# nsp_wor_sentence

book: Jos
start: 21:4
end: 21:4
text:
And the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites: and the children of Aaron the priest, [which were] of the Levites, had by lot out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of Simeon, and out of the tribe of Benjamin, thirteen cities.


book: Jos
start: 21:9
end: 21:10
text:
¶ And they gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are [here] mentioned by name, Which the children of Aaron, [being] of the families of the Kohathites, [who were] of the children of Levi, had: for theirs was the first lot.


book: Jos
start: 21:13
end: 21:16
text:
¶ Thus they gave to the children of Aaron the priest Hebron with her suburbs, [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and Libnah with her suburbs, And Jattir with her suburbs, and Eshtemoa with her suburbs, And Holon with her suburbs, and Debir with her suburbs, And Ain with her suburbs, and Juttah with her suburbs, [and] Beth–shemesh with her suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes.


book: Jos
start: 21:17
end: 21:18
text:
And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs, Geba with her suburbs, Anathoth with her suburbs, and Almon with her suburbs; four cities.


book: Jos
start: 21:21
end: 21:22
text:
For they gave them Shechem with her suburbs in mount Ephraim, [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and Gezer with her suburbs, And Kibzaim with her suburbs, and Beth–horon with her suburbs; four cities.


book: Jos
start: 21:23
end: 21:24
text:
And out of the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh with her suburbs, Gibbethon with her suburbs, Aijalon with her suburbs, Gath–rimmon with her suburbs; four cities.


book: Jos
start: 21:25
end: 21:25
text:
And out of the half tribe of Manasseh, Tanach with her suburbs, and Gath–rimmon with her suburbs; two cities.


book: Jos
start: 21:27
end: 21:27
text:
¶ And unto the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of the [other] half tribe of Manasseh [they gave] Golan in Bashan with her suburbs, [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and Beesh–terah with her suburbs; two cities.


book: Jos
start: 21:28
end: 21:29
text:
And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishon with her suburbs, Dabareh with her suburbs, Jarmuth with her suburbs, En–gannim with her suburbs; four cities.


book: Jos
start: 21:30
end: 21:31
text:
And out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with her suburbs, Abdon with her suburbs, Helkath with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs; four cities.


book: Jos
start: 21:32
end: 21:32
text:
And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with her suburbs, [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and Hammoth–dor with her suburbs, and Kartan with her suburbs; three cities.


book: Jos
start: 21:34
end: 21:35
text:
¶ And unto the families of the children of Merari, the rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with her suburbs, and Kartah with her suburbs, Dimnah with her suburbs, Nahalal with her suburbs; four cities.


book: Jos
start: 21:36
end: 21:37
text:
And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with her suburbs, and Jahazah with her suburbs, Kedemoth with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs; four cities.


book: Jos
start: 21:38
end: 21:39
text:
And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and Mahanaim with her suburbs, Heshbon with her suburbs, Jazer with her suburbs; four cities in all.


book: Jos
start: 21:43
end: 21:43
text:
¶ And the LORD gave unto Israel all the land which he sware to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.


book: Jos
start: 21:44
end: 21:44
text:
And the LORD gave them rest round about, according to all that he sware unto their fathers: and there stood not a man of all their enemies before them; the LORD delivered all their enemies into their hand.


book: Jos
start: 21:45
end: 21:45
text:
There failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.


book: Jos
start: 22:1
end: 22:3
text:
Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, And said unto them, Ye have kept all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you: Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your God.


book: Jos
start: 22:4
end: 22:4
text:
And now the LORD your God hath given rest unto your brethren, as he promised them: therefore now return ye, and get you unto your tents, [and] unto the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you on the other side Jordan.


book: Jos
start: 22:7
end: 22:7
text:
¶ Now to the [one] half of the tribe of Manasseh Moses had given [possession] in Bashan: but unto the [other] half thereof gave Joshua among their brethren on this side Jordan westward.


book: Jos
start: 22:7
end: 22:8
text:
And when Joshua sent them away also unto their tents, then he blessed them, And he spake unto them, saying, Return with much riches unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.


book: Jos
start: 22:13
end: 22:14
text:
And the children of Israel sent unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, And with him ten princes, of each chief house a prince throughout all the tribes of Israel; and each one [was] an head of the house of their fathers among the thousands of Israel.


book: Jos
start: 22:17
end: 22:18
text:
[Is] the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD, But that ye must turn away this day from following the LORD? and it will be, [seeing] ye rebel to day against the LORD, that to morrow he will be wroth with the whole congregation of Israel.


book: Jos
start: 22:19
end: 22:19
text:
Notwithstanding, if the land of your possession [be] unclean, [then] pass ye over unto the land of the possession of the LORD, wherein the LORD’S tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession among us: but rebel not against the LORD, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar beside the altar of the LORD our God.


book: Jos
start: 22:20
end: 22:20
text:
Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity.


book: Jos
start: 22:21
end: 22:24
text:
¶ Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh answered, and said unto the heads of the thousands of Israel, The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of gods, he knoweth, and Israel he shall know; if [it be] in rebellion, or if in transgression against the LORD, (save us not this day,) That we have built us an altar to turn from following the LORD, or if to offer thereon burnt offering or meat offering, or if to offer peace offerings thereon, let the LORD himself require [it]; And if we have not [rather] done it for fear of [this] thing, saying, In time to come your children might speak unto our children, saying, What have ye to do with the LORD God of Israel?


book: Jos
start: 22:25
end: 22:25
text:
For the LORD hath made Jordan a border between us and you, ye children of Reuben and children of Gad; ye have no part in the LORD: so shall your children make our children cease from fearing the LORD.


book: Jos
start: 22:26
end: 22:27
text:
Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice: But [that] it [may be] a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we might do the service of the LORD before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, Ye have no part in the LORD.


book: Jos
start: 22:28
end: 22:28
text:
Therefore said we, that it shall be, when they should [so] say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we may say [again], Behold the pattern of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifices; but it [is] a witness between us and you.


book: Jos
start: 22:31
end: 22:31
text:
And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, This day we perceive that the LORD [is] among us, because ye have not committed this trespass against the LORD: now ye have delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the LORD.


book: Jos
start: 22:33
end: 22:33
text:
And the thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God, and did not intend to go up against them in battle, to destroy the land wherein the children of Reuben and Gad dwelt.


book: Jos
start: 22:34
end: 22:34
text:
And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar [Ed]: for it [shall be] a witness between us that the LORD [is] God.


book: Jos
start: 23:2
end: 23:3
text:
And Joshua called for all Israel, [and] for their elders, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and said unto them, I am old [and] stricken in age: And ye have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto all these nations because of you; for the LORD your God [is] he that hath fought for you.


book: Jos
start: 23:5
end: 23:5
text:
And the LORD your God, he shall expel them from before you, and drive them from out of your sight; and ye shall possess their land, as the LORD your God hath promised unto you.


book: Jos
start: 23:6
end: 23:8
text:
Be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside therefrom [to] the right hand or [to] the left; That ye come not among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear [by them], neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto them: But cleave unto the LORD your God, as ye have done unto this day.


book: Jos
start: 23:9
end: 23:9
text:
For the LORD hath driven out from before you great nations and strong: but [as for] you, no man hath been able to stand before you unto this day.


book: Jos
start: 23:10
end: 23:10
text:
One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the LORD your God, he [it is] that fighteth for you, as he hath promised you.


book: Jos
start: 23:12
end: 23:13
text:
Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, [even] these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you: Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out [any of] these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.


book: Jos
start: 23:14
end: 23:14
text:
And, behold, this day I [am] going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, [and] not one thing hath failed thereof.


book: Jos
start: 23:15
end: 23:15
text:
Therefore it shall come to pass, [that] as all good things are come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you; so shall the LORD bring upon you all evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.


book: Jos
start: 23:16
end: 23:16
text:
When ye have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you.


book: Jos
start: 24:1
end: 24:1
text:
And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.


book: Jos
start: 24:2
end: 24:2
text:
And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, [even] Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods.


book: Jos
start: 24:4
end: 24:4
text:
And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.


book: Jos
start: 24:5
end: 24:5
text:
I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out.


book: Jos
start: 24:6
end: 24:6
text:
And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and ye came unto the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen unto the Red sea.


book: Jos
start: 24:7
end: 24:7
text:
And when they cried unto the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season.


book: Jos
start: 24:8
end: 24:8
text:
And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt on the other side Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them into your hand, that ye might possess their land; and I destroyed them from before you.


book: Jos
start: 24:9
end: 24:10
text:
Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you: But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.


book: Jos
start: 24:11
end: 24:11
text:
And ye went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand.


book: Jos
start: 24:12
end: 24:12
text:
And I sent the hornet before you, which drave them out from before you, [even] the two kings of the Amorites; [but] not with thy sword, nor with thy bow.


book: Jos
start: 24:13
end: 24:13
text:
And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat.


book: Jos
start: 24:14
end: 24:14
text:
¶ Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.


book: Jos
start: 24:15
end: 24:15
text:
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that [were] on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.


book: Jos
start: 24:16
end: 24:18
text:
And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods; For the LORD our God, he [it is] that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and which did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the people through whom we passed: And the LORD drave out from before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land: [therefore] will we also serve the LORD; for he [is] our God.


book: Jos
start: 24:19
end: 24:19
text:
And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD: for he [is] an holy God; he [is] a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.


book: Jos
start: 24:27
end: 24:27
text:
And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God.


book: Jos
start: 24:32
end: 24:32
text:
¶ And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.


book: Jos
start: 24:33
end: 24:33
text:
And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in a hill [that pertained to] Phinehas his son, which was given him in mount Ephraim.


book: Jg
start: 1:3
end: 1:3
text:
And Judah said unto Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with thee into thy lot.


book: Jg
start: 1:4
end: 1:4
text:
And Judah went up; and the LORD delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they slew of them in Bezek ten thousand men.


book: Jg
start: 1:5
end: 1:5
text:
And they found Adoni–bezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites.


book: Jg
start: 1:6
end: 1:6
text:
But Adoni–bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.


book: Jg
start: 1:7
end: 1:7
text:
And Adoni–bezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered [their meat] under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me.


book: Jg
start: 1:10
end: 1:10
text:
And Judah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in Hebron: (now the name of Hebron before [was] Kirjath–arba:) and they slew Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai.


book: Jg
start: 1:11
end: 1:12
text:
And from thence he went against the inhabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir before [was] Kirjath–sepher: And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjath–sepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.


book: Jg
start: 1:13
end: 1:13
text:
And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.


book: Jg
start: 1:14
end: 1:14
text:
And it came to pass, when she came [to him], that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted from off [her] ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wilt thou?


book: Jg
start: 1:15
end: 1:15
text:
And she said unto him, Give me a blessing: for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water.


book: Jg
start: 1:16
end: 1:16
text:
¶ And the children of the Kenite, Moses’ father in law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which [lieth] in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt among the people.


book: Jg
start: 1:19
end: 1:19
text:
And the LORD was with Judah; and he drave out [the inhabitants of] the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.


book: Jg
start: 1:21
end: 1:21
text:
And the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem; but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem unto this day.


book: Jg
start: 1:25
end: 1:25
text:
And when he shewed them the entrance into the city, they smote the city with the edge of the sword; but they let go the man and all his family.


book: Jg
start: 1:26
end: 1:26
text:
And the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called the name thereof Luz: which [is] the name thereof unto this day.


book: Jg
start: 1:27
end: 1:27
text:
¶ Neither did Manasseh drive out [the inhabitants of] Beth–shean and her towns, nor Taanach and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns: but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.


book: Jg
start: 1:29
end: 1:29
text:
¶ Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.


book: Jg
start: 1:30
end: 1:30
text:
¶ Neither did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became tributaries.


book: Jg
start: 1:31
end: 1:32
text:
¶ Neither did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Accho, nor the inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob: But the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: for they did not drive them out.


book: Jg
start: 1:33
end: 1:33
text:
¶ Neither did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of Beth–shemesh, nor the inhabitants of Beth–anath; but he dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: nevertheless the inhabitants of Beth–shemesh and of Beth–anath became tributaries unto them.


book: Jg
start: 1:34
end: 1:35
text:
And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley: But the Amorites would dwell in mount Heres in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim: yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became tributaries.


book: Jg
start: 2:1
end: 2:1
text:
And an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you.


book: Jg
start: 2:2
end: 2:2
text:
And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?


book: Jg
start: 2:3
end: 2:3
text:
Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be [as thorns] in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.


book: Jg
start: 2:10
end: 2:10
text:
And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.


book: Jg
start: 2:11
end: 2:12
text:
¶ And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim: And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that [were] round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger.


book: Jg
start: 2:15
end: 2:15
text:
Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed.


book: Jg
start: 2:17
end: 2:17
text:
And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; [but] they did not so.


book: Jg
start: 2:18
end: 2:18
text:
And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.


book: Jg
start: 2:19
end: 2:19
text:
And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, [that] they returned, and corrupted [themselves] more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.


book: Jg
start: 2:20
end: 2:22
text:
¶ And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice; I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died: That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep [it], or not.


book: Jg
start: 2:23
end: 2:23
text:
Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.


book: Jg
start: 3:1
end: 3:3
text:
Now these [are] the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, [even] as many [of Israel] as had not known all the wars of Canaan; Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof; [Namely], five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baal–hermon unto the entering in of Hamath.


book: Jg
start: 3:5
end: 3:6
text:
¶ And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites: And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.


book: Jg
start: 3:8
end: 3:8
text:
¶ Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushan–rishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushan–rishathaim eight years.


book: Jg
start: 3:10
end: 3:10
text:
And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he judged Israel, and went out to war: and the LORD delivered Chushan–rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand prevailed against Chushan–rishathaim.


book: Jg
start: 3:12
end: 3:12
text:
¶ And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD.


book: Jg
start: 3:15
end: 3:15
text:
But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab.


book: Jg
start: 3:16
end: 3:16
text:
But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he did gird it under his raiment upon his right thigh.


book: Jg
start: 3:19
end: 3:19
text:
But he himself turned again from the quarries that [were] by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king: who said, Keep silence.


book: Jg
start: 3:21
end: 3:22
text:
And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly: And the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly; and the dirt came out.


book: Jg
start: 3:24
end: 3:24
text:
When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour [were] locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber.


book: Jg
start: 3:25
end: 3:25
text:
And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took a key, and opened [them]: and, behold, their lord [was] fallen down dead on the earth.


book: Jg
start: 3:28
end: 3:28
text:
And he said unto them, Follow after me: for the LORD hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand.


book: Jg
start: 3:29
end: 3:29
text:
And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all lusty, and all men of valour; and there escaped not a man.


book: Jg
start: 3:31
end: 3:31
text:
¶ And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel.


book: Jg
start: 4:2
end: 4:2
text:
And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host [was] Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles.


book: Jg
start: 4:3
end: 4:3
text:
And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.


book: Jg
start: 4:5
end: 4:5
text:
And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Beth–el in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.


book: Jg
start: 4:7
end: 4:7
text:
And I will draw unto thee to the river Kishon Sisera, the captain of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into thine hand.


book: Jg
start: 4:8
end: 4:8
text:
And Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then I will go: but if thou wilt not go with me, [then] I will not go.


book: Jg
start: 4:9
end: 4:9
text:
And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman.


book: Jg
start: 4:10
end: 4:10
text:
¶ And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and he went up with ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up with him.


book: Jg
start: 4:14
end: 4:14
text:
And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this [is] the day in which the LORD hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: is not the LORD gone out before thee?


book: Jg
start: 4:15
end: 4:15
text:
And the LORD discomfited Sisera, and all [his] chariots, and all [his] host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; so that Sisera lighted down off [his] chariot, and fled away on his feet.


book: Jg
start: 4:16
end: 4:16
text:
But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, unto Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host of Sisera fell upon the edge of the sword; [and] there was not a man left.


book: Jg
start: 4:17
end: 4:17
text:
Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for [there was] peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.


book: Jg
start: 4:20
end: 4:20
text:
Again he said unto her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man doth come and inquire of thee, and say, Is there any man here? that thou shalt say, No.


book: Jg
start: 4:21
end: 4:21
text:
Then Jael Heber’s wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary.


book: Jg
start: 5:3
end: 5:3
text:
Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, [even] I, will sing unto the LORD; I will sing [praise] to the LORD God of Israel.


book: Jg
start: 5:8
end: 5:8
text:
They chose new gods; then [was] war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?


book: Jg
start: 5:11
end: 5:11
text:
[They that are delivered] from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD, [even] the righteous acts [toward the inhabitants] of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates.


book: Jg
start: 5:12
end: 5:12
text:
Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.


book: Jg
start: 5:13
end: 5:13
text:
Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the people: the LORD made me have dominion over the mighty.


book: Jg
start: 5:14
end: 5:14
text:
Out of Ephraim [was there] a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.


book: Jg
start: 5:15
end: 5:15
text:
And the princes of Issachar [were] with Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley.


book: Jg
start: 5:19
end: 5:19
text:
The kings came [and] fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money.


book: Jg
start: 5:23
end: 5:23
text:
Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.


book: Jg
start: 5:26
end: 5:26
text:
She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.


book: Jg
start: 5:27
end: 5:27
text:
At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.


book: Jg
start: 5:28
end: 5:28
text:
The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot [so] long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?


book: Jg
start: 5:29
end: 5:30
text:
Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself, Have they not sped? have they [not] divided the prey; to every man a damsel [or] two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, [meet] for the necks of [them that take] the spoil?


book: Jg
start: 5:31
end: 5:31
text:
So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but [let] them that love him [be] as the sun when he goeth forth in his might.


book: Jg
start: 6:1
end: 6:1
text:
And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.


book: Jg
start: 6:2
end: 6:2
text:
And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel: [and] because of the Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens which [are] in the mountains, and caves, and strong holds.


book: Jg
start: 6:3
end: 6:4
text:
And [so] it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them; And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.


book: Jg
start: 6:5
end: 6:5
text:
For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; [for] both they and their camels were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it.


book: Jg
start: 6:6
end: 6:6
text:
And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites; and the children of Israel cried unto the LORD.


book: Jg
start: 6:7
end: 6:10
text:
¶ And it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD because of the Midianites, That the LORD sent a prophet unto the children of Israel, which said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the house of bondage; And I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all that oppressed you, and drave them out from before you, and gave you their land; And I said unto you, I [am] the LORD your God; fear not the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but ye have not obeyed my voice.


book: Jg
start: 6:11
end: 6:11
text:
¶ And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which [was] in Ophrah, that [pertained] unto Joash the Abi–ezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide [it] from the Midianites.


book: Jg
start: 6:13
end: 6:13
text:
And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where [be] all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.


book: Jg
start: 6:14
end: 6:14
text:
And the LORD looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee?


book: Jg
start: 6:15
end: 6:15
text:
And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family [is] poor in Manasseh, and I [am] the least in my father’s house.


book: Jg
start: 6:19
end: 6:19
text:
¶ And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought [it] out unto him under the oak, and presented [it].


book: Jg
start: 6:21
end: 6:21
text:
¶ Then the angel of the LORD put forth the end of the staff that [was] in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes.


book: Jg
start: 6:22
end: 6:22
text:
And when Gideon perceived that he [was] an angel of the LORD, Gideon said, Alas, O Lord GOD! for because I have seen an angel of the LORD face to face.


book: Jg
start: 6:24
end: 6:24
text:
Then Gideon built an altar there unto the LORD, and called it Jehovah–shalom: unto this day it [is] yet in Ophrah of the Abi–ezrites.


book: Jg
start: 6:25
end: 6:26
text:
¶ And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Take thy father’s young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that [is] by it: And build an altar unto the LORD thy God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down.


book: Jg
start: 6:27
end: 6:27
text:
Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the LORD had said unto him: and [so] it was, because he feared his father’s household, and the men of the city, that he could not do [it] by day, that he did [it] by night.


book: Jg
start: 6:30
end: 6:30
text:
Then the men of the city said unto Joash, Bring out thy son, that he may die: because he hath cast down the altar of Baal, and because he hath cut down the grove that [was] by it.


book: Jg
start: 6:31
end: 6:31
text:
And Joash said unto all that stood against him, Will ye plead for Baal? will ye save him? he that will plead for him, let him be put to death whilst [it is yet] morning: if he [be] a god, let him plead for himself, because [one] hath cast down his altar.


book: Jg
start: 6:34
end: 6:34
text:
But the Spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon, and he blew a trumpet; and Abi–ezer was gathered after him.


book: Jg
start: 6:35
end: 6:35
text:
And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh; who also was gathered after him: and he sent messengers unto Asher, and unto Zebulun, and unto Naphtali; and they came up to meet them.


book: Jg
start: 6:36
end: 6:37
text:
¶ And Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said, Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor; [and] if the dew be on the fleece only, and [it be] dry upon all the earth [beside], then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said.


book: Jg
start: 6:38
end: 6:38
text:
And it was so: for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.


book: Jg
start: 6:39
end: 6:39
text:
And Gideon said unto God, Let not thine anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once: let me prove, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew.


book: Jg
start: 6:40
end: 6:40
text:
And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.


book: Jg
start: 7:1
end: 7:1
text:
Then Jerubbaal, who [is] Gideon, and all the people that [were] with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.


book: Jg
start: 7:4
end: 7:4
text:
And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people [are] yet [too] many; bring them down unto the water, and I will try them for thee there: and it shall be, [that] of whom I say unto thee, This shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee, This shall not go with thee, the same shall not go.


book: Jg
start: 7:5
end: 7:5
text:
So he brought down the people unto the water: and the LORD said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.


book: Jg
start: 7:6
end: 7:6
text:
And the number of them that lapped, [putting] their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.


book: Jg
start: 7:7
end: 7:7
text:
And the LORD said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the [other] people go every man unto his place.


book: Jg
start: 7:8
end: 7:8
text:
So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all [the rest of] Israel every man unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley.


book: Jg
start: 7:9
end: 7:9
text:
¶ And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Arise, get thee down unto the host; for I have delivered it into thine hand.


book: Jg
start: 7:10
end: 7:11
text:
But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah thy servant down to the host: And thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thine hands be strengthened to go down unto the host.


book: Jg
start: 7:12
end: 7:12
text:
And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels [were] without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.


book: Jg
start: 7:14
end: 7:14
text:
And his fellow answered and said, This [is] nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: [for] into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the host.


book: Jg
start: 7:15
end: 7:15
text:
¶ And it was [so], when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the LORD hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian.


book: Jg
start: 7:17
end: 7:17
text:
And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be [that], as I do, so shall ye do.


book: Jg
start: 7:19
end: 7:19
text:
¶ So Gideon, and the hundred men that [were] with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that [were] in their hands.


book: Jg
start: 7:20
end: 7:20
text:
And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow [withal]: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.


book: Jg
start: 7:21
end: 7:21
text:
And they stood every man in his place round about the camp: and all the host ran, and cried, and fled.


book: Jg
start: 7:22
end: 7:22
text:
And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man’s sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Beth–shittah in Zererath, [and] to the border of Abel–meholah, unto Tabbath.


book: Jg
start: 7:25
end: 7:25
text:
And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan.


book: Jg
start: 8:3
end: 8:3
text:
God hath delivered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison of you?


book: Jg
start: 8:5
end: 8:5
text:
And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they [be] faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.


book: Jg
start: 8:8
end: 8:8
text:
¶ And he went up thence to Penuel, and spake unto them likewise: and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered [him].


book: Jg
start: 8:10
end: 8:10
text:
¶ Now Zebah and Zalmunna [were] in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand [men], all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword.


book: Jg
start: 8:11
end: 8:11
text:
¶ And Gideon went up by the way of them that dwelt in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and smote the host: for the host was secure.


book: Jg
start: 8:13
end: 8:14
text:
¶ And Gideon the son of Joash returned from battle before the sun [was up], And caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him: and he described unto him the princes of Succoth, and the elders thereof, [even] threescore and seventeen men.


book: Jg
start: 8:19
end: 8:19
text:
And he said, They [were] my brethren, [even] the sons of my mother: [as] the LORD liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay you.


book: Jg
start: 8:22
end: 8:22
text:
¶ Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son also: for thou hast delivered us from the hand of Midian.


book: Jg
start: 8:23
end: 8:23
text:
And Gideon said unto them, I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you: the LORD shall rule over you.


book: Jg
start: 8:26
end: 8:26
text:
And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred [shekels] of gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that [was] on the kings of Midian, and beside the chains that [were] about their camels’ necks.


book: Jg
start: 8:27
end: 8:27
text:
And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, [even] in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.


book: Jg
start: 8:34
end: 8:35
text:
And the children of Israel remembered not the LORD their God, who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side: Neither shewed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, [namely], Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shewed unto Israel.


book: Jg
start: 9:1
end: 9:2
text:
And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother’s brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother’s father, saying, Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Whether [is] better for you, either that all the sons of Jerubbaal, [which are] threescore and ten persons, reign over you, or that one reign over you? remember also that I [am] your bone and your flesh.


book: Jg
start: 9:3
end: 9:3
text:
And his mother’s brethren spake of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words: and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said, He [is] our brother.


book: Jg
start: 9:5
end: 9:5
text:
And he went unto his father’s house at Ophrah, and slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, [being] threescore and ten persons, upon one stone: notwithstanding yet Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.


book: Jg
start: 9:8
end: 9:8
text:
The trees went forth [on a time] to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us.


book: Jg
start: 9:15
end: 9:15
text:
And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, [then] come [and] put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.


book: Jg
start: 9:16
end: 9:20
text:
Now therefore, if ye have done truly and sincerely, in that ye have made Abimelech king, and if ye have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done unto him according to the deserving of his hands; (For my father fought for you, and adventured his life far, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian: And ye are risen up against my father’s house this day, and have slain his sons, threescore and ten persons, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the men of Shechem, because he [is] your brother;) If ye then have dealt truly and sincerely with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, [then] rejoice ye in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you: But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the men of Shechem, and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and devour Abimelech.


book: Jg
start: 9:22
end: 9:24
text:
¶ When Abimelech had reigned three years over Israel, Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech: That the cruelty [done] to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, which slew them; and upon the men of Shechem, which aided him in the killing of his brethren.


book: Jg
start: 9:25
end: 9:25
text:
And the men of Shechem set liers in wait for him in the top of the mountains, and they robbed all that came along that way by them: and it was told Abimelech.


book: Jg
start: 9:26
end: 9:26
text:
And Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brethren, and went over to Shechem: and the men of Shechem put their confidence in him.


book: Jg
start: 9:28
end: 9:28
text:
And Gaal the son of Ebed said, Who [is] Abimelech, and who [is] Shechem, that we should serve him? [is] not [he] the son of Jerubbaal? and Zebul his officer? serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem: for why should we serve him?


