns and fled. Thus the Philistines came and lived in them. 


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 8
c3content:
{And then}Literally, "And it happened" the next day, the Philistines came to strip the dead and they found Saul and his three sons lying dead on Mount Gilboa.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 9
c3content:
So they cut off his head and stripped off his armor. Then they sent messengers around in the land of the Philistines to proclaim victory in the templesOr "houses" of their idols and to the people.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And they put his armor in the templeOr "house" of the Ashtoreth,Hebrew plural "Ashtaroth" (Ashtoreth was the female consort of Ba'al) and they fastened his corpse to the wall of Beth Shan.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 12
c3content:
all of {the valiant men}Literally "the men of ability" set out and went all night and took the corpse of Saul and the corpses of his sons from the wall of Beth Shan, and they came to Jabesh and burned them there.


c0book: 1Sam
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk in Jabesh, and they fasted for seven days. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 1
c3content:
{After}Literally "And it happened after" the death of Saul, David returned from defeating the Amalekites and he stayed at Ziklag two days.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 2
c3content:
On the third day, a man came from the camp from being with Saul, with his clothes torn and with dirt on his head. {When he came}Literally "And it happened at his coming" to David, he fell to the ground and bowed down.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 3
c3content:
David said to him, "Where did you come from?" He said to him, "I have escaped from the camp of Israel."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Then David said to him, "{How did things go}?Literally "What was the thing" Please tell me." He answered, "{When}Literally "That" the army fled from the battle, and many of the people fell; also, Saul and Jonathan his son died."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Then David asked the young man who was reporting to him, "How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan died?"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 6
c3content:
The young man who was reporting to him said, "I merely happened to be on Mount Gilboa. Here Saul was leaning on his spear, and look, the chariots and the horsemen were getting close to him.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 9
c3content:
He said to me, 'Please stand over me and kill me, for convulsions have seized me, even though my life is still in me.'


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 10
c3content:
So I stood over him and killed him, for I knew that he could not live after his falling; I took the crown that was on his head and the bracelet which was on his arm; and here, I have brought them to my lord.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Then they mourned and wept and fasted over Saul and Jonathan his son until the evening, as well as over the people of Yahweh and over the house of Israel because they had fallen by the sword.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Then David said to the young man who was reporting to him, "Where are you from?" And he said, "I am the son of an alien man. I am an Amalekite."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 14
c3content:
David said to him, "How is it that you were not afraid to stretch out your hand to destroy Yahweh's anointed one?"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Then David called to one of the young men and said to him, "Come near; strike him." So he struck him down and he died.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 16
c3content:
David said to him, "Your blood is on your head, for your mouth has testified against you by saying, 'I killed Yahweh's anointed one!'" 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And he ordered "The Bow" to be taught to the children of Judah. Look, it is written on the scroll of Jashar.The Book of Jashar ("the upright") is also mentioned in Josh 10:13. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Do not tell it in Gath; do not proclaim it in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised exult.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 21
c3content:
O mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain upon you or on the fields of grain for offerings, for there the small shield of the mighty was defiled, the small shield of Saul was not anointed with oil.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 22
c3content:
From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan did not turn back, and the sword of Saul did not return {without effect}.Literally "empty handedly"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Saul and Jonathan were beloved and pleasant in their lives and were not separated in their death. They were swifter than eagles, stronger than lions.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 24
c3content:
O daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, the one who clothed you with crimson, the one who {adorned your clothing with golden ornaments}.Literally "put gold ornaments on your clothing"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 26
c3content:
{I am distressed}Literally "Distress is for me" over you, my brother Jonathan. you were very dear to me; your love was more wonderful to me than the love of women.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 1
c3content:
It happened after this that David inquired of Yahweh, saying, "Shall I go up into one of the cities of Judah?" And Yahweh said to him, "Go up." David asked, "Where shall I go up?" And he said, "To Hebron."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 2
c3content:
So David went up there {along with}Literally "and also" his two wives, Ahinoam {from Jezreel}Literally "the Jezreelitess" and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Also, David brought up his men who were with him, each {with}Literally "and" his household, and they settled in the towns of Hebron. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Then the men of Judah came, and they anointed David there as king over the house of Judah, and they told David, "The men of Jabesh-Gilead buried Saul."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 5
c3content:
So David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh-Gilead and said to them, "May you be blessed by Yahweh because you did this loyal love with your lord, with Saul, and you buried him.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Now may Yahweh show loyal love and faithfulness with you. I will also show the good with you that you have done in this matter.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 7
c3content:
So then, let your hands be strong and {be valiant},Literally "as sons of ability" for your lord Saul is dead, and the house of Judah has anointed me as king over them." 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 8
c3content:
But Abner the son of Ner, the commander of Saul's army, had taken Ish-Bosheth the son of Saul and brought him over to Mahanaim.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 9
c3content:
He made him king over Gilead, over the Ashurites, over Jezreel, over Ephraim, over Benjamin, and over Israel, all of it.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Ish-Bosheth the son of Saul was forty years old when he became king over Israel and he reigned two years; however, the house of Judah {followed}Literally "were after" David.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 11
c3content:
The number of days that David was king over Hebron, over the house of Judah, was seven years and six months. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Abner the son of Ner and the servants of Ish-Bosheth the son of Saul went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Then Joab the son of Zeruiah and the servants of David went out, and they met at the pool of Gibeon. The one group sat on one side of the pool, and the other sat on the other side.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Abner said to Joab, "Let the young men come up and fight in our presence." And Joab said, "Let them come up."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 15
c3content:
So they came forward and passed by in number: twelve for Benjamin and for Ish-Bosheth the son of Saul, and twelve from the servants of David.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Then each seized his {opponent}Literally "neighbor" by the head and each thrust his sword in the side of his opponent, so they fell together. So theyHebrew "he" called the name of that place Helkath Hazzurim,Helkath Hazzurim possibly means "the slippery slope" which is in Gibeon.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Then the battle {became increasingly fierce}Literally "and it was/became strong/fierce until very" on that day, and Abner and the men of Israel were defeated before the servants of David. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 18
c3content:
The three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab and Abishai and Asahel. Now Asahel was swift with his feet as one of the gazelles which is in the open field.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 19
c3content:
So Asahel pursuedHebrew "pursued after" Abner, and he did not turn aside to the right or to the left from going after Abner.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Abner said to him, "Turn aside to your right or to your left; seize for yourself one of the young men, and take his belongings for yourself." But Asahel was not willing to turn aside from him.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 22
c3content:
So Abner said to Asahel {once again},Literally "and he again did again" "{For your own sake},Literally "for yourself" turn aside {from following me}.Literally "from after me" Why should I strike you down to the ground? How could I {show my face}Literally "lift up my face" to Joab your brother?"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 23
c3content:
But he refused to turn away, so Abner struck him in the stomach with the butt of the spear, and the spear went out of his back. He fell there and he died {on the spot}.Literally "in his place" {Then}Literally "And it happened" all who came to the place where Asahel fell and died just stood there. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 24
c3content:
So Joab and Abishai pursuedHebrew "pursued after" Abner {when}Literally "and" the sun went down. And they came to the hill country of Ammah, which is {before Giah}Literally "lies on the face of Giah" on the way to the wilderness of Gibeon.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 25
c3content:
The descendantsOr "sons" of Benjamin rallied after Abner, and they became as one fighting group and stood on the top of a certain hill.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Then Abner called to Joab and said, "Will the sword devour forever? Do you not know that there will be bitterness in the end? {How long}Literally "And up to when" will you not tell the people to turn {away from pursuing}Literally "from after" their brothers?"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 27
c3content:
Joab said, "{As God lives},Literally "The life of God" for if you had not spoken, the people would surely have gone up in the morning, each one of them {from following after}Literally "from after" his brother."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 28
c3content:
Then Joab blew on the trumpet and all the people stopped, and they no longer pursued after Israel, and they did not fight with them again. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 29
c3content:
Then Abner and his men went through the Arabah all that night, and they crossed over the Jordan. They went all the forenoon and came to Mahanaim.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 30
c3content:
After Joab returned from pursuingHebrew "after" Abner, he gathered all the people; nineteen of the servants of David were missing along with Asahel.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 31
c3content:
The servants of David had killed some of the Benjaminites among the men of Abner; three hundred and sixty men had died.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 32
c3content:
Then they picked up Asahel and buried him in the grave of his father, which was at Bethlehem. Joab and his men went all that night {arriving in Hebron at first light}.Literally "it became light for them in Hebron" 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 1
c3content:
The battle was prolonged between the house of Saul and the house of David, but David {was growing stronger and stronger}Literally "was going and strong" while the house of Saul {was becoming weaker and weaker}.Literally "was going and weak"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And sons were born to David in Hebron; his firstborn was Amnon by Ahinoam {from Jezreel}Literally "the Jezreelitess".


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 3
c3content:
His second was Kileab by Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; the third was Absalom the son of Maacah, who was the daughter of Talmai the king of Geshur.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 6
c3content:
As the war between the house of Saul and the house of David was continuing, Abner was strengthening himself in the house of Saul.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Saul had had a concubine, and her name was Rizpah the daughter of Aiah. Then Ish-BoshethSupported by some Hebrew and Greek manuscripts said to Abner, "Why {did you have sex with}Literally "have you gone into" my father's concubine?"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 8
c3content:
{Abner became very angry}Literally "And it became hot for Abner very" at the words of Ish-Bosheth, and he said, "Am I the head of a dog which is for Judah today? Do I not continue to show loyal love with the house of Saul your father, to his brothers, and to his friends? I have not let you fall into the hands of David, yet you have {accused me of sin with this woman}Literally "you have called me into account with the guilt of the woman" today.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Thus {may God punish Abner},Literally "may God do to Abner, and thus may he add to it" {if I do not accomplish what Yahweh has sworn to David};Literally "for as that Yahweh has sworn to David, so I will accomplish for him"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 10
c3content:
specifically, to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul and to establish the throne of David over Israel and over Judah from Dan to Beersheba!"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And Ish-Bosheth was no longer able to {answer}Literally "return a word to" Abner {because he feared him}.Literally "because of his fearing him" 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Abner sent messengers to David {where he was},Literally "under him" saying, "To whom does the land belong? {Make your covenant with me}!Literally "cut your covenant with me" Look, my hand is with you to bring all of Israel over to you!"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 13
c3content:
HeDavid said, "Good. {I will make a covenant with you}.Literally "I will cut a covenant with you" I am asking only one thing from you: You shall not see my face unless you bring Michal the daughter of Saul when you come to see {me}."Literally "my face"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Then David sent messengers to Ish-Bosheth the son of Saul, saying, "Give me my wife Michal whom I betrothed to myselfHebrew "me" for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 15
c3content:
So Ish-Bosheth sent and took her from her husband, from Paltiel the son of Laish.The Hebrew Masoretic text (Kethib) reads "Lush"; Qere reads "Laish"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 16
c3content:
But her husband went with her, {weeping all along}Literally "going and weeping" after her as far as Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, "Go and return." So he returned. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 17
c3content:
The word of Abner {came to}Literally "was with" the elders of Israel, saying, "{For quite some time}Literally "Both yesterday and the day before" you were seeking David as king over you.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 18
c3content:
So then, bring it about, because Yahweh had said to David, "Through the hand of David my servant I am about to save my people Israel from the hand of the Philistines and from the hand of all their enemies."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Abner also spoke {privately to Benjamin}.Literally "in the ears of Benjamin" Abner also went {to speak to David}Literally "to speak in the ears of David" in Hebron, all that was good in the eyes of Israel and in the eyes of all the house of Benjamin. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Then Abner came to David in Hebron and with him were twenty men. David had prepared a feast for Abner and for the men who were with him.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And Abner said to David, "Let me get up and go and gather all of Israel to my lord the king, that they may {make a covenant}Literally "cut a covenant" with you so you can reign over all which your soul desires." So David dismissed Abner, and he left in peace.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And look, the servants of David and Joab came from the raid, and they brought much plunder with them. But Abner was not with David at Hebron, for heDavid had dismissed him, and he had gone in peace.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 23
c3content:
When Joab and all the army that was with him came, they told Joab, "Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he sent him away, and he left in peace." 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Then Joab came to the king and said, "What have you done? Abner came here to you? Why have you dismissed him that he {actually went away}?Literally "and he went going"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 25
c3content:
You know that Abner the son of Ner came to deceive you. He came to learn about your going out and coming in and to know all which you are doing."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Then Joab went out from David, and he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from Bor Hasirah, but David did not know it. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 27
c3content:
When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside to the middle of the gate to speak with him in private. Then he struck him in the stomach there and he died, {for he had shed the blood of Asahel his brother}.Literally "for the blood of Asahel his brother." See Num 35:16-25


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 28
c3content:
When David heard this afterwards, he said: "I and my kingdom are innocent {before Yahweh}Literally "from with Yahweh" forever for the blood of Abner the son of Ner.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 29
c3content:
May the blood come down on the head of Joab and all the house of his father. {May the house of Joab never lack}Literally "May there not be cut off from the house of Joab" one with a bodily discharge or one with leprosy or one who grasps the distaff or one who falls by the sword or one who is lacking food." 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 30
c3content:
So Joab and Abishai, his brother, killed Abner because he had killed Asahel, their brother, at Gibeon in the battle.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 31
c3content:
David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, "Tear your clothing and put on sackcloth and mourn before Abner." Now King David was following after the bier.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 32
c3content:
And they buried Abner at Hebron. And the king lifted up his voice and wept at the grave of Abner, and all the people wept.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 34
c3content:
Your hands were not tied and your feet were not in contact with bronze fetters. You have fallen as one who falls before sons of wickedness." Then {all the people wept over him again}.Literally "and all the people did again to weep over him"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 35
c3content:
Then all the people came to give David food. Still on that day, David swore, "{May God punish me}Literally "Thus may God do to me and thus may he add" if I taste food or anything before the sun goes down."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 36
c3content:
All the people noticed, and it was good in their eyes, as everything that the king did was good in the eyes of all the people.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 37
c3content:
Then all the people and all of Israel realized on that day that {the king had not desired}Literally "that it was not from the king" to kill Abner the son of Ner.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 38
c3content:
Then the king said to his servants, "Did you not realize that a prince and a great man has fallen today in Israel?


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 39
c3content:
I am weak today even though anointed king, and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are crueler than I am. May Yahweh pay them back for doing wickedness according to their own wickedness." 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 1
c3content:
When the son of Saul heard that Abner had died in Hebron, {his courage failed}Literally "his hands hung limp" and all of Israel was horrified.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Two of the men, commanders of the raiding bands, were for the son of Saul. The name of one was Baanah, and the name of the other was Recab, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite from the descendantsOr "sons" of Benjamin; also, Beeroth was regarded as belonging to Benjamin.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 4
c3content:
(Now Jonathan the son of Saul had a son who was crippled in the feet. He was five years old when the message of Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel, and his nurse had picked him up and fled. It happened that as she was hurrying away to flee, he fell and became crippled. His name was Mephibosheth.)


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 5
c3content:
When the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Recab and Baanah, set out, they came at the heat of the day to the house of Ish-Bosheth while {he was taking a noontime rest}.Literally "he was lying with the bed at noon"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 6
c3content:
They came as far as the middle of the house as if takers of wheat, and they struck him in the stomach. Then Recab and Baanah his brother escaped.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 7
c3content:
When they had come into the house, he was lying on his couch {in his bedchamber},Literally "in the room of his lying" and they attacked him and killed him. Then they {beheaded him},Literally "they took away his head" and they took his head and went on the way of the Arabah all night.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 8
c3content:
They brought the head of Ish-Bosheth to David at Hebron, and they said to the king, "Here is the head of Ish-Bosheth, the son of Saul your enemy, who sought your life. Yahweh has given to my lord the king vengeance this day on Saul and on his offspring."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Then David answered Recab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and he said to them, "{As Yahweh lives},Literally "The life of Yahweh" who redeemed my soul from all trouble,


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 10
c3content:
when the one who told me, "Look, Saul is dead," {thought that he was bringing good news},Literally "and he was as one bringing good news in his eyes" I seized him and killed him at Ziklag, which was as my giving the news back to him.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 11
c3content:
{How much more}Literally "Also" when wicked men kill a righteous man in his house, on his bed! So then, shall I not seek his lifeblood from your hand, so that I may destroy you from the earth?"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Then David commanded the young men, and they killed them, and they cut off their hands and their feet, and they hung them at the pool at Hebron, but the head of Ish-Bosheth they took and buried in the grave of Abner at Hebron. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 1
c3content:
So all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron, and they said, "Here we are, {we are your flesh and blood}.Literally "We are your bone and your flesh"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 2
c3content:
{For some time},Literally "Both yesterday and three days before" when Saul was king over us, {you were leading Israel in and out}.Literally "you were going out and coming in, Israel." (So Kethib; Qere reads "bringing out and bringing in Israel") Yahweh had said to you, 'You shall be the shepherd of my people Israel, and you will be the leader over Israel.'"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 3
c3content:
All the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David {made a covenant}Literally "cut a covenant" with them at Hebron in the presence of Yahweh; then they anointed David as king over Israel.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 5
c3content:
He reigned over Judah at Hebron for seven years and six months; and he reigned over all Israel and Judah at Jerusalem for thirty-three years. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 6
c3content:
The king and his men went to Jerusalem, to the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land. They said to David, "You will not come here, for even the blind and the lame can turn you back, saying, 'David cannot come here.'"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 8
c3content:
David had said, "On that day {when we attack the Jebusites},Literally "in all of the striking down the Jebusites" one must attack the lame and the blind, those who hate the soul of David, by means of the water supply." For thus the blind and the lame would say, "He cannot come into the house."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 9
c3content:
David occupied the fortress and called it the city of David. And David built all around it from the Millo and {inward}.Literally "to the house" 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 10
c3content:
David {continued growing stronger and stronger},Literally "went going and great" and Yahweh the God of hosts was with him.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 11
c3content:
So Hiram, the king of Tyre, sent messengers to David, along with cedar trees and {craftsmen skilled in wood and in stone masonry},Literally "skilled craftsmen of wood and skilled craftsmen of stone wall" and they built a house for David.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 12
c3content:
David realized that Yahweh had established him as king over Israel and that he had exalted his kingdom because of his people Israel.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 13
c3content:
David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem after he came from Hebron, and more sons and daughters were born to him.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 14
c3content:
These are the names of the ones born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua and Shobab and Nathan and Solomon;


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 17
c3content:
When the Philistines heard that they had anointed David as king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David, but David heard and went down to the stronghold.Thought by many to be the stronghold of Masada


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And David inquired of Yahweh, saying, "Shall I go up to the Philistines? Will you give them into my hands?" Yahweh said to David, "Go up, for {I will certainly give}Literally "giving I will give" the Philistines into your hand."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 20
c3content:
So David came to Baal Perazim and defeated them there; and David said, "Yahweh has burst through my enemies before me like the bursting of water." Therefore he called the name of that place Baal Perazim.Baal Perazim may mean "the master of the bursting through"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 22
c3content:
{Once again}Literally "And they again did again" the Philistines came up and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 23
c3content:
So David inquired of Yahweh, but he said, "You shall not go up. Rather, go around to their rear and come to them from opposite the balsam trees.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 24
c3content:
{And it shall be}Literally "And it shall happen" that when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, then pay attention, for then Yahweh has gone out before you to strike down the army of the Philistines."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 25
c3content:
So David did thus, just as Yahweh had commanded him, and he struck down the Philistines from Geba {all the way}Literally "as you go up" to Gezer. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 2
c3content:
David got up and went and all the people who were with him, from Baale-judah to bring up from there the ark of God which is called the name, the name of Yahweh of hosts, {upon which the cherubim sit}.Literally "the cherubim are sitting on him"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 3
c3content:
They loaded the ark of God on a new utility cart, and they carried it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. Now Uzza and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, were driving the new utility cart along.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 4
c3content:
So they brought it out from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill with the ark of God, and Ahio was going before the ark.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Now David and all the house of Israel were dancing before Yahweh, with all kinds of musical instruments made from ash trees, and with zithers, harps, tambourines, sistrums, and cymbals.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 6
c3content:
When they came to the threshing floor of Nakon, Uzza reached out to the ark of God and took hold of it, because the oxen had stumbled.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 7
c3content:
{Then the anger of Yahweh was kindled}Literally "Then the nose of Yahweh became hot" against Uzza, and God struck him down there because of the indiscretion,Legal regulations offered by Moses did not permit an Israelite to handle the ark of the covenant in this manner (compare Exod 25:12-16) and he died there beside the ark of God.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 8
c3content:
{David was angry}Literally "It was hot for David" because Yahweh had burst out against Uzza, and he called that place Perez-Uzza until this day.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 10
c3content:
However, David was not willing to bring the ark of Yahweh to himself, to the city of David, so David caused it to turn to the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 11
c3content:
So the ark of Yahweh remained in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite for three months, and Yahweh blessed Obed-Edom and all his household. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 12
c3content:
It was told to King David, "Yahweh has blessed the household of Obed-Edom and all that is his because of the ark of God." So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the city of David with jubilation.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 13
c3content:
It happened that when the carriers of the ark of Yahweh had marched six steps that he sacrificed an ox and a fatling.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Now David was dancing with all his might before Yahweh, and David was wearingHebrew "girded with" a linen ephod.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 15
c3content:
So David and all the house of Israel were bringing up the ark of Yahweh with shouts of joyful acclaim and with the sound of the trumpet.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 16
c3content:
It happened that when the ark of Yahweh came into the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked down through the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before Yahweh, and she despised him in her heart. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 17
c3content:
They brought the ark of Yahweh and set it in its place in the middle of the tent which David had pitched for it. Then David offered up burnt offerings and fellowship offerings in the presence of Yahweh.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 18
c3content:
When David had finished from the sacrificing of the burnt offerings and the fellowship offerings, he blessed the people in the name of Yahweh of hosts.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Then he distributed to all the people, to all the multitude of Israel, from man to woman, to each: one ring-shaped piece of bread, one cake of dates, and one cake of raisins; and all the people went each to his house. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 20
c3content:
When David returned to bless his household, Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David. She said, "How the king of Israel honored himself today {by uncovering himself}Literally "who has uncovered himself" before the eyes of the maids of his servants, {as the total exposure of a worthless one}."Literally "as the total uncovering of one of the worthless"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 21
c3content:
So David said to Michal, "In the presence of Yahweh who chose me {over}Literally "more than" your father and {over}Literally "more than" his household, to appoint me as leader over the people of Yahweh, over Israel, I have celebrated before Yahweh.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 22
c3content:
I will demean myself again more than this, and I will be abased in my eyes, but with the maids whom you mentioned, with them I will be honored."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 1
c3content:
It happened that the king settled in his house. (Now Yahweh had given rest to him from all his enemies all around.)


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And the king said to Nathan the prophet, "Look, please, I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of God is staying in the middle of the tent."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 4
c3content:
But it happened {that night},Literally "in the night the that" the word of Yahweh cameHebrew "was" to Nathan, saying,


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 5
c3content:
"Go and tell my servant David, 'Thus says Yahweh: "Are you the one to build for me a house for my dwelling?


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 6
c3content:
For I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought up the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" from Egypt until this day; rather, I was going about in a tent and in a tabernacle.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 7
c3content:
In all of my going about among all the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" did I speak a word with one of the tribes of Israel whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, saying, 'Why did you not build me a cedar house?'" '


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 8
c3content:
So then, thus you shall say to my servant David, 'Thus says Yahweh of hosts, "I took you from the pasture {from following}Literally "from behind" the sheep to be a leader over my people, over Israel,


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 9
c3content:
and I have been with you {everywhere you went}.Literally "in all that you went" I have cut off all of your enemies from in front of you, and I will make a great name for you, as the name of the great ones who are on the earth.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 10
c3content:
I will make a place for my people Israel, and I will plant themHebrew "him" so that theyHebrew "he" can dwell {in their own place}.Literally "under him" They will not tremble any longer, and the children of wickedness will not afflict them again, as in the former days.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 11
c3content:
{In the manner that}Literally "And as far as" or "And from the day" I appointed judges over my people Israel, I will give you rest from all your enemies. And Yahweh declares to you that Yahweh will build a house for you.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 12
c3content:
When your days are full and you lie down with your ancestors,Or "fathers" I will raise up your offspring after you who will go out from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 14
c3content:
I will be a father to him, and he will be a son for me, whom I will punish when he does wrong, with a rod of men and with blows of the {human beings}.Literally "children of men"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Your house and your kingdom shall endure forever before you; your throne shall be established forever." '" 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Then King David went and sat before Yahweh and said, "Who am I, my lord Yahweh, and what is my house that you have brought me up to {this place}?Literally "here"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Still, this was {insignificant}Literally "small" in your eyes, my lord Yahweh, and also you have spoken about the house of your servant from afar, and this may be the teaching of humans, my lord Yahweh.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 20
c3content:
{What more can David say to you}?Literally "And what can David still add to say" You know your servant, my lord Yahweh.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Because of your word and according to your heart, you have done all of this great thing, in order to let your servant know.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Therefore you are great, my lord Yahweh, for there is no one like you, and there is no god except you, in all that we have heard with our ears.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Who is like your people, like Israel? Israel is the one nation on earth whose God {led them},Literally "went"; LXX reads "led" in order to redeem a people for himself, and to make a name for himself, and to do for youDavid switches pronouns from the third person to the second person the great and awesome things for your land in the presence of your people whom he redeemed for himself from Egypt, from the nations and their gods.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 24
c3content:
You have established your people Israel for yourself as a people forever, and you, O Yahweh, have become their God.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 25
c3content:
So then, Yahweh God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house, confirm it forever, and do just as you have promised.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Your name shall be great forever, {and they will say},Literally "saying" 'Yahweh of hosts is God over Israel'; and the house of your servant David shall be established before you.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 27
c3content:
For you, O Yahweh of hosts, are God of Israel! You have revealed to the ear of your servant, 'I will build a house for you'; therefore your servant {has found courage}Literally "has found his heart" to pray this prayer to you.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 28
c3content:
Now, my Lord Yahweh, you alone are God, and your words areHebrew "will be" true. You have promised this good to your servant.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 29
c3content:
So then, be content and bless the house of your servant to be forever in your presence, for you, my Lord Yahweh, have spoken, and because of your blessing, may the house of your servant be blessed forever." 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 1
c3content:
It happened afterwards that David attacked the Philistines and subdued them, and he took Metheg Ammah from the hands of the Philistines.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 2
c3content:
When he defeated Moab, he measured them with the cord, making them lie on the ground. He measured two cords to kill and {the third cord}Literally "the filling of a cord" to let live.This method of selection must have been well known to the reader, but the exact procedure has been obscured over the millennia. It may be that one out of three lived through the process, only to become subservient So Moab became servants of David, bringing tribute.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Then David struck down Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, when he went to restore his monumentHebrew "hand" at the Euphrates River.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 4
c3content:
David captured from him one thousand and seven hundred horsemen and twenty thousand {foot soldiers}.Literally "men of infantry" David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but {from them}Literally "from him" he spared a hundred chariot horses.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 5
c3content:
When Aram of Damascus came to help Hadadezer, the king of Zobah, David killed twenty-two thousand men of Aram.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 6
c3content:
David placed garrisons in Aram of Damascus, so Aram became servants of David, bringing tribute. Yahweh protected David everywhere he went. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 7
c3content:
David took the small round gold shields which had {belonged}Literally "been" to the servants of Hadadezer, and he brought them to Jerusalem.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Toi sent Joram his son to King David {to greet him}Literally "to ask peace for himself" and to congratulate him because he had fought against Hadadezer and defeated him; {for Hadadezer had often been at war with Toi}.Literally "for Hadadezer was a man of wars with Toi" {He brought with him}Literally "In his hand were" objects of silver and objects of gold and objects of bronze.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 11
c3content:
King David dedicated them also to Yahweh along with the silver and the gold that he had dedicated from all of the nations which he had subdued;


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 12
c3content:
from Aram and from Moab and from the {Ammonites}Literally "sons/children of Ammon" and from the Philistines and from Amalek and from the plunder of Hadadezer the son of Rehob, the king of Zobah.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 13
c3content:
So David made a name for himself when he returned from defeating Aram in the Valley of Salt, eighteen thousand.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 14
c3content:
He put garrisons in Edom; all over Edom he put garrisons, and all of Edom became servants of David. Yahweh protected David wherever he went. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 15
c3content:
David reigned over all of Israel, and heHebrew "David" was administering justice and righteousness for all his people.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Kerethites and the Pelethites, and the sons of David were priests. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Then David said, "Is there still anyone who is left for the house of Saul that I may show loyal love to him for the sake of Jonathan?"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Now Saul's household had a servant whose name was Ziba, so they summoned him to David, and the king asked him, "Are you Ziba?" He said, "{At your service}!"Literally "Your servant"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Then the king said, "But is there still anyone of Saul's household that I may show the loyal love of God with him?" And Ziba said to the king, "There is still a son of Jonathan who is lame in the feet."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 4
c3content:
The king said to him, "Where is he?" And Ziba said to the king, "{He is here}Literally "Look, he" in the house of Makir the son of Ammiel in Lo Debar."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 6
c3content:
So Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David. And he fell on his face and did obeisance. David said, "Mephibosheth," and he said, "{I am ready to serve you}."Literally "Here is your servant"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Then David said to him, "Don't be afraid, for {I will certainly show}Literally "doing I will do" or "showing I will show" loyal love to you for the sake of Jonathan your father, and I will restore to you all the lands of Saul your father. And you shall always eat food at my table."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Then heMephibosheth did obeisance and said, "What is your servant that you have paid attention to the dead dog like me?" 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 9
c3content:
David summoned Ziba the servant of Saul and said to him, "All that was Saul's and all his household I have given to the son of your master.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 10
c3content:
You shall till the land for him, you and your sons and your servants; you shall bring in the produce and it shall be food for the son of your master that he may eat. But Mephibosheth the son of your master may always eat food at my table." (Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty slaves.)