book: Jg
start: 9:31
end: 9:31
text:
And he sent messengers unto Abimelech privily, saying, Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brethren be come to Shechem; and, behold, they fortify the city against thee.


book: Jg
start: 9:32
end: 9:33
text:
Now therefore up by night, thou and the people that [is] with thee, and lie in wait in the field: And it shall be, [that] in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, thou shalt rise early, and set upon the city: and, behold, [when] he and the people that [is] with him come out against thee, then mayest thou do to them as thou shalt find occasion.


book: Jg
start: 9:35
end: 9:35
text:
And Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and Abimelech rose up, and the people that [were] with him, from lying in wait.


book: Jg
start: 9:38
end: 9:38
text:
Then said Zebul unto him, Where [is] now thy mouth, wherewith thou saidst, Who [is] Abimelech, that we should serve him? [is] not this the people that thou hast despised? go out, I pray now, and fight with them.


book: Jg
start: 9:41
end: 9:41
text:
And Abimelech dwelt at Arumah: and Zebul thrust out Gaal and his brethren, that they should not dwell in Shechem.


book: Jg
start: 9:42
end: 9:42
text:
And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people went out into the field; and they told Abimelech.


book: Jg
start: 9:43
end: 9:43
text:
And he took the people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field, and looked, and, behold, the people [were] come forth out of the city; and he rose up against them, and smote them.


book: Jg
start: 9:44
end: 9:44
text:
And Abimelech, and the company that [was] with him, rushed forward, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and the two [other] companies ran upon all [the people] that [were] in the fields, and slew them.


book: Jg
start: 9:45
end: 9:45
text:
And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that [was] therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.


book: Jg
start: 9:48
end: 9:48
text:
And Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that [were] with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid [it] on his shoulder, and said unto the people that [were] with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, [and] do as I [have done].


book: Jg
start: 9:49
end: 9:49
text:
And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put [them] to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.


book: Jg
start: 9:56
end: 9:57
text:
¶ Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren: And all the evil of the men of Shechem did God render upon their heads: and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.


book: Jg
start: 10:1
end: 10:1
text:
And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim.


book: Jg
start: 10:8
end: 10:8
text:
And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years, all the children of Israel that [were] on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which [is] in Gilead.


book: Jg
start: 10:9
end: 10:9
text:
Moreover the children of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed.


book: Jg
start: 10:12
end: 10:12
text:
The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand.


book: Jg
start: 10:14
end: 10:14
text:
Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.


book: Jg
start: 10:15
end: 10:15
text:
¶ And the children of Israel said unto the LORD, We have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; deliver us only, we pray thee, this day.


book: Jg
start: 10:16
end: 10:16
text:
And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.


book: Jg
start: 10:18
end: 10:18
text:
And the people [and] princes of Gilead said one to another, What man [is he] that will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? he shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.


book: Jg
start: 11:1
end: 11:1
text:
Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he [was] the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.


book: Jg
start: 11:2
end: 11:2
text:
And Gilead’s wife bare him sons; and his wife’s sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father’s house; for thou [art] the son of a strange woman.


book: Jg
start: 11:3
end: 11:3
text:
Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain men to Jephthah, and went out with him.


book: Jg
start: 11:5
end: 11:6
text:
And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob: And they said unto Jephthah, Come, and be our captain, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.


book: Jg
start: 11:7
end: 11:7
text:
And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate me, and expel me out of my father’s house? and why are ye come unto me now when ye are in distress?


book: Jg
start: 11:11
end: 11:11
text:
Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and captain over them: and Jephthah uttered all his words before the LORD in Mizpeh.


book: Jg
start: 11:13
end: 11:13
text:
And the king of the children of Ammon answered unto the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when they came up out of Egypt, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and unto Jordan: now therefore restore those [lands] again peaceably.


book: Jg
start: 11:14
end: 11:17
text:
And Jephthah sent messengers again unto the king of the children of Ammon: And said unto him, Thus saith Jephthah, Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon: But when Israel came up from Egypt, and walked through the wilderness unto the Red sea, and came to Kadesh; Then Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land: but the king of Edom would not hearken [thereto].


book: Jg
start: 11:17
end: 11:17
text:
And in like manner they sent unto the king of Moab: but he would not [consent]: and Israel abode in Kadesh.


book: Jg
start: 11:18
end: 11:18
text:
Then they went along through the wilderness, and compassed the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, but came not within the border of Moab: for Arnon [was] the border of Moab.


book: Jg
start: 11:19
end: 11:19
text:
And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said unto him, Let us pass, we pray thee, through thy land into my place.


book: Jg
start: 11:20
end: 11:20
text:
But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his coast: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.


book: Jg
start: 11:21
end: 11:21
text:
And the LORD God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.


book: Jg
start: 11:25
end: 11:26
text:
And now [art] thou any thing better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them, While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns, and in Aroer and her towns, and in all the cities that [be] along by the coasts of Arnon, three hundred years? why therefore did ye not recover [them] within that time?


book: Jg
start: 11:27
end: 11:27
text:
Wherefore I have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me wrong to war against me: the LORD the Judge be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.


book: Jg
start: 11:32
end: 11:32
text:
¶ So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the LORD delivered them into his hands.


book: Jg
start: 11:34
end: 11:34
text:
¶ And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she [was his] only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.


book: Jg
start: 11:35
end: 11:35
text:
And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the LORD, and I cannot go back.


book: Jg
start: 11:36
end: 11:36
text:
And she said unto him, My father, [if] thou hast opened thy mouth unto the LORD, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the LORD hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, [even] of the children of Ammon.


book: Jg
start: 11:37
end: 11:37
text:
And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows.


book: Jg
start: 11:38
end: 11:38
text:
And he sent her away [for] two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.


book: Jg
start: 11:39
end: 11:39
text:
And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her [according] to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man.


book: Jg
start: 12:1
end: 12:1
text:
And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thine house upon thee with fire.


book: Jg
start: 12:2
end: 12:2
text:
And Jephthah said unto them, I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye delivered me not out of their hands.


book: Jg
start: 12:3
end: 12:3
text:
And when I saw that ye delivered [me] not, I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?


book: Jg
start: 12:4
end: 12:4
text:
Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye Gileadites [are] fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, [and] among the Manassites.


book: Jg
start: 12:5
end: 12:5
text:
And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was [so], that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, [Art] thou an Ephraimite?


book: Jg
start: 12:5
end: 12:6
text:
If he said, Nay; Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce [it] right.


book: Jg
start: 12:6
end: 12:6
text:
Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.


book: Jg
start: 12:14
end: 12:14
text:
And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.


book: Jg
start: 13:1
end: 13:1
text:
And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.


book: Jg
start: 13:2
end: 13:2
text:
¶ And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name [was] Manoah; and his wife [was] barren, and bare not.


book: Jg
start: 13:3
end: 13:3
text:
And the angel of the LORD appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou [art] barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son.


book: Jg
start: 13:4
end: 13:5
text:
Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean [thing]: For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no rasor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.


book: Jg
start: 13:6
end: 13:7
text:
¶ Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance [was] like the countenance of an angel of God, very terrible: but I asked him not whence he [was], neither told he me his name: But he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean [thing]: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death.


book: Jg
start: 13:9
end: 13:9
text:
And God hearkened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came again unto the woman as she sat in the field: but Manoah her husband [was] not with her.


book: Jg
start: 13:14
end: 13:14
text:
She may not eat of any [thing] that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean [thing]: all that I commanded her let her observe.


book: Jg
start: 13:16
end: 13:16
text:
And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the LORD.


book: Jg
start: 13:19
end: 13:19
text:
So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered [it] upon a rock unto the LORD: and [the angel] did wondrously; and Manoah and his wife looked on.


book: Jg
start: 13:24
end: 13:24
text:
¶ And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and the LORD blessed him.


book: Jg
start: 14:2
end: 14:2
text:
And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife.


book: Jg
start: 14:4
end: 14:4
text:
But his father and his mother knew not that it [was] of the LORD, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.


book: Jg
start: 14:5
end: 14:5
text:
¶ Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion roared against him.


book: Jg
start: 14:6
end: 14:6
text:
And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and [he had] nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done.


book: Jg
start: 14:8
end: 14:8
text:
¶ And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, [there was] a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion.


book: Jg
start: 14:9
end: 14:9
text:
And he took thereof in his hands, and went on eating, and came to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they did eat: but he told not them that he had taken the honey out of the carcase of the lion.


book: Jg
start: 14:10
end: 14:10
text:
¶ So his father went down unto the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do.


book: Jg
start: 14:12
end: 14:13
text:
¶ And Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a riddle unto you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast, and find [it] out, then I will give you thirty sheets and thirty change of garments: But if ye cannot declare [it] me, then shall ye give me thirty sheets and thirty change of garments.


book: Jg
start: 14:15
end: 14:15
text:
And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said unto Samson’s wife, Entice thy husband, that he may declare unto us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father’s house with fire: have ye called us to take that we have? [is it] not [so]?


book: Jg
start: 14:16
end: 14:16
text:
And Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, and hast not told [it] me.


book: Jg
start: 14:17
end: 14:17
text:
And she wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told her, because she lay sore upon him: and she told the riddle to the children of her people.


book: Jg
start: 14:18
end: 14:18
text:
And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What [is] sweeter than honey? and what [is] stronger than a lion?


book: Jg
start: 15:1
end: 15:1
text:
But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber.


book: Jg
start: 15:2
end: 15:2
text:
And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: [is] not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.


book: Jg
start: 15:8
end: 15:8
text:
And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.


book: Jg
start: 15:11
end: 15:11
text:
Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines [are] rulers over us? what [is] this [that] thou hast done unto us?


book: Jg
start: 15:13
end: 15:13
text:
And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee.


book: Jg
start: 15:14
end: 15:14
text:
¶ [And] when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the cords that [were] upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands.


book: Jg
start: 15:18
end: 15:18
text:
¶ And he was sore athirst, and called on the LORD, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?


book: Jg
start: 15:19
end: 15:19
text:
But God clave an hollow place that [was] in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof En–hakkore, which [is] in Lehi unto this day.


book: Jg
start: 16:5
end: 16:5
text:
And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength [lieth], and by what [means] we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred [pieces] of silver.


book: Jg
start: 16:10
end: 16:10
text:
And Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be bound.


book: Jg
start: 16:13
end: 16:13
text:
And Delilah said unto Samson, Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound.


book: Jg
start: 16:15
end: 16:15
text:
¶ And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart [is] not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength [lieth].


book: Jg
start: 16:16
end: 16:17
text:
And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, [so] that his soul was vexed unto death; That he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a rasor upon mine head; for I [have been] a Nazarite unto God from my mother’s womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any [other] man.


book: Jg
start: 16:19
end: 16:19
text:
And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.


book: Jg
start: 16:21
end: 16:21
text:
¶ But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.


book: Jg
start: 16:23
end: 16:23
text:
Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.


book: Jg
start: 16:24
end: 16:24
text:
And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which slew many of us.


book: Jg
start: 16:25
end: 16:25
text:
And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set him between the pillars.


book: Jg
start: 16:27
end: 16:27
text:
Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines [were] there; and [there were] upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport.


book: Jg
start: 16:30
end: 16:30
text:
And he bowed himself with [all his] might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that [were] therein.


book: Jg
start: 17:2
end: 17:2
text:
And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred [shekels] of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest of also in mine ears, behold, the silver [is] with me; I took it.


book: Jg
start: 17:3
end: 17:3
text:
And when he had restored the eleven hundred [shekels] of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.


book: Jg
start: 17:4
end: 17:4
text:
Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred [shekels] of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.


book: Jg
start: 17:8
end: 17:8
text:
And the man departed out of the city from Beth–lehem–judah to sojourn where he could find [a place]: and he came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.


book: Jg
start: 17:11
end: 17:11
text:
And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was unto him as one of his sons.


book: Jg
start: 17:12
end: 17:12
text:
And Micah consecrated the Levite; and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.


book: Jg
start: 18:1
end: 18:1
text:
In those days [there was] no king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for unto that day [all their] inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel.


book: Jg
start: 18:2
end: 18:2
text:
And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged there.


book: Jg
start: 18:3
end: 18:3
text:
When they [were] by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite: and they turned in thither, and said unto him, Who brought thee hither? and what makest thou in this [place]? and what hast thou here?


book: Jg
start: 18:7
end: 18:7
text:
¶ Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that [were] therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and [there was] no magistrate in the land, that might put [them] to shame in [any] thing; and they [were] far from the Zidonians, and had no business with [any] man.


book: Jg
start: 18:8
end: 18:8
text:
And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto them, What [say] ye?


book: Jg
start: 18:9
end: 18:9
text:
And they said, Arise, that we may go up against them: for we have seen the land, and, behold, it [is] very good: and [are] ye still? be not slothful to go, [and] to enter to possess the land.


book: Jg
start: 18:10
end: 18:10
text:
When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a large land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where [there is] no want of any thing that [is] in the earth.


book: Jg
start: 18:12
end: 18:12
text:
And they went up, and pitched in Kirjath–jearim, in Judah: wherefore they called that place Mahaneh–dan unto this day: behold, [it is] behind Kirjath–jearim.


book: Jg
start: 18:14
end: 18:14
text:
¶ Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.


book: Jg
start: 18:17
end: 18:17
text:
And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, [and] came in thither, [and] took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men [that were] appointed with weapons of war.


book: Jg
start: 18:19
end: 18:19
text:
And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: [is it] better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?


book: Jg
start: 18:24
end: 18:24
text:
And he said, Ye have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and ye are gone away: and what have I more? and what [is] this [that] ye say unto me, What aileth thee?


book: Jg
start: 18:26
end: 18:26
text:
And the children of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw that they [were] too strong for him, he turned and went back unto his house.


book: Jg
start: 18:27
end: 18:27
text:
And they took [the things] which Micah had made, and the priest which he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people [that were] at quiet and secure: and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire.


book: Jg
start: 18:28
end: 18:28
text:
And [there was] no deliverer, because it [was] far from Zidon, and they had no business with [any] man; and it was in the valley that [lieth] by Beth–rehob.


book: Jg
start: 18:29
end: 18:29
text:
And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born unto Israel: howbeit the name of the city [was] Laish at the first.


book: Jg
start: 18:30
end: 18:30
text:
¶ And the children of Dan set up the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land.


book: Jg
start: 19:3
end: 19:3
text:
And her husband arose, and went after her, to speak friendly unto her, [and] to bring her again, having his servant with him, and a couple of asses: and she brought him into her father’s house: and when the father of the damsel saw him, he rejoiced to meet him.


book: Jg
start: 19:4
end: 19:4
text:
And his father in law, the damsel’s father, retained him; and he abode with him three days: so they did eat and drink, and lodged there.


book: Jg
start: 19:5
end: 19:5
text:
¶ And it came to pass on the fourth day, when they arose early in the morning, that he rose up to depart: and the damsel’s father said unto his son in law, Comfort thine heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward go your way.


book: Jg
start: 19:6
end: 19:6
text:
And they sat down, and did eat and drink both of them together: for the damsel’s father had said unto the man, Be content, I pray thee, and tarry all night, and let thine heart be merry.


book: Jg
start: 19:8
end: 19:8
text:
And he arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart: and the damsel’s father said, Comfort thine heart, I pray thee.


book: Jg
start: 19:9
end: 19:9
text:
And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father in law, the damsel’s father, said unto him, Behold, now the day draweth toward evening, I pray you tarry all night: behold, the day groweth to an end, lodge here, that thine heart may be merry; and to morrow get you early on your way, that thou mayest go home.


book: Jg
start: 19:10
end: 19:10
text:
But the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and departed, and came over against Jebus, which [is] Jerusalem; and [there were] with him two asses saddled, his concubine also [was] with him.


book: Jg
start: 19:11
end: 19:11
text:
[And] when they [were] by Jebus, the day was far spent; and the servant said unto his master, Come, I pray thee, and let us turn in into this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it.


book: Jg
start: 19:12
end: 19:12
text:
And his master said unto him, We will not turn aside hither into the city of a stranger, that [is] not of the children of Israel; we will pass over to Gibeah.


book: Jg
start: 19:14
end: 19:14
text:
And they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down upon them [when they were] by Gibeah, which [belongeth] to Benjamin.


book: Jg
start: 19:15
end: 19:15
text:
And they turned aside thither, to go in [and] to lodge in Gibeah: and when he went in, he sat him down in a street of the city: for [there was] no man that took them into his house to lodging.


book: Jg
start: 19:16
end: 19:16
text:
¶ And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even, which [was] also of mount Ephraim; and he sojourned in Gibeah: but the men of the place [were] Benjamites.


book: Jg
start: 19:17
end: 19:17
text:
And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring man in the street of the city: and the old man said, Whither goest thou? and whence comest thou?


book: Jg
start: 19:18
end: 19:18
text:
And he said unto him, We [are] passing from Beth–lehem–judah toward the side of mount Ephraim; from thence [am] I: and I went to Beth–lehem–judah, but I [am now] going to the house of the LORD; and there [is] no man that receiveth me to house.


book: Jg
start: 19:19
end: 19:19
text:
Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man [which is] with thy servants: [there is] no want of any thing.


book: Jg
start: 19:20
end: 19:20
text:
And the old man said, Peace [be] with thee; howsoever [let] all thy wants [lie] upon me; only lodge not in the street.


book: Jg
start: 19:21
end: 19:21
text:
So he brought him into his house, and gave provender unto the asses: and they washed their feet, and did eat and drink.


book: Jg
start: 19:23
end: 19:23
text:
And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, and said unto them, Nay, my brethren, [nay], I pray you, do not [so] wickedly; seeing that this man is come into mine house, do not this folly.


book: Jg
start: 19:24
end: 19:24
text:
Behold, [here is] my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing.


book: Jg
start: 19:25
end: 19:25
text:
But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go.


book: Jg
start: 19:27
end: 19:27
text:
And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way: and, behold, the woman his concubine was fallen down [at] the door of the house, and her hands [were] upon the threshold.


book: Jg
start: 19:30
end: 19:30
text:
And it was so, that all that saw it said, There was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day: consider of it, take advice, and speak [your minds].


book: Jg
start: 20:5
end: 20:5
text:
And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, [and] thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead.


book: Jg
start: 20:6
end: 20:6
text:
And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.


book: Jg
start: 20:9
end: 20:10
text:
But now this [shall be] the thing which we will do to Gibeah; [we will go up] by lot against it; And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.


book: Jg
start: 20:13
end: 20:14
text:
But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel: But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.


book: Jg
start: 20:16
end: 20:16
text:
Among all this people [there were] seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair [breadth], and not miss.


book: Jg
start: 20:17
end: 20:17
text:
And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these [were] men of war.


book: Jg
start: 20:20
end: 20:20
text:
And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against them at Gibeah.


book: Jg
start: 20:25
end: 20:25
text:
And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.


book: Jg
start: 20:31
end: 20:31
text:
And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, [and] were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people, [and] kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel.


book: Jg
start: 20:33
end: 20:33
text:
And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put themselves in array at Baal–tamar: and the liers in wait of Israel came forth out of their places, [even] out of the meadows of Gibeah.


book: Jg
start: 20:34
end: 20:34
text:
And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not that evil [was] near them.


book: Jg
start: 20:35
end: 20:35
text:
And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.


book: Jg
start: 20:36
end: 20:36
text:
So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten: for the men of Israel gave place to the Benjamites, because they trusted unto the liers in wait which they had set beside Gibeah.


book: Jg
start: 20:37
end: 20:37
text:
And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the liers in wait drew [themselves] along, and smote all the city with the edge of the sword.


book: Jg
start: 20:39
end: 20:39
text:
And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began to smite [and] kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons: for they said, Surely they are smitten down before us, as [in] the first battle.


book: Jg
start: 20:41
end: 20:41
text:
And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them.


book: Jg
start: 20:42
end: 20:42
text:
Therefore they turned [their backs] before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and them which [came] out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them.


book: Jg
start: 20:45
end: 20:45
text:
And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.


book: Jg
start: 20:46
end: 20:46
text:
So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these [were] men of valour.


book: Jg
start: 20:48
end: 20:48
text:
And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of [every] city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on fire all the cities that they came to.


book: Jg
start: 21:2
end: 21:3
text:
And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore; And said, O LORD God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel?


book: Jg
start: 21:12
end: 21:12
text:
And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh–gilead four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which [is] in the land of Canaan.


book: Jg
start: 21:14
end: 21:14
text:
And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh–gilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.


book: Jg
start: 21:18
end: 21:18
text:
Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed [be] he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.


book: Jg
start: 21:20
end: 21:21
text:
Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards; And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.


book: Jg
start: 21:22
end: 21:22
text:
And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, [that] ye should be guilty.


book: Jg
start: 21:23
end: 21:23
text:
And the children of Benjamin did so, and took [them] wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them.


book: Ru
start: 1:4
end: 1:4
text:
And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one [was] Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years.


book: Ru
start: 1:5
end: 1:5
text:
And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was left of her two sons and her husband.


book: Ru
start: 1:6
end: 1:6
text:
¶ Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the LORD had visited his people in giving them bread.


book: Ru
start: 1:7
end: 1:7
text:
Wherefore she went forth out of the place where she was, and her two daughters in law with her; and they went on the way to return unto the land of Judah.


book: Ru
start: 1:8
end: 1:8
text:
And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to her mother’s house: the LORD deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me.


book: Ru
start: 1:11
end: 1:11
text:
And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me? [are] there yet [any more] sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?


book: Ru
start: 1:12
end: 1:13
text:
If I should say, I have hope, [if] I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons; Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD is gone out against me.


book: Ru
start: 1:14
end: 1:14
text:
And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her.


book: Ru
start: 1:15
end: 1:15
text:
And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister in law.


book: Ru
start: 1:16
end: 1:17
text:
And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, [or] to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people [shall be] my people, and thy God my God: Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the LORD do so to me, and more also, [if ought] but death part thee and me.


book: Ru
start: 1:20
end: 1:20
text:
And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.


book: Ru
start: 1:21
end: 1:21
text:
I went out full, and the LORD hath brought me home again empty: why [then] call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?


book: Ru
start: 1:22
end: 1:22
text:
So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Beth–lehem in the beginning of barley harvest.


book: Ru
start: 2:1
end: 2:1
text:
And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband’s, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name [was] Boaz.


book: Ru
start: 2:3
end: 2:3
text:
And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field [belonging] unto Boaz, who [was] of the kindred of Elimelech.


book: Ru
start: 2:6
end: 2:7
text:
And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It [is] the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab: And she said, I pray you, let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves: so she came, and hath continued even from the morning until now, that she tarried a little in the house.


book: Ru
start: 2:8
end: 2:9
text:
Go not to glean in another field, neither go from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens: [Let] thine eyes [be] on the field that they do reap, and go thou after them: have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee? and when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink of [that] which the young men have drawn.


book: Ru
start: 2:11
end: 2:11
text:
And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband: and [how] thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore.


book: Ru
start: 2:13
end: 2:13
text:
Then she said, Let me find favour in thy sight, my lord; for that thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken friendly unto thine handmaid, though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens.


book: Ru
start: 2:14
end: 2:14
text:
And she sat beside the reapers: and he reached her parched [corn], and she did eat, and was sufficed, and left.


book: Ru
start: 2:15
end: 2:16
text:
And when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and reproach her not: And let fall also [some] of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave [them], that she may glean [them], and rebuke her not.


book: Ru
start: 2:17
end: 2:17
text:
So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.


book: Ru
start: 2:18
end: 2:18
text:
¶ And she took [it] up, and went into the city: and her mother in law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth, and gave to her that she had reserved after she was sufficed.


book: Ru
start: 2:19
end: 2:19
text:
And her mother in law said unto her, Where hast thou gleaned to day? and where wroughtest thou? blessed be he that did take knowledge of thee.


book: Ru
start: 2:23
end: 2:23
text:
So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and dwelt with her mother in law.


book: Ru
start: 3:3
end: 3:3
text:
Wash thyself therefore, and anoint thee, and put thy raiment upon thee, and get thee down to the floor: [but] make not thyself known unto the man, until he shall have done eating and drinking.


book: Ru
start: 3:4
end: 3:4
text:
And it shall be, when he lieth down, that thou shalt mark the place where he shall lie, and thou shalt go in, and uncover his feet, and lay thee down; and he will tell thee what thou shalt do.


book: Ru
start: 3:7
end: 3:7
text:
And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of corn: and she came softly, and uncovered his feet, and laid her down.


book: Ru
start: 3:8
end: 3:8
text:
¶ And it came to pass at midnight, that the man was afraid, and turned himself: and, behold, a woman lay at his feet.


book: Ru
start: 3:9
end: 3:9
text:
And she answered, I [am] Ruth thine handmaid: spread therefore thy skirt over thine handmaid; for thou [art] a near kinsman.


book: Ru
start: 3:10
end: 3:10
text:
And he said, Blessed [be] thou of the LORD, my daughter: [for] thou hast shewed more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as thou followedst not young men, whether poor or rich.


book: Ru
start: 3:11
end: 3:11
text:
And now, my daughter, fear not; I will do to thee all that thou requirest: for all the city of my people doth know that thou [art] a virtuous woman.


book: Ru
start: 3:13
end: 3:13
text:
Tarry this night, and it shall be in the morning, [that] if he will perform unto thee the part of a kinsman, well; let him do the kinsman’s part: but if he will not do the part of a kinsman to thee, then will I do the part of a kinsman to thee, [as] the LORD liveth: lie down until the morning.


book: Ru
start: 3:15
end: 3:15
text:
And when she held it, he measured six [measures] of barley, and laid [it] on her: and she went into the city.


book: Ru
start: 3:17
end: 3:17
text:
And she said, These six [measures] of barley gave he me; for he said to me, Go not empty unto thy mother in law.


book: Ru
start: 3:18
end: 3:18
text:
Then said she, Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall: for the man will not be in rest, until he have finished the thing this day.


book: Ru
start: 4:1
end: 4:1
text:
Then went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here.


book: Ru
start: 4:3
end: 4:4
text:
And he said unto the kinsman, Naomi, that is come again out of the country of Moab, selleth a parcel of land, which [was] our brother Elimelech’s: And I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy [it] before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people.


book: Ru
start: 4:4
end: 4:4
text:
If thou wilt redeem [it], redeem [it]: but if thou wilt not redeem [it, then] tell me, that I may know: for [there is] none to redeem [it] beside thee; and I [am] after thee.


book: Ru
start: 4:6
end: 4:6
text:
¶ And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem [it] for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself; for I cannot redeem [it].