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Ziba said to the king, "According to all that my master the king commands his servant, so your servant will do." So Mephibosheth was eating at his table as one of the sons of the king.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Now Mephibosheth had a young son whose name was Micah, and all of the dwelling of the household of Ziba became servants for Mephibosheth.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And Mephibosheth was living in Jerusalem, because he was continually eating at the table of the king, even though he was lame in both of his feet. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 1
c3content:
{Afterwards the king of the Ammonites died},Literally "And it happened afterwards that the king of the sons of Ammon died" and his son Hanun ruled in his place.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 2
c3content:
David said, "I will show loyal love with Hanun, the son of Nahash, as his father showed loyal love with me." So David sent to console him concerning his father, by the hand of his servants. And the servants of David came to the land of the {Ammonites}.Literally "sons/children of Ammon"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 3
c3content:
But the commanders of the {Ammonites}Literally "sons/children of Ammon" said to Hanun their master, "{In your opinion},Literally "In your eyes" is David honoring your father because he has sent condolences to you? Is it not in order to search the city, to spy it out, and to overthrow it that David sent his servants to you?"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Then Hanun took the servants of David, and he shaved off half of their beards and cut their garments off in the middle up to their buttocks, then sent them away.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 5
c3content:
When they told David, he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, "Remain in Jericho until your beards have grown, and then you can return." 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 6
c3content:
When the {Ammonites}Literally "sons/children of Ammon" saw that they had become odious to David, the {Ammonites}Literally "sons/children of Ammon" sent word and hired Aram Beth-Rehob and Aram-Zobah, twenty thousand infantry; and they also hired the king of Maacah, a thousand men, and the men of Tob, twelve thousand men.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 8
c3content:
The {Ammonites}Literally "sons/children of Ammon" came out and {drew up a battle formation}Literally "drew up battle" at the entrance of the gate, but Aram-Zobah and Rehob and the men of Tob and Maacah were alone in the open field.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 9
c3content:
When Joab saw that {the battle was to be fought on two fronts},Literally "the face of the battle was against him in front and in the rear" he chose from all the members of the elite troops of Israel and {lined them up for battle}Literally "arrayed" to meet Aram.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 10
c3content:
The rest of the army he placed into the hand of his brother Abishai, who {arranged them in battle lines}Literally "arrayed" to meet the {Ammonites}.Literally "sons/children of Ammon"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Then he said, "If Aram is stronger than I am, you must become my deliverer; but if the {Ammonites}Literally "sons/children of Ammon" are too strong for you, then I will come to rescue you.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Be strong, and let us strengthen ourselves for the sake of the people and for the sake of the cities of our God. May Yahweh do what is good in his eyes.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Joab and all the people who were with him moved forward into the battle against Aram, and they fled from before him.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 14
c3content:
When the {Ammonites}Literally "sons/children of Ammon" saw that Aram had fled, they fled from before Abishai and entered the city. Then Joab returned from fighting against the {Ammonites}Literally "sons/children of Ammon" and came to Jerusalem. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Then Hadadezer sent and brought out the Arameans who were beyond the Euphrates, and they came to Helam. Now Shobach, the commander of the army of Hadadezer, {was at their head}.Literally "before the face of them"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 17
c3content:
David was told, so he gathered all Israel and crossed over the Jordan and came to Helam. Aram {arranged themselves in battle lines}Literally "arrayed" to meet David, and they fought with him.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And Aram fled before Israel, and David killed from the Arameans seven hundred chariot teams and forty thousand horsemen. He struck down Shobach, the commander of his army, and he died there.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 19
c3content:
When all the kings, the servants of Hadadezer, saw that he had been defeated before Israel, they made peace with Israel and served them, and Aram was afraid to help the {Ammonites}Literally "sons/children of Ammon" any longer. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 1
c3content:
{It came about in the spring},Literally "And it happened at the turn of the year" at the time {kings}According to the reading tradition (Qere); Kethib has "angels" or "messengers" go out, David sent Joab and his servants with him and all of Israel. They ravaged all of the {Ammonites}Literally "sons/children of Ammon" and besieged Rabbah, but David was remaining in Jerusalem.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 2
c3content:
It happened {late one afternoon}Literally "at the time of the evening" that David got up from his bed and walked about on the roof of the king's house, and he saw a woman bathing on herHebrew "the" roof. Now the woman {was very beautiful}.Literally "very good of appearance"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 3
c3content:
David sent and inquired about the woman, and someone said, "Is this not Bathsheba the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Then David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he slept with her. (Now she had been purifying herself from her uncleanness.) And she returned to her house.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Uriah came to him, and David asked {how Joab and the army fared and how the war was going}.Literally "as far as the peace of Joab, as far as the peace of the army, and as far as the peace of the battle"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 8
c3content:
David said to Uriah, "Go down to your house, and wash your feet." So Uriah went out from the king's house, and a gift from the king went out after him.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 9
c3content:
But Uriah slept at the entrance of the king's house with all the servants of his master and did not go down to his house.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 10
c3content:
They told David, "Uriah did not go down to his house." David said to Uriah, "Are you not coming from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Uriah said to David, "The ark and Israel and Judah are living in the booths; and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping on the surface of the open field; and I, shall I go to my house to eat and to drink and to sleep with my wife? By your life and the life of your soul, I surely will not do this thing."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 12
c3content:
David said to Uriah, "Remain here {today},Literally "also the day" and tomorrow I will send you away." So Uriah remained in Jerusalem on that day and the next.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 13
c3content:
David invited him, and he ate and drank in his presence {so that he became drunk},Literally "and he made him drunk" and he went out in the evening to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 15
c3content:
He had written in the letter, "Put Uriah in the front, in the face of the fiercest fighting, then draw back from behind him so that he may be struck down and die." 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 16
c3content:
{When Joab was besieging}Literally "And it happened at the besieging of Joab" the city, he put Uriah toward the place which he knew {there were valiant warriors}.Literally "there were men of ability"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 17
c3content:
The men of the city came out and fought with Joab. Some from the army from the servants of David fell; Uriah the Hittite also died.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 19
c3content:
He instructed the messenger, saying, "As you are finishing to speak all the news of the battle to the king,


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 20
c3content:
if the anger of the king rises and he says to you, 'Why did you go near the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from atop the wall?


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Who killed Abimelech the son of Jerub-bosheth,In putting words in David's mouth, Joab alludes to the story of Abimelech the son of Gideon from Judg 9:52-55. Though Gideon was also known as Jerub-ba'al, Joab conventionally substitutes bosheth (shame) for Ba'al to avoid naming the Canaanite deity if not a woman who threw an upper millstone on him from atop the wall and he died at Thebez? Why did you go near the wall?' Then you shall say, 'Your servant Uriah the Hittite also died.'"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 23
c3content:
The messenger said to David, "Because {the men overpowered us},Literally "the men were superior over us" the men came out to us in the field, but {we forced them back}Literally "we were upon them" to the entrance of the gate.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 24
c3content:
The archers shot at your servant from atop the wall, and some of the servants of the king died; your servant Uriah the Hittite also died."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Then David said to the messenger, "Thus you shall say to Joab, '{Do not feel badly about this matter};Literally "Do not let his matter be evil in your eyes" {now one and then another}Literally "for as this and as this" the sword will devour. Intensify your attack on the city and overthrow it.'" And he encouraged him.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 27
c3content:
When the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his household, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing which David had done was evil in the eyes of Yahweh. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 1
c3content:
So Yahweh sent Nathan to David, and he came to him and said, "Two men were in a certain city; one was rich and the other was poor.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 3
c3content:
but the poor man had nothing except for one small ewe lamb which he had bought. He had nurtured her, and she grew up with him and with his children together. She used to eat from his morsel and drink from his cup, and she used to lie in his lap and became like a daughter for him.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And a visitor came to the rich man, but he {was reluctant}Literally "felt sorry" to take from his flocks or from his herds to prepare a meal for the traveler when he came to him. So he took the ewe lamb of the poor man and prepared it for the man who had come to him."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Then {the anger of David was kindled}Literally "the nose of David became very hot" against the man, and he said to Nathan, "{As Yahweh lives},Literally "The life of Yahweh" the man who has done this {deserves to die}!Literally "is a son of death"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Then Nathan said to him, "You are the man! Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel: 'I anointed you as king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 8
c3content:
I gave you the household of your master and the women of your master into your lap. I also gave you the house of Israel and Judah; if that had been too little, I would have added to you {much more}.Literally "as here and as here"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Why have you despised the word of Yahweh by doing evil in his eyes?Thus Kethib; the reading tradition (Qere) reads "my eyes" Uriah the Hittite you have struck down with the sword, and his wife you have taken to yourself as wife! You have killed him with the sword of the {Ammonites}!Literally "sons/children of Ammon"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 10
c3content:
So then, a sword will not turn away from your house forever, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife!'


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Thus says Yahweh, 'Look, I am going to raise up evil against you from within your house, and I will take your women before your eyes, and I will give them to your neighbor, and he shall sleep with your wives {in broad daylight}.Literally "before the eyes of this sun"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Though you did this in secret, I will do this thing before all of Israel {in broad daylight}!'"Literally "before the sun" 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Then David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against Yahweh!"See Pss 32:1-5; 51:1-13 Nathan said to David, "Yahweh has also forgiven your sin; you shall not die.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 14
c3content:
But because you have {utterly scorned}Literally "scorning you have scorned." The term "enemies of" in the MT is likely a textual corruption and is deleted here Yahweh in this matter, the son born for you {will certainly die}."Literally "dying will die" (compare Gen 2:17)


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Then Nathan went to his house, and Yahweh struck the child that the wife of Uriah bore for David, and he became ill.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 16
c3content:
David pleaded with God on behalf of the boy and David fasted. He went to spend the night and lay upon the ground.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 17
c3content:
The elders of his household stood over him to lift him up from the ground, but he was not willing, and he did not eat any food with them.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 18
c3content:
It happened on the seventh day that the child died, and the servants of David were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, "Look, when the child was alive, we spoke to him, but he would not listen to our voice. How can we tell him, 'The child is dead'? He may do something evil."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 19
c3content:
When David saw that his servants were whispering together, he realized that the child was dead. Then David said to his servants, "Is the child dead?" And they said, "He is dead."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 20
c3content:
David stood up from the ground and washed and anointed himself and changed his clothing. Then he went to the house of Yahweh and worshiped, and he went to his own house. He asked, so they served him food, and he ate.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Then his servants said to him, "What is this thing that you have done? While the child was alive, you fasted and wept; now that the child has died, you get up and eat food!"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 22
c3content:
He said, "When the child was still alive, I fasted and I wept because I thought, 'Who knows? Yahweh may have mercy on me that the child will live.'


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 23
c3content:
But now he is dead. Why should I be fasting? Am I able to return him again? I am going to him, but he cannot return to me."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 24
c3content:
David consoled Bathsheba his wife, and he went to her and slept with her. She bore a son, and he calledSo Kethib; Qere reads "she called" him Solomon, and Yahweh loved him.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 25
c3content:
He sent word by the hand of Nathan the prophet, so he called him JedidiahJedidiah means "beloved of Yahweh" because of Yahweh. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 26
c3content:
And Joab fought against Rabbah of the {Ammonites},Literally "sons/children of Ammon" and he captured {the royal city}.Literally "city of the kingship"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 27
c3content:
Then Joab sent messengers to David and said, "We have fought against Rabbah, and we captured the city of the waters.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 28
c3content:
So then, gather the remainder of the army and encamp against the city and capture it, lest I capture the city and my name be proclaimed over it."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 30
c3content:
He took the crown of their king from his head. (Now its weight was a talent of gold, and there was a precious stone in it and it was put on David's head.) He brought out the plunder of the city {in great abundance}.Literally "very many"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 31
c3content:
He also brought out the people who were in it and put them to the saws and to the iron picks and to the iron axes, and he sent them to the place of the brickmakers. Thus he used to do to all the cities of the {Ammonites},Literally "sons/children of Ammon" and he and all of the army returned to Jerusalem. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 1
c3content:
It happened afterwards that Absalom the son of David had a beautiful sister whose name was Tamar, and Amnon the son of David fell in love with her.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And Amnon {was so frustrated that he felt ill}Literally "was distressed to the point of sickness" because of Tamar his sister, because she was a virgin, and it was too difficult in Amnon's eyes to do anything with her.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Now Amnon had a friend whose name was Jonadab the son of Shimeah, the brother of David. (Now Jonadab was a very crafty man.)


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And he said to him, "Why are you so sullen {every morning},Literally "in the morning, in the morning" O son of the king? Will you not tell me?" And Amnon said to him, "I am in love with Tamar, the sister of my brother Absalom."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Then Jonadab said to him, "Lie down on your bed and appear ill. If your father comes to see you, you shall say to him, 'Please let Tamar my sister come and give me food to eat, and let her prepare the food before my eyes, in order that I may see it and eat from her hand.'"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 6
c3content:
So Amnon lay down and pretended to be ill, and the king came to see him. Amnon said to the king, "Please let Tamar my sister come, and let her bake two cakes before my eyes that I may eat from her hand."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 7
c3content:
So David sent to the house for Tamar, saying, "Please go to the house of Amnon your brother and prepare food for him."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Tamar went to the house of Amnon her brother. Now he was lying down, and she took the dough and kneaded it and made cakes before his eyes, and she baked the cakes.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Then she took the pan and poured it out before him, but he refused to eat. Then Amnon said, "Let all the men go out from me." So all the men went out from him.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Then Amnon said to Tamar, "Bring the food to the private room that I may eat from your hand." So Tamar took the cakes which she had made and brought them to Amnon her brother inHebrew "to" the private room.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 11
c3content:
When she brought them near to him to eat, he took hold of her and said to her, "Come, lie with me, my sister!"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Then Tamar said to him, "No, my brother! Do not force me, for such a thing has not been done in Israel. Do not do this disgraceful thing!


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 13
c3content:
As for me, where should I take my disgrace? You will be as one of the fools in Israel. So please, speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 14
c3content:
But he was not willing to listen to her voice. He was stronger than she, and he forced her and lay with her. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Then Amnon hated her {very deeply},Literally "with a great hatred" for the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. So Amnon said to her, "Get up and go."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 16
c3content:
She said to him, "No, because this evil in sending me away is greater than the other you have done to me." But he was not willing to listen to her.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Then he called his young man who was serving him and said, "Please send this woman from me to the outside, and bolt the door behind her!"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Now there was a long-sleeved robe on her, for so they clothed the daughters of the king who were virgins, in robes. His servant put her outside, and he bolted the door behind her.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Tamar put ashes on her head, and she tore the long-sleeved robe which was on her. She put her hand on her head, and {she went away, crying out as she went}.Literally "she went, going and crying aloud"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Absalom her brother said to her, "Was Amnon your brother with you? But now, my sister, be quiet; he is your brother. {Do not take this matter to heart}."Literally "Do not place/set your heart to this matter" So Tamar remained a desolate woman in the house of Absalom her brother. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Now King David heard all these things, and {he became very angry}.Literally "it became very hot for him"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Absalom did not speak with Amnon {either bad or good},Literally "as far as from bad and up to good" for Absalom hated Amnon {over the matter when}Literally "because of the thing that" he raped Tamar his sister.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 23
c3content:
{About two full years later},Literally "And it happened at two years of days" Absalom's shearers were in Baal Hazor, which is near Ephraim, and Absalom summoned all the sons of the king.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Then Absalom went to the king and said, "Look, here are your servant's shearers; please let the king and his servants go with your servant.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 25
c3content:
The king said to Absalom, "No my son, not all of us shall go, so that we not be a burden to you." And he urged him, but he was not willing to go, but he blessed him.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 26
c3content:
So Absalom said, "But will you not let Amnon my brother go with us?" And the king said to him, "Why should he go with you?"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 28
c3content:
Absalom commanded his servants, saying, "Please watch. At the moment the heart of Amnon is {tipsy}Literally "good" with wine, then I shall say to you, 'Strike Amnon down,' and you shall kill him! Don't be afraid. Is it not I myself who has commanded you? Be courageous and be {valiant!}Literally "as sons of ability"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 29
c3content:
So Absalom's servants did to Amnon just as Absalom commanded, and all the sons of the king got up, and each mounted his mule and fled. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 30
c3content:
{While they were on the way},Literally "And it happened they were on the way" the message came to David, "Absalom has killed all the sons of the king, and not one of them was left."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 31
c3content:
Then the king rose and tore his garments, and he lay on the ground, and all his servants standing by were tearing their garments.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 32
c3content:
Then Jonadab the son of Shimeah, the brother of David, responded and said, "My lord should not think that all the young men, the sons of the king, are dead, because only Amnon is dead. {Absalom was talking about it},Literally "For it was on the mouth of Absalom" as it was being determined from the day heAmnon raped Tamar his sister.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 33
c3content:
So then, let not my lord the king set his heart on this matter, thinking, 'All the sons of the king are dead,' for only Amnon alone is dead." 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 34
c3content:
So Absalom fled, and the young man who was keeping watch lifted up his eyes and saw, and there were many people coming from the road behind him from the side of the mountain.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 35
c3content:
Jonadab said to the king, "Look, the sons of the king have come. According to the word of your servant, so it has come about."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 36
c3content:
When he finished speaking, look, the sons of the king came and they lifted up their voice and wept. Also, the king and all his servants wept a very great weeping.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 37
c3content:
Absalom fled and went to Talmai the son of Ammihur, the king of Geshur. David mourned over his son {day after day}.Literally "all the days"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 2
c3content:
So Joab sent to Tekoa and took from there a wise woman, and he said to her, "Please pretend to mourn and put on garments of mourning. You should not anoint yourself with oil, and you must act like this woman who has been mourning over the dead for {a long time}.Literally "many days"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Then you must go to the king and speak to him according to this word." Thus Joab put the words in her mouth. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 4
c3content:
So the Tekoite woman spoke to the king, and she fell on her face to the ground and did obeisance. She said, "Help me, O king!"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Then the king asked her, "{What do you want}?"Literally "What is for you" And she said, "Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Your servant had two sons, and they both fought in the open field, and there was no one {to part them}.Literally "to save between them" One struck the other and killed him.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And look, all of the family has risen up against your servant, and they said, 'Give up the one who struck his brother, that we may kill him in exchange for the life of his brother whom he murdered. We will also wipe out the heir,' and so they would put out my embers which remain, by not preserving for my husband a name and a remnant on the face of the earth." 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Then the king said to the woman, "Go to your house, and I myself will give the command concerning you."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 9
c3content:
The Tekoite woman said to the king, "On me, my lord the king, is the guilt, and on the house of my father, but the king onHebrew "and" his throne is innocent."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Then she said, "Please may the king remember Yahweh your God, {to prevent the increase of blood avengers who kill},Literally "from making numerous the avenger of blood to kill" so that they not wipe out my son." He said, "{As Yahweh lives},Literally "The life of Yahweh" surely not one hair shall fall from your son to the ground."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 13
c3content:
The woman said, "But why have you plotted like this against the people of God? By speaking this word, he is guilty not to bring back his banished one.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 14
c3content:
For {we must certainly die},Literally "dying we must die" and we are as the waters spilled to the ground which cannot be gathered. God will not take a life but devises plans for a banished person not to be cast out from him.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Now I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, because the people made me afraid, and your servant thought, 'I will speak to the king, perhaps the king will grantHebrew "do/make" the request of his servant.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 16
c3content:
For the king will listen, to deliver his servant from the hand of the man who seeks to destroy me and my son together from the inheritance of God.'


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Your servant also thought, 'May the word of my lord the king {bring rest},Literally "become a rest" for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king, {to sense what is good and what is bad}.'Literally "to hear the good and the bad" May Yahweh your God be with you."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 18
c3content:
The king answered and said to the woman, "Please do not withhold from me a thing which I am about to ask you." The woman said, "Please let my lord the king speak."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 19
c3content:
The king asked, "Was the hand of Joab with you in all of this?" The woman answered and said, "{As your soul lives},Literally "The life of your soul" my lord the king, surely one cannot go to the right or to the left from all that my lord the king has spoken. Yes, your servant Joab himself commanded me, and he put all of these words in the mouth of your servant.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 20
c3content:
In order {to change the situation},Literally "to turn the face of the thing" your servant Joab did this thing. But my lord has wisdom, as the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all that is on the earth."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Then the king said to Joab, "Look, please, I will grant this thing. Go and bring back the young man Absalom."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Joab fell with his face to the ground and did obeisance. And he blessed the king, and heHebrew "Joab" said, "Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your eyes, my lord the king, in that the king has granted the request of his servant." 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 24
c3content:
The king said, "Let him go over to his house, and he may not see my face." So Absalom went over to his house, and did not see the face of the king.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 25
c3content:
As far as Absalom, there was not a more handsome man in all of Israel to admire so much; from the sole of his foot up to his crown, there was no physical defect on him.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 26
c3content:
When he shaved his head, it would happen {every year},Literally "from the end of days for the days" which he did because it was heavy on him, he would shave it off and weigh the hair of his head: two hundred shekels {by the king's weight}.Literally "by the stone of the king"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 27
c3content:
Three sons were born to Absalom and one daughter, whose name was Tamar. She was a woman beautiful of appearance.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 28
c3content:
Absalom lived in Jerusalem {two full years},Literally "two years of days" but he did not see the face of the king.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 29
c3content:
So Absalom sent for Joab, in order that he send him to the king, but he was not willing to go to him. He sent again a second time, but he was not willing to go.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 30
c3content:
So he said to his servants, "Look at the tract of land of Joab {next to mine},Literally "toward my hand" for he has barley plants there. Go, set it ablaze with fire." So the servants of Absalom set the tract of land ablaze with fire.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 31
c3content:
Then Joab got up and went to Absalom, to the house, and said to him, "Why have your servants set my tract of land ablaze with fire?"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 32
c3content:
Absalom said to Joab, "Look, I have sent to you, saying, 'Come here that I may send you to the king to say, "Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me if I were still there." ' So then, let me see the face of the king; if there is guilt in me, then let him kill me."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 33
c3content:
So Joab went to the king and he told him. Then he summoned Absalom, and he came to the king, and he bowed down to him with his face to the ground before the king. Then the king kissed Absalom. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 1
c3content:
It happened afterward that Absalom made himself a chariot with horses and fifty men running before him.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Absalom used to rise early in the morning, and he stood {beside}Literally "on hand of" the road at the gate; {anyone}Literally "every man" who had a legal dispute to bring to the king for judgment Absalom would call to him and say, "{Where are you from?}"Literally "Where from this city are you?" And he would say, "Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Then Absalom would say to him, "Look, your case is good and right, but for you there is no hearing with the king."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Then Absalom would say, "{Oh, that someone would}Literally "Who will ...?" appoint me as judge in the land, that {anyone}Literally "every man" might come to me who had a legal dispute or a case, and I would give him justice."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 5
c3content:
It happened whenever anyone drew near to do obeisance to him, that he would stretch his hand and take hold of him and kiss him.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Absalom did like this to all of Israel who came to the king for judgment; so Absalom stole the heartsHebrew "heart" of the people of Israel. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 7
c3content:
It happened at the end of fourSo LXX, followed by Syriac and Vulgate; MT has "forty" years that Absalom said to the king, "Please let me go and pay my vow which I have made to Yahweh in Hebron,


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 8
c3content:
for your servant made a vow while I was staying in Geshur in Aram, saying, '{If Yahweh will indeed let me return}Literally (following Qere) "If returning Yahweh will return me" to Jerusalem, then I will worship Yahweh.'"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Then Absalom sent scouts throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, "When you hear the sound of the trumpet, you shall shout 'Absalom has become king in Hebron!'"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Two hundred men from Jerusalem went with Absalom as invited guests, going in their innocence as they did not know anything.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, the advisor of David, from his city Giloh, while he offered the sacrifices. The conspiracy {grew in strength},Literally "became strong" and the people were going and {increasing}Literally "many" with Absalom. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Then the messenger came to David, saying, "The heartsHebrew "heart" of the men of Israel have gone after Absalom."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Then David said to all his servants who were with him in Jerusalem, "Get up and let us flee, for there will be no escape for us from Absalom! Hurry to go, otherwise he will come quickly and overtake us! And he will bring disaster on us and evil! He will attack the city with the edge of the sword!"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Then the servants of the king said to the king, "According to all that my lord the king chooses, {your servants are ready to act}!"Literally "here are your servants"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 16
c3content:
The king went out withHebrew "and" all his household {following him},Literally "at his feet" but the king left behind ten concubines to look after the house.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 17
c3content:
So the king went out withHebrew "and" all the people {following him},Literally "at his feet" and they stopped {at the last house}.Literally "at the house of the distance"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 18
c3content:
All his servants were passing {by him}:Literally "on his hand" all of the Kerethites and all of the Pelethites and all of the Gittites--six hundred men {who had followed him}Literally "who had come at his feet" from Gath--passing {before the king}.Literally "on the face of the king"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 19
c3content:
The king said to Ittai the Gittite, "Why are you also coming with us? Return and stay with the king, for you are a foreigner; moreover, you are an exile. {You are far from your place}.Literally "You as far as your place"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Yesterday when you came and {today},Literally "the day" I have caused you to wander by going with us. Now I am going to where I am going; return and let your brothers return. May loyal love and faithfulness be with you."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 21
c3content:
But Ittai answered the king and said, "{As Yahweh lives}Literally "The life of Yahweh" and {my lord the king lives},Literally "the life of my lord the king" surely in the place wherever my lord the king shall be, if for death or if for life, surely there your servant will be."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Then David said to Ittai, "Go and pass over." So Ittai the Gittite passed over and all his men and all of the little children who were with him.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 23
c3content:
All of the land was weeping with a loud voice as all the people were passing by and the king was crossing through the Wadi Kidron, and all the people were passing {on the road to the wilderness}.Literally "on the face of the road with the wilderness" 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Suddenly Zadok was there, and all of the Levites with him, carrying the ark of the covenant of God. They set the ark of God down, and Abiathar offered sacrifices until all the people passed out of the city.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 25
c3content:
The king said to Zadok, "Let the ark of God return to the city. If I find favor in the eyes of Yawheh, he will let me return and let me see him in his dwelling place.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 26
c3content:
But if he says, 'I take no pleasure in you,' then {I am ready}.Literally "here I am" Let him do to me that which is good in his eyes.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 27
c3content:
Then the king said to Zadok the priest, "Are you a seer? Return to the city in peace, with Ahimaaz your son and Jonathan the son of Abiathar, your two sons with you.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 30
c3content:
Now David was going up on the Ascent of the Olives, {weeping as he went},Literally "going up and weeping" with his head covered and going barefoot. All the people who were with him each covered their head {and wept as they went}.Literally "going up and weeping"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 31
c3content:
Now David was told, "Ahithophel was among the conspirators with Absalom." Then David said, "Please frustrate the counsel of Ahithophel, O Yahweh."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 32
c3content:
It happened that as David was coming up to the summit where he used to worship God, suddenly Hushai the Arkite was there to meet him. His coat was torn and dirt was on his head.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 34
c3content:
but if you want to return to the city and say to Absalom, 'I am your servant, O king. I used to be a servant of your father, but from then and now I will be your servant,' then you can frustrate the counsel of Ahithophel for me.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 35
c3content:
Will not Zadok and Abiathar the priests be with you there? It shall be that all the words you hear from the house of the king you shall tell Zadok and Abiathar the priests.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 36
c3content:
Look, there with them are their two sons, Ahimaaz of Zadok and Jonathan of Abiathar. You shall send to me {by means of them}Literally "by their hand" all the words that you hear."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Now David passed a little from beyond the summit, and suddenly Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth was there to meet him with a pair of saddled donkeys; on them were two hundred loaves of bread and a hundred raisin cakes, with a hundred summer fruits and a skin of wine.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 2
c3content:
The king said to Ziba, "{What do you want to accomplish by bringing these}?"Literally "What are these to you?" And Ziba said, "The donkeys are for the king's household to ride on; the bread and the summer fruit are for the young men to eat, and the wine is for the faint in the wilderness to drink.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Then the king said, "Where is the son of your lord?" And Ziba said to the king, "He is living in Jerusalem for he said, 'Today the house of Israel shall return the kingdom of my father to me.'"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 4
c3content:
The king said to Ziba, "Look, all that was Mephibosheth's is yours." Ziba said, "I hereby do obeisance; may I find favor in your eyes, my lord the king." 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 5
c3content:
King David came up to Bahurim and suddenly a man from there was coming out from the family of the house of Saul, and his name was Shimei the son of Gera. {He was cursing as he came out}.Literally "He was coming out, coming out and cursing"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And he threw stones at David and at all the servants of King David and at all the people and at all the mighty warriors on his right and on his left.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Shimei said while cursing him, "Go out, go out, you {man of bloodshed},Literally "man of bloods" you {man of wickedness}.Literally "and man of the wickedness"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Yahweh has returned on you all the blood of the household of Saul {whom you have supplanted as king},Literally "who you have reigned in place of him" and Yahweh has given the kingship into the hand of Absalom your son. Look, you are in disaster for you are a man of blood."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, "Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Please let me go over and take off his head."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 10
c3content:
The king said, "{What do we have in common},Literally "What is for me and what is for you" sons of Zeruiah? IfHebrew "Because" he curses because Yahweh has said to him 'Curse David,' who can say, "Why have you done this?"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 11
c3content:
David said to Abishai and to all his servants, "Look, my son who came out of my loinsHebrew "intestines" is seeking my life. Now {as far as}Literally "and even that now" this Benjaminite, leave him alone and let him curse, for Yahweh has spoken to him.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Perhaps Yahweh will look {in my eye}According to the reading tradition (Qere); Kethib has "at my guilt" and repay good for me in place of his curse this day.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Then David and his men went on the road, with Shimei going on the side of the hill beside him, {cursing as he went}.Literally "going and cursing" He threw stones beside him and threwHebrew "flung" dust in the air.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 14
c3content:
When the king and all of the people who were with him arrived, he was weary, so he recovered there. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Now Absalom and all the people, the men of Israel, had come to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel was with him.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 16
c3content:
When Hushai the Arkite the friend of David came to Absalom, Hushai said to Absalom, "Long live the king, long live the king!"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Absalom said to Hushai, "This is your loyal love with your friend? Why did you not go with your friend?"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Then Hushai said to Absalom, "No, rather, whom Yahweh and this people and all the men of Israel have chosen, to himAccording to the reading tradition (Qere); Kethib has "no" I will be, and with him I will remain.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 19
c3content:
{Furthermore},Literally "And the second thing" for whom have I served? Is it not in the presence of his son that I have served before your father? {So shall I serve you}!"Literally "So shall I be in your presence"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Go to the concubines of your father whom he left behind to watch over the house, then all of Israel will hear that you made yourself odious to your father, and {all of your followers will be motivated}!"Literally "the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Then they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he went in to the concubines of his father before the eyes of all Israel.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 23
c3content:
The counsel that Ahithophel gave in those days was regarded as when a manQere reads "a man inquired"; Kethib omits "a man" inquired of the word of God, so all the counsel of Ahithophel was esteemed both by David and by Absalom. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Then Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Please let me choose twelve thousand men, and I will set out and pursue after David {tonight}.Literally "the night"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 2
c3content:
I will come upon him while he is weary and {weak}.Literally "slack of hands" I will startle him, and all of the people who are with him will flee. Then I will strike down the king while he is alone.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Then I will return all the people to you; when all have returned, the man whom you are seeking will be dead,According to the MT; the LXX has "and I will return all the people to you the way a bride returns to her husband, except the life of the one man whom you are seeking" but all the people will be safe."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Then Absalom said, "Please call also for Hushai the Arkite, and let us hear {what he has to say}Literally "what is in his mouth" also."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 6
c3content:
So Hushai came to Absalom, who said to him, "Shall we do according to this word that Ahithophel has spoken? If not, then you tell us."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Then Hushai said to Absalom, "The counsel that Ahithophel gave is not good {at this time}."Literally "at this occurrence"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Hushai continued, "You know your father and his men, that they are mighty warriors and they {are enraged}Literally "are bitter of soul" as a bear robbed of her offspring in the field. Your father is a man of war, so he will not spend the night with the troops.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Now he has hidden himself in one of the caves or in one of the places. At the moment he falls on themI.e., Absalom's troops the first time, {whoever hears}Literally "and the one who hears hears" the report will say, 'There has been a defeat among the people who follow after Absalom.'


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And he is also a {valiant warrior},Literally "son of ability" whose heart is like the heart of the lion. Hei.e., one of Absalom's troops will {certainly melt}Literally "melting he will melt" with fear, for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty warrior and those who are with him are {valiant warriors}.Literally "son of ability"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 11
c3content:
I give the advice that all of Israel from Dan to Beersheba should be completely gathered to you, as the sand which is on the seashore for abundance, with {you personally}Literally "your face" going into the battle.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Then we will come to him in one of the places where he may be found, and we shall come upon him as the dew falls on the ground. He and all the men who are with him will not survive, not even one!


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Even if he withdraws to a city, all Israel will bring up ropes to that city, and they will drag him away to the valley until there is not even a pebble to be found."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The advice of Hushai the Arkite is better than the advice of Ahithophel." (Now Yahweh had ordained to frustrate the good counsel of Ahithophel in order for Yahweh to bring misery upon Absalom). 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Hushai said to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, "{Thus and so}Literally "so this and so this" Ahithophel advised Absalom and the elders of Israel, but {thus and so}Literally "so this and so this" I have advised.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 16
c3content:
So then, send quickly and tell David, 'Don't spend the night at the fords of the wilderness! Moreover, by all means cross over lest the king and all the people who are with him be swallowed up.'"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying at En Rogel, so a servant girl used to go and tell them, then they would go and tell King David, for they were not able to be seen coming to the city.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 18
c3content:
But a young man saw them and told Absalom, so both of them went quickly and came to the house of a man at Bahurim. Now he had a well in his courtyard, so they went down there.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Then the woman took and spread a covering over the opening of the well; then she spread out dried grain on it, so nothing was discovered.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 20
c3content:
When the servants of Absalom came to the woman at the house, they said, "Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?" And she said to them, "They crossed over the brook of water." So they searched but could not find them, so they returned to Jerusalem.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 21
c3content:
After they left, they came up from the well and went and told King David. They said to David, "Set out and cross over the water quickly, for thus Ahithophel has advised against you."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 22
c3content:
So David and all the people who were with him set out, and they crossed over the Jordan until morning light until {there was no one}Literally "until one was not missing" missing who had not crossed over the Jordan.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 23
c3content:
When Ahithophel saw that his advice was not followed, he saddled the donkey, and he set out and went up to his house in his city. {After he set his house in order},Literally "And he commanded to his household" he hanged himself, and he died and was buried in the tomb of his ancestors.Or "fathers" 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Now David had come to Mahanaim, and Absalom had crossed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Absalom had appointed Amasa in place of Joab over the army. Now Amasa was the son of a man whose name was Ithra the Israelite, {who had married}Literally "who went to" Abigail the daughter of Nahash the sister of Zeruiah, the mother of Joab.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 27
c3content:
Just as David had arrived in Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash from Rabbah of the {Ammonites}Literally "sons/children of Ammon" and Makir the son of Ammiel from Lo Debar and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 28
c3content:
brought beds and basins and objects of pottery, as well as wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils,


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 29
c3content:
honey, curds, sheep, cheese, and cattle for David and for the people who were with him to eat. For they had thought, "The troops are hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness." 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Then David mustered the people who were with him, and he appointed over them commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 2
c3content:
David sent forth a third of the troops {under the command of Joab},Literally "in the hand of Joab" and a third {under the command of Abishai},Literally "in the hand of Abishai" the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, and the remaining third {under the command of Ittai}Literally "in the hand of Ittai" the Gittite. And the king said to the troops, "I, even I, {will certainly go out}Literally "going out I will go out" with you."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Then the troops said, "You will not go out, for {if we must flee},Literally "fleeing we must flee" then {they will not care about us};Literally "they will not set heart toward us" even if half of us die, {they will not care about us},Literally "they will not set heart toward us" but now, you are like ten thousand of us. And so then, it is better for us that you be in the city to help."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 4
c3content:
The king said to them, "I will do what seems good in your eyes." So the king stood at the side of the gate while all of the troops went out by hundreds and by thousands.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 5
c3content:
The king ordered Joab, Abishai, and Ittai, "With respect to the young man Absalom, deal gently for me." And all the troops heard when the king ordered all of the commanders concerning the matter of Absalom. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 7
c3content:
The army of Israel was defeated there before the servants of David, and the defeat there was great on that day: twenty thousand.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 8
c3content:
The battle there was spreading over the surface of all the land, and {the forest devoured more among the army than}Literally "the forest made numerous to eat among the army more than" the sword did on that day.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Absalom was found in the presence of the servants of David as he was riding on the mule. The mule went under the thicket of the great oak tree, and his head was caught in the tree. He was left hanging between heaven and earth, and the mule which was under him went on.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 10
c3content:
When a certain man saw it, he told Joab, and he said, "Look, I saw Absalom hanging in the oak tree!"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Then Joab said to the man who was telling him, "Look, if you saw, why did you not strike him down to the ground there? {I would have gladly given you}Literally "And upon me to give to you" ten pieces of silver and a leather belt."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 12
c3content:
The man said to Joab, "{Even if I felt the weight}Literally "I am not weighing out on my palms" of a thousand pieces of silver in my palms, I would not have sent my hand against the son of the king, for in our ears the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, 'Whoever you may be, protect the young man Absalom.'


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 13
c3content:
If I had dealt treacherously against his life, and there is not any matter hidden from the king, {you would have presented yourself aloof}."Literally "you would have presented yourself from before"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Joab said, "No longer will I wait in your presence." Then he took three spears in his hand and thrust them into the heart of Absalom while he was still alive in the oak tree.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Then ten of the young men who bore the weapons of Joab surrounded him and struck and killed Absalom.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Then Joab blew on the trumpet and the troops returned from pursuing after Israel, for Joab kept back the troops.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 17
c3content:
They took Absalom and they threw him into the large pit in the forest and raised a very great heap of stones over him. Then all of Israel fled, each to his tent. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 18
c3content:
(Now Absalom had taken and set up for himself in his lifetime a stone pillar that is in the valley of the king, because he said, "I have no son in order to remember my name," and he called the stone pillar by his name. It is called the monument of Absalom until this day).


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Now Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, "Please let me run and bring the good news to the king that Yahweh has vindicated him from the hand of his enemies."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Joab said to him, "You will not be a man {bringing}Literally "for upon" good news this day! You may bring good news on another day, but today you will not be bringing good news because the king's son is dead."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Then Joab said to the Cushite, "Go, tell the king what you have seen"; then the Cushite bowed down to Joab and ran off.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok again said to Joab, "{Come what may},Literally "And let it happen what" please let me also run after the Cushite." Joab asked, "Why are you wanting to run, my son, when for you there is no {messenger's reward}?"Literally "and for you there is no good news finding"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 23
c3content:
"{Come what may},Literally "And let it happen what" I want to run." He said to him, "Run," so Ahimaaz ran on the road on the plain, and he passed the Cushite. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Now David was sitting between the two gates, and the sentinel went up to the roof of the gate by the wall and he lifted up his eyes and watched, and look, a man was running by himself.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 25
c3content:
The sentry called and told the king, and the king said, "If he is alone, good news is in his mouth." {He kept coming closer}.Literally "And he came, coming and near"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Then the sentinel saw another man running, so the sentinel called to the gatekeeper and said, "Look, a man running alone." The king said, "This one also is bringing good news."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 27
c3content:
The sentinel said, "I am seeing that the running of the first is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zakok." The king said, "He is a good man; he will come, for good news."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 28
c3content:
Then Ahimaaz called and said to the king, "Peace." He bowed down to the king with his face to the ground, and he said, "May Yahweh your God be blessed, who has delivered the men who raised their hand against my lord the king."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 29
c3content:
The king said, "Is it peace for the young man Absalom?" Ahimaaz said, "I saw the great commotion when Joab the servant of the king sent your servant, but I do not know what it was all about."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 31
c3content:
Suddenly the Cushite arrived and said, "May my lord the king receive the good news, for Yahweh has vindicated you today from the power of all who stood up against you."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 32
c3content:
The king said to the Cushite, "Is it peace for the young man Absalom?" Then the Cushite answered, "May the enemies of my lord the king and all who rise up against you {to harm you}Literally "for evil" be like the young man!"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 33
c3content:
2 Samuel 18:33-19:43 in the English Bible is 19:1-44 in the Hebrew Bible The king was upset, and he went up to the upper room of the gate and wept. He said as he went, "My son, Absalom, my son, my son, Absalom. {If only}Literally "Who would grant my dying in place of you" I had died instead of you, Absalom, my son, my son." 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 2
c3content:
so the victory turned to mourning on that day for all the army, because they had heard that day, "The king is grieving over his son."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 3
c3content:
The army {came secretly}Literally "stole secretly to come" into the city on that day because the army was disgraced when they fled in the battle,


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 4
c3content:
and because the king had covered his face and cried with a loud voice, "My son, Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son." 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Then Joab came to the king's house and said, "Today you have humiliated the faces of all of your servants who have saved your life this day, and the life of your sons and your daughters, the life of your wives, and the life of your concubines,


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 6
c3content:
by loving those who hate you and hating those who love you. Indeed, you have made clear this day that you have no regard for your commanders or officers, for I have realized today that were Absalom alive, and all of us were dead, then that would have been right in your eyes!


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 7
c3content:
So then, get up and go out and {speak kindly to your servants},Literally "speak to the heart of your servants" for I swear by Yahweh, if you do not go out, no man will lodge this night with you, and this disaster will be greater for you than any disaster that has come upon you from your childhood until now!"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 8
c3content:
So the king got up and he sat in the gate, and they told all the army, "Look, the king is sitting in the gate." Then all the army came before the king; whereas all of Israel had fled, each to his tent. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Then it happened that all the people were disputing among all the tribes of Israel, saying, "The king delivered us from the hand of our enemies, and he saved us from the hand of the Philistines, but now he has fled from the land because of Absalom.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Now Absalom whom we anointed as king over us has died in the battle; so then, why are you taking no action to restore the king?"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Then King David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, "Speak to the elders of Judah: 'Why are you last to bring back the king to his house? The talk of all Israel has come to the king in his house.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 12
c3content:
My brothers, you are my bones and you are my flesh. Why should you be the last to bring back the king?'


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 13
c3content:
To Amasa you shall say: 'Are you not my bones and my flesh? {May God punish me}Literally "Thus may God do to me and thus may he add" if you are not the commander of my army before me forever, in place of Joab.'"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 14
c3content:
So he turned the heart of all the men of Judah as one man, and they sent word to the king, "Return, you and all your servants." 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Then the king returned and he came to the Jordan; Judah had come to Gilgal to come to meet the king, to bring the king over the Jordan.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Then Shimei the son of Gera, the son of the Benjaminite, who was from Bahurim quickly came down with the men of Judah to meet King David,


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 17
c3content:
and a thousand men were with him from Benjamin. Too, Ziba the servant of the household of Saul and fifteen of his sons and twenty of his servants were with him, and they rushed to the Jordan before the king.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 18
c3content:
{The crossing took place}Literally "And the ford crossed" to bring the household of the king over and to do good in his eyes. Then Shimei the son of Gera fell before the king when he crossed over the Jordan,


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 19
c3content:
and he said to the king, "May not my lord hold me guilty, and may you not remember how your servant did wrong on the day that my lord the king went out from Jerusalem, by taking it to heart!


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 20
c3content:
For your servant knows that I have sinned; look, I have come this day as the first of all the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah responded and said, "Because of this, should not Shimei be put to death, for he cursed the anointed one of Yahweh?"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Then David said, "What is it to me or to you, sons of Zeruiah, that you should be an adversary today? Should anyone be put to death in Israel? Do I not know today that I am king over Israel?"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Now, Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; he had not taken care of his feet nor trimmed his moustache nor washed his clothes from the day the king left until the day he came back in peace.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 25
c3content:
It happened that when he came to Jerusalem to meet the king, the king said to him, "Why did you not come with me, Mephibosheth?"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Then he said, "My lord the king, my servant deceived me, for your servant had said, 'Let me saddle the donkey that I may ride on her and go with the king,' for your servant is lame.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 27
c3content:
But he slandered against your servant to my lord the king. My lord the king is like the angel of God; {do as you see fit.}."Literally "do the good in your eyes"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 28
c3content:
For there was no one in all the house of my father {who were not doomed to death}Literally "except men of death" before my lord the king, but you set your servant among those who eat at your table. Do I have any righteousness any longer except to cry out to the king?"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 29
c3content:
Then the king said to him, "Why should you speak any more about the matter? I have decided: you and Ziba shall divide the land."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 30
c3content:
Then Mephibosheth said to the king, "Let him take the whole thing, since my lord the king has come {safely}Literally "in peace" to his house." 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 31
c3content:
Then Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim and crossed with the king over the Jordan to escort him through the Jordan.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 32
c3content:
Now Barzillai was very old, {eighty years old}.Literally "a son of eighty years" Now he had provided the king with food while he was staying at Mahanaim, for he was a very wealthy man.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 33
c3content:
The king said to Barzillai, "You cross over with me, and I will provide for you to dwell with me in Jerusalem."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 34
c3content:
Then Barzillai said to the king, "What are the days of the years of my life, that I should go with the king to Jerusalem?


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 35
c3content:
I am eighty years old today. Can I discern between good and bad? Or can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Or can I still hear the voice of singing men and women? Why should your servant be a burden any longer to my lord the king?


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 36
c3content:
Your servant shall go over the Jordan with the king a little way, but why should the king recompense me with this reward?


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 37
c3content:
Please let your servant return, and let me die in my city in the tomb of my father and my mother. Here is your servant Kimham; let him cross over with my lord the king, and do for him that which is good in your eyes."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 38
c3content:
The king said, "Let Kimham go over with me, and I will do for him the good in your eyes, and all that you desire of me I will do for you." 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 39
c3content:
Then all the people crossed over the Jordan, and the king crossed and kissed Barzillai and blessed him; then he returned to his place.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 40
c3content:
The king went over to Gilgal, and Kimham went over with him. All the people of Judah went over with the king, and half of the people of Israel too.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 41
c3content:
Suddenly, all the men of Israel were coming to the king. They said to the king, "Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen away and brought the king and his household over the Jordan, with all the men of David?"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 42
c3content:
Then all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, "Because the king is my close relative! Why are you this angry over this matter? {Have we by any means eaten anything from the king? Did we take by any means anything that was not ours}?"Literally "By any means did we eat from the king or by any means was it dragged away for us?"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 43
c3content:
Then the people of Israel answered the men of Judah and said, "I have {ten times as much}Literally "ten hands" in the king, moreover in David I have more than you. Why did you treat me with contempt {by not giving me first chance}Literally "and my word was not the first" to bring back my king?" But the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the word of the men of Israel. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Now a man of wickedness was found there whose name was Sheba the son of Bichri, a Benjaminite. He blew the horn and said, "There is no share for us in David, and there is no inheritance for us in the son of Jesse; each to his tents, O Israel!"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Then all the men of Israel went up from following after David, following instead after Sheba the son of Bicri, but the men of Judah stuck to their king from the Jordan up to Jerusalem.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 3
c3content:
David went up to his house in Jerusalem, then the king took the ten concubines whom he had left to look after the house, and he put them {under confinement}.Literally "a house of guard" However, he provided for them, but {he did not sleep with them}.Literally "he did not come into them" So they were confined until the day of their death, like a lifetime of widowhood. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Then the king said to Amasa, "Summon for me the men of Judah within three days, {and be here yourself}."Literally "and you stand here"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 5
c3content:
So Amasa went to summon Judah, but he tarried more than the appointed time which he had set for him.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Then David said to Abishai, "Now Sheba the son of Bicri will do us more harm than Absalom. You take the servants of your lord and pursue after him, lest he find fortified cities for himself and escape from us."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Then the men of Joab, the Kerethites and the Pelethites, and all the mighty warriors went out after him; they went out from Jerusalem to pursue after Sheba the son of Bicri.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 8
c3content:
They were near the big rock that is in Gibeon, and Amasa came before them. Joab {was dressed in his military clothing},Literally "was dressed his garment his clothing" with a utility belt on him and a sword strapped to his waist in its scabbard. Now he went out, and it fell out.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Then Joab said to Amasa, "Is it peace, O you my brother?" Then the right hand of Joab took hold of the beard of Amasa as if to kiss him.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Now Amasa was not on his guard against the sword that was in Joab's hand, and he struck him with it into the stomach, and his entrails poured out to the ground. He did not strike him again, and he died. Then Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bicri.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 11
c3content:
A young man stood over him, from the young men of Joab, and he said, "Whoever takes delight in Joab and whoever is for David, follow after Joab."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Now Amasa was wallowing in the blood in the middle of the highway; when the man saw that all the people stood there, he turned Amasa over from the highway into the field, and he threw a garment over him because he had seen that all who had come by him had stopped.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 13
c3content:
After he was removed from the highway, all the men passed by after Joab to pursue after Sheba the son of Bicri. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 14
c3content:
(Hei.e., "Sheba" had passed through all the tribes of Israel to Abel and Beth Maacah; now all of the Berites had been treated badly, so they also followed after him.)