book: Ru
start: 4:7
end: 4:7
text:
Now this [was the manner] in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things; a man plucked off his shoe, and gave [it] to his neighbour: and this [was] a testimony in Israel.


book: Ru
start: 4:10
end: 4:10
text:
Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye [are] witnesses this day.


book: Ru
start: 4:11
end: 4:12
text:
The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Beth–lehem: And let thy house be like the house of Pharez, whom Tamar bare unto Judah, of the seed which the LORD shall give thee of this young woman.


book: Ru
start: 4:13
end: 4:13
text:
¶ So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in unto her, the LORD gave her conception, and she bare a son.


book: Ru
start: 4:15
end: 4:15
text:
And he shall be unto thee a restorer of [thy] life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him.


book: Ru
start: 4:17
end: 4:17
text:
And the women her neighbours gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed: he [is] the father of Jesse, the father of David.


book: Ru
start: 4:18
end: 4:22
text:
¶ Now these [are] the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron, And Hezron begat Ram, and Ram begat Amminadab, And Amminadab begat Nahshon, and Nahshon begat Salmon, And Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed, And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.


book: 1Sa
start: 1:1
end: 1:2
text:
Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim–zophim, of mount Ephraim, and his name [was] Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite: And he had two wives; the name of the one [was] Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.


book: 1Sa
start: 1:4
end: 1:5
text:
¶ And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions: But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb.


book: 1Sa
start: 1:7
end: 1:7
text:
And [as] he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of the LORD, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.


book: 1Sa
start: 1:8
end: 1:8
text:
Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? [am] not I better to thee than ten sons?


book: 1Sa
start: 1:13
end: 1:13
text:
Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.


book: 1Sa
start: 1:15
end: 1:15
text:
And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I [am] a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the LORD.


book: 1Sa
start: 1:16
end: 1:16
text:
Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.


book: 1Sa
start: 1:17
end: 1:17
text:
Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace: and the God of Israel grant [thee] thy petition that thou hast asked of him.


book: 1Sa
start: 1:19
end: 1:19
text:
¶ And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before the LORD, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD remembered her.


book: 1Sa
start: 1:22
end: 1:22
text:
But Hannah went not up; for she said unto her husband, [I will not go up] until the child be weaned, and [then] I will bring him, that he may appear before the LORD, and there abide for ever.


book: 1Sa
start: 1:23
end: 1:23
text:
And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Do what seemeth thee good; tarry until thou have weaned him; only the LORD establish his word.


book: 1Sa
start: 1:24
end: 1:24
text:
¶ And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh: and the child [was] young.


book: 1Sa
start: 1:27
end: 1:28
text:
For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my petition which I asked of him: Therefore also I have lent him to the LORD; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the LORD.


book: 1Sa
start: 2:1
end: 2:1
text:
And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD, mine horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation.


book: 1Sa
start: 2:2
end: 2:2
text:
[There is] none holy as the LORD: for [there is] none beside thee: neither [is there] any rock like our God.


book: 1Sa
start: 2:3
end: 2:3
text:
Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let [not] arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD [is] a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.


book: 1Sa
start: 2:5
end: 2:5
text:
[They that were] full have hired out themselves for bread; and [they that were] hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.


book: 1Sa
start: 2:8
end: 2:8
text:
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, [and] lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set [them] among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth [are] the LORD’S, and he hath set the world upon them.


book: 1Sa
start: 2:9
end: 2:9
text:
He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.


book: 1Sa
start: 2:10
end: 2:10
text:
The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the LORD shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.


book: 1Sa
start: 2:13
end: 2:14
text:
And the priests’ custom with the people [was, that], when any man offered sacrifice, the priest’s servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand; And he struck [it] into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fleshhook brought up the priest took for himself.


book: 1Sa
start: 2:15
end: 2:15
text:
Also before they burnt the fat, the priest’s servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw.


book: 1Sa
start: 2:16
end: 2:16
text:
And [if] any man said unto him, Let them not fail to burn the fat presently, and [then] take [as much] as thy soul desireth; then he would answer him, [Nay]; but thou shalt give [it me] now: and if not, I will take [it] by force.


book: 1Sa
start: 2:17
end: 2:17
text:
Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD: for men abhorred the offering of the LORD.


book: 1Sa
start: 2:22
end: 2:22
text:
¶ Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled [at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.


book: 1Sa
start: 2:25
end: 2:25
text:
If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sin against the LORD, who shall intreat for him?


book: 1Sa
start: 2:28
end: 2:28
text:
And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel [to be] my priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israel?


book: 1Sa
start: 2:29
end: 2:29
text:
Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded [in my] habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?


book: 1Sa
start: 2:30
end: 2:30
text:
Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith, I said indeed [that] thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.


book: 1Sa
start: 2:32
end: 2:32
text:
And thou shalt see an enemy [in my] habitation, in all [the wealth] which [God] shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man in thine house for ever.


book: 1Sa
start: 2:33
end: 2:33
text:
And the man of thine, [whom] I shall not cut off from mine altar, [shall be] to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age.


book: 1Sa
start: 2:34
end: 2:34
text:
And this [shall be] a sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one day they shall die both of them.


book: 1Sa
start: 2:35
end: 2:35
text:
And I will raise me up a faithful priest, [that] shall do according to [that] which [is] in mine heart and in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before mine anointed for ever.


book: 1Sa
start: 3:2
end: 3:4
text:
And it came to pass at that time, when Eli [was] laid down in his place, and his eyes began to wax dim, [that] he could not see; And ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God [was], and Samuel was laid down [to sleep]; That the LORD called Samuel: and he answered, Here [am] I.


book: 1Sa
start: 3:9
end: 3:9
text:
Therefore Eli said unto Samuel, Go, lie down: and it shall be, if he call thee, that thou shalt say, Speak, LORD; for thy servant heareth.


book: 1Sa
start: 3:12
end: 3:12
text:
In that day I will perform against Eli all [things] which I have spoken concerning his house: when I begin, I will also make an end.


book: 1Sa
start: 3:13
end: 3:13
text:
For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.


book: 1Sa
start: 3:17
end: 3:17
text:
I pray thee hide [it] not from me: God do so to thee, and more also, if thou hide [any] thing from me of all the things that he said unto thee.


book: 1Sa
start: 3:21
end: 3:21
text:
And the LORD appeared again in Shiloh: for the LORD revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the LORD.


book: 1Sa
start: 4:1
end: 4:1
text:
Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and pitched beside Eben–ezer: and the Philistines pitched in Aphek.


book: 1Sa
start: 4:2
end: 4:2
text:
And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: and when they joined battle, Israel was smitten before the Philistines: and they slew of the army in the field about four thousand men.


book: 1Sa
start: 4:4
end: 4:4
text:
So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from thence the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth [between] the cherubims: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, [were] there with the ark of the covenant of God.


book: 1Sa
start: 4:8
end: 4:8
text:
Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty Gods? these [are] the Gods that smote the Egyptians with all the plagues in the wilderness.


book: 1Sa
start: 4:9
end: 4:9
text:
Be strong, and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit yourselves like men, and fight.


book: 1Sa
start: 4:10
end: 4:10
text:
¶ And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man into his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.


book: 1Sa
start: 4:13
end: 4:13
text:
And when he came, lo, Eli sat upon a seat by the wayside watching: for his heart trembled for the ark of God.


book: 1Sa
start: 4:18
end: 4:18
text:
And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy.


book: 1Sa
start: 4:19
end: 4:19
text:
¶ And his daughter in law, Phinehas’ wife, was with child, [near] to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken, and that her father in law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and travailed; for her pains came upon her.


book: 1Sa
start: 4:20
end: 4:20
text:
And about the time of her death the women that stood by her said unto her, Fear not; for thou hast born a son.


book: 1Sa
start: 4:21
end: 4:21
text:
And she named the child I–chabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father in law and her husband.


book: 1Sa
start: 5:4
end: 5:4
text:
And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon [was] fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands [were] cut off upon the threshold; only [the stump of] Dagon was left to him.


book: 1Sa
start: 5:7
end: 5:7
text:
And when the men of Ashdod saw that [it was] so, they said, The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us: for his hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god.


book: 1Sa
start: 5:9
end: 5:9
text:
And it was [so], that, after they had carried it about, the hand of the LORD was against the city with a very great destruction: and he smote the men of the city, both small and great, and they had emerods in their secret parts.


book: 1Sa
start: 5:11
end: 5:11
text:
So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our people: for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.


book: 1Sa
start: 6:2
end: 6:2
text:
And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, What shall we do to the ark of the LORD? tell us wherewith we shall send it to his place.


book: 1Sa
start: 6:3
end: 6:3
text:
And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; but in any wise return him a trespass offering: then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you.


book: 1Sa
start: 6:4
end: 6:4
text:
They answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden mice, [according to] the number of the lords of the Philistines: for one plague [was] on you all, and on your lords.


book: 1Sa
start: 6:5
end: 6:5
text:
Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.


book: 1Sa
start: 6:6
end: 6:6
text:
Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?


book: 1Sa
start: 6:7
end: 6:8
text:
Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them: And take the ark of the LORD, and lay it upon the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which ye return him [for] a trespass offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go.


book: 1Sa
start: 6:9
end: 6:9
text:
And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Beth–shemesh, [then] he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that [it is] not his hand [that] smote us; it [was] a chance [that] happened to us.


book: 1Sa
start: 6:10
end: 6:11
text:
¶ And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home: And they laid the ark of the LORD upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.


book: 1Sa
start: 6:12
end: 6:12
text:
And the kine took the straight way to the way of Beth–shemesh, [and] went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside [to] the right hand or [to] the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Beth–shemesh.


book: 1Sa
start: 6:13
end: 6:13
text:
And [they of] Beth–shemesh [were] reaping their wheat harvest in the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see [it].


book: 1Sa
start: 6:14
end: 6:14
text:
And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Beth–shemite, and stood there, where [there was] a great stone: and they clave the wood of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the LORD.


book: 1Sa
start: 6:15
end: 6:15
text:
And the Levites took down the ark of the LORD, and the coffer that [was] with it, wherein the jewels of gold [were], and put [them] on the great stone: and the men of Beth–shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto the LORD.


book: 1Sa
start: 6:17
end: 6:18
text:
And these [are] the golden emerods which the Philistines returned [for] a trespass offering unto the LORD; for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Askelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one; And the golden mice, [according to] the number of all the cities of the Philistines [belonging] to the five lords, [both] of fenced cities, and of country villages, even unto the great [stone of] Abel, whereon they set down the ark of the LORD: [which stone remaineth] unto this day in the field of Joshua, the Beth–shemite.


book: 1Sa
start: 6:19
end: 6:19
text:
¶ And he smote the men of Beth–shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten [many] of the people with a great slaughter.


book: 1Sa
start: 6:20
end: 6:20
text:
And the men of Beth–shemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy LORD God? and to whom shall he go up from us?


book: 1Sa
start: 6:21
end: 6:21
text:
¶ And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjath–jearim, saying, The Philistines have brought again the ark of the LORD; come ye down, [and] fetch it up to you.


book: 1Sa
start: 7:2
end: 7:2
text:
And it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjath–jearim, that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of Israel lamented after the LORD.


book: 1Sa
start: 7:3
end: 7:3
text:
¶ And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the LORD with all your hearts, [then] put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the LORD, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.


book: 1Sa
start: 7:9
end: 7:9
text:
¶ And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered [it for] a burnt offering wholly unto the LORD: and Samuel cried unto the LORD for Israel; and the LORD heard him.


book: 1Sa
start: 7:10
end: 7:10
text:
And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel: but the LORD thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were smitten before Israel.


book: 1Sa
start: 7:13
end: 7:13
text:
¶ So the Philistines were subdued, and they came no more into the coast of Israel: and the hand of the LORD was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.


book: 1Sa
start: 7:14
end: 7:14
text:
And the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even unto Gath; and the coasts thereof did Israel deliver out of the hands of the Philistines.


book: 1Sa
start: 7:17
end: 7:17
text:
And his return [was] to Ramah; for there [was] his house; and there he judged Israel; and there he built an altar unto the LORD.


book: 1Sa
start: 8:2
end: 8:2
text:
Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: [they were] judges in Beer–sheba.


book: 1Sa
start: 8:4
end: 8:5
text:
Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah, And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.


book: 1Sa
start: 8:7
end: 8:7
text:
And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.


book: 1Sa
start: 8:9
end: 8:9
text:
Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.


book: 1Sa
start: 8:11
end: 8:11
text:
And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint [them] for himself, for his chariots, and [to be] his horsemen; and [some] shall run before his chariots.


book: 1Sa
start: 8:12
end: 8:12
text:
And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and [will set them] to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.


book: 1Sa
start: 8:18
end: 8:18
text:
And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.


book: 1Sa
start: 8:19
end: 8:20
text:
¶ Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us; That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.


book: 1Sa
start: 9:2
end: 9:2
text:
And he had a son, whose name [was] Saul, a choice young man, and a goodly: and [there was] not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward [he was] higher than any of the people.


book: 1Sa
start: 9:4
end: 9:4
text:
And he passed through mount Ephraim, and passed through the land of Shalisha, but they found [them] not: then they passed through the land of Shalim, and [there they were] not: and he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they found [them] not.


book: 1Sa
start: 9:5
end: 9:5
text:
[And] when they were come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant that [was] with him, Come, and let us return; lest my father leave [caring] for the asses, and take thought for us.


book: 1Sa
start: 9:6
end: 9:6
text:
And he said unto him, Behold now, [there is] in this city a man of God, and [he is] an honourable man; all that he saith cometh surely to pass: now let us go thither; peradventure he can shew us our way that we should go.


book: 1Sa
start: 9:7
end: 9:7
text:
Then said Saul to his servant, But, behold, [if] we go, what shall we bring the man? for the bread is spent in our vessels, and [there is] not a present to bring to the man of God: what have we?


book: 1Sa
start: 9:8
end: 9:8
text:
And the servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: [that] will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way.


book: 1Sa
start: 9:12
end: 9:13
text:
And they answered them, and said, He is; behold, [he is] before you: make haste now, for he came to day to the city; for [there is] a sacrifice of the people to day in the high place: As soon as ye be come into the city, ye shall straightway find him, before he go up to the high place to eat: for the people will not eat until he come, because he doth bless the sacrifice; [and] afterwards they eat that be bidden.


book: 1Sa
start: 9:14
end: 9:14
text:
And they went up into the city: [and] when they were come into the city, behold, Samuel came out against them, for to go up to the high place.


book: 1Sa
start: 9:15
end: 9:16
text:
¶ Now the LORD had told Samuel in his ear a day before Saul came, saying, To morrow about this time I will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him [to be] captain over my people Israel, that he may save my people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked upon my people, because their cry is come unto me.


book: 1Sa
start: 9:17
end: 9:17
text:
And when Samuel saw Saul, the LORD said unto him, Behold the man whom I spake to thee of! this same shall reign over my people.


book: 1Sa
start: 9:19
end: 9:19
text:
And Samuel answered Saul, and said, I [am] the seer: go up before me unto the high place; for ye shall eat with me to day, and to morrow I will let thee go, and will tell thee all that [is] in thine heart.


book: 1Sa
start: 9:21
end: 9:21
text:
And Saul answered and said, [Am] not I a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then speakest thou so to me?


book: 1Sa
start: 9:24
end: 9:24
text:
And [Samuel] said, Behold that which is left! set [it] before thee, [and] eat: for unto this time hath it been kept for thee since I said, I have invited the people.


book: 1Sa
start: 9:26
end: 9:26
text:
And they arose early: and it came to pass about the spring of the day, that Samuel called Saul to the top of the house, saying, Up, that I may send thee away.


book: 1Sa
start: 10:2
end: 10:2
text:
When thou art departed from me to day, then thou shalt find two men by Rachel’s sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say unto thee, The asses which thou wentest to seek are found: and, lo, thy father hath left the care of the asses, and sorroweth for you, saying, What shall I do for my son?


book: 1Sa
start: 10:3
end: 10:4
text:
Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Beth–el, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine: And they will salute thee, and give thee two [loaves] of bread; which thou shalt receive of their hands.


book: 1Sa
start: 10:5
end: 10:6
text:
After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where [is] the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they shall prophesy: And the Spirit of the LORD will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man.


book: 1Sa
start: 10:7
end: 10:7
text:
And let it be, when these signs are come unto thee, [that] thou do as occasion serve thee; for God [is] with thee.


book: 1Sa
start: 10:8
end: 10:8
text:
And thou shalt go down before me to Gilgal; and, behold, I will come down unto thee, to offer burnt offerings, [and] to sacrifice sacrifices of peace offerings: seven days shalt thou tarry, till I come to thee, and shew thee what thou shalt do.


book: 1Sa
start: 10:9
end: 10:9
text:
¶ And it was [so], that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart: and all those signs came to pass that day.


book: 1Sa
start: 10:10
end: 10:10
text:
And when they came thither to the hill, behold, a company of prophets met him; and the Spirit of God came upon him, and he prophesied among them.


book: 1Sa
start: 10:17
end: 10:19
text:
¶ And Samuel called the people together unto the LORD to Mizpeh; And said unto the children of Israel, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all kingdoms, [and] of them that oppressed you: And ye have this day rejected your God, who himself saved you out of all your adversities and your tribulations; and ye have said unto him, [Nay], but set a king over us.


book: 1Sa
start: 10:21
end: 10:21
text:
When he had caused the tribe of Benjamin to come near by their families, the family of Matri was taken, and Saul the son of Kish was taken: and when they sought him, he could not be found.


book: 1Sa
start: 10:23
end: 10:23
text:
And they ran and fetched him thence: and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.


book: 1Sa
start: 10:26
end: 10:26
text:
¶ And Saul also went home to Gibeah; and there went with him a band of men, whose hearts God had touched.


book: 1Sa
start: 11:1
end: 11:1
text:
Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabesh–gilead: and all the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve thee.


book: 1Sa
start: 11:3
end: 11:3
text:
And the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven days’ respite, that we may send messengers unto all the coasts of Israel: and then, if [there be] no man to save us, we will come out to thee.


book: 1Sa
start: 11:4
end: 11:4
text:
¶ Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and told the tidings in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted up their voices, and wept.


book: 1Sa
start: 11:5
end: 11:5
text:
And, behold, Saul came after the herd out of the field; and Saul said, What [aileth] the people that they weep?


book: 1Sa
start: 11:11
end: 11:11
text:
And it was [so] on the morrow, that Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the host in the morning watch, and slew the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it came to pass, that they which remained were scattered, so that two of them were not left together.


book: 1Sa
start: 11:12
end: 11:12
text:
¶ And the people said unto Samuel, Who [is] he that said, Shall Saul reign over us? bring the men, that we may put them to death.


book: 1Sa
start: 11:13
end: 11:13
text:
And Saul said, There shall not a man be put to death this day: for to day the LORD hath wrought salvation in Israel.


book: 1Sa
start: 11:15
end: 11:15
text:
And all the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king before the LORD in Gilgal; and there they sacrificed sacrifices of peace offerings before the LORD; and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.


book: 1Sa
start: 12:2
end: 12:2
text:
And now, behold, the king walketh before you: and I am old and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons [are] with you: and I have walked before you from my childhood unto this day.


book: 1Sa
start: 12:3
end: 12:3
text:
Behold, here I [am]: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received [any] bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.


book: 1Sa
start: 12:10
end: 12:10
text:
And they cried unto the LORD, and said, We have sinned, because we have forsaken the LORD, and have served Baalim and Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve thee.


book: 1Sa
start: 12:12
end: 12:12
text:
And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, ye said unto me, Nay; but a king shall reign over us: when the LORD your God [was] your king.


book: 1Sa
start: 12:13
end: 12:13
text:
Now therefore behold the king whom ye have chosen, [and] whom ye have desired! and, behold, the LORD hath set a king over you.


book: 1Sa
start: 12:14
end: 12:15
text:
If ye will fear the LORD, and serve him, and obey his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall both ye and also the king that reigneth over you continue following the LORD your God: But if ye will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the LORD be against you, as [it was] against your fathers.


book: 1Sa
start: 12:17
end: 12:17
text:
I will call unto the LORD, and he shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness [is] great, which ye have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking you a king.


book: 1Sa
start: 12:18
end: 12:18
text:
So Samuel called unto the LORD; and the LORD sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel.


book: 1Sa
start: 12:19
end: 12:19
text:
And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy servants unto the LORD thy God, that we die not: for we have added unto all our sins [this] evil, to ask us a king.


book: 1Sa
start: 12:20
end: 12:21
text:
¶ And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ye have done all this wickedness: yet turn not aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart; And turn ye not aside: for [then should ye go] after vain [things], which cannot profit nor deliver; for they [are] vain.


book: 1Sa
start: 12:22
end: 12:22
text:
For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.


book: 1Sa
start: 12:23
end: 12:24
text:
Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way: Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great [things] he hath done for you.


book: 1Sa
start: 13:1
end: 13:2
text:
Saul reigned one year; and when he had reigned two years over Israel, Saul chose him three thousand [men] of Israel; [whereof] two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Beth–el, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.


book: 1Sa
start: 13:5
end: 13:5
text:
¶ And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which [is] on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Beth–aven.


book: 1Sa
start: 13:8
end: 13:8
text:
¶ And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Samuel [had appointed]: but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him.


book: 1Sa
start: 13:10
end: 13:10
text:
And it came to pass, that as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might salute him.


book: 1Sa
start: 13:11
end: 13:12
text:
And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and [that] thou camest not within the days appointed, and [that] the Philistines gathered themselves together at Michmash; Therefore said I, The Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication unto the LORD: I forced myself therefore, and offered a burnt offering.


book: 1Sa
start: 13:13
end: 13:13
text:
And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which he commanded thee: for now would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.


book: 1Sa
start: 13:14
end: 13:14
text:
But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him [to be] captain over his people, because thou hast not kept [that] which the LORD commanded thee.


book: 1Sa
start: 13:16
end: 13:16
text:
And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people [that were] present with them, abode in Gibeah of Benjamin: but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.


book: 1Sa
start: 13:17
end: 13:18
text:
¶ And the spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned unto the way [that leadeth to] Ophrah, unto the land of Shual: And another company turned the way [to] Beth–horon: and another company turned [to] the way of the border that looketh to the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.


book: 1Sa
start: 13:19
end: 13:20
text:
¶ Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make [them] swords or spears: But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.


book: 1Sa
start: 13:22
end: 13:22
text:
So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that [were] with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found.


book: 1Sa
start: 14:2
end: 14:3
text:
And Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree which [is] in Migron: and the people that [were] with him [were] about six hundred men; And Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, I–chabod’s brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the LORD’S priest in Shiloh, wearing an ephod.


book: 1Sa
start: 14:4
end: 14:4
text:
¶ And between the passages, by which Jonathan sought to go over unto the Philistines’ garrison, [there was] a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side: and the name of the one [was] Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.


book: 1Sa
start: 14:6
end: 14:6
text:
And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that the LORD will work for us: for [there is] no restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few.


book: 1Sa
start: 14:7
end: 14:7
text:
And his armourbearer said unto him, Do all that [is] in thine heart: turn thee; behold, I [am] with thee according to thy heart.


book: 1Sa
start: 14:9
end: 14:9
text:
If they say thus unto us, Tarry until we come to you; then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up unto them.


book: 1Sa
start: 14:10
end: 14:10
text:
But if they say thus, Come up unto us; then we will go up: for the LORD hath delivered them into our hand: and this [shall be] a sign unto us.


book: 1Sa
start: 14:11
end: 14:11
text:
And both of them discovered themselves unto the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves.


book: 1Sa
start: 14:12
end: 14:12
text:
And Jonathan said unto his armourbearer, Come up after me: for the LORD hath delivered them into the hand of Israel.


book: 1Sa
start: 14:13
end: 14:13
text:
And Jonathan climbed up upon his hands and upon his feet, and his armourbearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his armourbearer slew after him.


book: 1Sa
start: 14:15
end: 14:15
text:
And there was trembling in the host, in the field, and among all the people: the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled, and the earth quaked: so it was a very great trembling.


book: 1Sa
start: 14:16
end: 14:16
text:
And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and, behold, the multitude melted away, and they went on beating down [one another].


book: 1Sa
start: 14:19
end: 14:19
text:
¶ And it came to pass, while Saul talked unto the priest, that the noise that [was] in the host of the Philistines went on and increased: and Saul said unto the priest, Withdraw thine hand.


book: 1Sa
start: 14:20
end: 14:20
text:
And Saul and all the people that [were] with him assembled themselves, and they came to the battle: and, behold, every man’s sword was against his fellow, [and there was] a very great discomfiture.


book: 1Sa
start: 14:24
end: 14:24
text:
¶ And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had adjured the people, saying, Cursed [be] the man that eateth [any] food until evening, that I may be avenged on mine enemies.


book: 1Sa
start: 14:26
end: 14:26
text:
And when the people were come into the wood, behold, the honey dropped; but no man put his hand to his mouth: for the people feared the oath.


book: 1Sa
start: 14:27
end: 14:27
text:
But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that [was] in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.


book: 1Sa
start: 14:29
end: 14:29
text:
Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.


book: 1Sa
start: 14:30
end: 14:30
text:
How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there not been now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?


book: 1Sa
start: 14:32
end: 14:32
text:
And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew [them] on the ground: and the people did eat [them] with the blood.


book: 1Sa
start: 14:34
end: 14:34
text:
And Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and say unto them, Bring me hither every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and slay [them] here, and eat; and sin not against the LORD in eating with the blood.


book: 1Sa
start: 14:37
end: 14:37
text:
And Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down after the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into the hand of Israel?


book: 1Sa
start: 14:38
end: 14:38
text:
And Saul said, Draw ye near hither, all the chief of the people: and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day.


book: 1Sa
start: 14:45
end: 14:45
text:
God forbid: [as] the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he hath wrought with God this day.


book: 1Sa
start: 14:47
end: 14:47
text:
¶ So Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines: and whithersoever he turned himself, he vexed [them].


book: 1Sa
start: 14:49
end: 14:50
text:
Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishui, and Melchi–shua: and the names of his two daughters [were these]; the name of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal: And the name of Saul’s wife [was] Ahinoam, the daughter of Ahimaaz: and the name of the captain of his host [was] Abner, the son of Ner, Saul’s uncle.


book: 1Sa
start: 14:52
end: 14:52
text:
And there was sore war against the Philistines all the days of Saul: and when Saul saw any strong man, or any valiant man, he took him unto him.


book: 1Sa
start: 15:1
end: 15:1
text:
Samuel also said unto Saul, The LORD sent me to anoint thee [to be] king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the LORD.


book: 1Sa
start: 15:3
end: 15:3
text:
Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.


book: 1Sa
start: 15:6
end: 15:6
text:
¶ And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt.


book: 1Sa
start: 15:9
end: 15:9
text:
But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all [that was] good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing [that was] vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.


book: 1Sa
start: 15:10
end: 15:11
text:
¶ Then came the word of the LORD unto Samuel, saying, It repenteth me that I have set up Saul [to be] king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments.


book: 1Sa
start: 15:13
end: 15:13
text:
And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed [be] thou of the LORD: I have performed the commandment of the LORD.


book: 1Sa
start: 15:15
end: 15:15
text:
And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.


book: 1Sa
start: 15:24
end: 15:24
text:
¶ And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and thy words: because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.


book: 1Sa
start: 15:26
end: 15:26
text:
And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with thee: for thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD hath rejected thee from being king over Israel.


book: 1Sa
start: 15:29
end: 15:29
text:
And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he [is] not a man, that he should repent.


book: 1Sa
start: 15:30
end: 15:30
text:
Then he said, I have sinned: [yet] honour me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD thy God.


book: 1Sa
start: 15:35
end: 15:35
text:
And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.


book: 1Sa
start: 16:1
end: 16:1
text:
And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Beth–lehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.


book: 1Sa
start: 16:3
end: 16:3
text:
And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will shew thee what thou shalt do: and thou shalt anoint unto me [him] whom I name unto thee.


book: 1Sa
start: 16:5
end: 16:5
text:
And he said, Peaceably: I am come to sacrifice unto the LORD: sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice.


book: 1Sa
start: 16:7
end: 16:7
text:
But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for [the LORD seeth] not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.


book: 1Sa
start: 16:13
end: 16:13
text:
Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward.


book: 1Sa
start: 16:16
end: 16:16
text:
Let our lord now command thy servants, [which are] before thee, to seek out a man, [who is] a cunning player on an harp: and it shall come to pass, when the evil spirit from God is upon thee, that he shall play with his hand, and thou shalt be well.


book: 1Sa
start: 16:21
end: 16:21
text:
And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him greatly; and he became his armourbearer.


book: 1Sa
start: 16:22
end: 16:22
text:
And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David, I pray thee, stand before me; for he hath found favour in my sight.


book: 1Sa
start: 16:23
end: 16:23
text:
And it came to pass, when the [evil] spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.


book: 1Sa
start: 17:3
end: 17:3
text:
And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side: and [there was] a valley between them.


book: 1Sa
start: 17:5
end: 17:5
text:
And [he had] an helmet of brass upon his head, and he [was] armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat [was] five thousand shekels of brass.


book: 1Sa
start: 17:7
end: 17:7
text:
And the staff of his spear [was] like a weaver’s beam; and his spear’s head [weighed] six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went before him.


book: 1Sa
start: 17:8
end: 17:8
text:
And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said unto them, Why are ye come out to set [your] battle in array? [am] not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me.


book: 1Sa
start: 17:9
end: 17:9
text:
If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us.


book: 1Sa
start: 17:10
end: 17:10
text:
And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.


book: 1Sa
start: 17:12
end: 17:12
text:
¶ Now David [was] the son of that Ephrathite of Beth–lehem–judah, whose name [was] Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men [for] an old man in the days of Saul.


book: 1Sa
start: 17:13
end: 17:13
text:
And the three eldest sons of Jesse went [and] followed Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons that went to the battle [were] Eliab the firstborn, and next unto him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.


book: 1Sa
start: 17:17
end: 17:18
text:
And Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched [corn], and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to thy brethren; And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of [their] thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge.


book: 1Sa
start: 17:20
end: 17:20
text:
¶ And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle.


book: 1Sa
start: 17:23
end: 17:23
text:
And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of the Philistines, and spake according to the same words: and David heard [them].


book: 1Sa
start: 17:25
end: 17:25
text:
And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, [that] the man who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father’s house free in Israel.


book: 1Sa
start: 17:26
end: 17:26
text:
And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who [is] this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?


book: 1Sa
start: 17:28
end: 17:28
text:
¶ And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab’s anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness?


book: 1Sa
start: 17:28
end: 17:28
text:
I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.


book: 1Sa
start: 17:30
end: 17:30
text:
¶ And he turned from him toward another, and spake after the same manner: and the people answered him again after the former manner.


book: 1Sa
start: 17:31
end: 17:31
text:
And when the words were heard which David spake, they rehearsed [them] before Saul: and he sent for him.


book: 1Sa
start: 17:32
end: 17:32
text:
¶ And David said to Saul, Let no man’s heart fail because of him; thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine.


book: 1Sa
start: 17:33
end: 17:33
text:
And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him: for thou [art but] a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.


book: 1Sa
start: 17:34
end: 17:35
text:
And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father’s sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock: And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered [it] out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught [him] by his beard, and smote him, and slew him.


book: 1Sa
start: 17:36
end: 17:36
text:
Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.


book: 1Sa
start: 17:38
end: 17:38
text:
¶ And Saul armed David with his armour, and he put an helmet of brass upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail.


book: 1Sa
start: 17:40
end: 17:40
text:
And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd’s bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling [was] in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine.


book: 1Sa
start: 17:41
end: 17:41
text:
And the Philistine came on and drew near unto David; and the man that bare the shield [went] before him.


book: 1Sa
start: 17:42
end: 17:42
text:
And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him: for he was [but] a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance.


book: 1Sa
start: 17:45
end: 17:45
text:
Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.


book: 1Sa
start: 17:46
end: 17:46
text:
This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.


book: 1Sa
start: 17:47
end: 17:47
text:
And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle [is] the LORD’S, and he will give you into our hands.


book: 1Sa
start: 17:49
end: 17:49
text:
And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang [it], and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.


book: 1Sa
start: 17:50
end: 17:50
text:
So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but [there was] no sword in the hand of David.


book: 1Sa
start: 17:54
end: 17:54
text:
And David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his armour in his tent.


book: 1Sa
start: 18:5
end: 18:5
text:
¶ And David went out whithersoever Saul sent him, [and] behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and he was accepted in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul’s servants.


book: 1Sa
start: 18:8
end: 18:8
text:
And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed [but] thousands: and [what] can he have more but the kingdom?


book: 1Sa
start: 18:10
end: 18:10
text:
¶ And it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: and David played with his hand, as at other times: and [there was] a javelin in Saul’s hand.


book: 1Sa
start: 18:13
end: 18:13
text:
Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.


book: 1Sa
start: 18:17
end: 18:17
text:
¶ And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight the LORD’S battles.


book: 1Sa
start: 18:18
end: 18:18
text:
And David said unto Saul, Who [am] I? and what [is] my life, [or] my father’s family in Israel, that I should be son in law to the king?


book: 1Sa
start: 18:22
end: 18:22
text:
¶ And Saul commanded his servants, [saying], Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his servants love thee: now therefore be the king’s son in law.


book: 1Sa
start: 18:26
end: 18:26
text:
And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king’s son in law: and the days were not expired.


book: 1Sa
start: 18:27
end: 18:27
text:
Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king’s son in law.


book: 1Sa
start: 18:30
end: 18:30
text:
Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it came to pass, after they went forth, [that] David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was much set by.


book: 1Sa
start: 19:2
end: 19:3
text:
But Jonathan Saul’s son delighted much in David: and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself until the morning, and abide in a secret [place], and hide thyself: And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where thou [art], and I will commune with my father of thee; and what I see, that I will tell thee.


book: 1Sa
start: 19:4
end: 19:5
text:
¶ And Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his father, and said unto him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David; because he hath not sinned against thee, and because his works [have been] to thee-ward very good: For he did put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the LORD wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou sawest [it], and didst rejoice: wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?


book: 1Sa
start: 19:6
end: 19:6
text:
And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan: and Saul sware, [As] the LORD liveth, he shall not be slain.


book: 1Sa
start: 19:8
end: 19:8
text:
¶ And there was war again: and David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter; and they fled from him.


book: 1Sa
start: 19:9
end: 19:9
text:
And the evil spirit from the LORD was upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his javelin in his hand: and David played with [his] hand.


book: 1Sa
start: 19:10
end: 19:10
text:
And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.


book: 1Sa
start: 19:11
end: 19:11
text:
Saul also sent messengers unto David’s house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David’s wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain.


book: 1Sa
start: 19:20
end: 19:20
text:
And Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing [as] appointed over them, the Spirit of God was upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied.


book: 1Sa
start: 19:22
end: 19:22
text:
Then went he also to Ramah, and came to a great well that [is] in Sechu: and he asked and said, Where [are] Samuel and David?


book: 1Sa
start: 19:23
end: 19:23
text:
And he went thither to Naioth in Ramah: and the Spirit of God was upon him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah.


book: 1Sa
start: 20:1
end: 20:1
text:
And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, What have I done? what [is] mine iniquity? and what [is] my sin before thy father, that he seeketh my life?


book: 1Sa
start: 20:2
end: 20:2
text:
And he said unto him, God forbid; thou shalt not die: behold, my father will do nothing either great or small, but that he will shew it me: and why should my father hide this thing from me? it [is] not [so].


book: 1Sa
start: 20:3
end: 20:3
text:
And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly [as] the LORD liveth, and [as] thy soul liveth, [there is] but a step between me and death.


book: 1Sa
start: 20:5
end: 20:5
text:
And David said unto Jonathan, Behold, to morrow [is] the new moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king at meat: but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field unto the third [day] at even.


book: 1Sa
start: 20:6
end: 20:6
text:
If thy father at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked [leave] of me that he might run to Beth–lehem his city: for [there is] a yearly sacrifice there for all the family.


book: 1Sa
start: 20:7
end: 20:7
text:
If he say thus, [It is] well; thy servant shall have peace: but if he be very wroth, [then] be sure that evil is determined by him.


book: 1Sa
start: 20:8
end: 20:8
text:
Therefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant; for thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant of the LORD with thee: notwithstanding, if there be in me iniquity, slay me thyself; for why shouldest thou bring me to thy father?


book: 1Sa
start: 20:9
end: 20:9
text:
And Jonathan said, Far be it from thee: for if I knew certainly that evil were determined by my father to come upon thee, then would not I tell it thee?


book: 1Sa
start: 20:12
end: 20:13
text:
And Jonathan said unto David, O LORD God of Israel, when I have sounded my father about to morrow any time, [or] the third [day], and, behold, [if there be] good toward David, and I then send not unto thee, and shew it thee; The LORD do so and much more to Jonathan: but if it please my father [to do] thee evil, then I will shew it thee, and send thee away, that thou mayest go in peace: and the LORD be with thee, as he hath been with my father.


book: 1Sa
start: 20:14
end: 20:15
text:
And thou shalt not only while yet I live shew me the kindness of the LORD, that I die not: But [also] thou shalt not cut off thy kindness from my house for ever: no, not when the LORD hath cut off the enemies of David every one from the face of the earth.


book: 1Sa
start: 20:17
end: 20:17
text:
And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul.


book: 1Sa
start: 20:18
end: 20:18
text:
Then Jonathan said to David, To morrow [is] the new moon: and thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty.


book: 1Sa
start: 20:21
end: 20:21
text:
If I expressly say unto the lad, Behold, the arrows [are] on this side of thee, take them; then come thou: for [there is] peace to thee, and no hurt; [as] the LORD liveth.


book: 1Sa
start: 20:22
end: 20:22
text:
But if I say thus unto the young man, Behold, the arrows [are] beyond thee; go thy way: for the LORD hath sent thee away.


book: 1Sa
start: 20:24
end: 20:24
text:
¶ So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, the king sat him down to eat meat.


book: 1Sa
start: 20:25
end: 20:25
text:
And the king sat upon his seat, as at other times, [even] upon a seat by the wall: and Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by Saul’s side, and David’s place was empty.


book: 1Sa
start: 20:26
end: 20:26
text:
Nevertheless Saul spake not any thing that day: for he thought, Something hath befallen him, he [is] not clean; surely he [is] not clean.


book: 1Sa
start: 20:27
end: 20:27
text:
And it came to pass on the morrow, [which was] the second [day] of the month, that David’s place was empty: and Saul said unto Jonathan his son, Wherefore cometh not the son of Jesse to meat, neither yesterday, nor to day?


book: 1Sa
start: 20:28
end: 20:29
text:
And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked [leave] of me [to go] to Beth–lehem: And he said, Let me go, I pray thee; for our family hath a sacrifice in the city; and my brother, he hath commanded me [to be there]: and now, if I have found favour in thine eyes, let me get away, I pray thee, and see my brethren.


book: 1Sa
start: 20:32
end: 20:32
text:
And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him, Wherefore shall he be slain? what hath he done?


book: 1Sa
start: 20:33
end: 20:33
text:
And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him: whereby Jonathan knew that it was determined of his father to slay David.


book: 1Sa
start: 20:34
end: 20:34
text:
So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and did eat no meat the second day of the month: for he was grieved for David, because his father had done him shame.


book: 1Sa
start: 20:41
end: 20:41
text:
¶ [And] as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of [a place] toward the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times: and they kissed one another, and wept one with another, until David exceeded.


book: 1Sa
start: 21:1
end: 21:1
text:
Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him, Why [art] thou alone, and no man with thee?


book: 1Sa
start: 21:2
end: 21:2
text:
And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know any thing of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I have appointed [my] servants to such and such a place.


book: 1Sa
start: 21:3
end: 21:3
text:
Now therefore what is under thine hand? give [me] five [loaves of] bread in mine hand, or what there is present.


book: 1Sa
start: 21:4
end: 21:4
text:
And the priest answered David, and said, [There is] no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.


book: 1Sa
start: 21:6
end: 21:6
text:
So the priest gave him hallowed [bread]: for there was no bread there but the shewbread, that was taken from before the LORD, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.


book: 1Sa
start: 21:7
end: 21:7
text:
Now a certain man of the servants of Saul [was] there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name [was] Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that [belonged] to Saul.


book: 1Sa
start: 21:8
end: 21:8
text:
¶ And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here under thine hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king’s business required haste.


book: 1Sa
start: 21:9
end: 21:9
text:
And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it [is here] wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take [it]: for [there is] no other save that here.


book: 1Sa
start: 21:11
end: 21:11
text:
And the servants of Achish said unto him, [Is] not this David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?


book: 1Sa
start: 21:14
end: 21:14
text:
Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad: wherefore [then] have ye brought him to me?


book: 1Sa
start: 21:15
end: 21:15
text:
Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this [fellow] to play the mad man in my presence? shall this [fellow] come into my house?


book: 1Sa
start: 22:1
end: 22:1
text:
David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father’s house heard [it], they went down thither to him.


book: 1Sa
start: 22:2
end: 22:2
text:
And every one [that was] in distress, and every one that [was] in debt, and every one [that was] discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.


book: 1Sa
start: 22:3
end: 22:3
text:
¶ And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said unto the king of Moab, Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth, [and be] with you, till I know what God will do for me.


book: 1Sa
start: 22:4
end: 22:4
text:
And he brought them before the king of Moab: and they dwelt with him all the while that David was in the hold.


book: 1Sa
start: 22:5
end: 22:5
text:
¶ And the prophet Gad said unto David, Abide not in the hold; depart, and get thee into the land of Judah.


book: 1Sa
start: 22:6
end: 22:8
text:
¶ When Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men that [were] with him, (now Saul abode in Gibeah under a tree in Ramah, having his spear in his hand, and all his servants [were] standing about him;) Then Saul said unto his servants that stood about him, Hear now, ye Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards, [and] make you all captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds; That all of you have conspired against me, and [there is] none that sheweth me that my son hath made a league with the son of Jesse, and [there is] none of you that is sorry for me, or sheweth unto me that my son hath stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?


book: 1Sa
start: 22:11
end: 22:11
text:
Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests that [were] in Nob: and they came all of them to the king.


book: 1Sa
start: 22:15
end: 22:15
text:
Did I then begin to inquire of God for him? be it far from me: let not the king impute [any] thing unto his servant, [nor] to all the house of my father: for thy servant knew nothing of all this, less or more.


book: 1Sa
start: 22:17
end: 22:17
text:
¶ And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD; because their hand also [is] with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not shew it to me.


book: 1Sa
start: 22:22
end: 22:22
text:
And David said unto Abiathar, I knew [it] that day, when Doeg the Edomite [was] there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned [the death] of all the persons of thy father’s house.


book: 1Sa
start: 22:23
end: 22:23
text:
Abide thou with me, fear not: for he that seeketh my life seeketh thy life: but with me thou [shalt be] in safeguard.


book: 1Sa
start: 23:3
end: 23:3
text:
And David’s men said unto him, Behold, we be afraid here in Judah: how much more then if we come to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?


book: 1Sa
start: 23:4
end: 23:4
text:
And the LORD answered him and said, Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into thine hand.


book: 1Sa
start: 23:7
end: 23:7
text:
And Saul said, God hath delivered him into mine hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that hath gates and bars.


book: 1Sa
start: 23:9
end: 23:9
text:
¶ And David knew that Saul secretly practised mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod.


book: 1Sa
start: 23:15
end: 23:15
text:
And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and David [was] in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.


book: 1Sa
start: 23:17
end: 23:17
text:
And he said unto him, Fear not: for the hand of Saul my father shall not find thee; and thou shalt be king over Israel, and I shall be next unto thee; and that also Saul my father knoweth.


book: 1Sa
start: 23:18
end: 23:18
text:
And they two made a covenant before the LORD: and David abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house.


book: 1Sa
start: 23:20
end: 23:20
text:
Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part [shall be] to deliver him into the king’s hand.


book: 1Sa
start: 23:22
end: 23:22
text:
Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place where his haunt is, [and] who hath seen him there: for it is told me [that] he dealeth very subtilly.


book: 1Sa
start: 23:23
end: 23:23
text:
See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah.


book: 1Sa
start: 23:24
end: 23:24
text:
And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men [were] in the wilderness of Maon, in the plain on the south of Jeshimon.


book: 1Sa
start: 23:26
end: 23:26
text:
And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men compassed David and his men round about to take them.


book: 1Sa
start: 23:27
end: 23:27
text:
¶ But there came a messenger unto Saul, saying, Haste thee, and come; for the Philistines have invaded the land.


book: 1Sa
start: 23:28
end: 23:28
text:
Wherefore Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines: therefore they called that place Sela–hammahlekoth.


book: 1Sa
start: 24:3
end: 24:3
text:
And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where [was] a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave.


book: 1Sa
start: 24:10
end: 24:10
text:
Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the LORD had delivered thee to day into mine hand in the cave: and [some] bade [me] kill thee: but [mine eye] spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he [is] the LORD’S anointed.


book: 1Sa
start: 24:11
end: 24:11
text:
Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that [there is] neither evil nor transgression in mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it.


book: 1Sa
start: 24:12
end: 24:12
text:
The LORD judge between me and thee, and the LORD avenge me of thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.


book: 1Sa
start: 24:13
end: 24:13
text:
As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.


book: 1Sa
start: 24:14
end: 24:14
text:
After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.


book: 1Sa
start: 24:17
end: 24:17
text:
And he said to David, Thou [art] more righteous than I: for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil.


book: 1Sa
start: 24:18
end: 24:18
text:
And thou hast shewed this day how that thou hast dealt well with me: forasmuch as when the LORD had delivered me into thine hand, thou killedst me not.


book: 1Sa
start: 24:19
end: 24:19
text:
For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? wherefore the LORD reward thee good for that thou hast done unto me this day.


book: 1Sa
start: 25:1
end: 25:1
text:
And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah.


book: 1Sa
start: 25:2
end: 25:2
text:
And [there was] a man in Maon, whose possessions [were] in Carmel; and the man [was] very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.


book: 1Sa
start: 25:3
end: 25:3
text:
Now the name of the man [was] Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and [she was] a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man [was] churlish and evil in his doings; and he [was] of the house of Caleb.


book: 1Sa
start: 25:5
end: 25:6
text:
And David sent out ten young men, and David said unto the young men, Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name: And thus shall ye say to him that liveth [in prosperity], Peace [be] both to thee, and peace [be] to thine house, and peace [be] unto all that thou hast.


book: 1Sa
start: 25:7
end: 25:7
text:
And now I have heard that thou hast shearers: now thy shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there ought missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel.


book: 1Sa
start: 25:8
end: 25:8
text:
Wherefore let the young men find favour in thine eyes: for we come in a good day: give, I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto thy servants, and to thy son David.


book: 1Sa
start: 25:10
end: 25:10
text:
¶ And Nabal answered David’s servants, and said, Who [is] David? and who [is] the son of Jesse? there be many servants now a days that break away every man from his master.


book: 1Sa
start: 25:13
end: 25:13
text:
And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword: and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the stuff.


book: 1Sa
start: 25:14
end: 25:14
text:
¶ But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed on them.


book: 1Sa
start: 25:15
end: 25:16
text:
But the men [were] very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we any thing, as long as we were conversant with them, when we were in the fields: They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.


book: 1Sa
start: 25:17
end: 25:17
text:
Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household: for he [is such] a son of Belial, that [a man] cannot speak to him.


book: 1Sa
start: 25:20
end: 25:20
text:
And it was [so, as] she rode on the ass, that she came down by the covert of the hill, and, behold, David and his men came down against her; and she met them.


book: 1Sa
start: 25:21
end: 25:21
text:
Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this [fellow] hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that [pertained] unto him: and he hath requited me evil for good.


book: 1Sa
start: 25:23
end: 25:24
text:
And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and lighted off the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, [upon] me [let this] iniquity [be]: and let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine audience, and hear the words of thine handmaid.


book: 1Sa
start: 25:25
end: 25:25
text:
Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, [even] Nabal: for as his name [is], so [is] he; Nabal [is] his name, and folly [is] with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.


book: 1Sa
start: 25:28
end: 25:28
text:
I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been found in thee [all] thy days.


book: 1Sa
start: 25:29
end: 25:29
text:
Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, [as out] of the middle of a sling.


book: 1Sa
start: 25:30
end: 25:31
text:
And it shall come to pass, when the LORD shall have done to my lord according to all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have appointed thee ruler over Israel; That this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my lord hath avenged himself: but when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid.


book: 1Sa
start: 25:32
end: 25:33
text:
¶ And David said to Abigail, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me: And blessed [be] thy advice, and blessed [be] thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to [shed] blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.


book: 1Sa
start: 25:35
end: 25:35
text:
So David received of her hand [that] which she had brought him, and said unto her, Go up in peace to thine house; see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person.


book: 1Sa
start: 25:36
end: 25:36
text:
¶ And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal’s heart [was] merry within him, for he [was] very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.


book: 1Sa
start: 25:39
end: 25:39
text:
¶ And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed [be] the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the LORD hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head.


book: 1Sa
start: 25:42
end: 25:42
text:
And Abigail hasted, and arose, and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that went after her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.


book: 1Sa
start: 26:5
end: 26:5
text:
¶ And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had pitched: and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay in the trench, and the people pitched round about him.


book: 1Sa
start: 26:7
end: 26:7
text:
So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him.


book: 1Sa
start: 26:8
end: 26:8
text:
Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not [smite] him the second time.


book: 1Sa
start: 26:9
end: 26:9
text:
And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth his hand against the LORD’S anointed, and be guiltless?


book: 1Sa
start: 26:10
end: 26:10
text:
David said furthermore, [As] the LORD liveth, the LORD shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall descend into battle, and perish.


book: 1Sa
start: 26:11
end: 26:11
text:
The LORD forbid that I should stretch forth mine hand against the LORD’S anointed: but, I pray thee, take thou now the spear that [is] at his bolster, and the cruse of water, and let us go.


book: 1Sa
start: 26:12
end: 26:12
text:
So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul’s bolster; and they gat them away, and no man saw [it], nor knew [it], neither awaked: for they [were] all asleep; because a deep sleep from the LORD was fallen upon them.


book: 1Sa
start: 26:13
end: 26:14
text:
¶ Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of an hill afar off; a great space [being] between them: And David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, Answerest thou not, Abner?


book: 1Sa
start: 26:15
end: 26:15
text:
And David said to Abner, [Art] not thou a [valiant] man? and who [is] like to thee in Israel? wherefore then hast thou not kept thy lord the king? for there came one of the people in to destroy the king thy lord.


book: 1Sa
start: 26:18
end: 26:18
text:
And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil [is] in mine hand?


book: 1Sa
start: 26:19
end: 26:19
text:
If the LORD have stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering: but if [they be] the children of men, cursed [be] they before the LORD; for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, Go, serve other gods.


book: 1Sa
start: 26:20
end: 26:20
text:
Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the LORD: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.


book: 1Sa
start: 26:21
end: 26:21
text:
¶ Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David: for I will no more do thee harm, because my soul was precious in thine eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.


book: 1Sa
start: 26:22
end: 26:22
text:
And David answered and said, Behold the king’s spear! and let one of the young men come over and fetch it.


book: 1Sa
start: 26:23
end: 26:23
text:
The LORD render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness: for the LORD delivered thee into [my] hand to day, but I would not stretch forth mine hand against the LORD’S anointed.


book: 1Sa
start: 26:25
end: 26:25
text:
Then Saul said to David, Blessed [be] thou, my son David: thou shalt both do great [things], and also shalt still prevail.


book: 1Sa
start: 27:1
end: 27:1
text:
And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: [there is] nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.


book: 1Sa
start: 27:5
end: 27:5
text:
¶ And David said unto Achish, If I have now found grace in thine eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?


book: 1Sa
start: 27:6
end: 27:6
text:
Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: wherefore Ziklag pertaineth unto the kings of Judah unto this day.


book: 1Sa
start: 27:8
end: 27:8
text:
¶ And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites, and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those [nations were] of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt.


book: 1Sa
start: 27:12
end: 27:12
text:
And Achish believed David, saying, He hath made his people Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant for ever.


book: 1Sa
start: 28:4
end: 28:4
text:
And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and pitched in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they pitched in Gilboa.


book: 1Sa
start: 28:8
end: 28:8
text:
And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and bring me [him] up, whom I shall name unto thee.


book: 1Sa
start: 28:9
end: 28:9
text:
And the woman said unto him, Behold, thou knowest what Saul hath done, how he hath cut off those that have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land: wherefore then layest thou a snare for my life, to cause me to die?


book: 1Sa
start: 28:12
end: 28:12
text:
And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice: and the woman spake to Saul, saying, Why hast thou deceived me? for thou [art] Saul.


book: 1Sa
start: 28:15
end: 28:15
text:
And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.


book: 1Sa
start: 28:17
end: 28:18
text:
And the LORD hath done to him, as he spake by me: for the LORD hath rent the kingdom out of thine hand, and given it to thy neighbour, [even] to David: Because thou obeyedst not the voice of the LORD, nor executedst his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the LORD done this thing unto thee this day.