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And they came and besieged him in Abel Beth Maacah. They threw up a siege ramp against the city, and they stood against the ramparts. And all the army who were with Joab were battering to cause the wall to fall.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Then a wise woman from the city called out, "Listen, listen! Please speak to Joab to come near here so that I may speak to you."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Then he came near to her, and the woman asked, "Are you Joab?" And he said, "I am." Then she said to him, "Listen to the words of your servant." He said, "I am listening."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Then she said, "In former times, {they would always say},Literally "speaking they would speak" 'By all means, let them inquire in Abel,' and so they settled things.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 19
c3content:
I am one of the faithful representatives of Israel. You are seeking to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why do you want to swallow the inheritance of Yahweh?"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Then Joab answered and said, "Far be it, far be it from me that I should swallow or I should destroy.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 21
c3content:
That is not the matter. But a man from the mountains of Ephraim, whose name is Sheba the son Bicri, has lifted up his hand against the king, against David. Give only him to us, and I will depart from the city." The woman said to Joab, "Look, his head is being thrown down to you over the wall."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 22
c3content:
The woman went to all of the people with her wise plan, so they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bicri and threw it to Joab. Then he blew the horn and dispersed from the city, each to his tent. Then Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Now Joab was over all the army of Israel and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Carites and over the Pelethites.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 1
c3content:
There was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year. And David {inquired of Yahweh},Literally "sought the face of Yahweh" and Yahweh said, "The bloodguilt is on Saul and on his household, because he killed the Gibeonites."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 2
c3content:
So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them. Now the Gibeonites were not from the {Israelites};Literally "sons/children of Israel" they were from the remainder of the Amorites. Now the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" had sworn to them,The treaty between Israel and the Gibeonites is found in Josh 9 but Saul tried to wipe them out in his zeal for the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" and Judah.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 3
c3content:
So David asked the Gibeonites, "What can I do for you, and with what can I make amends that you may bless the inheritance of Yahweh?"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Then the Gibeonites said to him, "{It is not a matter for us of}Literally "There is not for me (Qere 'us')" silver or gold with Saul or with his household. It is not for us to put to death anyone in Israel." He asked, "What are you saying that I should do for you all?"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Then they said to the king, "The man who consumed us and who plotted against us so that we were destroyed from existing in all of the territory of Israel,


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 6
c3content:
let seven men from his sons be given over to us, and we will execute them before Yahweh in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen one of Yahweh." Then the king said, "I will give them over."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 7
c3content:
But the king spared Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of the sworn oath of Yahweh which was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 8
c3content:
So the king took two of the sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, namely Armoni and Mephibosheth, and five of the sons of Michal the daughter of Saul whom she had borne to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 9
c3content:
He gave them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they executed them on the mountain in the presence of Yahweh, and the seven fell together. Now they were put to death in the days of the harvest, at the beginning of the harvest of barley. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took the sackcloth, and she spread it for herself on the rock at the beginning of the harvest until water gushed forth on them from heaven, but she did not allow the birds of heaven to rest on them by day nor the animals of the field by night.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 12
c3content:
So David left and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the rulers of Jabesh Gilead, who had stolen them from the public square of Beth Shan, where the Philistines hung them {when}Literally "on the day" the Philistines killed Saul on Gilboa.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 13
c3content:
He brought up the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from there, and they gathered the bones of the executed.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And they buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the land of Benjamin at Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father. They did all that the king had commanded, and afterward God was entreated for the land. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 15
c3content:
There was war again for the Philistines with Israel, and David and his servants with him went down, and they fought the Philistines, and David grew weary.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Now Yishbi in Nob, who was among the descendents of RaphahThe descendants of Raphah (i.e., the Rephaim) were thought to be giants (now the weight of his spearhead was three hundredweight of bronze, and he was newly armed), said that he would kill David.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 17
c3content:
But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and he attacked the Philistine and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, "You shall not go out with us any longer to the battle, so that you do not quench the lamp of Israel." 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 18
c3content:
It happened afterward that there was again battle at Gob with the Philistines. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph who was among the descendants of the Raphah. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 19
c3content:
There was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob. And Elhanan the son of Jaare-Oregim, the Bethlehemite, killed GoliathIn view of the account of David and Goliath in 1 Sam 17, it is likely that Elhanan actually killed the brother of Goliath, Lahmi, in 1 Chr 20:5 the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like the beam of a weaver. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Once again there was battle at Gath, and there was {a man of great size}.Literally "a man of measurement" The fingers of his hand and the toes of his feet were six and six, twenty-four in number. He was also born to the Raphah.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 22
c3content:
These four were born for the Raphah in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Then David spoke to Yahweh the words of this song,This same song is recorded in Psa 18, with minor differences on the day Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 3
c3content:
I take refuge in God, my rock,So many LXX mss, Targum, Vulgate, and Psa 18:3. MT has "the God of my rock" my shield, and the {strength}Literally "horn" of my salvation. My stronghold and my refuge, O my savior, you will save me from violence!


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 7
c3content:
In my distress I called upon Yahweh, and to my God I called. He heard my voice from his temple, and my cry for help was to his ears.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 8
c3content:
The earth heaved and shook, the foundations of heaven trembled and heaved because {he was angry}.Literally "it was hot for him"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Smoke went up from his nostrils and fire from his mouth. Burning coals devoured, they burned from him.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 12
c3content:
He put darkness as a canopy all around him, a collection of {thick rain clouds}.Literally "clouds of thick clouds"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Then the channels of water of the sea were exposed, the foundations of the world, at the rebuke of Yawheh, from the blast of the breath of his nostrils.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 31
c3content:
This God, his way is blameless; the promise of Yahweh is flawless. He is a shield to all who take refuge in him.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 34
c3content:
He makes my feetThus Qere; Kethib has "his feet" like a doe deer, and on my high places he has set me.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 40
c3content:
You have girded me with physical strength for the battle; you caused those who rose up against me to kneel under me.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 41
c3content:
{My enemies you cause to retreat from me};Literally "Those who hate me you give to me back" I destroy those who hate me.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 43
c3content:
I beat them fine, like the dust of the earth; like the mire of the streets, I crushed them, I stamped them down.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 44
c3content:
You delivered me from the strife of my people; you preserved me as the head of the nations. A people I had not known served me.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 45
c3content:
Children of a foreign land came cringing to me; {when they heard of me},Literally "at the hearing of an ear" they became obedient to me.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 49
c3content:
He brings me out from my enemies, and from those who rose up against me you lift me up, and from men of violence you rescue me.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 51
c3content:
He makes great salvation for his king and shows loyal love to his anointed one, David and to his descendants forever."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 1
c3content:
These are the last words of David, the declaration of David the son of Jesse, and the declaration of the man exalted by the Most High, the anointed one of the God of Jacob and the darling of the songs of Israel.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 3
c3content:
The God of Israel said to me, the rock of Israel has spoken; 'He who rules over mankind rules righteously, in the fear of God.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Like the light of the morning when the sun rises, shining with no clouds, bringing vegetation from the earth apart from rain.'In other words, even men who rule rightly pass like the dew of the morning


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Yet not so is my house with God, for he made an everlasting covenant for me, arranging everything. He has secured all my deliverance, and all my desire he will cause to happen.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 6
c3content:
But evil persons are like thorns cast aside; all of them, because they cannot be picked up in the hand.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And if a man wants to touch them, he must use an iron instrument or the shaft of a spear; then they are consumed entirely with fire on the spot." 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 8
c3content:
These are the names of the mighty warriors who were David's: Josheb-Basshebeth a Tahkemonite was chief of three officers; first Adino, whose spear was against eight hundred slain on one occurrence.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Next to him Eleazar, the son of Dodo the son of an Ahohite, was among the three mighty warriors with David when they defied the Philistines and they gathered there for the battle and the men of Israel withdrew.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 10
c3content:
He stood up and struck down the Philistines until his hand grew tired and his hand clung to the sword, and Yahweh brought about a great victory on that day. Then the army returned back to him only for stripping the dead.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Next to him was Shamma, the son of Agee the Hararite. When the Philistines assembled at Lehi, a plot of the field was there filled with lentils, and the army fled there from the presence of the Philistines.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 12
c3content:
But he took a stand in the middle of the plot of land and defended it. He killed the Philistines, and Yahweh brought about a great victory.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Then threeSo Qere; Kethib reads "thirty" of the thirty leaders went down and came to David {at the time of the harvest}Literally "to the harvest" to the cave of Adullam, while a group of the Philistines were camping in the valley of the Rephaim.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Now at that time, David was in the stronghold, and a garrison of the Philistines was in Bethlehem at that same time.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 15
c3content:
David {said longingly},Literally "desired and said" "{Oh that someone would bring me a drink}Literally "Who will let me drink ...?" of water from the well of Bethlehem that is at the gate."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 16
c3content:
So three of the mighty warriors broke into the camp of the Philistines, and they drew water from the well of Bethlehem that was at the gate, and they carried it and brought it to David. But he was not willing to drink it, but poured it out to Yahweh.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 17
c3content:
He said, "Far be it from me before Yahweh that I should do this. Is this not the blood of the men who went at the risk of their lives?" So he was not willing to drink it. These things the three mighty warriors did.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Now Abishai the brother of Joab the son of Zeruiah was himself the leader of the thirty. He was wielding his spear against three hundred slain and {gained a name}Literally "and to him a name" among the thirty.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Among the thirty, is it not that he was honored and became a commander for them? But he did not come up to the three.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of Ish-Hai, was a great man of deeds from Kabzeel. He struck down two sons of Ariel of Moab, and he went down and killed a lion in the middle of a pit on a snowy day.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 21
c3content:
He also killed a good-looking Egyptian man, in whose hand was a spear. He went down against him with the staff and snatched the spear from the hand of the Egyptian and killed him with his spear.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 22
c3content:
These things Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did and gained a name for himself among the three mighty warriors.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 23
c3content:
He was honored more than the thirty, but he did not come up to the three. David appointed him in charge of his bodyguard. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 29
c3content:
Heleb the son of Baanah the Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai from Gibeah of the sons of Benjamin,


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Again Yahweh was angry with Israel, and heThe parallel passage in 1 Chr 21 names the "he" as Satan incited David against them, saying, "Go count Israel and Judah."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 2
c3content:
The king said to Joab, the commander of the army who was with him: "Please go about through all the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beersheba, and count the people that I may know the number of the people."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Then Joab said to the king, "May Yahweh your God increase the people a hundred times {what they are}Literally "as them and as them" as the eyes of my lord the king are seeing. But my lord the king, why does he desire this thing?"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 4
c3content:
But the word of the king prevailed over Joab and over the commanders of the army, so Joab and the commanders of the army went out from before the king to count the people of Israel.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 5
c3content:
They crossed over the Jordan and camped at Aroer to the south of the city, which was in the middle of the wadi of Gad, and up to Jazer.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Then they went to Gilead and to the land of Tahtim Hodshi. They came to Dan Jaan and around to Sidon


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 7
c3content:
and came to the fortress of Tyre and all the cities of the Hivites and the Canaanites. Then they went out to the Negev of Judah at Beersheba.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 8
c3content:
They went about through all the land, and they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Then Joab gave the number of the counting of the people to the king. Israel was eight hundred thousand {valiant warriors}Literally "men of ability" wielding the sword, and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 10
c3content:
The heart of David struck him after he had counted the people, and David said to Yahweh, "I have sinned greatly in what I have done! So then, O Yahweh, please forgive the guilt of your servant because I have acted very foolishly."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 11
c3content:
When David got up in the morning, the word of Yahweh came to Gad the prophet, the seer of David, saying,


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 12
c3content:
"Go and speak to David, 'Thus says Yahweh, three things I am laying on you; choose for yourself one of them and I will do it to you.'"


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Then Gad came to David, and he told him and said to him, "Shall seven years of famine in the land come to you? Or three months of your fleeing from your enemies while he is pursuing you? Or should there be three days of pestilence in your land? Now consider and decide what I must return to the one who sent me a word."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Then David said to Gad, "I am greatly distressed. Please let us fall into the hand of Yahweh, because he is great in his compassion; but into the hand of man don't let me fall."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Then Yahweh sent a plague into Israel from the morning {until the agreed time},Literally "until the time of agreed time" and from the people from Dan to Beersheba, seventy thousand men died. 


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 16
c3content:
When the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, Yahweh regretted about the evil, and he said to the angel who brought destruction among the people, "Enough, now relax your hand." Now the angel of Yahweh was at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 17
c3content:
David spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel destroying among the people, and he said, "Look, I have sinned and I have done wrong, but these sheep, what did they do? Please let your hand be against me and against the house of my father."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Then Gad came to David on that same day and said to him, "Go up and erect an altar to Yahweh at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Araunah looked down and saw the king and his servants coming over to him, so Araunah went out and bowed down before the king with his face to the ground.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Then Araunah said, "Why has my lord the king come to his servant?" David said, "To buy from you the threshing floor, to build an altar to Yahweh who brought a halt to the plague on the people."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Araunah said to David, "Let my lord the king take and offer what is good in his eyes. Look, here are the cattle for the burnt offering and the threshing sledge and the yokes of the oxen for the firewood.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 23
c3content:
All of this Araunah hereby gives to the king." Then Araunah said to the king, "May Yahweh your God respond favorably for you."


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Then the king said to Araunah, "No, but {I will certainly buy}Literally "buying I will buy" it from you for a price; I don't want to offer to Yahweh my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing." So David bought the threshing floor and the cattle for fifty shekels of silver.


c0book: 2Sam
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 25
c3content:
David built an altar to Yahweh there, and he offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. Then Yahweh responded to his prayer for the land and brought the plague to a halt from upon Israel. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Now King David had become old, {advanced in years},Literally "he went in the days" and they covered him with garments, but he was not warm.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 2
c3content:
His servants said to him, "Let them search for a young virgin for my lord the king, and let her stand before the king. Let her be of use for him, and let her lie in your lap that my lord the king may be warm."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 3
c3content:
So they sought a beautiful young woman in all the territory of Israel, and they found Abishag the Shunnamite and brought her to the king.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Now the young woman was very beautiful; she was of use for the king, and she served him, but the king did not {have sexual relations with her}.Literally "know her" 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Now Adonijah the son of Haggith was exalting himself, saying, "I will be king," so he prepared for himself a chariot and horsemen and fifty men running before him.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 6
c3content:
His father did not rebuke him {at any time}Literally "from his days" by saying, "Why did you do so?" Now he was also very handsome of appearance; she had borne him after Absalom."She" refers to Haggith bearing Adonijah; Absalom's mother was Maacah


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 7
c3content:
{He conferred}Literally "And there were his words" with Joab the son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest, and {they supported Adonijah}.Literally "they helped after Adonijah"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 8
c3content:
But Zadok the priest, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, and the mighty warriors were David's; they were not with Adonijah. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And Adonijah sacrificed sheep, oxen, and fattened animals near the stone of Zoheleth, which is beside En Rogel. He invited all of his brothers, the sons of the king, and all the men of Judah, the servants of the king.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Then Nathan said to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, "Have you not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith has become king, but our lord David does not know?


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 12
c3content:
So then, come, let me advise you please, {that you may save}Literally "and save" your life and the life of your son, Solomon.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Come, go to King David and say to him, 'Have you not, my lord the king, sworn to your servant, "Surely Solomon your son shall become king after me. And he will sit on my throne"? But why is Adonijah king?'


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 14
c3content:
While you are still there speaking with the king, I will enter after you, and {I will confirm your words}."Literally "I will make full your words" 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 15
c3content:
So Bathsheba went to the king in the private room. Now the king was very old, and Abishag the Shunnamite was attending the king.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Bathsheba knelt and bowed down before the king, and the king asked, "{What do you want}?"Literally "What is for you"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 17
c3content:
She said to him, "My lord, you swore by Yahweh your God to your servant, 'Solomon your son surely shall become king after me, and he will sit upon my throne!'


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 19
c3content:
He has sacrificed oxen and sheep and fattened animals {in abundance},Literally "as far as the many" and he has invited all the sons of the king, Abiathar the priest, Joab the commander of the army, but Solomon your servant he did not invite.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 20
c3content:
But as for you, my lord the king, the eyes of all of Israel are on you, to tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 21
c3content:
It shall be that when my lord the king sleeps with his ancestors,Or "fathers" I and my son Solomon will be considered as sinners." 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 23
c3content:
They told the king, "Nathan the prophet is here." He came into the presence of the king and bowed down before the king with his face to the ground.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Nathan said, "My lord the king, have you said, 'Adonijah shall be king after me and he shall sit on my throne'? 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 25
c3content:
"For he went down today and sacrificed oxen, sheep, and fattened animals {in abundance}.Literally "as far as the many" He invited all the sons of the king, the commanders of the army, and Abiathar the priest, and look, they are eating and drinking before him. They have also said, "Long live King Adonijah!


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 26
c3content:
But me, your servant, Zadok the priest, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Solomon your servant he did not invite.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 27
c3content:
If it was from my lord the king that this thing has happened, then all is well, but if not, you must let your servants know who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 28
c3content:
Then King David answered and said, "Summon Bathsheba for me." Then she came before the king and stood in his presence.Following the corrected LXX and Vulgate


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 29
c3content:
Then the king swore and said, "{As Yahweh lives},Literally "The life of Yahweh" who has saved my life from all trouble,


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 30
c3content:
surely as I swore to you by Yahweh the God of Israel, saying, 'Solomon your son shall surely be king after me, and he shall sit on my throne in my place,' surely I shall do so this very day."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 31
c3content:
Then Bathsheba knelt with her face to the ground and did obeisance to the king, and she said, "May my lord, King David, live forever." 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 32
c3content:
Then King David said, "Summon Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada," and they came before the king.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 33
c3content:
The king said to them, "Take with you all the servants of your lord, and let them make Solomon my son ride on my mule, and bring him down to Gihon.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 34
c3content:
Let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there as king over Israel. Blow on the trumpet and say, 'Long live King Solomon!'


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 35
c3content:
Then you shall go up after him, and let him come and sit on my throne; he shall be king in my place. I have appointed him to be leader over Israel and Judah."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 36
c3content:
Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king and said, "Amen! So may Yahweh, the God of my lord the king, confirm it!


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 37
c3content:
As Yahweh was with my lord the king, so may he be with Solomon and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord King David."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 38
c3content:
Then Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites, and the Pelethites went down, and they let Solomon ride on the mule of King David, and they brought him to Gihon.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 39
c3content:
Then Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the tent, and he anointed Solomon. They blew on the trumpet, and all the people said, "Long live King Solomon!"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 40
c3content:
All the people went up after him, and the people were playing on the flutes and rejoicing with great joy, and the earth shook with their noise. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 41
c3content:
And Adonijah and all the invited guests who were with him heard it. Now they were finished eating when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet and said, "{Why is there such a noise in the city?}"Literally "Why is the sound of the city noisy?"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 42
c3content:
While he was still speaking, suddenly Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came. Adonijah said, "Come, for you are a man of valor, and you bring good news."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 44
c3content:
He sent Zadok the priest with the king, and Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites, and the Pelethites; they made him ride on the king's mule.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 45
c3content:
Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anointed him as king at Gihon, and they have gone up from there rejoicing. The city has gone wild; this is the sound which you heard.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 47
c3content:
The servants of the king also came to congratulate our lord King David, saying, 'Your God has made the name of Solomon better than your name and his throne greater than your throne!' So the king worshiped on the bed.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 48
c3content:
What is more, the king said, 'May Yahweh the God of Israel be blessed, who has given this day one sitting on my throne, and my eyes are seeing it!'" 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 51
c3content:
Solomon was told, "Look, Adonijah is afraid of King Solomon, and he has grasped the horns of the altar, saying, 'Let King Solomon swear to me {first}Literally "as the day" that he will surely not kill his servant with the sword!'"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 52
c3content:
Solomon said, "If he is a son of noble character, not a hair of his head will fall to the ground, but if evil is found in him, then he will die."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 53
c3content:
Then King Solomon sent and brought him down from upon the altar. He came and did obeisance to King Solomon. Solomon said to him, "Go to your house." 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 3
c3content:
You shall keep the charge of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, his commandments, his judgments, and his testimonies, as are written in the law of Moses, so that you may prosper in all that you do and everywhere you turn,


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 4
c3content:
so that Yahweh may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, 'If your sons take heed of their way, to walk before me in faithfulness, with all their heart and with all their soul, no man of yours will be cut off from the throne of Israel.'" 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 5
c3content:
"Moreover, you also know what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me when he dealt with the two commanders of the armies of Israel, to Abner son of Ner and to Amasa son of Jether, and he murdered them and put the blood of war in a time of peace. He put the blood of war on the leather belt that was on his waist and on the sandals which were on his feet.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 6
c3content:
You must act according to your wisdom, but you must not let his gray hair go down to Sheol in peace.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Regarding the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, you shall do loyal love and let them be among those who eat at your table, because they met me when I fled from Absalom your brother.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And look, Shimei the son of Gera the son of the Benjaminite from Bahurim is with you. Now he {cursed me severely}Literally "cursed me with a curse" when I went to Mahanaim, but he came down to meet me at the Jordan, so I swore to him by Yahweh, 'I surely will not kill you with the sword.'


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 9
c3content:
So then, do not leave him unpunished, for you are a wise man, and you will know what you must do to him. You must bring his grey hair down to Sheol with blood." 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 11
c3content:
The days that David reigned over Israel were forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, and she said, "{Are you coming in peace}?"Literally "Is peace your coming?" He said, "Peace."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Then he said, "{May I have a word with you}?"Literally "A word is for me to you" Then she said, "Go on."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 15
c3content:
He said, "You know that the kingship was mine and that all Israel had set their face toward me as king, but the kingship turned around and became my brother's, for it was from Yahweh for him to have it.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Now one request I am asking from you, and you must {not refuse me}."Literally "not turn my face" Then she said to him, "Go on."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 17
c3content:
He said, "Please speak to King Solomon, for he will not refuse you, so that he will give to me Abishag the Shunnamite as wife."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Bathsheba came to King Solomon to speak to him concerning Adonijah, and the king got up to meet her, bowed down to her, and then sat on his throne. Then he set up a throne for the king's mother, and she sat on his right.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 20
c3content:
She said, "I have one small request I am asking from you. Do {not refuse me}."Literally "not turn my face" The king said to her, "Ask, my mother, for I will {not refuse you}."Literally "not turn your face"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 22
c3content:
King Solomon answered and said to his mother, "Why are you asking Abishag the Shunnamite for Adonijah? Ask for him also the kingdom, for he is my brother, older than I; and ask for him also Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Then King Solomon swore by Yahweh, saying, "Thus may God do to me and thus may he add, if Adonijah hasn't spoken this thing at the expense of his life.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 24
c3content:
So then, {as Yahweh lives},Literally "the life of Yahweh" who has established me and seated me on the throne of my father David and who has established for me a dynasty as he promised, then surely Adonijah will be put to death today."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 26
c3content:
To Abiathar the priest, the king said, "Go to Anathoth, to your field, for {you deserve to die},Literally "you are a man of death" but on this day I will not kill you, for you carried the ark of the Lord Yahweh before David my father, and because you endured hardship in all the hardship that my father endured."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 27
c3content:
So Solomon banished Abiathar from being priest to Yahweh, thus fulfilling the word which Yahweh had spoken concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 28
c3content:
When the message came to Joab (now Joab {had supported}Literally "had turned after" Adonijah but {had not supported}Literally "had not turned after" Absalom), he fled to the tent of Yahweh and grasped the horns of the altar.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 29
c3content:
It was told to King Solomon that Joab had fled to the tent of Yahweh and was beside the altar. So Solomon sent word to Benaiah son of Jehoiada, saying, "Go and fall upon him."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 30
c3content:
So Benaiah went to the tent of Yahweh, and he said to him, "Thus says the king: 'Come out.'" And he said, "No, for I want to die here." So Benaiah returned a word to the king, saying, "Thus Joab spoke, and thus he answered me."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 31
c3content:
Then the king said to him, "Do as he spoke; fall upon him and bury him, and so you shall remove the innocent blood that Joab shed from on me and from on the house of my father.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 32
c3content:
Yahweh will return his blood on his head, because he fell upon two men, more righteous and better than he, and he killed them with the sword, even though my father did not know it; namely Abner son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 33
c3content:
And their blood will return on the head of Joab and on the head of his descendants forever, but for David and his descendants and for his house and his throne, there will be peace forever from Yahweh."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 34
c3content:
So Benaiah son of Jehoiada went up, and he fell on him and killed him, and he was buried in his house in the wilderness.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 35
c3content:
Then the king appointed Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his place over the army, and the king appointed Zadok the priest in place of Abiathar. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 36
c3content:
Then the king sent and summoned Shimei, and he said to him, "Build yourself a house in Jerusalem and live there, but you must not go out {anywhere whatsoever}Literally "where and where" from there.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 37
c3content:
It shall happen that on the day you go out and cross over the WadiA valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season Kidron, know for certain that {you will surely die}.Literally "dying you will die" Your blood will be on your head."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 38
c3content:
Shimei said to the king, "The word is good that my lord the king has spoken to me; thus will your servant do." So Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 39
c3content:
It happened that at the end of three years, two of Shimei's slaves fled to Achish, son of Maacah, the king of Gath. They told Shimei, saying, "Your slaves are here in Gath."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 40
c3content:
So Shimei got up and saddled his donkey, and he went to Gath, to Achish, to search for his slaves. So Shimei went and brought his slaves from Gath.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 42
c3content:
the king sent and summoned Shimei, and he said to him, "Did I not make you swear by Yahweh? I warned you, saying, 'On the day you go out and you go {anywhere whatsoever},Literally "where and where" know for certain that {you will surely die}.'Literally "dying you will die" And you said to me, 'The word is good; I accept.'


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 44
c3content:
Then the king said to Shimei, "You know all the evil which your heart knows, what you did to David my father. Now Yahweh will return the evil on your head,


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 45
c3content:
but King Solomon will be blessed and the throne of David will be established before Yahweh forever."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 46
c3content:
Then the king commanded Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and he went out and fell upon him, and he died. So the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Solomon intermarried with Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and he took the daughter of Pharaoh and brought her to the city of David until he finished building his house, the house of Yahweh, and the walls of Jerusalem all around.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 2
c3content:
But the people were sacrificing on the high places, for the house for the name of Yahweh had not yet been built in those days.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Solomon loved Yahweh, by walking in the statutes of David his father; only he was sacrificing and offering incense on the high places.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 4
c3content:
So the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice, for the great high place was there. Solomon used to offer a thousand burnt offerings on that altar. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Yahweh appeared to Solomon at Gibeon in a dream at night, and God said, "Ask what I should give to you."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Then Solomon said, "You have shown great loyal love with your servant David my father, as he walked before you in faithfulness and in righteousness and in uprightness of heart with you. You have shown for him this great loyal love, and you have given a son to him who is sitting on his throne as it is this day.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 7
c3content:
So then, O Yahweh, you are my God. You have made your servant king in place of David my father though I am a young boy. I do not know going out or coming in.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Your servant is in the middle of your people whom you have chosen; a great people who cannot be counted or numbered because of abundance.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Give to your servant a listening heart to judge your people, to discern between good and bad, because who is able to judge this, your difficult people?" 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And God said to him, "Because you have asked this thing and you did not ask for yourself {a long life}Literally "many days" and you did not ask riches for yourself and you did not ask for the life of your enemies, but you have asked for yourself {the ability to make wise judgments};Literally "understanding to hear judgment"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 12
c3content:
behold, I do hereby do according to your word. I hereby give you a wise and discerning heart; there was no one like you before you, nor afterwards will one like you arise.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Too, what you have not asked I give to you: both riches and honor, so that no man among the kings will be like you all of your days.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 14
c3content:
If you will walk in my ways by keeping my statutes and my commandments, as David your father walked, then I will lengthen your days."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Then Solomon awoke, and look, it was a dream, and he came to Jerusalem and stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and he offered burnt offerings and presented fellowship offerings, and he held a feast for all of his servants. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 17
c3content:
The one woman said, "Please my lord, I and this woman are living in one house, and I gave birth, with her in the house.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 18
c3content:
It happened on the third day after my giving birth, this woman also gave birth, and we were together. There was not anyone with us in the house, only the two of us were in the house.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 20
c3content:
So she got up in the middle of the night, and she took my son from beside me while your servant was asleep, and she put him in her lap, and she put her dead son in my lap.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 21
c3content:
When I got up in the morning to nurse my son, behold, he was dead! When I looked closely at him in the morning, behold, it was not my son whom I had borne."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Then the other woman said, "No, for my son is the living one, and your son is the dead one." The other kept on saying, "No, for your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one," and so they argued in front of the king.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Then the king said, "This one is saying, 'This is my son, the living one, but your son is the dead one,' and the other one keeps saying, 'But no! Your son is the dead one, and my son is living!'"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Then the king said, "Divide the living child into two, and give half to the one and half to the other."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Then the woman whose son was the living one spoke to the king because her compassion was aroused for her son, and she said, "Please, my lord, give her the living child, but certainly do not kill him!" The other one was saying, "As for me, so for you! Divide him!"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 27
c3content:
Then the king answered and said, "Give the living child to her, and do not kill him; she is his mother."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 28
c3content:
When all of Israel heard the judgment that the king had rendered, they {stood in awe}Literally "feared the face" of the king, because they realized that the wisdom of God was in him to execute justice. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, were the secretaries; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Azariah the son of Nathan was over the governors, and Zabud the son of Nathan was a priest, an advisor to the king.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Solomon had twelve governors over all Israel, and they sustained the king and his palace, {each one was to sustain for each month of the year}.Literally "a month in the year he was over one to sustain"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Baanah the son of Ahilud was in Taanach and Megiddo and all Beth-Shean which is beside Zarethan below Jezreel, of Beth-Shean up to Abel-Meholah up to the other side of Jokmeam.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Ben-Geber was in Ramoth-Gilead; the villages of Jair, the son of Manasseh which are in the Gilead were his, and the region of Argob which is in the Bashan, sixty great cities, with walls having crossbars of bronze, were his.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Geber the son of Uri was in the land of Gilead, the land of Sihon, the king of the Amorites, and of Og, the king of Bashan; one governor which was over the land.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Judah and Israel were as many as the sand which is on the seashore in abundance, eating and drinking and rejoicing! 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 21
c3content:
1 Kings 4:21-5:18 in the English Bible is 5:1-32 in the Hebrew Bible Now Solomon was ruling over all the kingdoms from the RiverThat is, the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, and up to the border of Egypt, who were bringing tribute and were serving Solomon all the days of his life.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 22
c3content:
The food of Solomon for one day was thirty dry measures of choice meal and sixty dry measures of flour;


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 23
c3content:
ten stall-fed oxen and twenty pasture-fed oxen and a hundred sheep, besides deer and buck gazelles and roebucks and well-fed fowls.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 24
c3content:
For he was ruling over all the west of the RiverThat is, the Euphrates from Tiphsah up to Gaza, over all the kings west of the River;That is, the Euphrates and he had peace from every side all around.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Judah and Israel lived in security, each man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan as far as Beersheba, all the days of Solomon. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 27
c3content:
These governors sustained King Solomon and all who came near to the table of King Solomon, each in his month; they did not omit anything.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 28
c3content:
The barley and the straw for the horses and for packhorses they brought to the place where they were, each according to his share. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 29
c3content:
God gave wisdom to Solomon and very great discernment, as well as {breadth of understanding},Literally "width of heart" as the sand which is on the edge of the seashore.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 30
c3content:
The wisdom of Solomon was greater than the wisdom of all the peopleOr "sons/children" of the east and more than all the wisdom of Egypt.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 31
c3content:
He was wiser than all the men: Ethan the Ezrahite; Heman, Calcol, and Darda the children of Mahol; and {he was very well known}.Literally "his name was among all the peoples around"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 33
c3content:
He spoke concerning the trees, from the cedar which is in Lebanon up to the hyssop which grows on the wall; he also spoke concerning the animals, concerning the birds, concerning the creeping things, and concerning the fish.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 34
c3content:
They came from all the nations to hear the wisdom of Solomon; from all the kings of the earth who had heard of his wisdom. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon when he heard that they had anointed him as king in place of his father, for Hiram had always been a friend for David.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 3
c3content:
"You knew David my father, that he was not able to build a house for the name of Yahweh his God, {in view of the warfare}Literally "because of the face of the warfare" which surrounded him, until Yahweh placed themThat is, David's enemies under the soles of his feet.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 4
c3content:
But now Yahweh my God has given me rest all around me. There is no adversary, and there is no bad occurrence.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Here I am, intending to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, as Yahweh promised to my father David, saying, 'Your son, whom I will set in your place on your throne, shall build the house for my name.'