book: 1Sa
start: 28:19
end: 28:19
text:
Moreover the LORD will also deliver Israel with thee into the hand of the Philistines: and to morrow [shalt] thou and thy sons [be] with me: the LORD also shall deliver the host of Israel into the hand of the Philistines.


book: 1Sa
start: 28:20
end: 28:20
text:
Then Saul fell straightway all along on the earth, and was sore afraid, because of the words of Samuel: and there was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the night.


book: 1Sa
start: 28:22
end: 28:22
text:
Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also unto the voice of thine handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before thee; and eat, that thou mayest have strength, when thou goest on thy way.


book: 1Sa
start: 28:24
end: 28:25
text:
And the woman had a fat calf in the house; and she hasted, and killed it, and took flour, and kneaded [it], and did bake unleavened bread thereof: And she brought [it] before Saul, and before his servants; and they did eat.


book: 1Sa
start: 29:1
end: 29:1
text:
Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek: and the Israelites pitched by a fountain which [is] in Jezreel.


book: 1Sa
start: 29:2
end: 29:2
text:
And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands: but David and his men passed on in the rereward with Achish.


book: 1Sa
start: 29:4
end: 29:4
text:
And the princes of the Philistines were wroth with him; and the princes of the Philistines said unto him, Make this fellow return, that he may go again to his place which thou hast appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he be an adversary to us: for wherewith should he reconcile himself unto his master? [should it] not [be] with the heads of these men?


book: 1Sa
start: 29:6
end: 29:6
text:
¶ Then Achish called David, and said unto him, Surely, [as] the LORD liveth, thou hast been upright, and thy going out and thy coming in with me in the host [is] good in my sight: for I have not found evil in thee since the day of thy coming unto me unto this day: nevertheless the lords favour thee not.


book: 1Sa
start: 29:8
end: 29:8
text:
¶ And David said unto Achish, But what have I done? and what hast thou found in thy servant so long as I have been with thee unto this day, that I may not go fight against the enemies of my lord the king?


book: 1Sa
start: 29:9
end: 29:9
text:
And Achish answered and said to David, I know that thou [art] good in my sight, as an angel of God: notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up with us to the battle.


book: 1Sa
start: 29:10
end: 29:10
text:
Wherefore now rise up early in the morning with thy master’s servants that are come with thee: and as soon as ye be up early in the morning, and have light, depart.


book: 1Sa
start: 30:1
end: 30:2
text:
And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire; And had taken the women captives, that [were] therein: they slew not any, either great or small, but carried [them] away, and went on their way.


book: 1Sa
start: 30:3
end: 30:3
text:
¶ So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, [it was] burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.


book: 1Sa
start: 30:6
end: 30:6
text:
And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.


book: 1Sa
start: 30:10
end: 30:10
text:
But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred abode behind, which were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor.


book: 1Sa
start: 30:11
end: 30:12
text:
¶ And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they made him drink water; And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk [any] water, three days and three nights.


book: 1Sa
start: 30:13
end: 30:13
text:
And he said, I [am] a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days agone I fell sick.


book: 1Sa
start: 30:14
end: 30:14
text:
We made an invasion [upon] the south of the Cherethites, and upon [the coast] which [belongeth] to Judah, and upon the south of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.


book: 1Sa
start: 30:17
end: 30:17
text:
And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.


book: 1Sa
start: 30:19
end: 30:19
text:
And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor any [thing] that they had taken to them: David recovered all.


book: 1Sa
start: 30:21
end: 30:21
text:
¶ And David came to the two hundred men, which were so faint that they could not follow David, whom they had made also to abide at the brook Besor: and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people that [were] with him: and when David came near to the people, he saluted them.


book: 1Sa
start: 30:24
end: 30:24
text:
For who will hearken unto you in this matter? but as his part [is] that goeth down to the battle, so [shall] his part [be] that tarrieth by the stuff: they shall part alike.


book: 1Sa
start: 30:26
end: 30:31
text:
¶ And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil unto the elders of Judah, [even] to his friends, saying, Behold a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of the LORD; To [them] which [were] in Beth–el, and to [them] which [were] in south Ramoth, and to [them] which [were] in Jattir, And to [them] which [were] in Aroer, and to [them] which [were] in Siphmoth, and to [them] which [were] in Eshtemoa, And to [them] which [were] in Rachal, and to [them] which [were] in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to [them] which [were] in the cities of the Kenites, And to [them] which [were] in Hormah, and to [them] which [were] in Chor–ashan, and to [them] which [were] in Athach, And to [them] which [were] in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men were wont to haunt.


book: 1Sa
start: 31:1
end: 31:1
text:
Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.


book: 1Sa
start: 31:2
end: 31:2
text:
And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchi–shua, Saul’s sons.


book: 1Sa
start: 31:3
end: 31:3
text:
And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers.


book: 1Sa
start: 31:4
end: 31:4
text:
Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me.


book: 1Sa
start: 31:7
end: 31:7
text:
¶ And when the men of Israel that [were] on the other side of the valley, and [they] that [were] on the other side Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.


book: 1Sa
start: 31:10
end: 31:10
text:
And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth: and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth–shan.


book: 1Sa
start: 31:11
end: 31:12
text:
¶ And when the inhabitants of Jabesh–gilead heard of that which the Philistines had done to Saul; All the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth–shan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.


book: 2Sa
start: 1:1
end: 1:2
text:
Now it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag; It came even to pass on the third day, that, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul with his clothes rent, and earth upon his head: and [so] it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and did obeisance.


book: 2Sa
start: 1:4
end: 1:4
text:
And he answered, That the people are fled from the battle, and many of the people also are fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also.


book: 2Sa
start: 1:6
end: 1:6
text:
And the young man that told him said, As I happened by chance upon mount Gilboa, behold, Saul leaned upon his spear; and, lo, the chariots and horsemen followed hard after him.


book: 2Sa
start: 1:9
end: 1:9
text:
He said unto me again, Stand, I pray thee, upon me, and slay me: for anguish is come upon me, because my life [is] yet whole in me.


book: 2Sa
start: 1:10
end: 1:10
text:
So I stood upon him, and slew him, because I was sure that he could not live after that he was fallen: and I took the crown that [was] upon his head, and the bracelet that [was] on his arm, and have brought them hither unto my lord.


book: 2Sa
start: 1:11
end: 1:12
text:
Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the men that [were] with him: And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LORD, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.


book: 2Sa
start: 1:16
end: 1:16
text:
And David said unto him, Thy blood [be] upon thy head; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I have slain the LORD’S anointed.


book: 2Sa
start: 1:17
end: 1:18
text:
¶ And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son: (Also he bade them teach the children of Judah [the use of] the bow: behold, [it is] written in the book of Jasher.)


book: 2Sa
start: 1:20
end: 1:20
text:
Tell [it] not in Gath, publish [it] not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.


book: 2Sa
start: 1:21
end: 1:21
text:
Ye mountains of Gilboa, [let there be] no dew, neither [let there be] rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, [as though he had] not [been] anointed with oil.


book: 2Sa
start: 1:23
end: 1:23
text:
Saul and Jonathan [were] lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.


book: 2Sa
start: 1:26
end: 1:26
text:
I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.


book: 2Sa
start: 2:3
end: 2:3
text:
And his men that [were] with him did David bring up, every man with his household: and they dwelt in the cities of Hebron.


book: 2Sa
start: 2:6
end: 2:6
text:
And now the LORD shew kindness and truth unto you: and I also will requite you this kindness, because ye have done this thing.


book: 2Sa
start: 2:7
end: 2:7
text:
Therefore now let your hands be strengthened, and be ye valiant: for your master Saul is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them.


book: 2Sa
start: 2:8
end: 2:9
text:
¶ But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul’s host, took Ish–bosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim; And made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.


book: 2Sa
start: 2:13
end: 2:13
text:
And Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out, and met together by the pool of Gibeon: and they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool.


book: 2Sa
start: 2:16
end: 2:16
text:
And they caught every one his fellow by the head, and [thrust] his sword in his fellow’s side; so they fell down together: wherefore that place was called Helkath–hazzurim, which [is] in Gibeon.


book: 2Sa
start: 2:17
end: 2:17
text:
And there was a very sore battle that day; and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.


book: 2Sa
start: 2:18
end: 2:18
text:
¶ And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel [was as] light of foot as a wild roe.


book: 2Sa
start: 2:19
end: 2:19
text:
And Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he turned not to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner.


book: 2Sa
start: 2:22
end: 2:22
text:
And Abner said again to Asahel, Turn thee aside from following me: wherefore should I smite thee to the ground? how then should I hold up my face to Joab thy brother?


book: 2Sa
start: 2:23
end: 2:23
text:
Howbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth [rib], that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place: and it came to pass, [that] as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.


book: 2Sa
start: 2:24
end: 2:24
text:
Joab also and Abishai pursued after Abner: and the sun went down when they were come to the hill of Ammah, that [lieth] before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.


book: 2Sa
start: 2:26
end: 2:26
text:
Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren?


book: 2Sa
start: 2:30
end: 2:30
text:
And Joab returned from following Abner: and when he had gathered all the people together, there lacked of David’s servants nineteen men and Asahel.


book: 2Sa
start: 3:1
end: 3:1
text:
Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: but David waxed stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker.


book: 2Sa
start: 3:2
end: 3:5
text:
¶ And unto David were sons born in Hebron: and his firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; And his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur; And the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital; And the sixth, Ithream, by Eglah David’s wife.


book: 2Sa
start: 3:7
end: 3:7
text:
And Saul had a concubine, whose name [was] Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah: and [Ish–bosheth] said to Abner, Wherefore hast thou gone in unto my father’s concubine?


book: 2Sa
start: 3:9
end: 3:10
text:
So do God to Abner, and more also, except, as the LORD hath sworn to David, even so I do to him; To translate the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beer–sheba.


book: 2Sa
start: 3:12
end: 3:12
text:
¶ And Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, Whose [is] the land? saying [also], Make thy league with me, and, behold, my hand [shall be] with thee, to bring about all Israel unto thee.


book: 2Sa
start: 3:13
end: 3:13
text:
¶ And he said, Well; I will make a league with thee: but one thing I require of thee, that is, Thou shalt not see my face, except thou first bring Michal Saul’s daughter, when thou comest to see my face.


book: 2Sa
start: 3:17
end: 3:18
text:
¶ And Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, Ye sought for David in times past [to be] king over you: Now then do [it]: for the LORD hath spoken of David, saying, By the hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.


book: 2Sa
start: 3:19
end: 3:19
text:
And Abner also spake in the ears of Benjamin: and Abner went also to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that seemed good to Israel, and that seemed good to the whole house of Benjamin.


book: 2Sa
start: 3:22
end: 3:22
text:
¶ And, behold, the servants of David and Joab came from [pursuing] a troop, and brought in a great spoil with them: but Abner [was] not with David in Hebron; for he had sent him away, and he was gone in peace.


book: 2Sa
start: 3:24
end: 3:24
text:
Then Joab came to the king, and said, What hast thou done? behold, Abner came unto thee; why [is] it [that] thou hast sent him away, and he is quite gone?


book: 2Sa
start: 3:26
end: 3:26
text:
And when Joab was come out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, which brought him again from the well of Sirah: but David knew [it] not.


book: 2Sa
start: 3:28
end: 3:29
text:
¶ And afterward when David heard [it], he said, I and my kingdom [are] guiltless before the LORD for ever from the blood of Abner the son of Ner: Let it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father’s house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or that falleth on the sword, or that lacketh bread.


book: 2Sa
start: 3:32
end: 3:32
text:
And they buried Abner in Hebron: and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept.


book: 2Sa
start: 3:34
end: 3:34
text:
Thy hands [were] not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: as a man falleth before wicked men, [so] fellest thou.


book: 2Sa
start: 3:36
end: 3:36
text:
And all the people took notice [of it], and it pleased them: as whatsoever the king did pleased all the people.


book: 2Sa
start: 3:39
end: 3:39
text:
And I [am] this day weak, though anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah [be] too hard for me: the LORD shall reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness.


book: 2Sa
start: 4:2
end: 4:3
text:
And Saul’s son had two men [that were] captains of bands: the name of the one [was] Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin: (for Beeroth also was reckoned to Benjamin: And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this day.)


book: 2Sa
start: 4:4
end: 4:4
text:
He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame.


book: 2Sa
start: 4:6
end: 4:6
text:
And they came thither into the midst of the house, [as though] they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him under the fifth [rib]: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.


book: 2Sa
start: 4:8
end: 4:8
text:
And they brought the head of Ish–bosheth unto David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the head of Ish–bosheth the son of Saul thine enemy, which sought thy life; and the LORD hath avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.


book: 2Sa
start: 4:9
end: 4:11
text:
¶ And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them, [As] the LORD liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity, When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who [thought] that I would have given him a reward for his tidings: How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?


book: 2Sa
start: 5:2
end: 5:2
text:
Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel.


book: 2Sa
start: 5:3
end: 5:3
text:
So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a league with them in Hebron before the LORD: and they anointed David king over Israel.


book: 2Sa
start: 5:5
end: 5:5
text:
In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all Israel and Judah.


book: 2Sa
start: 5:6
end: 5:6
text:
¶ And the king and his men went to Jerusalem unto the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land: which spake unto David, saying, Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither: thinking, David cannot come in hither.


book: 2Sa
start: 5:11
end: 5:11
text:
¶ And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons: and they built David an house.


book: 2Sa
start: 5:13
end: 5:13
text:
¶ And David took [him] more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron: and there were yet sons and daughters born to David.


book: 2Sa
start: 5:14
end: 5:16
text:
And these [be] the names of those that were born unto him in Jerusalem; Shammua, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, Ibhar also, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Japhia, And Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphalet.


book: 2Sa
start: 5:17
end: 5:17
text:
¶ But when the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines came up to seek David; and David heard [of it], and went down to the hold.


book: 2Sa
start: 5:19
end: 5:19
text:
And David inquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up to the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into mine hand?


book: 2Sa
start: 5:23
end: 5:23
text:
And when David inquired of the LORD, he said, Thou shalt not go up; [but] fetch a compass behind them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees.


book: 2Sa
start: 5:24
end: 5:24
text:
And let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself: for then shall the LORD go out before thee, to smite the host of the Philistines.


book: 2Sa
start: 5:25
end: 5:25
text:
And David did so, as the LORD had commanded him; and smote the Philistines from Geba until thou come to Gazer.


book: 2Sa
start: 6:3
end: 6:3
text:
And they set the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that [was] in Gibeah: and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drave the new cart.


book: 2Sa
start: 6:4
end: 6:4
text:
And they brought it out of the house of Abinadab which [was] at Gibeah, accompanying the ark of God: and Ahio went before the ark.


book: 2Sa
start: 6:6
end: 6:6
text:
¶ And when they came to Nachon’s threshingfloor, Uzzah put forth [his hand] to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook [it].


book: 2Sa
start: 6:7
end: 6:7
text:
And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for [his] error; and there he died by the ark of God.


book: 2Sa
start: 6:8
end: 6:8
text:
And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach upon Uzzah: and he called the name of the place Perez–uzzah to this day.


book: 2Sa
start: 6:10
end: 6:10
text:
So David would not remove the ark of the LORD unto him into the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obed–edom the Gittite.


book: 2Sa
start: 6:11
end: 6:11
text:
And the ark of the LORD continued in the house of Obed–edom the Gittite three months: and the LORD blessed Obed–edom, and all his household.


book: 2Sa
start: 6:16
end: 6:16
text:
And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul’s daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.


book: 2Sa
start: 6:17
end: 6:17
text:
¶ And they brought in the ark of the LORD, and set it in his place, in the midst of the tabernacle that David had pitched for it: and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.


book: 2Sa
start: 6:21
end: 6:21
text:
And David said unto Michal, [It was] before the LORD, which chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the LORD, over Israel: therefore will I play before the LORD.


book: 2Sa
start: 6:22
end: 6:22
text:
And I will yet be more vile than thus, and will be base in mine own sight: and of the maidservants which thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honour.


book: 2Sa
start: 7:1
end: 7:2
text:
And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the LORD had given him rest round about from all his enemies; That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.


book: 2Sa
start: 7:8
end: 7:9
text:
Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel: And I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies out of thy sight, and have made thee a great name, like unto the name of the great [men] that [are] in the earth.


book: 2Sa
start: 7:10
end: 7:11
text:
Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime, And as since the time that I commanded judges [to be] over my people Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies.


book: 2Sa
start: 7:14
end: 7:15
text:
If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men: But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took [it] from Saul, whom I put away before thee.


book: 2Sa
start: 7:16
end: 7:16
text:
And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.


book: 2Sa
start: 7:18
end: 7:18
text:
¶ Then went king David in, and sat before the LORD, and he said, Who [am] I, O Lord GOD? and what [is] my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?


book: 2Sa
start: 7:19
end: 7:19
text:
And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord GOD; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant’s house for a great while to come.


book: 2Sa
start: 7:22
end: 7:22
text:
Wherefore thou art great, O LORD God: for [there is] none like thee, neither [is there any] God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.


book: 2Sa
start: 7:24
end: 7:24
text:
For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel [to be] a people unto thee for ever: and thou, LORD, art become their God.


book: 2Sa
start: 7:26
end: 7:26
text:
And let thy name be magnified for ever, saying, The LORD of hosts [is] the God over Israel: and let the house of thy servant David be established before thee.


book: 2Sa
start: 7:27
end: 7:27
text:
For thou, O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, hast revealed to thy servant, saying, I will build thee an house: therefore hath thy servant found in his heart to pray this prayer unto thee.


book: 2Sa
start: 7:28
end: 7:29
text:
And now, O Lord GOD, thou [art] that God, and thy words be true, and thou hast promised this goodness unto thy servant: Therefore now let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue for ever before thee: for thou, O Lord GOD, hast spoken [it]: and with thy blessing let the house of thy servant be blessed for ever.


book: 2Sa
start: 8:1
end: 8:1
text:
And after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them: and David took Metheg–ammah out of the hand of the Philistines.


book: 2Sa
start: 8:2
end: 8:2
text:
And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive.


book: 2Sa
start: 8:4
end: 8:4
text:
And David took from him a thousand [chariots], and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David houghed all the chariot [horses], but reserved of them [for] an hundred chariots.


book: 2Sa
start: 8:6
end: 8:6
text:
Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and the Syrians became servants to David, [and] brought gifts.


book: 2Sa
start: 8:9
end: 8:10
text:
¶ When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the host of Hadadezer, Then Toi sent Joram his son unto king David, to salute him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer, and smitten him: for Hadadezer had wars with Toi.


book: 2Sa
start: 8:10
end: 8:12
text:
And [Joram] brought with him vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brass: Which also king David did dedicate unto the LORD, with the silver and gold that he had dedicated of all nations which he subdued; Of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah.


book: 2Sa
start: 8:14
end: 8:14
text:
¶ And he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom put he garrisons, and all they of Edom became David’s servants.


book: 2Sa
start: 8:16
end: 8:18
text:
And Joab the son of Zeruiah [was] over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud [was] recorder; And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, [were] the priests; and Seraiah [was] the scribe; And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada [was over] both the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David’s sons were chief rulers.


book: 2Sa
start: 9:7
end: 9:7
text:
¶ And David said unto him, Fear not: for I will surely shew thee kindness for Jonathan thy father’s sake, and will restore thee all the land of Saul thy father; and thou shalt eat bread at my table continually.


book: 2Sa
start: 9:10
end: 9:10
text:
Thou therefore, and thy sons, and thy servants, shall till the land for him, and thou shalt bring in [the fruits], that thy master’s son may have food to eat: but Mephibosheth thy master’s son shall eat bread alway at my table.


book: 2Sa
start: 9:13
end: 9:13
text:
So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem: for he did eat continually at the king’s table; and was lame on both his feet.


book: 2Sa
start: 10:3
end: 10:3
text:
And the princes of the children of Ammon said unto Hanun their lord, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? hath not David [rather] sent his servants unto thee, to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?


book: 2Sa
start: 10:5
end: 10:5
text:
When they told [it] unto David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and [then] return.


book: 2Sa
start: 10:8
end: 10:8
text:
And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entering in of the gate: and the Syrians of Zoba, and of Rehob, and Ish–tob, and Maacah, [were] by themselves in the field.


book: 2Sa
start: 10:9
end: 10:10
text:
When Joab saw that the front of the battle was against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice [men] of Israel, and put [them] in array against the Syrians: And the rest of the people he delivered into the hand of Abishai his brother, that he might put [them] in array against the children of Ammon.


book: 2Sa
start: 10:11
end: 10:11
text:
And he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou shalt help me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, then I will come and help thee.


book: 2Sa
start: 10:12
end: 10:12
text:
Be of good courage, and let us play the men for our people, and for the cities of our God: and the LORD do that which seemeth him good.


book: 2Sa
start: 10:13
end: 10:13
text:
And Joab drew nigh, and the people that [were] with him, unto the battle against the Syrians: and they fled before him.


book: 2Sa
start: 10:16
end: 10:16
text:
And Hadarezer sent, and brought out the Syrians that [were] beyond the river: and they came to Helam; and Shobach the captain of the host of Hadarezer [went] before them.


book: 2Sa
start: 10:18
end: 10:18
text:
And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew [the men of] seven hundred chariots of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen, and smote Shobach the captain of their host, who died there.


book: 2Sa
start: 11:1
end: 11:1
text:
And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth [to battle], that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah.


book: 2Sa
start: 11:2
end: 11:2
text:
¶ And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman [was] very beautiful to look upon.


book: 2Sa
start: 11:4
end: 11:4
text:
And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house.


book: 2Sa
start: 11:10
end: 11:10
text:
And when they had told David, saying, Uriah went not down unto his house, David said unto Uriah, Camest thou not from [thy] journey? why [then] didst thou not go down unto thine house?


book: 2Sa
start: 11:11
end: 11:11
text:
And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? [as] thou livest, and [as] thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing.


book: 2Sa
start: 11:13
end: 11:13
text:
And when David had called him, he did eat and drink before him; and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house.


book: 2Sa
start: 11:17
end: 11:17
text:
And the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and there fell [some] of the people of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite died also.


book: 2Sa
start: 11:18
end: 11:20
text:
¶ Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war; And charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war unto the king, And if so be that the king’s wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall?


book: 2Sa
start: 11:21
end: 11:21
text:
Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.


book: 2Sa
start: 11:24
end: 11:24
text:
And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants; and [some] of the king’s servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.


book: 2Sa
start: 11:25
end: 11:25
text:
Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him.


book: 2Sa
start: 12:1
end: 12:1
text:
And he came unto him, and said unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.


book: 2Sa
start: 12:2
end: 12:3
text:
The rich [man] had exceeding many flocks and herds: But the poor [man] had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.


book: 2Sa
start: 12:4
end: 12:4
text:
And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man’s lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.


book: 2Sa
start: 12:5
end: 12:6
text:
And David’s anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, [As] the LORD liveth, the man that hath done this [thing] shall surely die: And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.


book: 2Sa
start: 12:7
end: 12:8
text:
Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul; And I gave thee thy master’s house, and thy master’s wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if [that had been] too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things.


book: 2Sa
start: 12:9
end: 12:9
text:
Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife [to be] thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.


book: 2Sa
start: 12:10
end: 12:10
text:
Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.


book: 2Sa
start: 12:16
end: 12:16
text:
David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.


book: 2Sa
start: 12:17
end: 12:17
text:
And the elders of his house arose, [and went] to him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.


book: 2Sa
start: 12:18
end: 12:18
text:
And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead: for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spake unto him, and he would not hearken unto our voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?


book: 2Sa
start: 12:19
end: 12:19
text:
But when David saw that his servants whispered, David perceived that the child was dead: therefore David said unto his servants, Is the child dead?


book: 2Sa
start: 12:20
end: 12:20
text:
Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed [himself], and changed his apparel, and came into the house of the LORD, and worshipped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat.


book: 2Sa
start: 12:21
end: 12:21
text:
Then said his servants unto him, What thing [is] this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, [while it was] alive; but when the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread.


book: 2Sa
start: 12:22
end: 12:22
text:
And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell [whether] GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?


book: 2Sa
start: 12:24
end: 12:24
text:
¶ And David comforted Bath–sheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon: and the LORD loved him.


book: 2Sa
start: 12:25
end: 12:25
text:
And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he called his name Jedidiah, because of the LORD.


book: 2Sa
start: 12:28
end: 12:28
text:
Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it: lest I take the city, and it be called after my name.


book: 2Sa
start: 12:30
end: 12:30
text:
And he took their king’s crown from off his head, the weight whereof [was] a talent of gold with the precious stones: and it was [set] on David’s head.


book: 2Sa
start: 12:31
end: 12:31
text:
And he brought forth the people that [were] therein, and put [them] under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brickkiln: and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon.


book: 2Sa
start: 13:1
end: 13:1
text:
And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name [was] Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.


book: 2Sa
start: 13:2
end: 13:2
text:
And Amnon was so vexed, that he fell sick for his sister Tamar; for she [was] a virgin; and Amnon thought it hard for him to do any thing to her.


book: 2Sa
start: 13:3
end: 13:3
text:
But Amnon had a friend, whose name [was] Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David’s brother: and Jonadab [was] a very subtil man.


book: 2Sa
start: 13:4
end: 13:4
text:
And he said unto him, Why [art] thou, [being] the king’s son, lean from day to day? wilt thou not tell me?


book: 2Sa
start: 13:5
end: 13:5
text:
And Jonadab said unto him, Lay thee down on thy bed, and make thyself sick: and when thy father cometh to see thee, say unto him, I pray thee, let my sister Tamar come, and give me meat, and dress the meat in my sight, that I may see [it], and eat [it] at her hand.


book: 2Sa
start: 13:6
end: 13:6
text:
¶ So Amnon lay down, and made himself sick: and when the king was come to see him, Amnon said unto the king, I pray thee, let Tamar my sister come, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat at her hand.


book: 2Sa
start: 13:12
end: 13:12
text:
And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly.


book: 2Sa
start: 13:13
end: 13:13
text:
And I, whither shall I cause my shame to go? and as for thee, thou shalt be as one of the fools in Israel.


book: 2Sa
start: 13:14
end: 13:14
text:
Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice: but, being stronger than she, forced her, and lay with her.


book: 2Sa
start: 13:15
end: 13:15
text:
¶ Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred wherewith he hated her [was] greater than the love wherewith he had loved her.


book: 2Sa
start: 13:16
end: 13:16
text:
And she said unto him, [There is] no cause: this evil in sending me away [is] greater than the other that thou didst unto me.