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 6
c3content:
So then, command that they may cut cedars for me from Lebanon, and let my servants be with your servants. The wage of your servants I will give to you according to all that you say, for you know that there is no one among us who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 7
c3content:
When Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced greatly, and he said, "Blessed be Yahweh this day, who has given to David a wise son over this great people."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, "I have heard what you have sent to me; I will do all of your desire concerning the timber of cedars and concerning the timber of cypresses.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 9
c3content:
My servants will bring them down from Lebanon to the sea, and I will make them into rafts in the sea to float to the place which you indicated to me. Then I shall break them up there, and you may carry them further, and {you shall meet my needs}Literally "you shall do my desire" by giving food for my house."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 10
c3content:
So Hiram was giving to Solomon the cedar timbers and the cypress timbers, {everything he needed}.Literally "all of his desire"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Then Solomon gave to Hiram twenty thousand dry measures of wheat as food for his household, and twenty dry measures of {specially prepared olive oil};Literally "beaten olive oil" thus Solomon gave to Hiram year by year.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Yahweh gave wisdom to Solomon as he promised to him, and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them {made}Literally "cut" a covenant. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Then King Solomon conscripted a forced labor from all Israel, and the forced labor numbered thirty thousand men.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 14
c3content:
He sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand {every month};Literally "in the month" the work groups were a month in Lebanon and two months at home; now Adoniram was over the forced labor.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Solomon had seventy thousand {common laborers}Literally "carrying burden" and eighty thousand stone craftsmen in the hill country.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Besides the chiefs of the officers Solomon had, there were three thousand three hundred having charge over the people who were doing the work.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 17
c3content:
When the king commanded, they quarried great stones and precious stones to lay the foundation of the house with hewn stones.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 18
c3content:
So Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Gebalites hewed stones, and they prepared the timber and the stone to build the house. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 1
c3content:
It happened in the four hundred and eightieth year after the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" went out from the land of Egypt, in the fourth year {of Solomon's rule}Literally "Solomon to rule" over Israel, the month of Ziv (that is the second month), that he began to build the house for Yahweh.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Now the house that King Solomon built for Yahweh was sixty cubits in its length and twenty cubits in its width and thirty cubits in its height.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 3
c3content:
The vestibule on the face of the main hall of the templeOr "house" was twenty cubits in its length, and the width of the templeOr "house" was ten cubits wide on the face of the temple.Or "house"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 5
c3content:
and he built a structure against the wall of the templeOr "house" running all along the walls of the house, for the outer sanctuary and for the inner sanctuary, and made side rooms all around.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 6
c3content:
The lower structure was five cubits in its width and the middle was six cubits in its width and the third was seven cubits in its width, for he made niches for the templeOr "house" all around to the outside, so that beams would not attach to the walls of the temple.Or "house"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Now while the templeOr "house" was being built, it was built with stones finished at the quarry, so that no hammer or stone shaping tool or any instrument of iron was heard in the templeOr "house" as it was being built.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 8
c3content:
The doorway of the side room in the middle of the side of the templeOr "house" was on the south; they went up with a stairway to the middle and from the middle to the third floor.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 9
c3content:
So he built the house and finished it. He covered the templeOr "house" with rafters and wood planks and with the cedars.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 10
c3content:
He also built the structure against all of the templeOr "house" five cubits in height and fastened it to the templeOr "house" with beams of cedar. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 12
c3content:
"Regarding this templeOr "house" that you are building: if you walk in my ordinances and if you do my judgments and you keep all my commandments to walk in them, then I will establish my promise with you which I made to David your father.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And I will dwell {among}Literally "in the middle of" the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" and I will not forsake my people Israel." 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 15
c3content:
He lined the walls {of the inside of the house}Literally "the house from house" with boards of cedar; from the floor of the templeOr "house" up to the rafters of the ceiling he covered them with wood {on the inside}.Literally "from house" He also covered the floor of the templeOr "house" with cypress boards.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 16
c3content:
He built twenty cubits from the rear of the house with boards of cedar from the floor up to the ceiling, and he built for it an inner sanctuary on the inside, as the {most holy place}.Literally "as the holy place of the holy places." Often referred to as the Holy of Holies


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 17
c3content:
The main hall of the templeOr "house" was forty cubits {in front of the inner sanctuary},So LXX supported by the Vulgate. MT has "before me"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 18
c3content:
with the cedar within the inner house having carvings of gourds and buds of flowers. It was entirely of cedar; there was not a stone visible.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Now in the inner sanctuary in the middle of the templeOr "house" he prepared the inside to place the ark of the covenant of Yahweh there.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 20
c3content:
In front, the inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide and twenty cubits high, and he overlaid it with pure gold and covered the altar with cedar.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Solomon overlaid the templeOr "house" on the inside with pure gold, and he drew across it with golden chains in front of the inner sanctuary, which he overlaid with gold. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 22
c3content:
All of the templeOr "house" he overlaid with gold until all of the templeOr "house" was finished; all of the altar which belonged to the inner sanctuary he overlaid with gold.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Five cubits was the first wing of the cherub, and five cubits the second wing of the cherub, from the tip of his one wing up to the tip of his other wing.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 25
c3content:
The second cherub was ten cubits according to {the same}Literally "one" measurement, and there was one shape for the two cherubim.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 27
c3content:
He placed the cherubim in the middle of the inner house, and they spread out the wings of the cherubim; the wing of the first cherub touched against the wall and the wing of the second cherub was touching against the second wall; their wings spread to the middle of the house and were touching wing to wing.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 29
c3content:
On all of the walls around the house, he carved engravings of cherubim and palm tree images and budding flowers both inside and out.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 31
c3content:
He made doors of olive wood for the doorway of the inner sanctuary, as well as for the doorpost of the fifth doorframe.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 32
c3content:
On the two doors of olive wood he made carvings of cherubim and palm tree images and budding flowers, and he overlaid them with gold {by beating}Literally "and he beat out" out the gold on the cherubim and the palm tree images.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 34
c3content:
and two doors of cypress wood; one door with two folding panels and the second door with two folding panels.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 35
c3content:
He carved cherubim and palm tree images and budding flowers and overlaid them with gold evenly applied on the carved work.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 37
c3content:
In the fourth year,That is, the fourth year of Solomon's reign the house of Yahweh was founded in the month of Ziv.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 38
c3content:
In the eleventh year in the month of Bul, that is, the eighth month, the house was finished according to all his specifications and according to all his plans. He had built it in seven years. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 2
c3content:
He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon; one hundred cubits its length, fifty cubits its width, and thirty cubits its height, on four rows of cedar pillars and cedar beams atop the pillars.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 3
c3content:
It was covered with cedar above, and the supporting beams which were on the forty-five pillars, fifteen to the row.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 5
c3content:
All of the doorways and the doorframes had four-sided casings, with opening to opposite opening three times. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 6
c3content:
The hall of pillars he made fifty cubits in its length and thirty cubits in its width, and a porch was {in front of them},Literally "on their face" with pillars and an overhang {in front of them}.Literally "on their face"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 7
c3content:
He made the hall of the throne where he would pronounce judgment, the hall of justice, and it was covered with cedar from the floor to the rafters.Hebrew "floor," but other ancient versions have "rafters"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 8
c3content:
His house where he would live in the next courtyard on the inside of the porch was like this work, and he would make a house like this porch for the daughter of Pharaoh whom Solomon had taken as wife.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 9
c3content:
All of these were of precious stones, according to the measurement of dressed stone, sawn with a saw {on all sides};Literally "on the inside and on the outside" from the foundation up to the eaves and from the outside up to the great courtyard.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 11
c3content:
with precious stones above, {just the right size},Literally "according to the measurement of dressed stones" and cedar.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 12
c3content:
The great courtyard all around had three rows of dressed stones and a row of cedar beams; for both the courtyard of the inner houseOr "temple" of Yahweh and for the porch of the house. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 14
c3content:
He was the son of a widow woman from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, an artisan of bronze. He was filled with wisdom and with ability and with the knowledge to do all the work with the bronze. And he came to King Solomon, and he did all of his work.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 15
c3content:
He cast the two pillars out of bronze; eighteen cubits was the height of the first, and a cord of twelve cubits would encircle the second pillar.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 16
c3content:
He made two capitals to place on the tops of the pillars out of molten bronze; the first capital was five cubits in height, and the second capital was five cubits in height.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 17
c3content:
A network of latticework and wreaths of chainwork with small chains were for the capitals which were on top of the pillars; seven for the first capital and seven for the second capital.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 18
c3content:
He also made the pillars with two rows around on the lattice, each to cover the capitals which were on top, out of the pomegranate-shaped ornaments, and thus he did for the second capital as well.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And on the capitals which were on top of the pillars in the porch were works of lilies four cubits high.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And capitals were on the two pillars above near the bulging section which was beside the lattice, and two hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments were in rows all around on the second capital.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 21
c3content:
He set up the pillars for the porch of the main hall; he erected the pillar on the right and called its name Jakin, and he set up the pillar on the left and called its name Boaz.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 23
c3content:
He also made the moltenThat is, cast from molten bronze sea, ten cubits {in diameter},Literally "from its edge up to its edge, round all around" and five cubits was its height. A measuring line of thirty cubits would encircle it all around.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Gourds were under its rim surrounding it all around; ten to the cubit, surrounding the sea all around with two rows of gourds, which were cast when he cast the metal.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 25
c3content:
The sea was standing on twelve oxen, with three facing to the north, three facing to the west, three facing to the south, and three facing to the east. The sea was on top of them, with all of their hindquarters turned to the inside.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Its thickness was a handbreadth, but its rim was as the work on the brim of a cup, like the bud of a lily; it held two thousand baths. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 27
c3content:
He made the ten stands of bronze; each stand was four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits in height.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 28
c3content:
Now this was the construction of the stands: there were frames for them and frames between the crossbars,


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 29
c3content:
and on the frames which were between the crossbars were lions, oxen, and cherubim. On the crossbars both above and beneath the lions and oxen were works of cascading wreaths.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 30
c3content:
There were four bronze wheels for each of the stands, with bronze axles; the four support pedestals for these were under the basin, and the supports were decorated on each side with wreaths.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 31
c3content:
Its opening from the inside of the capital and above was a cubit; its pedestal was a round work of a cubit and a half; moreover, on its opening were the carvings with four-sided frames, not circular.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 32
c3content:
Four of the wheels were underneath the frames, and the axles of the wheels were on the stands. The height of each wheel was a cubit and a half.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 33
c3content:
The construction of the wheel was like the construction of the wheel of the chariot; their axles, their rims, their spokes, and their naves were all cast.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 35
c3content:
On top of the stand was half a cubit deep, circular all around, and on the top of the stand were its supports and its frames.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 36
c3content:
He engraved on the plates, on its supports, and on its frame cherubim, lions and images of a palm tree, according to the space for each, with wreaths all around.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 37
c3content:
He made the ten stands like this in one cast, with the same measurement and shape for each of them. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 38
c3content:
He also made ten bronze basins, each holding forty baths; each basin was four cubits, one basin on each of the ten stands.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 39
c3content:
He placed five of the stands on the south side of the house and five on the north side of the house, and the sea he set on the southeast side of the house. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 40
c3content:
Hiram also made the basins and the shovels and the bowls for drinking wine; and so Hiram finished doing all of the work {that he was to do}Literally "that he did" for King Solomon in the house of Yahweh:


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 41
c3content:
the two pillars and the bowls of the capitals which were atop the two pillars, and the two lattice works to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were atop the pillars;


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 42
c3content:
and the four hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments for the two lattice works, the two rows of pomegranate-shaped ornaments for each latticework to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on the surface of the pillars;


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 45
c3content:
and the pots, the shovels, and the bowls for drinking wine. All the vessels of the tent which Hiram had made for King Solomon for the house of Yahweh were polished bronze.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 46
c3content:
The king had cast them in the plain of the Jordan with the casting mold set in the ground between Succoth and Zarethan.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 47
c3content:
Solomon left all of the vessels unweighed because of their very great abundance, so the weight of the bronze could not be determined. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 48
c3content:
Solomon also made all of the vessels which were in the house of Yahweh: the golden altar and the golden table on which was the bread of the presence;


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 49
c3content:
as well as the five lampstands of beaten gold at the south and five lampstands at the north before the presence of the inner sanctuary, with the flower-shaped ornaments, the lamps, and the pair of tongs all of gold.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 50
c3content:
The cups, the snuffers, the bowls for drinking wine, the bowls for the incense, and the firepans were made from beaten gold; the facades for the doors of the inner house, for the {most holy place},Literally "holy of the holiest" for the doors of the main hall of the temple were of gold.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 51
c3content:
When all of the work which king Solomon did on the house of Yahweh was completed, Solomon brought out the holy objects of his father David, the silver and the gold and the vessels, which he put in the treasury rooms of the house of Yahweh. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 1
c3content:
At that time, Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes, and the leaders of the {families}Literally "fathers" of the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" before King Solomon, in order to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh from the city of David, that is, Zion.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 2
c3content:
All the men of Israel assembled before King Solomon at the festival in the month of Ethnaim, that is, the seventh month.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 4
c3content:
So they brought up the ark of Yahweh and the tent of assemblyOr "meeting" and all of the holy vessels that were in the tent; the priests and the Levites brought them up.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 5
c3content:
King Solomon and all the assembly of Israel who were assembling with him in the presence of the ark were sacrificing sheep and oxen that could not be counted nor numbered because of abundance.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 6
c3content:
The priests brought the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to its place in the inner sanctuary of the house, to the {most holy place},Literally "holy of the holiest" under the wings of the cherubim,


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 7
c3content:
for the cherubim were spreading their wings over the place of the ark. The cherubim overshadowed the ark and its poles from above.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 8
c3content:
The poles were long, and the ends of the poles could be seen from the holy place {in front of}Literally "on the face of" the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from the outside, and they are there until this day.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 9
c3content:
There was not anything in the ark {except}Hebrew "only" the two tablets of stone which Moses had placed there at Horeb, where Yahweh {made}Literally "cut" a covenant with the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" after they went out from the land of Egypt.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 11
c3content:
The priests were not able to stand to minister {because of the presence of}Literally "from the face of" the cloud, for the glory of Yahweh filled the house of Yahweh. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Then the king turned his face around, and he blessed all of the assembly of Israel. (Now all the assembly of Israel was standing).


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Then he said, "Blessed be Yahweh the God of Israel who has promised with his mouth to David my father and fulfilled {by his oath},Literally "by his hand" saying,


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 16
c3content:
'From the day that I brought out my people Israel from Egypt I have not chosen a city from all the tribes of Israel to build a house where my name might be, but I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.'


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 17
c3content:
{David my father desired}Literally "It had been within the heart of David my father" to build a house for the name of Yahweh the God of Israel,


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 18
c3content:
but Yahweh said to David my father, 'Because {you desired}Literally "it was within your heart" to build a house for my name, you did well in that it was within your heart.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 19
c3content:
However, you will not build the house, but your son who has come from your loins, he shall build the house for my name.'


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Yahweh has carried out his promise which he had made; I have risen in place of David my father, and I sit on the throne of Israel as Yahweh promised, and I have built the house for the name of Yahweh the God of Israel.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 21
c3content:
I have provided a place there for the ark, in which is the covenant which Yahweh made with our ancestorsOr "fathers" when He brought them out of the land of Egypt." 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Then Solomon stood before the altar of Yahweh in the presence of all of the assembly of Israel, and he spread out his hands to the heavens,


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 23
c3content:
and he said, "O Yahweh, God of Israel, there is no god like you in the heavens above or on the earth beneath, keeping the covenant and the loyal love for your servants who are walking before you with all their heart.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 24
c3content:
You have kept for your servant David my father what you promised to him, and you have spoken with your mouth, and with your hand you have fulfilled it this very day.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 25
c3content:
So then, O Yahweh, God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father what you promised to him, saying, 'For you, no man will be cut off from before me who will be sitting on the throne of Israel, if only your sons keep their ways to walk before me just as you have walked before me.'


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 26
c3content:
So then, O God of Israel, please let your word be confirmed which you have promisedOr "spoken" to your servant David my father.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 27
c3content:
For will God really dwell on the earth? Behold, the heavens and the heaven of heavens could not contain you! {How could}Literally "Even that" this house that I have built?


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 28
c3content:
You must regard the prayer of your servant and his plea! O Yahweh my God, listen to the pleading and to the prayer that your servant is praying before you this day,


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 29
c3content:
so that your eyes will be open to this house night and day, to the place which you said, 'My name will be there,' to hear the prayer that your servant prays toward this place.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 30
c3content:
You must listen to the plea of your servant and your people Israel which they pray toward this place; and you must hear from the place where you live, from heaven you must hear and you must forgive.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 31
c3content:
If a man sins against his neighbor and he pronounces an oath against him to curse him, and the curse comes before your altar in this house,


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 32
c3content:
then you shall hear in heaven and you shall act and you shall judge your servant, to declare the wicked guilty by bringing his way upon his head and {to declare the righteous innocent}Literally "to declare righteous the righteous" by rewarding him according to his righteousness.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 33
c3content:
When your people Israel are defeated before the enemy {because}Literally "who" they sinned against you, and when they turn to you and confess your name and pray and beg for mercy from you in this house,


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 34
c3content:
then you shall hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and you shall bring them back to the ground which you gave to their ancestors.Or "fathers"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 35
c3content:
When you shut up the heavens so there is no rain because they have sinned against you, then they pray to this place and they confess your name and they return from their sin because you punished them,


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 36
c3content:
then you shall hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants and your people Israel, for you will teach them the good way in which they should go, and you will give rain upon your land which you have given to your people as an inheritance.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 37
c3content:
If there should be in the land famine or disease, if there should be blight or mildew or locust or caterpillars, if it happens that his enemy lays siege against him in the land of his gates, if any plague or any disease,


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 38
c3content:
any prayer or any plea which is offered by any person for all of your people Israel, who each knows the infestation of his own heart and spreads out his palms to this house,


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 39
c3content:
then you shall hear in heaven the place of your dwelling, and you shall forgive and act and give to the man whose heart you know, according to all his ways, for you alone know the heart of all the sons of man.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 40
c3content:
Do these things so that they may fear you all the days that they live on the face of the land that you gave to our ancestors.Or "fathers"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 41
c3content:
Also for the foreigner who is not from your people Israel, and he comes from a distant land because of your name,


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 42
c3content:
(for they shall hear of your great name and your powerful hand and your outstretched arm), and he shall come and pray toward this house,


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 43
c3content:
you shall hear in heaven, the place of your dwelling, and act according to all that the foreigner calls to you, so that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, to fear you as your people Israel, and to know that your name has been invoked over this house that I have built.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 44
c3content:
If your people go out to battle against his enemy in the way that you shall send them and they pray to Yahweh, toward the city which you have chosen and the house which I have built for your name,


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 45
c3content:
then you shall hear in heaven their prayer and their plea, and you shall {vindicate}Literally "their judgment" them. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 46
c3content:
"If they sin against you (for there is not a person who does not sin) and you are angry with them and you give them to an enemy and they take them captive to the land of the enemy far or near,


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 47
c3content:
and then they return their heart in the land where they have been taken captive and they return and plead to you in the land of their captivity, saying, 'We have sinned and we did wrong. We acted wickedly,'


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 48
c3content:
if they return to you with all of their heart and with all of their soul in the land of their enemies who took them captive and they pray to you toward their land which you gave to their ancestors,Or "fathers" the city that you have chosen and the house that youThe Hebrew Masoretic text (Kethib) reads "you have built";Qere reads "I have built" built for your name,


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 49
c3content:
then you shall hear in heaven, the place of your dwelling, their prayer and their plea, and you shall {vindicate them}.Literally "and you shall do their justice"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 50
c3content:
You shall forgive your people who sinned against you, even for all their transgressions which they committed against you. You shall give them compassion before their captors so that they may have compassion on them,


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 51
c3content:
for they are your people and your inheritance whom you brought from Egypt from the middle of the smelter of iron.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 52
c3content:
O, that your eyes may be open to the plea of your servant and to the plea of your people Israel, to listen to them in all things when they call to you.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 53
c3content:
For you have separated them for yourself as an inheritance from all the peoples of the earth, as you promised through the hand of Moses your servant when you brought out our ancestorsOr "fathers" from Egypt, my Lord Yahweh!" 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 54
c3content:
It happened that when Solomon finished praying to Yahweh all of the prayer and this plea, he got up from before the altar of Yahweh, from kneeling down on his knees with his palms outstretched to heaven.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 56
c3content:
"Blessed be Yahweh who gave a resting place to his people Israel. According to all that he promised, not one word has fallen from all of his promises concerning the good which he spoke through the hand of Moses his servant.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 57
c3content:
May Yahweh our God be with us as he was with our ancestors,Or "fathers" and may he not leave us or abandon us,


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 58
c3content:
to incline our hearts toward him, to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his judgments which he commanded our ancestors.Or "fathers"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 59
c3content:
Let these my words which I pleaded before Yahweh be near to Yahweh our God, by day and by night, to maintain the justice of his servant and the justice of his people Israel {as each day requires}Literally "the word of the day on its day"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 61
c3content:
Let your heart be completely with Yahweh our God by walking in his statutes, by keeping his commands as this day." 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 63
c3content:
Solomon sacrificed the fellowship offerings which he offered to Yahweh: twenty-two thousand oxen and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep; and the king and all of the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" dedicated the house of Yahweh.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 64
c3content:
On that day the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard before the house of Yahweh because he offered there the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat of the fellowship offerings because the bronze altar that was in the presence of Yahweh was too small to hold the burnt offerings and the grain offerings and the fat of the fellowship offerings.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 65
c3content:
Solomon held the festival at that time and all of Israel with him, a great assembly from Lebo Hamath up to the wadiA valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season of Egypt before Yahweh our God, for seven days and seven days, a total of fourteen days.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 66
c3content:
On the eighth day, he sent the people away, and they blessed the king, and they went to their tents rejoicing and {in good spirits}Literally "and good of heart" because of all the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David his servant and to Israel his people. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 1
c3content:
It happened that as Solomon finished the building of the house of Yahweh, the king's house, and all the things Solomon desired to do,


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Yahweh said to him, "I have heard your prayer and your plea which you have made before me. I have consecrated this house which you have built, by putting my name there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 4
c3content:
As for you, if you walk before me as David your father walked, with {integrity of heart}Literally "in blamelessness of heart" and with uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and if you keep my ordinances and my judgments,


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 5
c3content:
then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised David your father, saying, 'A man will not be cut off for you from upon the throne of Israel.' 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 6
c3content:
"If ever you or any of your descendantsOr "children" turn from following me and do not keep my commandments and my ordinances that I have set before you and you go and serve other gods and bow down to them,


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 7
c3content:
then I will cut Israel off from the face of the land that I have given to them, even the house which I have consecrated for my name I will cast away from my face; and Israel shall become a proverb and an object of taunting among all the peoples.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 8
c3content:
This house shall become a heap of ruins; all those passing by will be appalled by it and hiss, and they will say, 'On what account did Yahweh do this to this land and to this house?'


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And they will say, 'Because they have forsaken Yahweh their God who brought their ancestorsOr "fathers" out from the land of Egypt and they embraced other gods and bowed down to them and served them. Therefore, Yahweh brought on them all of this disaster.'" 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 10
c3content:
It happened at the end of twenty years in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Yahweh and the house of the king,


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 11
c3content:
since Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with wood of cedar and with wood of cypresses and with the gold according to all his desire, then King Solomon gave twenty cities in the land of the Galilee to Hiram.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 12
c3content:
So Hiram went out from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given him, but they were not right in his eyes.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 13
c3content:
So he said, "What are these cities that you have given to me, my brother?" {So they are called the land of Cabul until this day}.Literally "So he called them the land of Cabul up to this day"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 15
c3content:
This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon conscripted to build the house of Yahweh and his house, the Millo, the walls of Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, had gone up and captured Gezer and burnt it with fire. He had also killed the Canaanites who were living in the city and had given it as a dowry to his daughter, the wife of Solomon.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 19
c3content:
and he also built all of the storage cities which were Solomon's, the cities for the chariots, the cities for the cavalry, and all of Solomon's desire that he wantedOr "desired" to build in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land of his dominion. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 20
c3content:
All of the people who were remaining from the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites who were not of the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 21
c3content:
their children who remained after them in the land, whom the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" were not able to completely destroy, Solomon conscripted them for forced labor, until this very day.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 22
c3content:
But from the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" Solomon did not make a slave, but they were the men of war, his officers, his commanders, his captains, and the commanders of his chariots and his cavalry.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 23
c3content:
These were the commanders of the overseers who were over the work for Solomon, five hundred and fifty, ruling over the people doing the work. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 24
c3content:
As soon as the daughter of Pharaoh went up from the city of David to her house which heThat is, Solomon built for her, then he built the Millo. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Solomon sacrificed three times a year: burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on the altar that he had built to Yahweh, and he offered incense with it before Yahweh; and so he completed the house. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 26
c3content:
King Solomon also built a fleet of ships at Ezion-Geber which is near Elath on the shore of the {Red Sea}Literally "sea of reed" in the land of Edom.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 27
c3content:
Hiram sent his servants with the fleet of ships, {sailors}Literally "men of ships" who knew the sea, with the servants of Solomon.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 28
c3content:
They went to Ophir and imported from there four hundred and twenty talents of gold, and they brought it to King Solomon. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Now the queen of Sheba had heard of the fame of Solomon regarding the name of Yahweh, and she came to test him with hard questions.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 2
c3content:
So she came to Jerusalem with very great wealth; with camels carrying spices, very much gold, and precious stones. She came to Solomon, and she spoke to him all that was on her heart.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 3
c3content:
{Solomon answered all of her questions};Literally "Solomon told her all of her words" there was not a thing hidden from the king which he could not explain to her.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 5
c3content:
the food of his table, the seat of his servants, the {manner}Literally "service" of his servants and their clothing, his cupbearers, and his burnt offerings which he offered in the house of Yahweh, {she was breathless}.Literally "and there was not in her spirit/breath any longer"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Then she said to the king, "The report which I heard in my land was true concerning your accomplishments and your wisdom.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 7
c3content:
I had not believed the report to be true until I came and my eyes had seen, and behold! The half had not been told to me. {Your wisdom and prosperity surpass}Literally "You have added wisdom and prosperity to" the report that I had heard.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Happy are your men and happy are these your servants who stand before you continually hearing your wisdom.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 9
c3content:
May Yahweh your God be blessed, who has delighted in you to set you on the throne of Israel, because of the love of Yahweh for Israel forever, and he has made you king to execute justice and righteousness."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Then she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, abundant spices, and precious stones. Spices as these did not come again in such abundance as that which the queen of Sheba brought to King Solomon. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Moreover, the fleet of ships of Hiram which carried the gold from Ophir also brought from Ophir abundant amounts of almug wood and precious stones.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 12
c3content:
The king made a raised structure for the house of Yahweh and for the house of the king out of the almug wood, as well as lyres and harps for the singers. This much almug wood has not come nor been seen again up to this day.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 13
c3content:
King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all of her desire that she asked, besides that which {King Solomon freely offered her}.Literally "according to the hand of King Solomon" Then she turned and went to her land with her servants. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 14
c3content:
The weight of the gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold,


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 15
c3content:
apart from that of the men of the traders and the profits of the traders, and all the kings of the Arabs and the governors of the land.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 16
c3content:
King Solomon made two hundred shields of hammered gold; six hundred measures of gold went up over each shield.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Also he made three hundred small shields of hammered gold; three minas of gold went up over each of the small shields; and the king put them into the House of the Forest of Lebanon.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Six steps led up to the throne, and there was a circular top to the throne behind it, and armrests were {on each side of the seat},Literally "from this and from this" with two lions standing beside the armrests.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Twelve lions were standing there, six on each of the six steps {on either side};Literally "from this and from this" nothing like this was made for any of the kingdoms.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 21
c3content:
All of the drinking vessels of King Solomon were gold, and all the vessels for the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver; it was not considered as something valuable in the days of Solomon.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 22
c3content:
For the fleet of Tarshish belonged to the king and was on the sea with the fleet of Hiram; once every three years the fleet of Tarshish used to come carrying gold and silver, ivory, apes, and baboons. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 24
c3content:
All of the earth was seeking the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom which God had put in his heart.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 25
c3content:
They were each bringing his gift; objects of silver and objects of gold, clothing, weapons, spices, horses, and mules. {This used to happen year after year}.Literally "A thing of year to year" 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Solomon gathered chariots and horses; he had fourteen hundred chariots and twelve thousand horses. He stationed them in the cities of the chariots and with the king in Jerusalem.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 27
c3content:
The king made the silver in Jerusalem as the stones, and the cedars he made as the sycamore fig trees which are in the Shephelah in abundance.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 28
c3content:
The import of the horses which were Solomon's was from Egypt and from Kue; the traders of the king received horses from Kue at a price.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 29
c3content:
A chariot went up and went out from Egypt at six hundred silver shekels and a horse at a hundred and fifty. So it was for all the kings of the Hittites and for the kings of Aram; by their hand they were exported. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 1
c3content:
King Solomon loved many foreign women: the daughter of Pharaoh, Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, Hittite;


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 2
c3content:
from the nations which Yahweh had said to the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" "You shall not {marry them},Literally "go into them" and they shall not {marry you}.Literally "go into you" They will certainly turn your heart after other gods." But Solomon clung to them to love.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 4
c3content:
It happened at the time of Solomon's old age that his wives guided his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully with Yahweh his God as the heart of David his father had been.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Solomon went after Ashtoreth the god of the Sidonians and after Molech the abhorrence of the Ammonites.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 6
c3content:
So Solomon did evil in the eyes of Yahweh and did not fully follow after Yahweh as David his father.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 7
c3content:
At that time, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, on the mountain which {faces}Literally "was on the face of" Jerusalem and for Molech, the abomination of the {Ammonites}.Literally "sons/children of Ammon"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Yahweh was angry with Solomon, for he had turned his heart from Yahweh, the God of Israel who had appeared to him twice.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And he had commanded him concerning this matter not to go after other gods, but he did not keep that which Yahweh commanded.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 11
c3content:
So Yahweh said to Solomon, "Because this was with you, and you did not keep my covenant and my ordinances which I have commanded you, I will certainly tear the kingdom from you, and I will give it to your servant.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 12
c3content:
However, I will not do it in your days, for the sake of David your father; from the hand of your son I will tear it away.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Yet all of the kingdom I will not tear away. I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem which I have chosen." 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Then Yahweh raised an adversary against Solomon, Hadad the Edomite, from the descendants of that king in Edom.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 15
c3content:
It had happened that when David was at Edom, Joab the commander of the army went up to bury the slain, and he killed every male in Edom.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 17
c3content:
But Hadad himself had fled, and some Edomite men from the servants of his father with him, to go to Egypt, when Hadad was a young boy.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 18
c3content:
They had set out from Midian until they came to Paran where they took men from Paran with them and came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt. He gave to him a house and assigned food for him and gave him land.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Hadad found great favor in the eyes of Pharaoh, and he gave him the sister of his wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen, as wife.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 20
c3content:
The sister of Tahpenes bore Genubath his son for him, and Tahpenes weaned him in the middle of the house of Pharaoh. Genubath was in the house of Pharaoh in the midst of the childrenOr "sons" of Pharaoh.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Now Hadad heard in Egypt that David had slept with his ancestorsOr "fathers" and that Joab the commander of the army was dead. Then Hadad said to Pharaoh, "Send me away that I may go to my land."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Pharaoh said to him, "What do you lack with me that you now are seeking to go to your land?" He said, "No, but you must surely send me away." 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 23
c3content:
God had also raised Rezon the son of Eliada as an adversary against him, who had fled from Hadadezer the king of Zobah, his master.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 24
c3content:
He gathered men around him and he became the commander of bandits. When David killed some of them, they went to Damascus and settled {there},Literally "in it" and they reigned in Damascus.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 25
c3content:
He was an adversary for Israel all the days of Solomon, and along with the evil that Hadad did, he detested Israel while he reigned over Aram. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Now Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite from Zeredah (now the name of his mother was Zeruah, a widow woman), a servant of Solomon {rebelled against the king}.Literally "raised a hand against the king"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 27
c3content:
This is the reason that he rebelled against the king: when Solomon built the Millo, he closed the gap of the city of David his father.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 28
c3content:
Now the man Jeroboam was a man of ability, and Solomon saw that the young man {was a diligent worker},Literally "was a doer of work he" so he appointed him over all of the forced labor for the house of Joseph.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 29
c3content:
It happened at that time that Jeroboam went out from Jerusalem, and he accidentally met Ahijah the Shilonite the prophet on the way. Now he had clothed himself with new clothing. While the two of them were alone in the field,


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 31
c3content:
Then he said to Jeroboam, "Take for yourself ten pieces, for thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: 'Behold, I am about to tear the kingdom from the hand of Solomon, and I will give to you ten tribes,


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 32
c3content:
but one tribe shall be for him, for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel;


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 33
c3content:
because he has forsaken me, and they bowed down to Ashtoreth, the god of the Sidonians, to Chemosh, the god of Moab, and to Molech, the god of the {Ammonites}.Literally "sons/children of Ammon" They did not walk in my ways to do right in my eyes, my ordinances, or my judgments, as did David his father.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 34
c3content:
But I will not take all of the kingdom from his hand, but I will make him a leader all the days of his life for the sake of David my servant whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my ordinances.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 36
c3content:
To his son I will give one tribe in order to be a lamp for my servant David, always before my face, in Jerusalem the city in which I have chosen to place my name.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 38
c3content:
It shall be that if you listen to all that I command you and you walk in my ways and you do right in my eyes by keeping my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did, then I will be with you, and I will build an enduring house for you as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 40
c3content:
Then Solomon sought to kill Jeroboam, but Jeroboam got up and fled to Egypt, to Shishak the king of Egypt, and he remained in Egypt until the death of Solomon. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 41
c3content:
Now the rest of the acts of Solomon and all that he did and his wisdom; are they not written on the scroll of the acts of Solomon?


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 43
c3content:
Then Solomon slept with his ancestors,Or "fathers" and they buried him in the city of David his father, and Rehoboam his son became king in his place. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 2
c3content:
It happened that Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it while he was still in Egypt where he had fled from the face of King Solomon, and Jeroboam had lived in Egypt.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 3
c3content:
So they sent and summoned him, and Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel came. Then they spoke to Rehoboam, saying,


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 4
c3content:
"Your father made our yoke heavy; now lighten the hard labor of your father and the heavy yoke which he placed on us, and we will serve you."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Then King Rehoboam consulted with the old men who had been {serving}Literally "standing" before Solomon his father when he was alive, saying, "How are you advising me {to answer this people}?"Literally "to return a word to this people"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 7
c3content:
They said to him, "If you will be a servant today to this people, then you will serve them; and if you answer them and speak good words to them, they will always be your servants."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 8
c3content:
But he rejected the advice of the old men, which they gave him, and he consulted with the youngsters who had grown up with him, who were {serving}Literally "standing" before him.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 9
c3content:
He said to them, "What are you advising that we should reply to this people who spoke to me by saying, 'Lighten the yoke your father put on us.'"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Then the youngsters who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, "Thus you shall say to this people who spoke to you: 'Your father made our yoke heavy, but you lighten it for us,' you shall say to them, 'My little finger is thicker than my father's loins.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 11
c3content:
So then, my father loaded a heavy yoke on all of you, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions!'" 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Jeroboam and all of the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had spoken: "Return to me on the third day."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Then the king answered all the people harshly, as he had rejected the advice of the old men that they had offered.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 14
c3content:
He spoke to them according to the advice of the youngsters, saying, "My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add onto your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 15
c3content:
So the king did not listen to the people, for it was a turning of events from Yahweh in order to fulfill his word which Yahweh had spoken through the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 16
c3content:
When all of Israel saw that the king would not listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, "{What share do we have in David}?Literally "What is for us a share in David" There is no inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, Israel! Now look to your house, David!" Then Israel went to theirHebrew "his" tents. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 17
c3content:
The {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" were living in the cities of Judah, and Rehoboam was reigning over them.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 18
c3content:
King Rehoboam sent Adoram who was over the forced labor, and all of Israel cast stones at him and he died, but King Rehoboam managed to get up on the chariot to flee to Jerusalem.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 20
c3content:
It happened that just when all of Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the assembly and made him king over all of Israel. Not one followed after the house of David except the tribe of Judah alone.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 21
c3content:
When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he assembled all of the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand {choice troops}Literally "chosen makers of war" to fight with the house of Israel, to restore the kingship to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 23
c3content:
"Say to Rehoboam the son of Solomon the king of Judah and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin and the remainder of the people, saying,


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 24
c3content:
'Thus says Yahweh: "You shall not go up and you shall not fight with your brothers the {Israelites}.Literally "sons/children of Israel" Return each of you to his house, for this thing was from me." '" So they heeded the word of Yahweh, and they returned to go home according to the word of Yahweh. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and he resided in it. Then he went out from there and built Penuel.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Then Jeroboam {said to himself},Literally "said to his heart" "Now the kingdom will return to the house of David


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 27
c3content:
if this people go up to offer sacrifices in the houseOr "temple" of Yahweh in Jerusalem. The heart of this people will return to their master Rehoboam the king of Judah, and they shall kill me and {return to him}."Hebrew "return to Rehoboam the king of Judah" 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And the king had decided, so he made two golden calves and he said to them,That is, the people "{You have been going up to Jerusalem long enough};Literally "enough for you from going up to Jerusalem" here are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 31
c3content:
Then he built the houses on the high places, and he appointed priests {from all walks of life}Literally "from the fringes of the people" who were not from the sons of Levi.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 32
c3content:
Jeroboam also inaugurated a religious feast in the eighth month on the fifteenth day of the month, like the religious feast which was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar. Thus he did in Bethel, by sacrificing to the calves that he had made; and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 33
c3content:
He offered sacrifices on the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day of the eighth month which his heart had devised. He inaugurated a religious feast for the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" and he went up to the altar to offer incense. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Suddenly a man of God from Judah came to Bethel, by the word of Yahweh, while Jeroboam was standing at the altar to offer incense.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Then he proclaimed against the altar by the word of Yahweh and said, "O altar, altar, thus says Yahweh: 'Look, a son will be born to the house of David, Josiah by name, and he shall sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and human bones shall burn on you.'" 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 3
c3content:
He gave a sign on that day, saying, "This is the sign that Yahweh has predetermined: Look, this altar will be torn apart, and the ashes that are on it will be poured out." 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 4
c3content:
It happened at the moment the king heard the word of the man of God that he cried out against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam stretched out his hand from the altar, saying, "Seize him!" But his hand which he stretched out to him was paralyzed, and he was not able to draw it back to himself.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Then the altar was torn apart and the ashes from the altar poured out according to the sign which the man of God had announced by the word of Yahweh.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Then the king responded and said to the man of God, "Please entreat the favor of Yahweh your God, and pray for me that my hand may return to me." So the man of God entreated the face of Yahweh, and the hand of the king returned to him, as it was in the beginning.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Then the king spoke to the man of God, "Come with me to the house and refresh yourself, that I may give you a gift."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Then the man of God said to the king, "Even if you give to me half of your house I will not come with you, nor will I eat bread or drink water in this place,


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 9
c3content:
for the word of Yahweh has commanded me, saying, 'You shall not eat bread nor drink water, and you shall not return on the way that you came.'"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Now a certain older prophet was living in Bethel, and his son came and recounted to him all of the things that the man of God had done that day in Bethel and the words he had spoken to the king, and they told them to their father.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Then their father asked them, "{Which way did he go}?"Literally "Where is this way he went?" His sons had seen the way which the man of God who had come from Judah had taken.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Then he said to his sons, "Saddle the donkey for me." So they saddled the donkey for him, and he mounted it


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 14
c3content:
and went after the man of God. He found him sitting under the oak and said to him, "Are you the man of God who came from Judah?" He said, "I am."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Then he said, "I am not able to return with you or to go with you. I will not eat food nor will I drink water with you in this place.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 17
c3content:
For a word came to me by the word of Yahweh, 'You shall not eat food, nor shall you drink water there. You shall not return to go by the way that you came.'" 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Then he said, "I am also a prophet like you. An angel spoke to me by the word of Yahweh, saying, 'Let him return with you to your house that he may eat food and drink water.'" He lied to him.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Now it happened that they were sitting at the table, and the word of Yahweh came to the prophet who brought him back.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 21
c3content:
He proclaimed to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, "Thus says Yahweh: 'Because you have disobeyed the word of Yahweh and have not kept the command which Yahweh your God commanded you,


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 22
c3content:
but you have returned and have eaten food and drank water in the place which he ordered you not to eat food nor to drink water, then your dead body shall not return to the tomb of your ancestors.'"Or "fathers" 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 23
c3content:
It happened after he ate food and drank water that he saddled the donkey for the prophet whom he had brought back.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 24
c3content:
When he left, a lion found him on the road and killed him, and his dead body was thrown on the road with the donkey standing beside it, and the lion was standing by the dead body.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 25
c3content:
As men were passing by and they saw the dead body thrown in the road and the lion standing beside the dead body, they came and told it in the city where the old prophet was living.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 26
c3content:
When the prophet who had brought him back from the way heard, he said, "It is the man of God who disobeyed the mouth of Yahweh, and Yahweh has given him to the lion. He tore him in pieces and killed him according to the word of Yahweh which he had spoken to him."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 28
c3content:
He went and found his dead body thrown in the road and a donkey with the lion standing beside it, but the lion had not eaten the corpse nor attacked the donkey.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 29
c3content:
So the prophet lifted up the corpse of the man of God and put it on the donkey and brought it back. He came to the city of the old prophet to mourn him and to bury him.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 31
c3content:
It happened after he buried him that he said to his sons, "When I die, you shall bury me in the tomb where the man of God is buried; you shall lay my bones beside his bones.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 32
c3content:
For surely, the thing which he proclaimed by the word of Yahweh against the altar which is in Bethel will happen, as it will against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria." 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 33
c3content:
After this event, Jeroboam did not turn from his evil way, but he returned and again made priests for the high places of people from {all walks of life}.Literally "from the fringes of the people" He filled his hand with all his desire and became one of the priests of the high places himself.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 34
c3content:
This matter became sin in the house of Jeroboam, to make it disappear and to destroy it from the surface of the earth. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Jeroboam said to his wife, "Please get up and disguise yourself so that they will not know that you are the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh. Look, Ahijah the prophet is there, and he spoke concerning me before I became king over this people.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 3
c3content:
You must take ten loaves of bread in your hand and cakes and a jar of honey, and you must go to him. He shall tell you what will happen to the boy."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 4
c3content:
The wife of Jeroboam did so. She got up, went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah was not able to see, for {his eyes were fixed}Literally "his eyes stood" because of his old age.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Then Yahweh said to Ahijah, "Look, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to seek a word from you about her son, for he is ill. {Thus and so}Literally "As this and as this" you shall say to her. When she comes, she will be disguising herself."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 6
c3content:
It happened at the moment Ahijah heard the sound of her footsteps coming through the doorway, he said, "Come in, wife of Jeroboam. Why are you making yourself unrecognizable? I have been sent a hard message for you:


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Go, tell Jeroboam, 'Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel: "Because I raised you from the midst of the people and I made you leader over my people Israel,


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 8
c3content:
I tore the kingdom from the house of David and I gave it to you. But you were not like my servant David who kept my commandments, and who went after me with all his heart, to do only what is right in my eyes.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 9
c3content:
But you did more evil than all who were before you. You have gone and made for yourself other gods and molten idols to provoke me, but me you have {completely disregarded}.Literally "hurled behind your back"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Therefore, look, I am about to bring disaster upon the house of Jeroboam, and I will cut off {males}Literally "those who urinate against a wall" from Jeroboam, bond or free, in Israel. I will burn after the house of Jeroboam as one burns after the manure, until it is finished.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 11
c3content:
He who dies for Jeroboam in the city, the dogs will eat. He who dies in the open field, the birds from the heavens will eat, for Yahweh has spoken it." '


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 13
c3content:
All of Israel will mourn for him, and they will bury him. This one alone will come to a tomb for Jeroboam, because a good thing has been found in him by Yahweh the God of Israel in the house of Israel.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Yahweh will raise up a king for himself over Israel who will even now cut off the house of Jeroboam this day.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Yahweh will strike Israel as one shakes the reed plant in the water, and he will root Israel up from this good land that he gave to their ancestors.Or "fathers" He will scatter them beyond the RiverThat is, the Euphrates because they have made their sacred poles which are provoking Yahweh.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 16
c3content:
He will give up Israel because of the sin of Jeroboam which he sinned and which he caused Israel to sin." 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Then the wife of Jeroboam got up, went, and came to Tirzah. As she was coming to the threshold of the house, the boy died.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 18
c3content:
They buried him and all of Israel mourned for him, according to the word of Yahweh which he had spoken by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 19
c3content:
The remainder of the acts of Jeroboam, how he fought and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 20
c3content:
The days which Jeroboam reigned were twenty-two years, and he slept with his ancestors.Or "fathers" Then Nadab his son became king in place of him. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Now Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which, from all of the tribes of Israel, Yahweh chose to place his name. And the name of his mother was Naamah the Ammonitess.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 22
c3content:
But Judah did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and they annoyed him more than their fathersOr "ancestors" did with their sins that they had committed.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 23
c3content:
They also built for themselves high places and stone pillars and sacred poles on every high hill and under every green tree.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 24
c3content:
There were also male shrine prostitutes in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which Yahweh had driven out from before the {Israelites}.Literally "sons/children of Israel" 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 25
c3content:
It happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam that Shishak the king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem,


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 26
c3content:
and he took the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and he took all the treasures of the king's house. He took the small gold shields that Solomon had made,


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 27
c3content:
so King Rehoboam made small copper shields in place of them and {entrusted them}Literally "he assigned on the hand" to the commanders of the royal guard who keep the doorway of the king's house.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 28
c3content:
Whenever the king came to the house of Yahweh, the royal guard carried them and brought them back to the alcove room of the royal guard.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 29
c3content:
The remainder of the acts of Rehoboam and all that he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 31
c3content:
Then Rehoboam slept with his ancestors,Or "fathers" and he was buried with his ancestorsOr "fathers" in the city of David. The name of his mother was Naamah the Ammonitess. Abijam his son became king in his place. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 3
c3content:
He walked in all the sins of his father that he had done before him, and his heart was not fully with Yahweh his God as the heart of David his father.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 4
c3content:
For the sake of David, Yahweh his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, by establishing his son after him and by causing Jerusalem to exist;


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 5
c3content:
because David did right in the eyes of Yahweh and he didn't turn aside from all that he commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 7
c3content:
The remainder of the acts of Abijam and all that he did, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah? There was also war between Abijam and Jeroboam.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Abijam slept with his ancestors,Or "fathers" and they buried him in the city of David, and Asa his son became king in his place. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 10
c3content:
He reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 12
c3content:
He put away the male shrine prostitutes from the land, and he removed all of the idols that his ancestorsOr "fathers" made.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Also, he had Maacah his mother removed from the office of queen mother, as she had made a repulsive image for the Asherah. Asa also cut down her repulsive image and burned it in the WadiOr "valley"; a wadi is a valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season Kidron.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 14
c3content:
But the high places he did not remove. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was completely with Yahweh all of his days.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 15
c3content:
He brought the holy objects of his father and his own holy objects to the house of Yahweh, silver and gold and utensils. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and he built Ramah {to hinder the coming and going of anyone to Asa}Literally "to not give going and coming to Asa" king of Judah.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Asa took all of the silver and gold remaining in the storerooms of the house of Yahweh and in the treasury rooms of the house of the king, and he gave them into the hand of his servants; so King Asa sent them to Ben-Hadad the son of Tabrimmon the son of Hezion, the king of Aram, who lived in Damascus, saying,


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 19
c3content:
"Let there be a covenant between me and you, between my father and your father. Look, I have sent you a gift of silver and gold. Go, break your covenant with Baasha king of Israel that he may go up away from me."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Ben-Hadad listened to King Asa, and he sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel and he attacked Ijon, Dan, Abel-Beth-Maacah, and all of Kinnereth, in addition to all the land of Naphtali.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Then King Asa proclaimed among all of Israel that there was no one free from obligation, so they carried the stones of Ramah and its wood with which Baasha had built, and King Asa rebuilt Geba in Benjamin with them, and the Mizpah.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 23
c3content:
The remainder of the acts of Asa, all of his achievements, all that he did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah? But at the time of his old age, {he developed a foot disease}.Literally "he became ill in his feet"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Asa slept with his ancestorsOr "fathers" and was buried with his ancestorsOr "fathers" in the city of David his ancestor;Or "father" Jehoshaphat his son became king in his place. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and he reigned over Israel two years.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 26
c3content:
He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and he walked in the way of his father and in his sin that he caused Israel to commit.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 27
c3content:
Baasha son of Ahijah of the house of Issachar conspired against him, and Baasha struck him down at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines. Now Nadab and all of Israel were laying siege to Gibbethon,


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 29
c3content:
It happened that as soon as he became king, he killed all of the house of Jeroboam. There was no one left of Jeroboam who breathed, until he had destroyed him according to the word of Yahweh that he had spoken by the hand of his servant, Ahijah the Shilonite,


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 30
c3content:
because of the sins of Jeroboam that he had committed and that he had caused Israel to commit and because of his anger with which he had provoked Yahweh the God of Israel.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 31
c3content:
Now the remainder of the acts of Nadab and all that he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel? 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 33
c3content:
In the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha son of Ahijah had become king over all of Israel; he lived in Tirzah twenty-four years.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 34
c3content:
He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and he walked in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin that he caused Israel to commit. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Because I exalted you from the dust and I made you a leader over my people Israel, but you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and you caused my people Israel to sin, to provoke me with their sins,


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 3
c3content:
I am now about to consume Baasha and his house. I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Those who die for Baasha in the city, the dogs will eat; those who die for him in the field, the birds of the heavens will eat." 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 5
c3content:
The remainder of the acts of Baasha, what he did, and his powerful deeds, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Baasha slept with his ancestorsOr "fathers" and was buried in Tirzah, and Elah his son became king in his place.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Moreover, the word of Yahweh came to Baasha and to his house by the hand of Jehu the son of Hanani the prophet, because of all the evil that he did in the eyes of Yahweh by provoking him with the work of his hands, by being like the house of Jeroboam; and he destroyed him. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 8
c3content:
In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah the son of Baasha became king over Israel for two years.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 9
c3content:
His servant Zimri the commander of half of the chariots conspired against him. Now he had been in Tirzah drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza who was over the palace in Tirzah.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Zimri came and struck him down and killed him in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah and became king in his place.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 11
c3content:
It happened that as soon as he became king, at the moment he sat on his throne, he killed all of the house of Baasha. He left {no males}Literally "no one for him who urinated against a wall" among his kindred or any of his friends. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 12
c3content:
So Zimri destroyed all of the house of Baasha according to the word of Yahweh which he spoke against Baasha by the hand of Jehu the prophet