book: 2Sa
start: 13:18
end: 13:18
text:
And [she had] a garment of divers colours upon her: for with such robes were the king’s daughters [that were] virgins apparelled.


book: 2Sa
start: 13:20
end: 13:20
text:
And Absalom her brother said unto her, Hath Amnon thy brother been with thee? but hold now thy peace, my sister: he [is] thy brother; regard not this thing.


book: 2Sa
start: 13:22
end: 13:22
text:
And Absalom spake unto his brother Amnon neither good nor bad: for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.


book: 2Sa
start: 13:23
end: 13:23
text:
¶ And it came to pass after two full years, that Absalom had sheepshearers in Baal–hazor, which [is] beside Ephraim: and Absalom invited all the king’s sons.


book: 2Sa
start: 13:24
end: 13:24
text:
And Absalom came to the king, and said, Behold now, thy servant hath sheepshearers; let the king, I beseech thee, and his servants go with thy servant.


book: 2Sa
start: 13:28
end: 13:28
text:
¶ Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto you, Smite Amnon; then kill him, fear not: have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant.


book: 2Sa
start: 13:31
end: 13:31
text:
Then the king arose, and tare his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes rent.


book: 2Sa
start: 13:32
end: 13:32
text:
And Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David’s brother, answered and said, Let not my lord suppose [that] they have slain all the young men the king’s sons; for Amnon only is dead: for by the appointment of Absalom this hath been determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar.


book: 2Sa
start: 13:33
end: 13:33
text:
Now therefore let not my lord the king take the thing to his heart, to think that all the king’s sons are dead: for Amnon only is dead.


book: 2Sa
start: 13:36
end: 13:36
text:
And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of speaking, that, behold, the king’s sons came, and lifted up their voice and wept: and the king also and all his servants wept very sore.


book: 2Sa
start: 13:39
end: 13:39
text:
And [the soul of] king David longed to go forth unto Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.


book: 2Sa
start: 14:2
end: 14:3
text:
And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead: And come to the king, and speak on this manner unto him.


book: 2Sa
start: 14:7
end: 14:7
text:
And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall quench my coal which is left, and shall not leave to my husband [neither] name nor remainder upon the earth.


book: 2Sa
start: 14:9
end: 14:9
text:
And the woman of Tekoah said unto the king, My lord, O king, the iniquity [be] on me, and on my father’s house: and the king and his throne [be] guiltless.


book: 2Sa
start: 14:13
end: 14:13
text:
And the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou thought such a thing against the people of God? for the king doth speak this thing as one which is faulty, in that the king doth not fetch home again his banished.


book: 2Sa
start: 14:14
end: 14:14
text:
For we must needs die, and [are] as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect [any] person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.


book: 2Sa
start: 14:15
end: 14:15
text:
Now therefore that I am come to speak of this thing unto my lord the king, [it is] because the people have made me afraid: and thy handmaid said, I will now speak unto the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his handmaid.


book: 2Sa
start: 14:17
end: 14:17
text:
Then thine handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable: for as an angel of God, so [is] my lord the king to discern good and bad: therefore the LORD thy God will be with thee.


book: 2Sa
start: 14:19
end: 14:20
text:
And the woman answered and said, [As] thy soul liveth, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from ought that my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thine handmaid: To fetch about this form of speech hath thy servant Joab done this thing: and my lord [is] wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all [things] that [are] in the earth.


book: 2Sa
start: 14:21
end: 14:21
text:
¶ And the king said unto Joab, Behold now, I have done this thing: go therefore, bring the young man Absalom again.


book: 2Sa
start: 14:22
end: 14:22
text:
And Joab fell to the ground on his face, and bowed himself, and thanked the king: and Joab said, To day thy servant knoweth that I have found grace in thy sight, my lord, O king, in that the king hath fulfilled the request of his servant.


book: 2Sa
start: 14:25
end: 14:25
text:
¶ But in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.


book: 2Sa
start: 14:26
end: 14:26
text:
And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year’s end that he polled [it]: because [the hair] was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king’s weight.


book: 2Sa
start: 14:27
end: 14:27
text:
And unto Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name [was] Tamar: she was a woman of a fair countenance.


book: 2Sa
start: 14:29
end: 14:29
text:
Therefore Absalom sent for Joab, to have sent him to the king; but he would not come to him: and when he sent again the second time, he would not come.


book: 2Sa
start: 14:30
end: 14:30
text:
Therefore he said unto his servants, See, Joab’s field is near mine, and he hath barley there; go and set it on fire.


book: 2Sa
start: 14:32
end: 14:32
text:
And Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent unto thee, saying, Come hither, that I may send thee to the king, to say, Wherefore am I come from Geshur? [it had been] good for me [to have been] there still: now therefore let me see the king’s face; and if there be [any] iniquity in me, let him kill me.


book: 2Sa
start: 14:33
end: 14:33
text:
So Joab came to the king, and told him: and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king: and the king kissed Absalom.


book: 2Sa
start: 15:2
end: 15:2
text:
And Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate: and it was [so], that when any man that had a controversy came to the king for judgment, then Absalom called unto him, and said, Of what city [art] thou?


book: 2Sa
start: 15:3
end: 15:3
text:
And Absalom said unto him, See, thy matters [are] good and right; but [there is] no man [deputed] of the king to hear thee.


book: 2Sa
start: 15:6
end: 15:6
text:
And on this manner did Absalom to all Israel that came to the king for judgment: so Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.


book: 2Sa
start: 15:11
end: 15:11
text:
And with Absalom went two hundred men out of Jerusalem, [that were] called; and they went in their simplicity, and they knew not any thing.


book: 2Sa
start: 15:14
end: 15:14
text:
And David said unto all his servants that [were] with him at Jerusalem, Arise, and let us flee; for we shall not [else] escape from Absalom: make speed to depart, lest he overtake us suddenly, and bring evil upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword.


book: 2Sa
start: 15:18
end: 15:18
text:
And all his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men which came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.


book: 2Sa
start: 15:19
end: 15:19
text:
¶ Then said the king to Ittai the Gittite, Wherefore goest thou also with us? return to thy place, and abide with the king: for thou [art] a stranger, and also an exile.


book: 2Sa
start: 15:20
end: 15:20
text:
Whereas thou camest [but] yesterday, should I this day make thee go up and down with us? seeing I go whither I may, return thou, and take back thy brethren: mercy and truth [be] with thee.


book: 2Sa
start: 15:23
end: 15:23
text:
And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.


book: 2Sa
start: 15:24
end: 15:24
text:
¶ And lo Zadok also, and all the Levites [were] with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God: and they set down the ark of God; and Abiathar went up, until all the people had done passing out of the city.


book: 2Sa
start: 15:25
end: 15:26
text:
And the king said unto Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city: if I shall find favour in the eyes of the LORD, he will bring me again, and shew me [both] it, and his habitation: But if he thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold, [here am] I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him.


book: 2Sa
start: 15:27
end: 15:27
text:
The king said also unto Zadok the priest, [Art not] thou a seer? return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz thy son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.


book: 2Sa
start: 15:30
end: 15:30
text:
¶ And David went up by the ascent of [mount] Olivet, and wept as he went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot: and all the people that [was] with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.


book: 2Sa
start: 15:32
end: 15:34
text:
¶ And it came to pass, that [when] David was come to the top [of the mount], where he worshipped God, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat rent, and earth upon his head: Unto whom David said, If thou passest on with me, then thou shalt be a burden unto me: But if thou return to the city, and say unto Absalom, I will be thy servant, O king; [as] I [have been] thy father’s servant hitherto, so [will] I now also [be] thy servant: then mayest thou for me defeat the counsel of Ahithophel.


book: 2Sa
start: 15:35
end: 15:35
text:
And [hast thou] not there with thee Zadok and Abiathar the priests? therefore it shall be, [that] what thing soever thou shalt hear out of the king’s house, thou shalt tell [it] to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.


book: 2Sa
start: 15:36
end: 15:36
text:
Behold, [they have] there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz Zadok’s [son], and Jonathan Abiathar’s [son]; and by them ye shall send unto me every thing that ye can hear.


book: 2Sa
start: 16:2
end: 16:2
text:
And Ziba said, The asses [be] for the king’s household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as be faint in the wilderness may drink.


book: 2Sa
start: 16:3
end: 16:3
text:
And Ziba said unto the king, Behold, he abideth at Jerusalem: for he said, To day shall the house of Israel restore me the kingdom of my father.


book: 2Sa
start: 16:5
end: 16:5
text:
¶ And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, thence came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name [was] Shimei, the son of Gera: he came forth, and cursed still as he came.


book: 2Sa
start: 16:6
end: 16:6
text:
And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men [were] on his right hand and on his left.


book: 2Sa
start: 16:7
end: 16:8
text:
And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial: The LORD hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and the LORD hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and, behold, thou [art taken] in thy mischief, because thou [art] a bloody man.


book: 2Sa
start: 16:9
end: 16:9
text:
¶ Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head.


book: 2Sa
start: 16:10
end: 16:10
text:
And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? so let him curse, because the LORD hath said unto him, Curse David.


book: 2Sa
start: 16:11
end: 16:11
text:
And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now [may this] Benjamite [do it]? let him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD hath bidden him.


book: 2Sa
start: 16:17
end: 16:17
text:
And Absalom said to Hushai, [Is] this thy kindness to thy friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend?


book: 2Sa
start: 16:18
end: 16:18
text:
And Hushai said unto Absalom, Nay; but whom the LORD, and this people, and all the men of Israel, choose, his will I be, and with him will I abide.


book: 2Sa
start: 16:19
end: 16:19
text:
And again, whom should I serve? [should I] not [serve] in the presence of his son? as I have served in thy father’s presence, so will I be in thy presence.


book: 2Sa
start: 16:21
end: 16:21
text:
And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in unto thy father’s concubines, which he hath left to keep the house; and all Israel shall hear that thou art abhorred of thy father: then shall the hands of all that [are] with thee be strong.


book: 2Sa
start: 16:22
end: 16:22
text:
So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.


book: 2Sa
start: 16:23
end: 16:23
text:
And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those days, [was] as if a man had inquired at the oracle of God: so [was] all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.


book: 2Sa
start: 17:1
end: 17:3
text:
Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night: And I will come upon him while he [is] weary and weak handed, and will make him afraid: and all the people that [are] with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only: And I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest [is] as if all returned: [so] all the people shall be in peace.


book: 2Sa
start: 17:6
end: 17:6
text:
And when Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom spake unto him, saying, Ahithophel hath spoken after this manner: shall we do [after] his saying? if not; speak thou.


book: 2Sa
start: 17:8
end: 17:8
text:
For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that they [be] mighty men, and they [be] chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father [is] a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.


book: 2Sa
start: 17:9
end: 17:9
text:
Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some [other] place: and it will come to pass, when some of them be overthrown at the first, that whosoever heareth it will say, There is a slaughter among the people that follow Absalom.


book: 2Sa
start: 17:10
end: 17:10
text:
And he also [that is] valiant, whose heart [is] as the heart of a lion, shall utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that thy father [is] a mighty man, and [they] which [be] with him [are] valiant men.


book: 2Sa
start: 17:11
end: 17:11
text:
Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto thee, from Dan even to Beer–sheba, as the sand that [is] by the sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person.


book: 2Sa
start: 17:12
end: 17:12
text:
So shall we come upon him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light upon him as the dew falleth on the ground: and of him and of all the men that [are] with him there shall not be left so much as one.


book: 2Sa
start: 17:15
end: 17:15
text:
¶ Then said Hushai unto Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel; and thus and thus have I counselled.


book: 2Sa
start: 17:16
end: 17:16
text:
Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that [are] with him.


book: 2Sa
start: 17:17
end: 17:17
text:
Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by En–rogel; for they might not be seen to come into the city: and a wench went and told them; and they went and told king David.


book: 2Sa
start: 17:18
end: 17:18
text:
Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but they went both of them away quickly, and came to a man’s house in Bahurim, which had a well in his court; whither they went down.


book: 2Sa
start: 17:19
end: 17:19
text:
And the woman took and spread a covering over the well’s mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.


book: 2Sa
start: 17:21
end: 17:21
text:
And it came to pass, after they were departed, that they came up out of the well, and went and told king David, and said unto David, Arise, and pass quickly over the water: for thus hath Ahithophel counselled against you.


book: 2Sa
start: 17:22
end: 17:22
text:
Then David arose, and all the people that [were] with him, and they passed over Jordan: by the morning light there lacked not one of them that was not gone over Jordan.


book: 2Sa
start: 17:25
end: 17:25
text:
¶ And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab: which Amasa [was] a man’s son, whose name [was] Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab’s mother.


book: 2Sa
start: 17:27
end: 17:29
text:
¶ And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lo–debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim, Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched [corn], and beans, and lentiles, and parched [pulse], And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that [were] with him, to eat: for they said, The people [is] hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.


book: 2Sa
start: 18:3
end: 18:3
text:
But the people answered, Thou shalt not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but now [thou art] worth ten thousand of us: therefore now [it is] better that thou succour us out of the city.


book: 2Sa
start: 18:6
end: 18:7
text:
¶ So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim; Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand [men].


book: 2Sa
start: 18:8
end: 18:8
text:
For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.


book: 2Sa
start: 18:9
end: 18:9
text:
And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that [was] under him went away.


book: 2Sa
start: 18:11
end: 18:11
text:
And Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou sawest [him], and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given thee ten [shekels] of silver, and a girdle.


book: 2Sa
start: 18:12
end: 18:12
text:
And the man said unto Joab, Though I should receive a thousand [shekels] of silver in mine hand, [yet] would I not put forth mine hand against the king’s son: for in our hearing the king charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none [touch] the young man Absalom.


book: 2Sa
start: 18:13
end: 18:13
text:
Otherwise I should have wrought falsehood against mine own life: for there is no matter hid from the king, and thou thyself wouldest have set thyself against [me].


book: 2Sa
start: 18:16
end: 18:16
text:
And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel: for Joab held back the people.


book: 2Sa
start: 18:17
end: 18:17
text:
And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the wood, and laid a very great heap of stones upon him: and all Israel fled every one to his tent.


book: 2Sa
start: 18:18
end: 18:18
text:
¶ Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which [is] in the king’s dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name: and it is called unto this day, Absalom’s place.


book: 2Sa
start: 18:20
end: 18:20
text:
And Joab said unto him, Thou shalt not bear tidings this day, but thou shalt bear tidings another day: but this day thou shalt bear no tidings, because the king’s son is dead.


book: 2Sa
start: 18:24
end: 18:24
text:
And David sat between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold a man running alone.


book: 2Sa
start: 18:26
end: 18:26
text:
And the watchman saw another man running: and the watchman called unto the porter, and said, Behold [another] man running alone.


book: 2Sa
start: 18:31
end: 18:31
text:
And, behold, Cushi came; and Cushi said, Tidings, my lord the king: for the LORD hath avenged thee this day of all them that rose up against thee.


book: 2Sa
start: 18:33
end: 18:33
text:
¶ And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!


book: 2Sa
start: 19:2
end: 19:2
text:
And the victory that day was [turned] into mourning unto all the people: for the people heard say that day how the king was grieved for his son.


book: 2Sa
start: 19:5
end: 19:6
text:
And Joab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, which this day have saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy wives, and the lives of thy concubines; In that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends.


book: 2Sa
start: 19:6
end: 19:6
text:
For thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest neither princes nor servants: for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well.


book: 2Sa
start: 19:7
end: 19:7
text:
Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy servants: for I swear by the LORD, if thou go not forth, there will not tarry one with thee this night: and that will be worse unto thee than all the evil that befell thee from thy youth until now.


book: 2Sa
start: 19:9
end: 19:9
text:
¶ And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king saved us out of the hand of our enemies, and he delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is fled out of the land for Absalom.


book: 2Sa
start: 19:11
end: 19:11
text:
¶ And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye the last to bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is come to the king, [even] to his house.


book: 2Sa
start: 19:12
end: 19:12
text:
Ye [are] my brethren, ye [are] my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?


book: 2Sa
start: 19:14
end: 19:14
text:
And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as [the heart of] one man; so that they sent [this word] unto the king, Return thou, and all thy servants.


book: 2Sa
start: 19:17
end: 19:17
text:
And [there were] a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went over Jordan before the king.


book: 2Sa
start: 19:18
end: 19:19
text:
And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, as he was come over Jordan; And said unto the king, Let not my lord impute iniquity unto me, neither do thou remember that which thy servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.


book: 2Sa
start: 19:20
end: 19:20
text:
For thy servant doth know that I have sinned: therefore, behold, I am come the first this day of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.


book: 2Sa
start: 19:22
end: 19:22
text:
And David said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversaries unto me? shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel? for do not I know that I [am] this day king over Israel?


book: 2Sa
start: 19:26
end: 19:26
text:
And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for thy servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and go to the king; because thy servant [is] lame.


book: 2Sa
start: 19:27
end: 19:27
text:
And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but my lord the king [is] as an angel of God: do therefore [what is] good in thine eyes.


book: 2Sa
start: 19:28
end: 19:28
text:
For all [of] my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table.


book: 2Sa
start: 19:32
end: 19:32
text:
Now Barzillai was a very aged man, [even] fourscore years old: and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he [was] a very great man.


book: 2Sa
start: 19:35
end: 19:35
text:
I [am] this day fourscore years old: [and] can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?


book: 2Sa
start: 19:36
end: 19:36
text:
Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?


book: 2Sa
start: 19:37
end: 19:37
text:
But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee.


book: 2Sa
start: 19:38
end: 19:38
text:
And the king answered, Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good unto thee: and whatsoever thou shalt require of me, [that] will I do for thee.


book: 2Sa
start: 19:39
end: 19:39
text:
And when the king was come over, the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned unto his own place.


book: 2Sa
start: 19:40
end: 19:40
text:
Then the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him: and all the people of Judah conducted the king, and also half the people of Israel.


book: 2Sa
start: 19:42
end: 19:42
text:
And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king [is] near of kin to us: wherefore then be ye angry for this matter? have we eaten at all of the king’s [cost]? or hath he given us any gift?


book: 2Sa
start: 19:43
end: 19:43
text:
And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more [right] in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king?


book: 2Sa
start: 20:1
end: 20:1
text:
And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name [was] Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.


book: 2Sa
start: 20:2
end: 20:2
text:
So every man of Israel went up from after David, [and] followed Sheba the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah clave unto their king, from Jordan even to Jerusalem.


book: 2Sa
start: 20:3
end: 20:3
text:
¶ And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women [his] concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them.


book: 2Sa
start: 20:5
end: 20:5
text:
So Amasa went to assemble [the men of] Judah: but he tarried longer than the set time which he had appointed him.


book: 2Sa
start: 20:6
end: 20:6
text:
And David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than [did] Absalom: take thou thy lord’s servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fenced cities, and escape us.


book: 2Sa
start: 20:7
end: 20:7
text:
And there went out after him Joab’s men, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men: and they went out of Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.


book: 2Sa
start: 20:8
end: 20:8
text:
And Joab’s garment that he had put on was girded unto him, and upon it a girdle [with] a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out.


book: 2Sa
start: 20:10
end: 20:10
text:
But Amasa took no heed to the sword that [was] in Joab’s hand: so he smote him therewith in the fifth [rib], and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died.


book: 2Sa
start: 20:14
end: 20:14
text:
¶ And he went through all the tribes of Israel unto Abel, and to Beth–maachah, and all the Berites: and they were gathered together, and went also after him.


book: 2Sa
start: 20:15
end: 20:15
text:
And they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth–maachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that [were] with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.


book: 2Sa
start: 20:16
end: 20:16
text:
¶ Then cried a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear; say, I pray you, unto Joab, Come near hither, that I may speak with thee.


book: 2Sa
start: 20:18
end: 20:18
text:
Then she spake, saying, They were wont to speak in old time, saying, They shall surely ask [counsel] at Abel: and so they ended [the matter].


book: 2Sa
start: 20:19
end: 20:19
text:
I [am one of them that are] peaceable [and] faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?


book: 2Sa
start: 20:21
end: 20:21
text:
The matter [is] not so: but a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand against the king, [even] against David: deliver him only, and I will depart from the city.


book: 2Sa
start: 20:23
end: 20:26
text:
¶ Now Joab [was] over all the host of Israel: and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada [was] over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites: And Adoram [was] over the tribute: and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud [was] recorder: And Sheva [was] scribe: and Zadok and Abiathar [were] the priests: And Ira also the Jairite was a chief ruler about David.


book: 2Sa
start: 21:1
end: 21:1
text:
Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of the LORD.


book: 2Sa
start: 21:2
end: 21:2
text:
And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites [were] not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)


book: 2Sa
start: 21:3
end: 21:3
text:
Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the LORD?


book: 2Sa
start: 21:4
end: 21:4
text:
And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel.


book: 2Sa
start: 21:8
end: 21:9
text:
But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite: And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell [all] seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first [days], in the beginning of barley harvest.


book: 2Sa
start: 21:12
end: 21:13
text:
¶ And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh–gilead, which had stolen them from the street of Beth–shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa: And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.


book: 2Sa
start: 21:14
end: 21:14
text:
And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded.


book: 2Sa
start: 21:15
end: 21:15
text:
¶ Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines: and David waxed faint.


book: 2Sa
start: 21:18
end: 21:18
text:
And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph, which [was] of the sons of the giant.


book: 2Sa
start: 21:20
end: 21:20
text:
And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of [great] stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant.


book: 2Sa
start: 22:1
end: 22:3
text:
And David spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day [that] the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul: And he said, The LORD [is] my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; The God of my rock; in him will I trust: [he is] my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.


book: 2Sa
start: 22:5
end: 22:7
text:
When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid; The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me; In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry [did enter] into his ears.


book: 2Sa
start: 22:9
end: 22:9
text:
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.


book: 2Sa
start: 22:17
end: 22:18
text:
He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters; He delivered me from my strong enemy, [and] from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.


book: 2Sa
start: 22:21
end: 22:21
text:
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.


book: 2Sa
start: 22:25
end: 22:25
text:
Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight.


book: 2Sa
start: 22:28
end: 22:28
text:
And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes [are] upon the haughty, [that] thou mayest bring [them] down.


book: 2Sa
start: 22:31
end: 22:31
text:
[As for] God, his way [is] perfect; the word of the LORD [is] tried: he [is] a buckler to all them that trust in him.


book: 2Sa
start: 22:39
end: 22:39
text:
And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet.


book: 2Sa
start: 22:40
end: 22:40
text:
For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me.


book: 2Sa
start: 22:44
end: 22:44
text:
Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me [to be] head of the heathen: a people [which] I knew not shall serve me.


book: 2Sa
start: 22:48
end: 22:49
text:
It [is] God that avengeth me, and that bringeth down the people under me, And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies: thou also hast lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.


book: 2Sa
start: 22:51
end: 22:51
text:
[He is] the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore.


book: 2Sa
start: 23:4
end: 23:4
text:
And [he shall be] as the light of the morning, [when] the sun riseth, [even] a morning without clouds; [as] the tender grass [springing] out of the earth by clear shining after rain.


book: 2Sa
start: 23:5
end: 23:5
text:
Although my house [be] not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all [things], and sure: for [this is] all my salvation, and all [my] desire, although he make [it] not to grow.


book: 2Sa
start: 23:6
end: 23:7
text:
¶ But [the sons] of Belial [shall be] all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands: But the man [that] shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the [same] place.


book: 2Sa
start: 23:8
end: 23:8
text:
¶ These [be] the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same [was] Adino the Eznite: [he lift up his spear] against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time.


book: 2Sa
start: 23:9
end: 23:10
text:
And after him [was] Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, [one] of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines [that] were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away: He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword: and the LORD wrought a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to spoil.


book: 2Sa
start: 23:11
end: 23:11
text:
And the Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was a piece of ground full of lentiles: and the people fled from the Philistines.


book: 2Sa
start: 23:12
end: 23:12
text:
But he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and slew the Philistines: and the LORD wrought a great victory.


book: 2Sa
start: 23:13
end: 23:13
text:
And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam: and the troop of the Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim.


book: 2Sa
start: 23:16
end: 23:16
text:
And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth–lehem, that [was] by the gate, and took [it], and brought [it] to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD.


book: 2Sa
start: 23:17
end: 23:17
text:
And he said, Be it far from me, O LORD, that I should do this: [is not this] the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it.


book: 2Sa
start: 23:19
end: 23:19
text:
Was he not most honourable of three? therefore he was their captain: howbeit he attained not unto the [first] three.


book: 2Sa
start: 23:20
end: 23:21
text:
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow: And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and slew him with his own spear.


book: 2Sa
start: 23:24
end: 23:39
text:
Asahel the brother of Joab [was] one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth–lehem, Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite, Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Anethothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite, Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite, Heleb the son of Baanah, a Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai out of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash, Abi–albon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite, of the sons of Jashen, Jonathan, Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Hararite, Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maachathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite, Hezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite, Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite, Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, armourbearer to Joab the son of Zeruiah, Ira an Ithrite, Gareb an Ithrite, Uriah the Hittite: thirty and seven in all.


book: 2Sa
start: 24:3
end: 24:3
text:
And Joab said unto the king, Now the LORD thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see [it]: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?


book: 2Sa
start: 24:5
end: 24:7
text:
¶ And they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the right side of the city that [lieth] in the midst of the river of Gad, and toward Jazer: Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim–hodshi; and they came to Dan–jaan, and about to Zidon, And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the south of Judah, [even] to Beer–sheba.


book: 2Sa
start: 24:9
end: 24:9
text:
And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah [were] five hundred thousand men.


book: 2Sa
start: 24:10
end: 24:10
text:
And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in that I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.


book: 2Sa
start: 24:11
end: 24:12
text:
For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying, Go and say unto David, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three [things]; choose thee one of them, that I may [do it] unto thee.


book: 2Sa
start: 24:13
end: 24:13
text:
So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days’ pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.


book: 2Sa
start: 24:14
end: 24:14
text:
And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies [are] great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.


book: 2Sa
start: 24:15
end: 24:15
text:
¶ So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beer–sheba seventy thousand men.


book: 2Sa
start: 24:16
end: 24:16
text:
And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand.


book: 2Sa
start: 24:17
end: 24:17
text:
And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father’s house.


book: 2Sa
start: 24:20
end: 24:20
text:
And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king on his face upon the ground.


book: 2Sa
start: 24:22
end: 24:22
text:
And Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what [seemeth] good unto him: behold, [here be] oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments and [other] instruments of the oxen for wood.


book: 2Sa
start: 24:24
end: 24:24
text:
And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy [it] of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing.