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 13
c3content:
because of all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son which they committed and which they caused Israel to sin by provoking Yahweh the God of Israel with their idols.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 14
c3content:
The remainder of the acts of Elah and all that he did, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel? 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 15
c3content:
In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned seven days in Tirzah. Now the army was encamping against Gibbethon which belonged to the Philistines.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 16
c3content:
The encamping army heard that Zimri had conspired and moreover had killed the king,That is, Elah so they made Omri the commander of the army of Israel king over all Israel in the camp on that day.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 18
c3content:
It happened that when Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went to the citadel fortress of the house of the king, and he burnt the house of the king over him with fire so that he died.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 19
c3content:
This happened because of his sin which he committed by doing evil in the eyes of Yahweh, by going the way of Jeroboam and in his sin which he did by causing Israel to sin.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 20
c3content:
The remainder of the acts of Zimri and his conspiracy which he made, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel? 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 21
c3content:
At that time, the people of Israel were divided into two parts: half of the people went after Tibni the son of Ginath to make him king, and the other half went after Omri.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 22
c3content:
The people who went after Omri overcame the people who went after Tibni the son of Ginath, so that he died and Omri became king. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 23
c3content:
In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri became king over Israel for twelve years. He reigned in Tirzah six years,


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 24
c3content:
then bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver, fortified the hill, and called the name of the city Samaria that he built after Shemer, the owner of the hill.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 26
c3content:
He went in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat and in his sins that he caused Israel to sin by provoking Yahweh the God of Israel with their idols.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 27
c3content:
The remainder of the acts of Omri that he did and his powerful deeds, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 28
c3content:
Omri slept with his ancestors,Or "fathers" and he was buried in Samaria, and Ahab his son became king in his place. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 29
c3content:
Now Ahab son of Omri became king over Israel in the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah. Ahab son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 31
c3content:
{If it wasn't enough that he went}Literally "It happened that it was trivial his going" after the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he also took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal the king of the Sidonians. He went and served Baal and bowed down to him.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 33
c3content:
Ahab also made the sacred pole, and {he continued to provoke}Literally "Ahab added to make to provoke" Yahweh the God of Israel more than all the kings of Israel who were before him.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 34
c3content:
In his days, Hiel the Bethelite rebuilt Jericho; at the cost of Abiram his firstborn he laid its foundation, and at the cost of Segub his younger sibling, he set up its gates, according to the word of Yahweh which he spoke by the hand of Joshua the son of Nun. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Elijah the Tishbite from Tishbe of Gilead said to Ahab, "{As Yahweh lives},Literally "The life of Yahweh" the God of Israel before whom I stand, there shall surely not be dew nor rain these years {except by my command}."Literally "except at the word of my mouth"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 3
c3content:
"Go from this place and turn to the east; you must hide yourself in the WadiA valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season Kerith {which faces the Jordan}.Literally "on the face of the Jordan"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 4
c3content:
It shall be that you shall drink from the wadi,A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season and I have commanded the crows to sustain you there."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 5
c3content:
So he went and did according to the word of Yahweh. He went and stayed in the WadiA valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season Kerith {which faces the Jordan}.Literally "on the face of the Jordan"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 6
c3content:
The crows were bringing bread and meat in the morning for him and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the wadi.A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 7
c3content:
It happened {after a while}Literally "from the end of days" that the wadiA seasonal stream that is often dry dried up, because there was no rain in the land. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 9
c3content:
"Get up and go to Zarephath which belongs to Sidon and stay there. Look, I have commanded a woman there, a widow, to sustain you."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 10
c3content:
So he arose and went to Zarephath and came to the gate of the city. There was a widow woman gathering wood, so he called to her, and he said, "Please bring a little water for me in a vessel so that I can drink."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 11
c3content:
She went to fetch it, and he called to her and said, "Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 12
c3content:
She said, "{As Yahweh your God lives},Literally "The life of Yahweh your God" surely I do not have a cake, {but only a handful of flour}Literally "except that which fills a hand with flour" in the jar and a little olive oil in the jug. Here I am gathering a few pieces of wood, and I will go and prepare it for me and my son, that we might eat it and die."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Elijah said to her, "Don't be afraid. Go and do according to your word; only make for me a small bread cake from it first, and bring it out to me. Make it for yourself and for your son afterward.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 14
c3content:
For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: 'The jar of flour will not be emptied and the jug of olive oil will not run out until the day Yahweh gives rain on the surface of the earth.'"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 15
c3content:
So she went and did according to the word of Elijah; then both she and he ate with her household for many days.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 16
c3content:
The jar of flour was not emptied and the jug of olive oil did not run out, according to the word of Yahweh which he spoke by the hand of Elijah. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 17
c3content:
It happened after these things that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became ill; and his illness was very severe until there was no breath left in him.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 18
c3content:
She said to Elijah, "{What do you have against me},Literally "What for me and for you" O man of God, that you have come to me to make known my guilt and to cause my son to die?"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Then he said to her, "Give me your son." He took him from her lap and carried him up to the upper room where he was staying, and he laid him on his bed.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Then he called to Yahweh and said, "O Yahweh my God, are you also causing evil to come upon the widow with whom I am dwelling as an alien by causing her son to die?"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 21
c3content:
He stretched himself out on the child three times and called to Yahweh and said, "O Yahweh my God, please let the life of this child return within him."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Yahweh listened to the voice of Elijah, and the life of the child returned within him, and he lived.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Elijah then took the child and brought him down from the upper room to the house and gave him to his mother. Elijah said, "Look, your son is alive."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Then the woman said to Elijah, "Now this I know, that you are a man of God and the word of Yahweh in your mouth is truth." 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 1
c3content:
It happened many days later that the word of Yahweh came to Elijah in the third year, saying, "Go, present yourself to Ahab so that I may give rain on the surface of the earth."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 4
c3content:
It had happened that when Jezebel killed the prophets of Yahweh, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them {by fifties}Literally "fifty men" in the cave and sustained them with food and water.)


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Ahab said to Obadiah, "Go through the land to all the springs of water and to all the wadis.A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season Perhaps we may find green grass that we may keep horses and mules alive and that we might not lose any of the animals."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 6
c3content:
So they divided the land for themselves in order to pass through it; Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 7
c3content:
It happened that Obadiah was on the way, and suddenly Elijah was there to meet him. When he recognized him, he fell on his face and said, "Is this you, my lord Elijah?"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 10
c3content:
{As Yahweh your God lives},Literally "The life of Yahweh your God" surely there is not a nation or a kingdom to which my lord has not sent me to seek you. If they would say, 'He is not here,' then he would make the kingdom or the nation swear that it could not find you.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And it will happen that I will go from you and the Spirit of Yahweh will carry you up to where I do not know. Then I will come to tell Ahab, but he will not find you, and then he will kill me, even though your servant has feared Yahweh from my youth.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Has it not been told to my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of Yahweh? I hid a hundred men of the prophets of Yahweh {by fifties}Literally "fifty fifty men" in the cave, and I sustained them with food and water.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Elijah said, "{As Yahweh of hosts lives},Literally "The life of Yahweh of hosts" before whom I stand, I will certainly show myself to him today." 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 18
c3content:
He said, "I did not throw Israel into confusion; rather you and the house of your father have by forsaking the commands of Yahweh when you went after the Baals!


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 19
c3content:
So then, send word and assemble all of Israel to me on Mount Carmel, with the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal and the four hundred prophets of Asherah, who eat at the table of Jezebel." 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 20
c3content:
So Ahab sent word among the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" and he assembled the prophets to Mount Carmel.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Elijah approached to all the people and said, "How long will you go limping over two opinions? If Yahweh is God, go after him; but if Baal, go after him." But the people did not answer him a word.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Then Elijah said to the people, "I alone am left a prophet of Yahweh, but the prophets of Baal are four hundred and fifty men.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Let them give us two bulls, and let them choose for themselves one bull, cut him in pieces, and put it on the wood, but don't let them start a fire on it. I will prepare the other bull and set it on the wood, but I will put no fire on it.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Then you call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of Yahweh, and it shall be that the god who answers by fire, he is God."Baal is known in Canaanite texts as being the god in control of lightning and fire Then all the people answered and said, "The word is good!" 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Then Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, "Choose for yourselves one bull and prepare it first, for you are the majority, and call on the name of your god, but don't set fire under it."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 26
c3content:
So they took the bull that he allowed to them, prepared it, and called upon the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, "O Baal, answer us!" But there was no voice and there was no answer, so they limpedThat is, moved about the altar in a cultic dance step about the altar which they had made.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 27
c3content:
It happened at noon that Elijah mocked them and said, "Call out with a loud voice, for he is a god! Perhaps he is meditating, or {is using the bathroom},Literally "has backed off for himself" or is on a journey. Perhaps he is asleep and must wake up!"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 28
c3content:
So they called out with a loud voice, and they cut themselves with swords and with spears as was their custom, until the blood poured out over them.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 29
c3content:
It happened as noon passed, they raged until the time of the evening offering, but there was no voice, there was no answer, and no one paid attention. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 30
c3content:
Then Elijah said to all the people, "Come near to me," so all the people came closer to him. He repaired the altar of Yahweh that had been destroyed.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 31
c3content:
Elijah took twelve stones according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of God came, saying, "Israel shall be your name."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 32
c3content:
With them, he built an altar in the name of Yahweh, and he made a trench {which would have held}Literally "as the house of" about two seahs of seed, all around the altar.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 33
c3content:
And he arranged the wood, cut the bull into pieces, and placed it on the wood.in the Hebrew Bible, 1 Kings 18:34 begins here Then he said, "Fill four jars with water, and pour it on the burnt offering and on the wood."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 34
c3content:
He said, "Do it again!" They did it again. He said, "Do it a third time!" So they did it a third time.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 36
c3content:
It happened at the offering of the evening oblation, Elijah the prophet went near, and he said, "O Yahweh, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel; let it be known today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and that I have done all of these things by your words.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 37
c3content:
Answer me, O Yahweh, answer me; that this people may know that you, O Yahweh, are God and that you have turned their hearts back again."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 38
c3content:
Then the fire of Yahweh fell, and it consumed the burnt offering, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust; and the water which was in the trench it licked up!


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 40
c3content:
Then Elijah said to them, "Seize the prophets of Baal; don't let any man of them escape!" So they seized them, and Elijah brought them down to the wadiA valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season of Kishon and killed them there. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 42
c3content:
So Ahab went up to eat and to drink while Elijah went to the top of Carmel, bent down to the earth, and put his face between his knees.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 43
c3content:
Then he said to his servant, "Please go and look in the direction of the sea." So he went up and looked; then he said, "There is nothing." Then he said, "Go back," seven times.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 44
c3content:
It happened that at the seventh time, he said, "Look, there is a small cloud, as the hand of a man, coming up from the sea." Then Elijah said, "Go up, say to Ahab, 'Harness your horses and go down, lest the rain stop you.'"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 45
c3content:
{In no time}Literally "Until here and until here" the heavens grew black with clouds and wind, and there was heavy rain. Ahab rode and he went to Jezreel,


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 46
c3content:
but the hand of Yahweh was on Elijah; he girded up his loins and ran before Ahab as one comes to Jezreel. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Then Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, "Thus may the gods do to me, and may they add to it, surely at this time tomorrow I will make your life as the life of one of them!"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Then he became afraid,According to Greek, Syriac, and Latin manuscripts. Hebrew reads "he saw" got up, and {fled for his life}.Literally "he went to his life" He came to Beersheba which belongs to Judah, and he left his servant there.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Then he went into the wilderness one day's journey, and he went and sat under a certain broom tree. Then {he asked Yahweh that he might die},Literally "he asked his life to die" and he said, "It is enough now, Yahweh; take my life, for I am no better than my ancestors."Or "fathers"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 5
c3content:
He lay down and fell asleep under a certain broom tree, and suddenly this angel was touching him and said to him, "Get up, eat!"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 6
c3content:
He looked, and behold, a bread cake on hot coals was near his head and a jar of water, so he ate and drank. Then he did it again and lay down.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 7
c3content:
The angel of Yahweh appeared a second time and touched him and said, "Get up, eat, for the journey is greater than you."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 8
c3content:
So he got up, ate, drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights up to Horeb, the mountain of God. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 9
c3content:
He came to the cave there and spent the night there. Suddenly the word of Yahweh came to him and asked him, "{Elijah, what are you doing here}?"Literally "What is for you here, Elijah"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Then he said, "I have been very zealous for Yahweh the God of hosts, for the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" have forsaken your covenant. They have demolished your altars, and they have killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left over, and they seek to take my life.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 11
c3content:
HeThat is, Yahweh said, "Go out and stand on the mountain before Yahweh." Suddenly Yahweh was passing by, with a great and strong wind ripping the mountains and crushing rocks before Yahweh; but Yahweh was not in the wind. After the wind, there was an earthquake; but Yahweh was not in the earthquake.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 12
c3content:
After the earthquake was a fire, but Yahweh was not in the fire. After the fire there was the sound of a gentle whisper.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 13
c3content:
It happened at the moment Elijah heard, he covered his face with his cloak and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. Suddenly a voice came to him and said, "{Elijah, why are you here}?"Literally "What is for you here, Elijah"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 14
c3content:
He said, "I have been very zealous for Yahweh the God of Hosts, for the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" have forsaken your covenant, demolished your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword; I alone am left, and they seek to take my life!"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Then Yahweh said to him, "Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. Go and anoint Hazael as king over Aram;


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 16
c3content:
and Jehu son of Nimshi you shall anoint as king over Israel. You shall also anoint Elisha son of Shaphat from Abel-Meholah as prophet in your place.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 17
c3content:
It shall be that the one who escapes from the sword of Hazael, Jehu will kill; the one who escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha shall kill.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 18
c3content:
I will leave in Israel seven thousand, all of the knees that have not bowed down to Baal and all of the mouths that have not kissed him." 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 19
c3content:
So he went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat while he was plowing with twelve pairs of oxen before him. When he and the twelve passed Elijah, he threw his cloak on him.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Then he left the oxen and ran after Elijah and said, "Please let me kiss my father and my mother, and then I will go after you." Then he said, "Go, return, for what I have done to you?"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 21
c3content:
So he returned from after him, and he took a pair of oxen and slaughtered them, and with the yoke of the oxen he boiled the flesh and gave it to the people and they ate. Then he arose and went after Elijah and served him. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Ben-Hadad king of Aram gathered all of his army, and thirty-two kings were with him, and horses and chariots. He went up and laid siege against Samaria and fought with it.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 3
c3content:
He said to him, "Thus says Ben-Hadad: 'Your silver and your gold are mine, and your women and your best sons are mine.'"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Then the king of Israel answered and said, "As your word, my master the king; I am yours, and all that is mine is yours."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 5
c3content:
The messengers returned and said, "Thus says Ben-Hadad, saying, 'I sent to you saying, "Your silver and gold are mine, and your women and your best sons you must give to me."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 6
c3content:
So at this time tomorrow, I will send my servants to you that they might search your house and the houses of your servants. All the desire of your eyes {they will lay hands on}Literally "they will put in their hands" and take it away.'" 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land and said, "Please know and realize that this man is seeking trouble, for he sent to me for my women, my sons, my silver, and my gold, and I did not withhold anything from him."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 9
c3content:
So he said to the messengers of Ben-Hadad, "Say to my lord the king, 'All that you demanded from your servant at the first, I will do, but this thing I am not able to do.'" Then the messengers went and {made a report to him}.Literally "returned him a word"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Then Ben-Hadad sent to him and said, "Thus may the gods do to me and thus may they add if the dust of Samaria is sufficient for the hollow of a hand for all of the people who are at my feet."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 11
c3content:
The king of Israel answered and said, "Tell him, 'Let not him who girds on his armor boast as one who takes off his armor.'"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 12
c3content:
It happened at the moment he heard this word, he and the kings were drinking in the {tents}.Literally "booths" He said to his servants, "Get ready to attack." So they got ready to attack the city. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Suddenly a certain prophet approached Ahab king of Israel and said, "Thus says Yahweh: 'Have you seen all this great crowd? Behold, I am giving it into your hand today, that you may know that I am Yahweh.'"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Ahab said, "By whom?" And he said, "Thus says Yahweh: 'By the servants of the commanders of the provinces.'" He asked, "Who will begin the battle?" And he said, "You."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 15
c3content:
So he mustered the servants of the commanders of the provinces, and there were two hundred and thirty-two. After them he mustered all of the army, all the sons of Israel, seven thousand. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 16
c3content:
They went out at noon while Ben-Hadad was drinking himself drunk in the tents, he and the thirty-two kings helping him.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Then the servants of the commanders of the provinces went out first, and Ben-Hadad sent, and they reported to him, saying, "Men have come out from Samaria."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Then he said, "If they have come out for peace, seize them alive; and if they have come out for war, seize them alive."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 19
c3content:
But these had come out from the city, the servants of the commanders of the provinces, and the army that was after them.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Each man killed his man, and the Arameans fled, so Israel pursued them, but Ben-Hadad king of Aram escaped on a horse with cavalry.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 21
c3content:
The king of Israel went out and attacked the horses and the chariots and defeated Aram with a great blow. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Then the prophet came near to the king of Israel, and he said to him, "Go, strengthen yourself; {consider well}Literally "know and see" what you should do, for the king of Aram is coming against you at the turn of the year." 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 23
c3content:
The servants of the king of Aram said to him, "Their gods are gods of the mountains, therefore they were stronger than we.Hebrew "he" Let us fight with them in the plain; surely we will be stronger than they.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 25
c3content:
You must muster an army for yourself as the army {you have lost},Literally "as the army which fell from with you" and horses and chariots as the horses and chariots you lost, then we will fight them in the plain. Surely we will be stronger than they." So he listened to their voice and did so. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 26
c3content:
It happened at the turning of the year that Ben-Hadad mustered Aram and went up to Aphek for the war with Israel.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 27
c3content:
The {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" had been mustered and provisioned, and they went to engage them. The {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" encamped opposite them as two flocks of goats, but the Arameans filled the land.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 28
c3content:
Then the man of God approached, and he spoke to the king of Israel, and he said, "Thus says Yahweh: 'Because Aram has said, "Yahweh is a god of the mountains and not a god of the valleys," ' I will give all this great crowd into your hand that you may know that I am Yahweh."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 29
c3content:
These encamped opposite for seven days, and it happened on the seventh day that {the battle began},Literally "the battle drew near" and the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" killed the Arameans, one hundred thousand infantry in one day.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 30
c3content:
Then those who remained fled to Aphek, to the city, and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men who had remained, so Ben-Hadad fled and went to the innermost rooms of the city. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 31
c3content:
Then his servants said to him, "Please now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are kings of mercy. Let us now put sackcloth on around our waists and ropes on our heads. Then let us go out to the king of Israel. Perhaps {he will let you live}."Literally "he may let your life live"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 32
c3content:
So they tied sackcloth around their waists and ropes on their heads. Then they went to the king of Israel and said, "Your servant Ben-Hadad says, 'Please let me live.'" And he said, "Is my brother still alive?"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 33
c3content:
The men took this as a good omen and they quickly accepted it as true from him, and they said, "Your brother Ben-Hadad lives." So he said, "Go, get him." Ben-Hadad came out to him, and Ahab pulled him up on the chariot.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 34
c3content:
Ben-Hadad said to him, "The cities which my father took from your father I shall return. You may set up streets with stalls for yourself in Damascus just as my father set up in Samaria." Then Ahab said, "{On these terms}Literally "In covenant" I will let you go," So he made a covenant with him and let him go. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 35
c3content:
A certain man from the sons of the prophets said to his fellow countryman, "By the word of Yahweh, please strike me." But the man refused to strike him. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 36
c3content:
He said to him, "Because you have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh, look, as you now are going from me, a lion will kill you." When he went from beside him, the lion found him and killed him.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 37
c3content:
Then he found another man and said, "Strike me, please," so the man struck him sharply and wounded him.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 38
c3content:
Then the prophet went and {waited}Literally "stood" for the king along the road and disguised himself with aHebrew "the" headband over his eyes.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 39
c3content:
As the king was passing by, he called to the king and said, "Your servant went out in the thick of the battle, and suddenly a man turned and brought a man to me and said, 'Guard this man. If by any means he should be missed, it will be your life in his place, or you shall pay a talent of silver.'


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 40
c3content:
It happened that your servant {was busy here and there},Literally "was doing here and here" and he {disappeared}."Literally "and he was not" Then the king said to him, "Your own judgment has been determined."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 41
c3content:
He quickly removed the headband from his eyes, and the king of Israel recognized him, that he was from the prophets.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 42
c3content:
He said to him, "Thus says Yahweh: 'Because you have let the man I devoted for destruction go from your hand, your life shall be in place of his life and your people in place of his people.'"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 1
c3content:
It happened after these things that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard which was in Jezreel beside the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, "Give me your vineyard that it may be mine for a garden of vegetable plants, because it is near, beside my house, and I will give to you a better vineyard in place of it. If it is better in your eyes, I will give you the money of its price."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Naboth said to Ahab, "Far be it from me from Yahweh that I should give the inheritance of my ancestorsOr "fathers" to you."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Then Ahab went to his house, sullen and angry because of the word that Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him when he had said, "I will not give to you the inheritance of my ancestors."Or "fathers" So he lay on his bed, turned away his face, and would not eat any food. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Then Jezebel his wife came to him, and she said to him, "What is this, that your spirit is sullen and you are not eating food?"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Then he said to her, "When I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite and asked him, 'Give me your vineyard for money, or it you prefer, I will give you a vineyard in place of it,' he said, 'I will not give you my vineyard.'"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Jezebel his wife said to him, "Now, you {rule}Literally "do kingship" over Israel. Get up, eat food, and let your heart be {cheerful}.Literally "good" I myself will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite." 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 8
c3content:
So she wrote letters in the name of Ahab and sealed them with his seal. She sent the letters to the elders and the nobles who were dwelling with Naboth in his city.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Seat two men, {scoundrels},Literally "sons of wickedness" opposite him. Let them witness against him saying, 'You cursed God and the king.' Then you shall bring him out and stone him so that he dies."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 11
c3content:
The men of his city and the elders and nobles who were living in his city did according to what Jezebel had sent to them, as was written in the letters which she had sent to them.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Then the two men, {scoundrels},Literally "sons of wickedness" came, sat opposite him, and the {scoundrels}Literally "men of wickedness" witnessed against Naboth before the people, saying, "Naboth cursed God and the king," so they brought him outside of the city and stoned him with stones, and he died. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 15
c3content:
It happened at the moment Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned and died, Jezebel said to Ahab, "Get up, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite which he had refused to give to you for money, for Naboth is not alive, but dead."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 16
c3content:
When Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, he got up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite to take possession of it. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 18
c3content:
"Arise, go down to meet Ahab the king of Israel who is in Samaria. Look in the vineyard of Naboth, where he has gone to take possession of it.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 19
c3content:
You shall say to him, 'Thus says Yahweh: "Have you committed murder and also taken possession?" ' You shall also say to him, 'Thus says Yahweh: "In the place where the dogs licked the blood of Naboth, the dogs will also lick your blood." '" 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Then Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, my enemy?" He said, "I have found you because you have sold yourself to do evil in the eyes of Yahweh.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 21
c3content:
'Look, I am bringing disaster on you, and I will sweep away after you. I will cut off for Ahab {every male}"Literally "the one who urinates against the wall" in Israel, bond or free.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 22
c3content:
I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, {because you made me angry}Literally "for the provocation which you have provoked" and have caused Israel to sin.'


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Moreover, concerning Jezebel, Yahweh has said, 'The dogs will eat Jezebel in the outer rampart of Jezreel.'


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 24
c3content:
The one who dies for Ahab in the city, the dogs will eat; the one who dies in the open country, the birds of heaven will eat." 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Truly, there was no one like Ahab who had sold himself by doing evil in the eyes of Yahweh, whose wife Jezebel urged him on.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Also, he acted very abominably by going after idols like all the Amorites had done whom Yahweh had driven out from before the {Israelites}."Literally "sons/children of Israel" 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 27
c3content:
When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth over his flesh, fasted, lay in the sackcloth, and went about dejectedly.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 29
c3content:
"Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself before me, I will not bring disaster in his days. I will bring the disaster on his house in the days of his son." 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 3
c3content:
and the king of Israel said to his servants, "Do you know Ramoth-Gilead belongs to us, and we are doing nothing about taking it from the hand of the king of Aram?"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Then he said to Jehoshaphat, "Will you go with me to the battle for Ramoth-Gilead?" Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, "{I am like you};Literally "Like I am, like you are" {my people are like your people};Literally "like my people, like your people" {my horses are like your horses}."Literally "like my horses, like your horses" 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Then the king of Israel assembled the prophets, about four hundred men, and he said to them, "Shall I go against Ramoth-Gilead for the battle, or should I refrain?" Then they said, "Go up, for the Lord will give it into the hand of the king."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Then the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "There is still one man to inquire from Yahweh, but I despise him, for he never prophesies anything good concerning me, but only bad: Micaiah the son of Imlah." Then Jehoshaphat said, "The king should not say so."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 9
c3content:
The king of Israel summoned a certain court official, and he said, "Quickly fetch Micaiah son of Imlah."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 10
c3content:
The king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah were each sitting on his throne, dressed in their robes, at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria, with all the prophets prophesying before them.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Zedekiah son of Kenaanah made horns of iron for himself and said, "Thus says Yahweh: 'With these you shall gore the Arameans until finishing them.'"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 12
c3content:
All of the prophets were likewise prophesying, saying, "Go up to Ramoth-Gilead and triumph, and Yahweh will give it into the hand of the king." 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Then the messenger who had gone to summon Micaiah said to him, "Please now, the words of the prophet are {unanimously}Literally "one mouth" favorable to the king. Please let your words be as one word with them, and speak favorably."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Then Micaiah said, "{As Yahweh lives},Literally "The life of Yahweh" surely only as Yahweh speaks to me, that will I speak."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 15
c3content:
When he came to the king, the king asked him, "Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-Gilead to the battle, or shall we refrain?" He said to him, "Go up and triumph, and Yahweh will give it into the hand of the king."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Then the king said to him, "How many times must I make you swear that you shall not tell me anything but truth in the name of Yahweh?"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 17
c3content:
So he said, "I saw all of Israel scattering to the mountains, like the sheep without a shepherd. Yahweh also said, 'There are no masters for these, let them return in peace, each to his house.'"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Then the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "Did I not say to you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but disaster?" 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And heThat is, Micaiah said, "Therefore, hear the word of Yahweh. I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne with all the hosts of heaven standing beside him from his right hand and from his left hand.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And Yahweh said, 'Who will entice Ahab so that he will go up and fall at Ramoth-Gilead?' Then {this one was saying one thing and the other one was saying another}.Literally "this one said in thus and this one was saying in thus"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Then a spirit came out and stood before Yahweh and said, 'I will entice him,' and Yahweh said to him, 'How?'


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 22
c3content:
He said, 'I will go out and I will be a false spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' And heThat is, Yahweh said, 'You shall entice and succeed, go out and do so.'


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 23
c3content:
So then, see that Yahweh has placed a false spirit in the mouth of all of these your prophets, and Yahweh has spoken disaster concerning you." 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Then Zedekiah son of Kenaanah came near and slapped Micaiah on the cheek and said, "When did the Spirit of Yahweh pass from me to speak with you?"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Then Micaiah said, "Behold, you are about to see on that day when you go {from room to room}Literally "private room in private room" to hide."


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 26
c3content:
The king of Israel said, "Take Micaiah and return him to Amon the commander of the city and to Jehoash the son of the king;


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 27
c3content:
and say, 'Thus says the king: "Put this fellow in the house of imprisonment and feed him reduced rations of food and water until I come in peace." '"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 28
c3content:
Then Micaiah said, "If you indeed return in peace, then Yahweh has not spoken with me." Then he said, "Let all the peoples hear!" 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 30
c3content:
Then the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "I will disguise myself and go into the battle, but you wear your robes." So the king of Israel disguised himself, and he went into the battle.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 31
c3content:
The king of Aram commanded his thirty-two chariot commanders, saying, "You shall not fight with small or great, but only against the king of Israel, him alone!"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 32
c3content:
When the chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat, they said, "Surely he is the king of Israel," and they turned to fight against him, so Jehoshaphat called out.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 34
c3content:
But another man drew his bow fully and struck the king of Israel between the armor scales and the breastplate; so he said to his chariot driver, "Turn {the chariot}Literally "your hand" and bring me out from the camp, for I am wounded." 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 35
c3content:
The battle intensified on that day, and the king was being propped up in the chariot opposite Aram, but he died in the evening, and the blood of the wound ran out to the floor of the chariot.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 36
c3content:
Then the shout passed through the camp about sunset, saying, "Each man to his city and each to his land!"


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 37
c3content:
So the king died, and {they brought him}Literally "and he went" to Samaria, and they buried the king in Samaria.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 38
c3content:
They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria, and the dogs licked his blood (now, the prostitutes washed themselves there) according to the word of Yahweh which he had spoken.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 39
c3content:
The remainder of the acts of Ahab and all that he did, and the ivory palace and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 42
c3content:
Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Azubah daughter of Shilhi.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 43
c3content:
He walked in all of the way of Asa his father, and he did not turn aside from it, doing right in the eyes of Yahweh.1 Kings 22:44 begins here in the Hebrew Bible Only he did not remove the high places; the people were still sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 44
c3content:
1 Kings 22:44- 53 in the English Bible is 22:45-54 in the Hebrew Bible But, Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 45
c3content:
The remainder of the acts of Jehoshaphat, his powerful deeds he did, and how he fought, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 46
c3content:
The remainder of the male shrine prostitutes who were left over in the days of Asa his father he exterminated from the land.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 48
c3content:
Jehoshaphat builtAccording to the reading tradition(Qere); what is written (Kethib) is "ten" ships of the Tarshish type to go to Ophir for the gold; but he did not go because the ships were destroyed at Ezion-Geber.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 49
c3content:
Then Ahaziah son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, "Let my servants go with your servants in the ships," but Jehoshaphat was not willing.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 50
c3content:
And Jehoshaphat slept with his ancestorsOr "fathers" and was buried with his ancestorsOr "fathers" in the city of David his ancestor,Or "father" and Joram his son became king in his place. 


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 51
c3content:
Ahaziah son of Ahab became king over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned over Israel two years.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 52
c3content:
He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and he went in the way of his father and his mother and in the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat who caused Israel to sin.


c0book: 1Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 53
c3content:
He served Baal and bowed down to him; and he provoked Yahweh the God of Israel according to all that his father did. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice in his upper room, which was in Samaria, and he was injured. So he sent messengers, and he said to them, "Go, inquire of Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron, if I will survive this injury." 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Then the angel of Yahweh spoke to Elijah the Tishbite, "Get up, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and speak to them, 'Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron?'


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Therefore, thus says Yahweh, 'The bed upon which you have gone, you will not come down from it, but you shall surely die.'" So Elijah went. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Then they said to him, "A man came up to meet us, and he said to us, 'Go, return to the king who sent you and speak to him, "Thus says Yahweh, 'Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending to inquire of Baal-Zebub the god of Ekron? Therefore the bed upon which you have gone, you will not come down from it, for you will surely die.'" '"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Then he spoke to them, "What was the manner of the man who came up to meet you and spoke to you all these things?"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 8
c3content:
They answered him, "A {hairy man}Literally "an owner of hair" with a leather belt girded around his waist." And he said, "It is Elijah the Tishbite." 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 9
c3content:
So {Ahaziah}Literally "he" sent to him the commander of fifty with his fifty men, and he went up to him while he was sitting on the top of the hill. He said to him, "O man of God, the king says, 'Come down.'"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Then Elijah answered and said to the commander of the fifty, "If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty!" Then fire came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 11
c3content:
So he {again sent}Literally "returned and sent" another commander of fifty and his fifty men. He answered and said to him, "O man of God, thus says the king, 'Come down quickly!'"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Then Elijah answered and said to them, "If I am a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty!" Then the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 13
c3content:
So he {again sent}Literally "returned and sent" a third time a commander of fifty and his fifty, and the commander of the third fifty went up and came and knelt down on his knees before Elijah and entreated him. He said to him, "O man of God, please let my life and the lives of your servants, these fifty, be precious in your eyes.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Behold, fire from heaven came down and consumed the first two commanders of fifty and their fifties, so then let my life be precious in your eyes."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Then the angel of Yahweh spoke to Elijah, "Go down with him. Do not be afraid because of him." So he got up and went down with him to the king,


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 16
c3content:
and he said to him, "Thus says Yahweh, 'Because you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron--is it because there is no God in Israel from whom to inquire his word?--therefore the bed upon which you went, you shall not come down from it, for you shall surely die.'" 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 17
c3content:
So he died, according to the word of Yahweh which Elijah had spoken, and Joram became king in his place in the second year of Joram the son of Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, because he had no son.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 18
c3content:
The remainder of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel? 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Elijah said to Elisha, "Please stay here, for Yahweh has sent me up to Bethel." Elisha said, "{As Yahweh lives}Literally "The life of Yahweh" and {as your soul lives},Literally "life of your soul" I will certainly not leave you!" So they went down to Bethel.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Then the sons of the prophets who were in Bethel came out to Elisha, and they said to him, "Do you know that Yahweh is going to take your master {from you}Literally "from over your head" today?" He said, "I also know; be quiet!" 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Elijah said to him, "Elisha, please stay here because Yahweh has sent me to Jericho." And he said, "{As Yahweh lives}Literally "The life of Yahweh" and {as your soul lives},Literally "life of your soul" I will certainly not leave you!" So they came to Jericho.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Then the sons of the prophets who were in Jericho came near to Elisha, and they said to him, "Do you know that Yahweh is going to take your master {from you}Literally "from over your head" today?" He said, "I also know; be quiet!" 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Then Elijah said to him, "Please stay here, because Yahweh has sent me to the Jordan." He said, "{As Yahweh lives}Literally "The life of Yahweh" and {as your soul lives},Literally "life of your soul" I will certainly not leave you!" So the two of them went on.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Then fifty men from the sons of the prophets went and stood opposite them at a distance while the two of them stood by the Jordan.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Elijah took his cloak, rolled it up, and struck the water. It divided {in two},Literally "here and here" and the two of them crossed over on dry land. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 9
c3content:
After they crossed over, Elijah said to Elisha, "Ask what I may do for you before I am taken away from you." Then Elisha said, "Please let there come to me a double portion of your spirit."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 10
c3content:
He said, "What you ask is difficult. If you see me being taken from you, it will be so for you, but if not, it will not happen."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Then they were walking, talking as they went. Suddenly a fiery chariot with horses of fire appeared and separated between the two of them. Elijah went up in the storm to the heavens


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 12
c3content:
while Elisha was watching and crying out, "My father, my father; the chariot of Israel and its horsemen!" But he could not see him any longer, and he grasped his clothes and tore them in two pieces. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Then he picked up Elijah's cloak that had fallen off of him, and he returned and stood on the bank of the Jordan.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 14
c3content:
He took Elijah's cloak that had fallen from upon him and struck the water. Then he said, "Where is Yahweh, the God of Elijah?" So he also struck the water, and it divided {in two},Literally "here and here" and Elisha crossed over. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 15
c3content:
When the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho saw him from the other side, they declared, "The spirit of Elijah rests upon Elisha," and they came to meet him and bowed down to him to the ground.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Then they said to him, "Look, there are with your servants fifty able men. Please let them go and look for your master, lest the Spirit of Yahweh has lifted him up and thrown him on one of the mountains or into one of the valleys," but he said, "You must not send them."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 17
c3content:
But they urged him until embarrassing him, so he said, "Send them." So they sent fifty men, and they looked for three days, but they could not find him.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Then they returned to him while he was staying in Jericho. He said to them, "Did I not tell you not to go?" 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 19
c3content:
The men of the city said to Elisha, "Please now, the location of the city is good, as my master can see, but the water is bad and the land unproductive."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Then he went out to the spring of waters and threw the salt into it there and said, "Thus says Yahweh, 'I hereby purify these waters; let there be no longer any death or unproductiveness from it.'"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Then he went up from there to Bethel; as he was going up along the way, young boys came out from the city and mocked at him and said to him, "Go up, baldhead; go up, baldhead!"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 24
c3content:
When he turned around and saw them, he cursed them in the name of Yahweh. Then two bears came out of the forest and mauled forty-two boys among them.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Now Joram the son of Ahab had become king over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah. He reigned twelve years


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 2
c3content:
and did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, yet not as his father or his mother, as he removed the stone pillars of Baal that his father had made.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 3
c3content:
But he did cling to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who caused Israel to sin, and he did not depart from it. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder, and he used to deliver to the king of Israel a hundred thousand male lambs and a hundred thousand wool rams.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 7
c3content:
He went and sent a message to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, saying, "The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you go with me against Moab for the battle?" And he said, "I will go up. {I am like you};Literally "Like I am, like you are" {my people are like your people};Literally "like my people, like your people" {my horses are like your horses}."Literally "like my horses, like your horses"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 9
c3content:
So the king of Israel and the king of Judah and the king of Edom went around, a way of seven days, but there was no water for the army or for the animals which {were with them}.Literally "were at their feet"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Then the king of Israel said, "Aha, Yahweh has called for these three kings to give them into the hand of Moab."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Then Jehoshaphat asked, "Is there no prophet of Yahweh here that we might inquire guidance from Yahweh?" One of the servants of the king of Israel answered and said, "Elisha the son of Shaphat is here, who poured water on the hands of Elijah."That is, Elisha had served Elijah


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Jehoshaphat said, "The word of Yahweh is with him." So the king of Israel, Jehoshaphat, and the king of Edom went down to him. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Then Elisha said to the king of Israel, "{What do we have in common}?Literally "What to me and what for you" Go to the prophets of your father and to the prophets of your mother." Then the king of Israel said to him, "No, for Yahweh has called for these three kings to give them into the hand of Moab."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Then Elisha said, "{As Yahweh of hosts lives},Literally "The life of Yahweh of hosts" before whom I stand, surely if I was not {regarding the face}Or "lifting the face" of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, I would have not looked at you nor even glanced at you.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 15
c3content:
But now, bring me a musician." It happened that at the moment the musician played, the hand of Yahweh came upon him.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 17
c3content:
for thus says Yahweh, 'You will see neither wind nor rain, yet this wadi will be full of water; and you and all of your livestock and your animals shall drink.'


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 19
c3content:
and you shall defeat every fortified city, every choice city, and you shall fell every good tree. All of the springs of water you shall stop up, and every tract of good land you shall ruin with the stones."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 20
c3content:
It happened in the morning about the time of the morning offering, that water was suddenly coming from the direction of Edom and the land was filled with water. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Now all of Moab had heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, and all {who were fighting age and up}Literally "who girded on a belt and above" were called up, and they stood at the border.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 22
c3content:
When they arose early in the morning, the sun shone on the waters, and Moab saw the waters from the opposite side as red as blood.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Then they said, "This is blood! Certainly the kings have fought one another, and each has killed his neighbor. Now, to the war booty, O Moab!"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 24
c3content:
But when they came to the camp of Israel, Israel stood up and killed Moab, so that they fled from before them. They came at her and defeated Moab.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 25
c3content:
The cities they tore down, on every good tract of land they threw stones until it was filled up, every spring of water they stopped up, and every good tree they felled. They let the stone walls at Kir Hareseth remain, but the slingers surrounded and attacked it.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 26
c3content:
When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too heavy for him, he took with him seven hundred men who drew the sword to break through to the king of Edom, but they were not able.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 27
c3content:
He took his firstborn son who was to become king in his place and offered him as a burnt offering on the wall. Great wrath came upon Israel, and they withdrew from him and returned to the land. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 1
c3content:
A certain woman from the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, "Your servant my husband is dead. Now you know that your servant was a fearer of Yahweh, but the creditor came to take two of my children for himself as slaves.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Elisha asked her, "What shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?" Then she said, "Your servant has nothing in the house except a jar of olive oil."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Then he said to her, "Go, ask for yourself some containers from the streets, from all your neighbors. {You must collect as many empty containers as you can}!Literally "You must not collect only a few empty containers"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 4
c3content:
You must also go and shut the door behind you and your children, and you must pour out oil into all of these containers and set the filled ones aside."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 5
c3content:
So she went from him, and she shut the door behind her and her children. They were bringing containers to her, and she kept pouring.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 6
c3content:
It happened that when the containers were full, she said to her son, "Bring near me another container," but he said to her, "There is not another container." Then the olive oil stopped flowing.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 7
c3content:
So she came and told the man of God, and he said, "Go, sell the olive oil and repay your debt. You and your sons can live on what is left over." 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 8
c3content:
It happened one day that Elisha passed through to Shunem where there was a wealthy woman, and she urged him to eat bread; so it happened each time he passed through, he would stop there to eat.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 9
c3content:
She said to her husband, "Please now, I know that he is a holy man of God who is passing {our way}Literally "upon us" regularly;


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 10
c3content:
let us make a small enclosed room upstairs and put a bed, table, chair, and lampstand there for him, so that when he comes to us, he can turn and stay there.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 12
c3content:
He said to Gehazi his servant, "Call to this Shunammite," so he called to her, and she stood before him.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 13
c3content:
He said to him, "Please say to her, 'Look, you took all this trouble, showing care for us; what is there for me to do for you? To speak for you to the king or to the commander of the army?'" She said, "I am living among my people."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Then he said, "What may be done for her?" Gehazi said, "Well, she has no son, and her husband is old."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And he said, "At this time {next spring},Literally "about that season as the time of life" you will be embracing a son." She said, "No, my lord, O man of God! You must not tell a lie to your servant!"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 17
c3content:
But the woman conceived, and she bore a son {in the spring},Literally "about that season as the time of life" which Elisha had promised to her. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Then he said to his father, "My head, my head!" So he said to the servant, "Carry him to his mother."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 22
c3content:
She called to her husband and said, "Please send one of the servants and one of the female donkeys for me, so that I can go quickly up to the man of God and return."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And he said, "Why are you going to him today? It is neither the new moon nor the Sabbath!" And she said, "Peace."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 24
c3content:
She saddled the female donkey, and she said to her servant, "Drive along and go; you must not hold me back from riding, unless I tell you."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 25
c3content:
So she went and came to the man of God by Mount Carmel. It happened when the man of God saw her {at a distance},Literally "from opposite" he said to Gehazi his servant, "There is this Shunammite.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Now, please run to meet her and ask her, 'Is it peace for you? Is it peace for your husband? Is it peace for the boy?'" She said, "Peace."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 27
c3content:
So she came to the man of God at the mountain, and she caught hold of his feet. Then Gehazi came near to push her away, but the man of God said, "Let her alone, for her soul is bitter, and Yahweh has hidden it from me and has not told me."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 29
c3content:
Then he said to Gehazi, "Gird up your loins and take my staff in your hand and go. If you meet anyone, you must not greet them; if anyone greets you, you must not answer them. You must put my staff on the face of the boy."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 30
c3content:
Then the mother of the boy said, "{As Yahweh lives}Literally "The life of Yahweh" and {as your soul lives},Literally "life of your soul" I will surely not leave you." So he got up and went after her.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 31
c3content:
Gehazi crossed over before them, and he put the staff on the face of the boy; but there was no sound, and there was no sign of life, so he returned to meet him. He told him, saying, "The boy did not wake up." 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 34
c3content:
Then he went up and lay upon the child and put his mouth on his mouth, his eyes on his eyes, and his palms on his palms. As he bent down over him, the flesh of the boy became warm.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 35
c3content:
He returned and went {to and fro}Literally "here first and here" in the house one time, then he went up and bent over him. Then the boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 36
c3content:
Elisha called to Gehazi and said, "Call this Shunammite." So he called her and she came to him; then he said, "Pick up your son."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 37
c3content:
She came and fell at his feet and bowed down to the ground; then she picked up her son and went out. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 38
c3content:
So Elisha returned to Gilgal. Now the famine was in the land, and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him. He said to his servant, put on the large pot and cook a stew for the sons of the prophets.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 39
c3content:
One went out to the field to gather herbs, and he found a {wild vine}Literally "a vine of the field" and gathered wild gourds from it and filled his cloak. Then he came and cut them into the pot of stew, but they did not know what they were.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 40
c3content:
They served the men to eat, but when they ate from the stew, they cried out and said, "There is death in the pot, O man of God!" They were not able to eat it.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 41
c3content:
Then he said, "Bring some flour," and he threw it into the pot. He then said, "Serve the people and let them eat." There was nothing harmful in the pot. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 42
c3content:
A man came from Baal-Shalishah and brought food to the man of God: firstfruits and twenty loaves of barley bread, with ripe grain in his sack. He said, "Give it to the people and let them eat."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 43
c3content:
Then his servant said, "How can I set this before a hundred men?" He said, "Give it to the people and let them eat, for thus Yahweh says, 'They shall eat and have some left over.'"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Now Naaman was the commander of the army of the king of Aram. He was a great man before his master and {highly regarded},Literally "faces were being lifted up " for by him Yahweh had given victory to Aram. Now the man was a mighty warrior, but he was afflicted with a skin disease.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 2
c3content:
When the Arameans went on a raid, they brought back a young girl from the land of Israel, and {she came into the service of}Literally "she became before" the wife of Naaman.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 3
c3content:
She said to her mistress, "If only my lord would come before the prophet who is in Samaria; then {he would cure his skin disease}."Literally "he would withdraw him from his skin disease"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 5
c3content:
So the king of Aram said, "Go, I will send a letter to the king of Israel." He went and took {with him}Literally "in his hand" ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten sets of clothing. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 6
c3content:
So he brought the letter of the king to Israel, saying, "Now, when this letter comes to you, I have just sent Naaman my servant to you that you may cure him from his skin disease."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 7
c3content:
It happened that when the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, "Am I God to cause death or to give life? This man is sending a man to me to cure his disease. Indeed! But know and see that he seeks an opportunity against me." 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 8
c3content:
It happened that as soon as Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent to the king, saying, "Why did you tear your clothes? Please may he come to me, that he might know that there is a prophet in Israel."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Then Naaman came with his horses and his chariots, and he stopped at the doorway of the house of Elisha.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, "Go, you must wash seven times in the Jordan, then your flesh shall return to you, and you shall be clean."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 11
c3content:
But Naaman became angry and he went and said, "Look, I said to myself, 'Surely he will come out, stand, call upon the name of Yahweh his God, and wave his hands over the spot; then he would take away the skin disease.'


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Are not the Abana and the Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all of the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them that I may be clean?" Then he turned and left in anger.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 13
c3content:
But his servants came near and spoke to him and said, "My father, if the prophet had spoken a difficult thing to you to do, would you not have done it? Why not even when he says to you, 'Wash and you shall be clean'?"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 14
c3content:
So he went down and plunged into the Jordan seven times, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh returned as the flesh of a small boy, and he was clean. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 15
c3content:
When he returned to the man of God, he and all of his army, he came and stood before him and said, "Please now, I know that there is no God in all of the world except in Israel. So then, please take a gift from your servant."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And he said, "{As Yahweh lives},Literally "The life of Yahweh" before whom I stand, I surely will not take it." Still he urged him to take it, but he refused.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Then Naaman said, "If not, then please let a load of soil on a pair of mules be given to your servants, for your servant will never again bring a burnt offering and sacrifice to other gods, but only to Yahweh.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 18
c3content:
As far as this matter, may Yahweh pardon your servant when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he is leaning himself on my arm, that I also bow down in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down in the house of Rimmon, may Yahweh please pardon your servant in this matter."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 19
c3content:
He said to him, "Go in peace," so he went from him {a short distance}.Literally "a stretch of land" 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 20
c3content:
But Gehazi the servant of Elisha, the man of God, thought, "Look, my master has refrained from taking what this Aramean Naaman brought from his hand. {As Yahweh lives},Literally "The life of Yahweh" I will certainly run after him, and I will accept something from him."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 21
c3content:
So Gehazi pursued after Naaman. When Naaman saw someone running after him, he jumped off his chariot to meet him and asked him, "Is it peace?"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 22
c3content:
He said, "Peace. My master has sent me saying, 'Look, {just now}Literally "now this" two servants from the hill country of Ephraim came to me, from the sons of the prophets. Please give them a talent of silver and two sets of clothing.'"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Then Naaman said, "Be prepared to accept two talents." So he urged him and tied up two talents of silver in two bags, with two sets of clothing and gave it to two of his servants and they carried it before him.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 24
c3content:
When he came to the citadel, he took them from their hand and put them in the house, then sent away the men so that they went.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 25
c3content:
When he went and stood by his master, Elisha asked him, "From where have you come, Gehazi?" And he said, "Your servant has not gone {anywhere}."Literally "where to where" 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Then he said to him, "Did not my heart go with you as the man turned from on his chariot to meet you? Is it time to take silver, clothes, olive orchards, vineyards, sheep, oxen, male slaves, and female slaves?


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 27
c3content:
The skin disease of Naaman shall cling to you and to your offspring forever." Then he went out from before him having a skin disease like the snow. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Then the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, "Please look; the place where we are living before you is too cramped for us.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Let us please go to the Jordan and each bring from there one log that we might make a place there for us to live." Then he said, "Do so."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 5
c3content:
It happened as the one was felling the log, that the iron ax fell into the water. He called out and said, "Oh, no! My master, it was borrowed!"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Then the man of God said, "Where did it fall?" So he showed him the place, and then he cut off a stick and threw it there and made the iron ax float.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 8
c3content:
The king of Aram was fighting with Israel, so he consulted with his officers, saying, "My camp is {at such and such a place}."Literally "to a place a certain someone"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Then the man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying, "Take care while crossing over to this place, because the Arameans are descending there."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 10
c3content:
So the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God said to him and warned him, so he was on guard there {continually}.Literally "not once or twice" 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Then the heart of the king of Aram was stormy because of this matter, so he called his servants and said to them, "Can you not tell me {who among us sides with the king of Israel}?"Literally "who from of us to the king of Israel"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Then one of his servants said, "No, my lord the king, but Elisha the prophet who is in Israel tells the king of Israel things which you speak {in your own bedchamber}."Literally "in the private room of your bed"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Then he said, "Go and see where he is so that I can send and capture him." Then he was told to him, "Look, he is in Dothan."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 14
c3content:
So he sent horses, chariots, and an oppressing army there. They arrived at night and surrounded the town.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 15
c3content:
The attendant of the man of God arose early and went out, and look, the army was surrounding the city with horses and chariots. His servant said to him, "Oh no, my master! What shall we do?"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Then Elisha prayed and said, "O Yahweh, please open his eyes that he may see," and Yahweh opened the eyes of the servant, and he saw, and look, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 18
c3content:
They came down to him, and Elisha prayed to Yahweh and said, "Please strike this people with blindness," so he struck them with blindness as {Elisha had spoken}.Literally "according to the word of Elisha"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Then Elisha said to them, "This is not the way and this is not the city. Come after me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek." Then he brought them to Samaria. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 20
c3content:
It happened at the moment they came to Samaria, Elisha said, "O Yahweh, open the eyes of these that they may see," so Yahweh opened their eyes, and they saw, and look, the middle of Samaria!


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Then the king of Israel said to Elisha when he saw them, "Shall I kill them? Shall I kill, my father?"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And he said, "You shall not kill. Would you kill those whom you took captive with the sword or with the bow? Put food and water before them that they may eat and drink and then go to their master."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 23
c3content:
So he made a great feast for them, and they ate and drank; then he sent them, and they went to their master. And the bands of the Arameans did not come again into the land of Israel. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 24
c3content:
It happened after this that Ben-Hadad king of Aram assembled all of his army and marched up and laid siege against Samaria.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 25
c3content:
There was a great famine in Samaria, and behold, a siege was against it, until the head of a donkey went for eighty shekels of silver, and one fourth of the measure of the dung of doves went for five shekels of silver.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 26
c3content:
It happened that the king of Israel was crossing over on the wall, and a woman called out to him, saying, "Help, my lord the king!"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 27
c3content:
He said, "No, let Yahweh help you. {How}Literally "From where" can I save you? From the threshing floor or from the wine press?"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 28
c3content:
The king said to her, "{What is the problem}?"Literally "What is for you" Then the woman said, "This woman said to me, 'Give me your son, and let us eat him today, then tomorrow we will eat my son.'


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 29
c3content:
So we cooked my son and ate him, and I said to her the next day, 'Give your son that we may eat him.' But she had hidden her son."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 30
c3content:
It happened that when the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes. Now he had been walking on the wall, and the people saw, and behold, sackcloth was over his flesh underneath.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 31
c3content:
Then he said, "May God do to me and thus may he add, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat remains on him today!"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 32
c3content:
Now Elisha was sitting in his house and the elders were sitting with him, and the king dispatched a man from before him, but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, "Did you see that this son of a murderer has sent to remove my head? Look, when the messenger comes, close the door; and you must {hold the door closed against him}.Literally "hold him close against the door" Is not the sound of the feet of his master behind him?"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 33
c3content:
While he was still speaking with them, suddenly the messenger was coming down to him, and he said, "Look this trouble is from Yahweh. Why should I wait for Yahweh any longer?" 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Elisha said, "Hear the word of Yahweh: 'Thus says Yahweh, "At this time tomorrow a seah of wheat bread flour will sell for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel in the gate of Samaria.'"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Then the officer {on whom the king relied}Literally "whom the king was leaning on his hand" answered the man of God and said, "Look, even if Yahweh is making windows in heaven, could this thing happen?" And he said, "Look, you will be seeing it with your eyes, but you shall not eat from it there." 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Now four men who had a skin disease were at the entrance of the gate, and they said {to each other},Literally "each to his friend" "Why are we sitting here until we die?


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 4
c3content:
If we say, 'Let us go into the city,' the famine is in the city, and we shall die there; but if we sit here, we shall die. So then, come, let us fall into the camp of the Arameans. If they let us live, we shall live; but if they kill us, then we shall die."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 5
c3content:
So they got up at dusk to go to the camp of the Arameans. They went up to the edge of the camp of the Arameans, and look, there was no man there!


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Now the Lord had caused the camp of the Arameans to hear the sound of chariots, the sound of horses, and the sound of a great army. So they said {to one another},Literally "each to his brother" "Look, the king of Israel has hired the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Egypt to come against us!"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 7
c3content:
So they got up and fled at dusk and left their tents, their horses, their donkeys, and the camp as it was, and they fled for their lives.