book: 1Ki
start: 1:1
end: 1:1
text:
Now king David was old [and] stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.


book: 1Ki
start: 1:2
end: 1:2
text:
Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat.


book: 1Ki
start: 1:4
end: 1:4
text:
And the damsel [was] very fair, and cherished the king, and ministered to him: but the king knew her not.


book: 1Ki
start: 1:5
end: 1:5
text:
¶ Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.


book: 1Ki
start: 1:6
end: 1:6
text:
And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he also [was a] very goodly [man]; and [his mother] bare him after Absalom.


book: 1Ki
start: 1:7
end: 1:7
text:
And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest: and they following Adonijah helped [him].


book: 1Ki
start: 1:9
end: 1:10
text:
And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of Zoheleth, which [is] by En–rogel, and called all his brethren the king’s sons, and all the men of Judah the king’s servants: But Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother, he called not.


book: 1Ki
start: 1:13
end: 1:13
text:
Go and get thee in unto king David, and say unto him, Didst not thou, my lord, O king, swear unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? why then doth Adonijah reign?


book: 1Ki
start: 1:15
end: 1:15
text:
¶ And Bath–sheba went in unto the king into the chamber: and the king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite ministered unto the king.


book: 1Ki
start: 1:18
end: 1:19
text:
And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth; and now, my lord the king, thou knowest [it] not: And he hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the host: but Solomon thy servant hath he not called.


book: 1Ki
start: 1:25
end: 1:25
text:
For he is gone down this day, and hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the king’s sons, and the captains of the host, and Abiathar the priest; and, behold, they eat and drink before him, and say, God save king Adonijah.


book: 1Ki
start: 1:29
end: 1:30
text:
And the king sware, and said, [As] the LORD liveth, that hath redeemed my soul out of all distress, Even as I sware unto thee by the LORD God of Israel, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne in my stead; even so will I certainly do this day.


book: 1Ki
start: 1:33
end: 1:34
text:
The king also said unto them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule, and bring him down to Gihon: And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel: and blow ye with the trumpet, and say, God save king Solomon.


book: 1Ki
start: 1:35
end: 1:35
text:
Then ye shall come up after him, that he may come and sit upon my throne; for he shall be king in my stead: and I have appointed him to be ruler over Israel and over Judah.


book: 1Ki
start: 1:36
end: 1:36
text:
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, Amen: the LORD God of my lord the king say so [too].


book: 1Ki
start: 1:42
end: 1:42
text:
And while he yet spake, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came: and Adonijah said unto him, Come in; for thou [art] a valiant man, and bringest good tidings.


book: 1Ki
start: 1:44
end: 1:45
text:
And the king hath sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and they have caused him to ride upon the king’s mule: And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon: and they are come up from thence rejoicing, so that the city rang again.


book: 1Ki
start: 1:51
end: 1:51
text:
And it was told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah feareth king Solomon: for, lo, he hath caught hold on the horns of the altar, saying, Let king Solomon swear unto me to day that he will not slay his servant with the sword.


book: 1Ki
start: 1:52
end: 1:52
text:
And Solomon said, If he will shew himself a worthy man, there shall not an hair of him fall to the earth: but if wickedness shall be found in him, he shall die.


book: 1Ki
start: 2:1
end: 2:4
text:
Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying, I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and shew thyself a man; And keep the charge of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself: That the LORD may continue his word which he spake concerning me, saying, If thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail thee (said he) a man on the throne of Israel.


book: 1Ki
start: 2:7
end: 2:7
text:
But shew kindness unto the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be of those that eat at thy table: for so they came to me when I fled because of Absalom thy brother.


book: 1Ki
start: 2:8
end: 2:8
text:
And, behold, [thou hast] with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by the LORD, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword.


book: 1Ki
start: 2:9
end: 2:9
text:
Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for thou [art] a wise man, and knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him; but his hoar head bring thou down to the grave with blood.


book: 1Ki
start: 2:11
end: 2:11
text:
And the days that David reigned over Israel [were] forty years: seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem.


book: 1Ki
start: 2:15
end: 2:15
text:
And he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and [that] all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign: howbeit the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother’s: for it was his from the LORD.


book: 1Ki
start: 2:19
end: 2:19
text:
And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king’s mother; and she sat on his right hand.


book: 1Ki
start: 2:22
end: 2:22
text:
And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother, And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he [is] mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.


book: 1Ki
start: 2:25
end: 2:25
text:
And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him that he died.


book: 1Ki
start: 2:26
end: 2:26
text:
¶ And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou [art] worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.


book: 1Ki
start: 2:27
end: 2:27
text:
So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest unto the LORD; that he might fulfil the word of the LORD, which he spake concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.


book: 1Ki
start: 2:28
end: 2:28
text:
¶ Then tidings came to Joab: for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he turned not after Absalom.


book: 1Ki
start: 2:29
end: 2:29
text:
And it was told king Solomon that Joab was fled unto the tabernacle of the LORD; and, behold, [he is] by the altar.


book: 1Ki
start: 2:31
end: 2:31
text:
And the king said unto him, Do as he hath said, and fall upon him, and bury him; that thou mayest take away the innocent blood, which Joab shed, from me, and from the house of my father.


book: 1Ki
start: 2:33
end: 2:33
text:
Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of Joab, and upon the head of his seed for ever: but upon David, and upon his seed, and upon his house, and upon his throne, shall there be peace for ever from the LORD.


book: 1Ki
start: 2:34
end: 2:34
text:
So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him, and slew him: and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.


book: 1Ki
start: 2:35
end: 2:35
text:
¶ And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host: and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar.


book: 1Ki
start: 2:37
end: 2:37
text:
For it shall be, [that] on the day thou goest out, and passest over the brook Kidron, thou shalt know for certain that thou shalt surely die: thy blood shall be upon thine own head.


book: 1Ki
start: 2:38
end: 2:38
text:
And Shimei said unto the king, The saying [is] good: as my lord the king hath said, so will thy servant do.


book: 1Ki
start: 2:40
end: 2:40
text:
And Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Gath to Achish to seek his servants: and Shimei went, and brought his servants from Gath.


book: 1Ki
start: 2:42
end: 2:42
text:
And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Did I not make thee to swear by the LORD, and protested unto thee, saying, Know for a certain, on the day thou goest out, and walkest abroad any whither, that thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst unto me, The word [that] I have heard [is] good.


book: 1Ki
start: 2:44
end: 2:45
text:
The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: therefore the LORD shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head; And king Solomon [shall be] blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the LORD for ever.


book: 1Ki
start: 3:3
end: 3:3
text:
And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.


book: 1Ki
start: 3:4
end: 3:4
text:
And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that [was] the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar.


book: 1Ki
start: 3:5
end: 3:5
text:
¶ In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.


book: 1Ki
start: 3:6
end: 3:6
text:
And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as [it is] this day.


book: 1Ki
start: 3:7
end: 3:7
text:
And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I [am but] a little child: I know not [how] to go out or come in.


book: 1Ki
start: 3:9
end: 3:9
text:
Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?


book: 1Ki
start: 3:11
end: 3:12
text:
And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment; Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.


book: 1Ki
start: 3:13
end: 3:13
text:
And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches, and honour: so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days.


book: 1Ki
start: 3:17
end: 3:17
text:
And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.


book: 1Ki
start: 3:18
end: 3:18
text:
And it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we [were] together; [there was] no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house.


book: 1Ki
start: 3:21
end: 3:21
text:
And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear.


book: 1Ki
start: 3:23
end: 3:23
text:
Then said the king, The one saith, This [is] my son that liveth, and thy son [is] the dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son [is] the dead, and my son [is] the living.


book: 1Ki
start: 3:27
end: 3:27
text:
Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she [is] the mother thereof.


book: 1Ki
start: 3:28
end: 3:28
text:
And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God [was] in him, to do judgment.


book: 1Ki
start: 4:2
end: 4:3
text:
And these [were] the princes which he had; Azariah the son of Zadok the priest, Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder.


book: 1Ki
start: 4:4
end: 4:6
text:
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada [was] over the host: and Zadok and Abiathar [were] the priests: And Azariah the son of Nathan [was] over the officers: and Zabud the son of Nathan [was] principal officer, [and] the king’s friend: And Ahishar [was] over the household: and Adoniram the son of Abda [was] over the tribute.


book: 1Ki
start: 4:7
end: 4:7
text:
¶ And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made provision.


book: 1Ki
start: 4:8
end: 4:19
text:
And these [are] their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim: The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth–shemesh, and Elon–beth–hanan: The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him [pertained] Sochoh, and all the land of Hepher: The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; which had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife: Baana the son of Ahilud; [to him pertained] Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth–shean, which [is] by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from Beth–shean to Abel–meholah, [even] unto [the place that is] beyond Jokneam: The son of Geber, in Ramoth–gilead; to him [pertained] the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which [are] in Gilead; to him [also pertained] the region of Argob, which [is] in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and brasen bars: Ahinadab the son of Iddo [had] Mahanaim: Ahimaaz [was] in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the daughter of Solomon to wife: Baanah the son of Hushai [was] in Asher and in Aloth: Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar: Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin: Geber the son of Uri [was] in the country of Gilead, [in] the country of Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og king of Bashan; and [he was] the only officer which [was] in the land.


book: 1Ki
start: 4:21
end: 4:21
text:
And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life.


book: 1Ki
start: 4:24
end: 4:24
text:
For he had dominion over all [the region] on this side the river, from Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the kings on this side the river: and he had peace on all sides round about him.


book: 1Ki
start: 4:27
end: 4:27
text:
And those officers provided victual for king Solomon, and for all that came unto king Solomon’s table, every man in his month: they lacked nothing.


book: 1Ki
start: 4:31
end: 4:31
text:
For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all nations round about.


book: 1Ki
start: 4:33
end: 4:33
text:
And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that [is] in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.


book: 1Ki
start: 5:1
end: 5:1
text:
And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David.


book: 1Ki
start: 5:6
end: 5:6
text:
Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee will I give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that [there is] not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians.


book: 1Ki
start: 5:8
end: 5:8
text:
And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have considered the things which thou sentest to me for: [and] I will do all thy desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir.


book: 1Ki
start: 5:9
end: 5:9
text:
My servants shall bring [them] down from Lebanon unto the sea: and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receive [them]: and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.


book: 1Ki
start: 5:11
end: 5:11
text:
And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat [for] food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.


book: 1Ki
start: 5:12
end: 5:12
text:
And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him: and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together.


book: 1Ki
start: 5:14
end: 5:14
text:
And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses: a month they were in Lebanon, [and] two months at home: and Adoniram [was] over the levy.


book: 1Ki
start: 5:15
end: 5:16
text:
And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains; Beside the chief of Solomon’s officers which [were] over the work, three thousand and three hundred, which ruled over the people that wrought in the work.


book: 1Ki
start: 5:18
end: 5:18
text:
And Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders did hew [them], and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.


book: 1Ki
start: 6:3
end: 6:3
text:
And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits [was] the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; [and] ten cubits [was] the breadth thereof before the house.


book: 1Ki
start: 6:5
end: 6:6
text:
¶ And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, [against] the walls of the house round about, [both] of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about: The nethermost chamber [was] five cubits broad, and the middle [was] six cubits broad, and the third [was] seven cubits broad: for without [in the wall] of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that [the beams] should not be fastened in the walls of the house.


book: 1Ki
start: 6:7
end: 6:7
text:
And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe [nor] any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.


book: 1Ki
start: 6:8
end: 6:8
text:
The door for the middle chamber [was] in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle [chamber], and out of the middle into the third.


book: 1Ki
start: 6:10
end: 6:10
text:
And [then] he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.


book: 1Ki
start: 6:11
end: 6:13
text:
¶ And the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying, [Concerning] this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I perform my word with thee, which I spake unto David thy father: And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.


book: 1Ki
start: 6:15
end: 6:15
text:
And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the cieling: [and] he covered [them] on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.


book: 1Ki
start: 6:16
end: 6:16
text:
And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built [them] for it within, [even] for the oracle, [even] for the most holy [place].


book: 1Ki
start: 6:18
end: 6:18
text:
And the cedar of the house within [was] carved with knops and open flowers: all [was] cedar; there was no stone seen.


book: 1Ki
start: 6:20
end: 6:20
text:
And the oracle in the forepart [was] twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he overlaid it with pure gold; and [so] covered the altar [which was of] cedar.


book: 1Ki
start: 6:21
end: 6:21
text:
So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.


book: 1Ki
start: 6:22
end: 6:22
text:
And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house: also the whole altar that [was] by the oracle he overlaid with gold.


book: 1Ki
start: 6:24
end: 6:24
text:
And five cubits [was] the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other [were] ten cubits.


book: 1Ki
start: 6:27
end: 6:27
text:
And he set the cherubims within the inner house: and they stretched forth the wings of the cherubims, so that the wing of the one touched the [one] wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house.


book: 1Ki
start: 6:31
end: 6:31
text:
¶ And for the entering of the oracle he made doors [of] olive tree: the lintel [and] side posts [were] a fifth part [of the wall].


book: 1Ki
start: 6:32
end: 6:32
text:
The two doors also [were of] olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid [them] with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees.


book: 1Ki
start: 6:34
end: 6:34
text:
And the two doors [were of] fir tree: the two leaves of the one door [were] folding, and the two leaves of the other door [were] folding.


book: 1Ki
start: 6:35
end: 6:35
text:
And he carved [thereon] cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered [them] with gold fitted upon the carved work.


book: 1Ki
start: 6:37
end: 6:38
text:
¶ In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid, in the month Zif: And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which [is] the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it.


book: 1Ki
start: 7:2
end: 7:2
text:
¶ He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof [was] an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.


book: 1Ki
start: 7:5
end: 7:5
text:
And all the doors and posts [were] square, with the windows: and light [was] against light [in] three ranks.


book: 1Ki
start: 7:6
end: 7:6
text:
¶ And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof [was] fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch [was] before them: and the [other] pillars and the thick beam [were] before them.


book: 1Ki
start: 7:7
end: 7:7
text:
¶ Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, [even] the porch of judgment: and [it was] covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other.


book: 1Ki
start: 7:14
end: 7:14
text:
He [was] a widow’s son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father [was] a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass.


book: 1Ki
start: 7:15
end: 7:15
text:
For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about.


book: 1Ki
start: 7:16
end: 7:17
text:
And he made two chapiters [of] molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter [was] five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter [was] five cubits: [And] nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the chapiters which [were] upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter.


book: 1Ki
start: 7:18
end: 7:18
text:
And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the chapiters that [were] upon the top, with pomegranates: and so did he for the other chapiter.


book: 1Ki
start: 7:20
end: 7:20
text:
And the chapiters upon the two pillars [had pomegranates] also above, over against the belly which [was] by the network: and the pomegranates [were] two hundred in rows round about upon the other chapiter.


book: 1Ki
start: 7:21
end: 7:21
text:
And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin: and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz.


book: 1Ki
start: 7:23
end: 7:23
text:
¶ And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: [it was] round all about, and his height [was] five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.


book: 1Ki
start: 7:24
end: 7:24
text:
And under the brim of it round about [there were] knops compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about: the knops [were] cast in two rows, when it was cast.


book: 1Ki
start: 7:25
end: 7:25
text:
It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea [was set] above upon them, and all their hinder parts [were] inward.


book: 1Ki
start: 7:26
end: 7:26
text:
And it [was] an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.


book: 1Ki
start: 7:27
end: 7:27
text:
¶ And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits [was] the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.


book: 1Ki
start: 7:28
end: 7:29
text:
And the work of the bases [was] on this [manner]: they had borders, and the borders [were] between the ledges: And on the borders that [were] between the ledges [were] lions, oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges [there was] a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen [were] certain additions made of thin work.


book: 1Ki
start: 7:30
end: 7:30
text:
And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass: and the four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver [were] undersetters molten, at the side of every addition.


book: 1Ki
start: 7:31
end: 7:31
text:
And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above [was] a cubit: but the mouth thereof [was] round [after] the work of the base, a cubit and an half: and also upon the mouth of it [were] gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round.


book: 1Ki
start: 7:32
end: 7:32
text:
And under the borders [were] four wheels; and the axletrees of the wheels [were joined] to the base: and the height of a wheel [was] a cubit and half a cubit.


book: 1Ki
start: 7:33
end: 7:33
text:
And the work of the wheels [was] like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, [were] all molten.


book: 1Ki
start: 7:34
end: 7:34
text:
And [there were] four undersetters to the four corners of one base: [and] the undersetters [were] of the very base itself.


book: 1Ki
start: 7:35
end: 7:35
text:
And in the top of the base [was there] a round compass of half a cubit high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof [were] of the same.


book: 1Ki
start: 7:37
end: 7:37
text:
After this [manner] he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, [and] one size.


book: 1Ki
start: 7:38
end: 7:38
text:
¶ Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: [and] every laver was four cubits: [and] upon every one of the ten bases one laver.


book: 1Ki
start: 7:39
end: 7:39
text:
And he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward over against the south.


book: 1Ki
start: 7:40
end: 7:45
text:
So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for the house of the LORD: The two pillars, and the [two] bowls of the chapiters that [were] on the top of the two pillars; and the two networks, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters which [were] upon the top of the pillars; And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, [even] two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that [were] upon the pillars; And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases; And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea; And the pots, and the shovels, and the basons: and all these vessels, which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the LORD, [were of] bright brass.


book: 1Ki
start: 7:47
end: 7:47
text:
And Solomon left all the vessels [unweighed], because they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out.


book: 1Ki
start: 7:48
end: 7:50
text:
And Solomon made all the vessels that [pertained] unto the house of the LORD: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the shewbread [was], And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right [side], and five on the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs [of] gold, And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers [of] pure gold; and the hinges [of] gold, [both] for the doors of the inner house, the most holy [place, and] for the doors of the house, [to wit], of the temple.


book: 1Ki
start: 7:51
end: 7:51
text:
And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated; [even] the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did he put among the treasures of the house of the LORD.


book: 1Ki
start: 8:8
end: 8:8
text:
And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were seen out in the holy [place] before the oracle, and they were not seen without: and there they are unto this day.


book: 1Ki
start: 8:10
end: 8:11
text:
And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy [place], that the cloud filled the house of the LORD, So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD.


book: 1Ki
start: 8:14
end: 8:16
text:
And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the congregation of Israel: (and all the congregation of Israel stood;) And he said, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel, which spake with his mouth unto David my father, and hath with his hand fulfilled [it], saying, Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build an house, that my name might be therein; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.


book: 1Ki
start: 8:19
end: 8:19
text:
Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my name.


book: 1Ki
start: 8:22
end: 8:24
text:
¶ And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven: And he said, LORD God of Israel, [there is] no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart: Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled [it] with thine hand, as [it is] this day.


book: 1Ki
start: 8:25
end: 8:25
text:
Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me.


book: 1Ki
start: 8:27
end: 8:27
text:
But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?


book: 1Ki
start: 8:28
end: 8:29
text:
Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee to day: That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, [even] toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this place.


book: 1Ki
start: 8:30
end: 8:30
text:
And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive.


book: 1Ki
start: 8:31
end: 8:32
text:
¶ If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house: Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.


book: 1Ki
start: 8:33
end: 8:34
text:
¶ When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house: Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers.


book: 1Ki
start: 8:35
end: 8:36
text:
¶ When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them: Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.


book: 1Ki
start: 8:37
end: 8:40
text:
¶ If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, [or] if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness [there be]; What prayer and supplication soever be [made] by any man, [or] by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house: Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, [even] thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;) That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.


book: 1Ki
start: 8:41
end: 8:43
text:
Moreover concerning a stranger, that [is] not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name’s sake; (For they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall come and pray toward this house; Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as [do] thy people Israel; and that they may know that this house, which I have builded, is called by thy name.


book: 1Ki
start: 8:44
end: 8:45
text:
¶ If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the LORD toward the city which thou hast chosen, and [toward] the house that I have built for thy name: Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.


book: 1Ki
start: 8:46
end: 8:52
text:
If they sin against thee, (for [there is] no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near; [Yet] if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness; And [so] return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name: Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause, And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them: For they [be] thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron: That thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy servant, and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them in all that they call for unto thee.


book: 1Ki
start: 8:55
end: 8:56
text:
And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying, Blessed [be] the LORD, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.


book: 1Ki
start: 8:57
end: 8:58
text:
The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us: That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.


book: 1Ki
start: 8:59
end: 8:60
text:
And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the LORD, be nigh unto the LORD our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the matter shall require: That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD [is] God, [and that there is] none else.


book: 1Ki
start: 8:64
end: 8:64
text:
The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that [was] before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brasen altar that [was] before the LORD [was] too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.


book: 1Ki
start: 8:66
end: 8:66
text:
On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the LORD had done for David his servant, and for Israel his people.


book: 1Ki
start: 9:3
end: 9:3
text:
And the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.


book: 1Ki
start: 9:4
end: 9:5
text:
And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, [and] wilt keep my statutes and my judgments: Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.


book: 1Ki
start: 9:6
end: 9:8
text:
[But] if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments [and] my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them: Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people: And at this house, [which] is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?


book: 1Ki
start: 9:9
end: 9:9
text:
And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil.


book: 1Ki
start: 9:12
end: 9:12
text:
And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.


book: 1Ki
start: 9:15
end: 9:15
text:
¶ And this [is] the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.


book: 1Ki
start: 9:22
end: 9:22
text:
But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but they [were] men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen.


book: 1Ki
start: 9:24
end: 9:24
text:
¶ But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house which [Solomon] had built for her: then did he build Millo.


book: 1Ki
start: 10:2
end: 10:2
text:
And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.


book: 1Ki
start: 10:3
end: 10:3
text:
And Solomon told her all her questions: there was not [any] thing hid from the king, which he told her not.


book: 1Ki
start: 10:4
end: 10:5
text:
And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon’s wisdom, and the house that he had built, And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.


book: 1Ki
start: 10:7
end: 10:7
text:
Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen [it]: and, behold, the half was not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard.


book: 1Ki
start: 10:9
end: 10:9
text:
Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel: because the LORD loved Israel for ever, therefore made he thee king, to do judgment and justice.


book: 1Ki
start: 10:10
end: 10:10
text:
And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones: there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.


book: 1Ki
start: 10:12
end: 10:12
text:
And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the LORD, and for the king’s house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day.


book: 1Ki
start: 10:16
end: 10:16
text:
¶ And king Solomon made two hundred targets [of] beaten gold: six hundred [shekels] of gold went to one target.


book: 1Ki
start: 10:17
end: 10:17
text:
And [he made] three hundred shields [of] beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.


book: 1Ki
start: 10:19
end: 10:19
text:
The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne [was] round behind: and [there were] stays on either side on the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the stays.


book: 1Ki
start: 10:20
end: 10:20
text:
And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps: there was not the like made in any kingdom.


book: 1Ki
start: 10:21
end: 10:21
text:
¶ And all king Solomon’s drinking vessels [were of] gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon [were of] pure gold; none [were of] silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.


book: 1Ki
start: 10:22
end: 10:22
text:
For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.


book: 1Ki
start: 10:26
end: 10:26
text:
¶ And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem.


book: 1Ki
start: 10:28
end: 10:28
text:
¶ And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king’s merchants received the linen yarn at a price.


book: 1Ki
start: 10:29
end: 10:29
text:
And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred [shekels] of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring [them] out by their means.


book: 1Ki
start: 11:1
end: 11:2
text:
But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, [and] Hittites; Of the nations [concerning] which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: [for] surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.


book: 1Ki
start: 11:3
end: 11:3
text:
And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.


book: 1Ki
start: 11:4
end: 11:4
text:
For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, [that] his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as [was] the heart of David his father.


book: 1Ki
start: 11:9
end: 11:10
text:
¶ And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the LORD God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice, And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods: but he kept not that which the LORD commanded.


book: 1Ki
start: 11:12
end: 11:12
text:
Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father’s sake: [but] I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.


book: 1Ki
start: 11:13
end: 11:13
text:
Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; [but] will give one tribe to thy son for David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake which I have chosen.


book: 1Ki
start: 11:14
end: 11:14
text:
¶ And the LORD stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he [was] of the king’s seed in Edom.


book: 1Ki
start: 11:15
end: 11:17
text:
For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, after he had smitten every male in Edom; (For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had cut off every male in Edom:) That Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father’s servants with him, to go into Egypt; Hadad [being] yet a little child.


book: 1Ki
start: 11:18
end: 11:18
text:
And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran: and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, unto Pharaoh king of Egypt; which gave him an house, and appointed him victuals, and gave him land.


book: 1Ki
start: 11:20
end: 11:20
text:
And the sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh’s house: and Genubath was in Pharaoh’s household among the sons of Pharaoh.


book: 1Ki
start: 11:23
end: 11:24
text:
¶ And God stirred him up [another] adversary, Rezon the son of Eliadah, which fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah: And he gathered men unto him, and became captain over a band, when David slew them [of Zobah]: and they went to Damascus, and dwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus.


book: 1Ki
start: 11:25
end: 11:25
text:
And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, beside the mischief that Hadad [did]: and he abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria.


book: 1Ki
start: 11:27
end: 11:27
text:
And this [was] the cause that he lifted up [his] hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, [and] repaired the breaches of the city of David his father.


book: 1Ki
start: 11:28
end: 11:28
text:
And the man Jeroboam [was] a mighty man of valour: and Solomon seeing the young man that he was industrious, he made him ruler over all the charge of the house of Joseph.


book: 1Ki
start: 11:29
end: 11:33
text:
And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; and he had clad himself with a new garment; and they two [were] alone in the field: And Ahijah caught the new garment that [was] on him, and rent it [in] twelve pieces: And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee: (But he shall have one tribe for my servant David’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel:) Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do [that which is] right in mine eyes, and [to keep] my statutes and my judgments, as [did] David his father.


book: 1Ki
start: 11:34
end: 11:35
text:
Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant’s sake, whom I chose, because he kept my commandments and my statutes: But I will take the kingdom out of his son’s hand, and will give it unto thee, [even] ten tribes.


book: 1Ki
start: 11:38
end: 11:38
text:
And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do [that is] right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel unto thee.


book: 1Ki
start: 11:43
end: 11:43
text:
And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.


book: 1Ki
start: 12:2
end: 12:3
text:
And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was yet in Egypt, heard [of it], (for he was fled from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt;) That they sent and called him.


book: 1Ki
start: 12:3
end: 12:4
text:
And Jeroboam and all the congregation of Israel came, and spake unto Rehoboam, saying, Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.


book: 1Ki
start: 12:8
end: 12:9
text:
But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, [and] which stood before him: And he said unto them, What counsel give ye that we may answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke which thy father did put upon us lighter?


book: 1Ki
start: 12:10
end: 12:10
text:
And the young men that were grown up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou speak unto this people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou [it] lighter unto us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little [finger] shall be thicker than my father’s loins.


book: 1Ki
start: 12:11
end: 12:11
text:
And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.


book: 1Ki
start: 12:13
end: 12:14
text:
And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men’s counsel that they gave him; And spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father [also] chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.


book: 1Ki
start: 12:15
end: 12:15
text:
Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; for the cause was from the LORD, that he might perform his saying, which the LORD spake by Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat.


book: 1Ki
start: 12:16
end: 12:16
text:
¶ So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither [have we] inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David.


book: 1Ki
start: 12:18
end: 12:18
text:
Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who [was] over the tribute; and all Israel stoned him with stones, that he died.


book: 1Ki
start: 12:20
end: 12:20
text:
And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come again, that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.


book: 1Ki
start: 12:22
end: 12:24
text:
But the word of God came unto Shemaiah the man of God, saying, Speak unto Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and unto all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the remnant of the people, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this thing is from me.


book: 1Ki
start: 12:25
end: 12:25
text:
¶ Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and went out from thence, and built Penuel.


book: 1Ki
start: 12:26
end: 12:27
text:
And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David: If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, [even] unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah.


book: 1Ki
start: 12:28
end: 12:28
text:
Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves [of] gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.


book: 1Ki
start: 12:32
end: 12:32
text:
So did he in Beth–el, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Beth–el the priests of the high places which he had made.


book: 1Ki
start: 12:33
end: 12:33
text:
So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Beth–el the fifteenth day of the eighth month, [even] in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.


book: 1Ki
start: 13:1
end: 13:1
text:
And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the LORD unto Beth–el: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.


book: 1Ki
start: 13:2
end: 13:2
text:
And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men’s bones shall be burnt upon thee.


book: 1Ki
start: 13:3
end: 13:3
text:
And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This [is] the sign which the LORD hath spoken; Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that [are] upon it shall be poured out.


book: 1Ki
start: 13:8
end: 13:9
text:
And the man of God said unto the king, If thou wilt give me half thine house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place: For so was it charged me by the word of the LORD, saying, Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest.


book: 1Ki
start: 13:11
end: 13:11
text:
¶ Now there dwelt an old prophet in Beth–el; and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Beth–el: the words which he had spoken unto the king, them they told also to their father.


book: 1Ki
start: 13:13
end: 13:14
text:
So they saddled him the ass: and he rode thereon, And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak: and he said unto him, [Art] thou the man of God that camest from Judah?


book: 1Ki
start: 13:16
end: 13:17
text:
And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place: For it was said to me by the word of the LORD, Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest.


book: 1Ki
start: 13:18
end: 13:18
text:
He said unto him, I [am] a prophet also as thou [art]; and an angel spake unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water.


book: 1Ki
start: 13:20
end: 13:22
text:
¶ And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the LORD came unto the prophet that brought him back: And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, and hast not kept the commandment which the LORD thy God commanded thee, But camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place, of the which [the LORD] did say to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no water; thy carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers.


book: 1Ki
start: 13:24
end: 13:24
text:
And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcase.


book: 1Ki
start: 13:25
end: 13:25
text:
And, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the way, and the lion standing by the carcase: and they came and told [it] in the city where the old prophet dwelt.


book: 1Ki
start: 13:26
end: 13:26
text:
And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard [thereof], he said, It [is] the man of God, who was disobedient unto the word of the LORD: therefore the LORD hath delivered him unto the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake unto him.


book: 1Ki
start: 13:28
end: 13:28
text:
And he went and found his carcase cast in the way, and the ass and the lion standing by the carcase: the lion had not eaten the carcase, nor torn the ass.


book: 1Ki
start: 13:29
end: 13:29
text:
And the prophet took up the carcase of the man of God, and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back: and the old prophet came to the city, to mourn and to bury him.


book: 1Ki
start: 13:31
end: 13:32
text:
And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God [is] buried; lay my bones beside his bones: For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Beth–el, and against all the houses of the high places which [are] in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.


book: 1Ki
start: 13:33
end: 13:33
text:
¶ After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became [one] of the priests of the high places.


book: 1Ki
start: 14:2
end: 14:2
text:
And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh: behold, there [is] Ahijah the prophet, which told me that [I should be] king over this people.


book: 1Ki
start: 14:3
end: 14:3
text:
And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child.


book: 1Ki
start: 14:5
end: 14:5
text:
¶ And the LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he [is] sick: thus and thus shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself [to be] another [woman].


book: 1Ki
start: 14:6
end: 14:6
text:
And it was [so], when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest thou thyself [to be] another? for I [am] sent to thee [with] heavy [tidings].


book: 1Ki
start: 14:7
end: 14:10
text:
Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel, And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee: and [yet] thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do [that] only [which was] right in mine eyes; But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back: Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, [and] him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.


book: 1Ki
start: 14:11
end: 14:11
text:
Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the LORD hath spoken [it].


book: 1Ki
start: 14:12
end: 14:12
text:
Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: [and] when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die.


book: 1Ki
start: 14:13
end: 14:13
text:
And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found [some] good thing toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.


book: 1Ki
start: 14:14
end: 14:14
text:
Moreover the LORD shall raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now.


book: 1Ki
start: 14:17
end: 14:18
text:
¶ And Jeroboam’s wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: [and] when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died; And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet.


book: 1Ki
start: 14:20
end: 14:20
text:
And the days which Jeroboam reigned [were] two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.


book: 1Ki
start: 14:24
end: 14:24
text:
And there were also sodomites in the land: [and] they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.


book: 1Ki
start: 14:25
end: 14:26
text:
¶ And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, [that] Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem: And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king’s house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.


book: 1Ki
start: 15:3
end: 15:3
text:
And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father.


book: 1Ki
start: 15:4
end: 15:5
text:
Nevertheless for David’s sake did the LORD his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem: Because David did [that which was] right in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside from any [thing] that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.


book: 1Ki
start: 15:8
end: 15:8
text:
And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.


book: 1Ki
start: 15:13
end: 15:13
text:
And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from [being] queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt [it] by the brook Kidron.


book: 1Ki
start: 15:14
end: 15:14
text:
But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa’s heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.


book: 1Ki
start: 15:18
end: 15:19
text:
Then Asa took all the silver and the gold [that were] left in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king’s house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants: and king Asa sent them to Ben–hadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying, [There is] a league between me and thee, [and] between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; come and break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.


book: 1Ki
start: 15:22
end: 15:22
text:
Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none [was] exempted: and they took away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had builded; and king Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.


book: 1Ki
start: 15:24
end: 15:24
text:
And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead.


book: 1Ki
start: 15:27
end: 15:27
text:
¶ And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which [belonged] to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon.


book: 1Ki
start: 15:29
end: 15:30
text:
And it came to pass, when he reigned, [that] he smote all the house of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according unto the saying of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite: Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger.


book: 1Ki
start: 16:1
end: 16:3
text:
Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying, Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust, and made thee prince over my people Israel; and thou hast walked in the way of Jeroboam, and hast made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins; Behold, I will take away the posterity of Baasha, and the posterity of his house; and will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.


book: 1Ki
start: 16:4
end: 16:4
text:
Him that dieth of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth of his in the fields shall the fowls of the air eat.


book: 1Ki
start: 16:7
end: 16:7
text:
And also by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of the LORD against Baasha, and against his house, even for all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD, in provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam; and because he killed him.


book: 1Ki
start: 16:11
end: 16:11
text:
¶ And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, [that] he slew all the house of Baasha: he left him not one that pisseth against a wall, neither of his kinsfolks, nor of his friends.


book: 1Ki
start: 16:16
end: 16:16
text:
And the people [that were] encamped heard say, Zimri hath conspired, and hath also slain the king: wherefore all Israel made Omri, the captain of the host, king over Israel that day in the camp.


book: 1Ki
start: 16:21
end: 16:21
text:
¶ Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king; and half followed Omri.


book: 1Ki
start: 16:22
end: 16:22
text:
But the people that followed Omri prevailed against the people that followed Tibni the son of Ginath: so Tibni died, and Omri reigned.


book: 1Ki
start: 16:23
end: 16:23
text:
¶ In the thirty and first year of Asa king of Judah began Omri to reign over Israel, twelve years: six years reigned he in Tirzah.


book: 1Ki
start: 16:29
end: 16:29
text:
¶ And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years.


book: 1Ki
start: 16:33
end: 16:33
text:
And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.


book: 1Ki
start: 16:34
end: 16:34
text:
¶ In his days did Hiel the Beth–elite build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest [son] Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun.


book: 1Ki
start: 17:4
end: 17:4
text:
And it shall be, [that] thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.


book: 1Ki
start: 17:5
end: 17:5
text:
So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that [is] before Jordan.


book: 1Ki
start: 17:6
end: 17:6
text:
And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.


book: 1Ki
start: 17:8
end: 17:9
text:
¶ And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which [belongeth] to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.


book: 1Ki
start: 17:10
end: 17:10
text:
And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman [was] there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.


book: 1Ki
start: 17:12
end: 17:12
text:
And she said, [As] the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I [am] gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.


book: 1Ki
start: 17:13
end: 17:13
text:
And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go [and] do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring [it] unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son.


book: 1Ki
start: 17:15
end: 17:15
text:
And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat [many] days.


book: 1Ki
start: 17:17
end: 17:17
text:
¶ And it came to pass after these things, [that] the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.


book: 1Ki
start: 17:18
end: 17:18
text:
And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son?


book: 1Ki
start: 17:22
end: 17:22
text:
And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.


book: 1Ki
start: 17:23
end: 17:23
text:
And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth.


book: 1Ki
start: 18:1
end: 18:1
text:
And it came to pass [after] many days, that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth.


book: 1Ki
start: 18:5
end: 18:5
text:
And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.


book: 1Ki
start: 18:6
end: 18:6
text:
So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.


book: 1Ki
start: 18:7
end: 18:7
text:
¶ And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, [Art] thou that my lord Elijah?


book: 1Ki
start: 18:10
end: 18:10
text:
[As] the LORD thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when they said, [He is] not [there]; he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they found thee not.


book: 1Ki
start: 18:12
end: 18:12
text:
And it shall come to pass, [as soon as] I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of the LORD shall carry thee whither I know not; and [so] when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me: but I thy servant fear the LORD from my youth.


book: 1Ki
start: 18:18
end: 18:18
text:
And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father’s house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim.


book: 1Ki
start: 18:21
end: 18:21
text:
And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD [be] God, follow him: but if Baal, [then] follow him.


book: 1Ki
start: 18:22
end: 18:22
text:
Then said Elijah unto the people, I, [even] I only, remain a prophet of the LORD; but Baal’s prophets [are] four hundred and fifty men.


book: 1Ki
start: 18:23
end: 18:24
text:
Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay [it] on wood, and put no fire [under]: and I will dress the other bullock, and lay [it] on wood, and put no fire [under]: And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the LORD: and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God.


book: 1Ki
start: 18:25
end: 18:25
text:
And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress [it] first; for ye [are] many; and call on the name of your gods, but put no fire [under].


book: 1Ki
start: 18:27
end: 18:27
text:
And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he [is] a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, [or] peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.


book: 1Ki
start: 18:31
end: 18:32
text:
And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the LORD came, saying, Israel shall be thy name: And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.


book: 1Ki
start: 18:39
end: 18:39
text:
And when all the people saw [it], they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, he [is] the God; the LORD, he [is] the God.


book: 1Ki
start: 18:41
end: 18:41
text:
¶ And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for [there is] a sound of abundance of rain.


book: 1Ki
start: 18:42
end: 18:43
text:
And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees, And said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea.


book: 1Ki
start: 18:46
end: 18:46
text:
And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.


book: 1Ki
start: 19:4
end: 19:4
text:
¶ But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I [am] not better than my fathers.


book: 1Ki
start: 19:7
end: 19:7
text:
And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise [and] eat; because the journey [is] too great for thee.


book: 1Ki
start: 19:9
end: 19:9
text:
¶ And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the LORD [came] to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah?


book: 1Ki
start: 19:10
end: 19:10
text:
And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, [even] I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.


book: 1Ki
start: 19:11
end: 19:12
text:
And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; [but] the LORD [was] not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; [but] the LORD [was] not in the earthquake: And after the earthquake a fire; [but] the LORD [was] not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.


book: 1Ki
start: 19:14
end: 19:14
text:
And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, [even] I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.


book: 1Ki
start: 19:15
end: 19:16
text:
And the LORD said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael [to be] king over Syria: And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint [to be] king over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel–meholah shalt thou anoint [to be] prophet in thy room.


book: 1Ki
start: 19:17
end: 19:17
text:
And it shall come to pass, [that] him that escapeth the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay.


book: 1Ki
start: 19:19
end: 19:19
text:
¶ So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who [was] plowing [with] twelve yoke [of oxen] before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him.


book: 1Ki
start: 20:1
end: 20:1
text:
And Ben–hadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together: and [there were] thirty and two kings with him, and horses, and chariots: and he went up and besieged Samaria, and warred against it.


book: 1Ki
start: 20:2
end: 20:3
text:
And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the city, and said unto him, Thus saith Ben–hadad, Thy silver and thy gold [is] mine; thy wives also and thy children, [even] the goodliest, [are] mine.


book: 1Ki
start: 20:5
end: 20:6
text:
And the messengers came again, and said, Thus speaketh Ben–hadad, saying, Although I have sent unto thee, saying, Thou shalt deliver me thy silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy children; Yet I will send my servants unto thee to morrow about this time, and they shall search thine house, and the houses of thy servants; and it shall be, [that] whatsoever is pleasant in thine eyes, they shall put [it] in their hand, and take [it] away.


book: 1Ki
start: 20:7
end: 20:7
text:
Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, Mark, I pray you, and see how this [man] seeketh mischief: for he sent unto me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I denied him not.


book: 1Ki
start: 20:9
end: 20:9
text:
Wherefore he said unto the messengers of Ben–hadad, Tell my lord the king, All that thou didst send for to thy servant at the first I will do: but this thing I may not do.


book: 1Ki
start: 20:13
end: 20:13
text:
¶ And, behold, there came a prophet unto Ahab king of Israel, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou seen all this great multitude? behold, I will deliver it into thine hand this day; and thou shalt know that I [am] the LORD.


book: 1Ki
start: 20:15
end: 20:15
text:
Then he numbered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty two: and after them he numbered all the people, [even] all the children of Israel, [being] seven thousand.


book: 1Ki
start: 20:17
end: 20:17
text:
And the young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Ben–hadad sent out, and they told him, saying, There are men come out of Samaria.


book: 1Ki
start: 20:18
end: 20:18
text:
And he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they be come out for war, take them alive.


book: 1Ki
start: 20:20
end: 20:20
text:
And they slew every one his man: and the Syrians fled; and Israel pursued them: and Ben–hadad the king of Syria escaped on an horse with the horsemen.


book: 1Ki
start: 20:22
end: 20:22
text:
¶ And the prophet came to the king of Israel, and said unto him, Go, strengthen thyself, and mark, and see what thou doest: for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against thee.


book: 1Ki
start: 20:23
end: 20:23
text:
And the servants of the king of Syria said unto him, Their gods [are] gods of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we; but let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they.


book: 1Ki
start: 20:24
end: 20:25
text:
And do this thing, Take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put captains in their rooms: And number thee an army, like the army that thou hast lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot: and we will fight against them in the plain, [and] surely we shall be stronger than they.


book: 1Ki
start: 20:27
end: 20:27
text:
And the children of Israel were numbered, and were all present, and went against them: and the children of Israel pitched before them like two little flocks of kids; but the Syrians filled the country.


book: 1Ki
start: 20:29
end: 20:29
text:
And [so] it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined: and the children of Israel slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand footmen in one day.


book: 1Ki
start: 20:30
end: 20:30
text:
But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and [there] a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men [that were] left.


book: 1Ki
start: 20:31
end: 20:31
text:
¶ And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel [are] merciful kings: let us, I pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure he will save thy life.


book: 1Ki
start: 20:33
end: 20:33
text:
Now the men did diligently observe whether [any thing would come] from him, and did hastily catch [it]: and they said, Thy brother Ben–hadad.


book: 1Ki
start: 20:34
end: 20:34
text:
And [Ben–hadad] said unto him, The cities, which my father took from thy father, I will restore; and thou shalt make streets for thee in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria.


book: 1Ki
start: 20:39
end: 20:39
text:
And as the king passed by, he cried unto the king: and he said, Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man unto me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt pay a talent of silver.


book: 1Ki
start: 20:41
end: 20:41
text:
And he hasted, and took the ashes away from his face; and the king of Israel discerned him that he [was] of the prophets.


book: 1Ki
start: 21:2
end: 21:2
text:
And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it [is] near unto my house: and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; [or], if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money.


book: 1Ki
start: 21:4
end: 21:4
text:
And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers.


book: 1Ki
start: 21:6
end: 21:6
text:
And he said unto her, Because I spake unto Naboth the Jezreelite, and said unto him, Give me thy vineyard for money; or else, if it please thee, I will give thee [another] vineyard for it: and he answered, I will not give thee my vineyard.


book: 1Ki
start: 21:7
end: 21:7
text:
And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, [and] eat bread, and let thine heart be merry: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.


book: 1Ki
start: 21:9
end: 21:10
text:
And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people: And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king.


book: 1Ki
start: 21:13
end: 21:13
text:
And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, [even] against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king.


book: 1Ki
start: 21:15
end: 21:15
text:
¶ And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned, and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give thee for money: for Naboth is not alive, but dead.


book: 1Ki
start: 21:17
end: 21:18
text:
¶ And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, which [is] in Samaria: behold, [he is] in the vineyard of Naboth, whither he is gone down to possess it.


book: 1Ki
start: 21:20
end: 21:20
text:
And he answered, I have found [thee]: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the LORD.


book: 1Ki
start: 21:24
end: 21:24
text:
Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat.


book: 1Ki
start: 21:28
end: 21:29
text:
And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: [but] in his son’s days will I bring the evil upon his house.


book: 1Ki
start: 22:8
end: 22:8
text:
And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, [There is] yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may inquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.


book: 1Ki
start: 22:10
end: 22:10
text:
And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sat each on his throne, having put on their robes, in a void place in the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them.


book: 1Ki
start: 22:11
end: 22:11
text:
And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron: and he said, Thus saith the LORD, With these shalt thou push the Syrians, until thou have consumed them.


book: 1Ki
start: 22:12
end: 22:12
text:
And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramoth–gilead, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver [it] into the king’s hand.


book: 1Ki
start: 22:13
end: 22:13
text:
And the messenger that was gone to call Micaiah spake unto him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets [declare] good unto the king with one mouth: let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of one of them, and speak [that which is] good.


book: 1Ki
start: 22:17
end: 22:17
text:
And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, as sheep that have not a shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no master: let them return every man to his house in peace.


book: 1Ki
start: 22:19
end: 22:19
text:
And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.


book: 1Ki
start: 22:26
end: 22:27
text:
And the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and carry him back unto Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king’s son; And say, Thus saith the king, Put this [fellow] in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.


book: 1Ki
start: 22:30
end: 22:30
text:
And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and enter into the battle; but put thou on thy robes.


book: 1Ki
start: 22:34
end: 22:34
text:
And a [certain] man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: wherefore he said unto the driver of his chariot, Turn thine hand, and carry me out of the host; for I am wounded.


book: 1Ki
start: 22:35
end: 22:35
text:
And the battle increased that day: and the king was stayed up in his chariot against the Syrians, and died at even: and the blood ran out of the wound into the midst of the chariot.


book: 1Ki
start: 22:38
end: 22:38
text:
And [one] washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his armour; according unto the word of the LORD which he spake.


book: 1Ki
start: 22:42
end: 22:42
text:
Jehoshaphat [was] thirty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem.


book: 1Ki
start: 22:43
end: 22:43
text:
And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing [that which was] right in the eyes of the LORD: nevertheless the high places were not taken away; [for] the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.


book: 1Ki
start: 22:48
end: 22:48
text:
Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Ezion–geber.


book: 1Ki
start: 22:50
end: 22:50
text:
¶ And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoram his son reigned in his stead.


book: 1Ki
start: 22:52
end: 22:53
text:
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin: For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger the LORD God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.


book: 2Ki
start: 1:2
end: 1:2
text:
And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that [was] in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, inquire of Baal–zebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease.


book: 2Ki
start: 1:6
end: 1:6
text:
And they said unto him, There came a man up to meet us, and said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, [Is it] not because [there is] not a God in Israel, [that] thou sendest to inquire of Baal–zebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.


book: 2Ki
start: 1:14
end: 1:14
text:
Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up the two captains of the former fifties with their fifties: therefore let my life now be precious in thy sight.


book: 2Ki
start: 1:16
end: 1:16
text:
And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to inquire of Baal–zebub the god of Ekron, [is it] not because [there is] no God in Israel to inquire of his word? therefore thou shalt not come down off that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.


book: 2Ki
start: 1:17
end: 1:17
text:
And Jehoram reigned in his stead in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he had no son.


book: 2Ki
start: 2:7
end: 2:7
text:
And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood to view afar off: and they two stood by Jordan.


book: 2Ki
start: 2:10
end: 2:10
text:
And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: [nevertheless], if thou see me [when I am] taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be [so].


book: 2Ki
start: 2:11
end: 2:11
text:
And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, [there appeared] a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.


book: 2Ki
start: 2:13
end: 2:14
text:
He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of Jordan; And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where [is] the LORD God of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elisha went over.


book: 2Ki
start: 2:16
end: 2:16
text:
¶ And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master: lest peradventure the Spirit of the LORD hath taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley.


book: 2Ki
start: 2:19
end: 2:19
text:
¶ And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city [is] pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water [is] naught, and the ground barren.


book: 2Ki
start: 2:21
end: 2:21
text:
And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren [land].


book: 2Ki
start: 2:23
end: 2:23
text:
¶ And he went up from thence unto Beth–el: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.


book: 2Ki
start: 3:2
end: 3:2
text:
And he wrought evil in the sight of the LORD; but not like his father, and like his mother: for he put away the image of Baal that his father had made.


book: 2Ki
start: 3:3
end: 3:3
text:
Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.


book: 2Ki
start: 3:7
end: 3:7
text:
And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go with me against Moab to battle?


book: 2Ki
start: 3:7
end: 3:7
text:
And he said, I will go up: I [am] as thou [art], my people as thy people, [and] my horses as thy horses.


book: 2Ki
start: 3:9
end: 3:9
text:
So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven days’ journey: and there was no water for the host, and for the cattle that followed them.


book: 2Ki
start: 3:10
end: 3:10
text:
And the king of Israel said, Alas! that the LORD hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab!


book: 2Ki
start: 3:13
end: 3:13
text:
And Elisha said unto the king of Israel, What have I to do with thee? get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the prophets of thy mother.


book: 2Ki
start: 3:13
end: 3:13
text:
And the king of Israel said unto him, Nay: for the LORD hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab.


book: 2Ki
start: 3:17
end: 3:17
text:
For thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, that ye may drink, both ye, and your cattle, and your beasts.


book: 2Ki
start: 3:18
end: 3:18
text:
And this is [but] a light thing in the sight of the LORD: he will deliver the Moabites also into your hand.


book: 2Ki
start: 3:22
end: 3:23
text:
And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other side [as] red as blood: And they said, This [is] blood: the kings are surely slain, and they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil.


book: 2Ki
start: 3:24
end: 3:24
text:
And when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and smote the Moabites, so that they fled before them: but they went forward smiting the Moabites, even in [their] country.


book: 2Ki
start: 3:25
end: 3:25
text:
And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kir–haraseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about [it], and smote it.


book: 2Ki
start: 3:26
end: 3:26
text:
¶ And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too sore for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords, to break through [even] unto the king of Edom: but they could not.


book: 2Ki
start: 3:27
end: 3:27
text:
And there was great indignation against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to [their own] land.


book: 2Ki
start: 4:1
end: 4:1
text:
Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.


book: 2Ki
start: 4:3
end: 4:3
text:
Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, [even] empty vessels; borrow not a few.


book: 2Ki
start: 4:5
end: 4:5
text:
So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons, who brought [the vessels] to her; and she poured out.


book: 2Ki
start: 4:8
end: 4:8
text:
¶ And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where [was] a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread.


book: 2Ki
start: 4:10
end: 4:10
text:
Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.


book: 2Ki
start: 4:13
end: 4:13
text:
And he said unto him, Say now unto her, Behold, thou hast been careful for us with all this care; what [is] to be done for thee? wouldest thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host?


book: 2Ki
start: 4:24
end: 4:24
text:
Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant, Drive, and go forward; slack not [thy] riding for me, except I bid thee.


book: 2Ki
start: 4:25
end: 4:26
text:
And it came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his servant, Behold, [yonder is] that Shunammite: Run now, I pray thee, to meet her, and say unto her, [Is it] well with thee? [is it] well with thy husband? [is it] well with the child?


book: 2Ki
start: 4:27
end: 4:27
text:
And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away.


book: 2Ki
start: 4:27
end: 4:27
text:
And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul [is] vexed within her: and the LORD hath hid [it] from me, and hath not told me.


book: 2Ki
start: 4:29
end: 4:29
text:
Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thine hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if any salute thee, answer him not again: and lay my staff upon the face of the child.


book: 2Ki
start: 4:31
end: 4:31
text:
And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon the face of the child; but [there was] neither voice, nor hearing.


book: 2Ki
start: 4:34
end: 4:34
text:
And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and he stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of the child waxed warm.


book: 2Ki
start: 4:35
end: 4:35
text:
Then he returned, and walked in the house to and fro; and went up, and stretched himself upon him: and the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.


book: 2Ki
start: 4:38
end: 4:38
text:
¶ And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and [there was] a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets [were] sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.


book: 2Ki
start: 4:39
end: 4:39
text:
And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred [them] into the pot of pottage: for they knew [them] not.


book: 2Ki
start: 4:43
end: 4:43
text:
He said again, Give the people, that they may eat: for thus saith the LORD, They shall eat, and shall leave [thereof].


book: 2Ki
start: 5:1
end: 5:1
text:
Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, [but he was] a leper.


book: 2Ki
start: 5:2
end: 5:2
text:
And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman’s wife.


book: 2Ki
start: 5:3
end: 5:3
text:
And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord [were] with the prophet that [is] in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy.


book: 2Ki
start: 5:7
end: 5:7
text:
And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, [Am] I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.


book: 2Ki
start: 5:8
end: 5:8
text:
¶ And it was [so], when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.


book: 2Ki
start: 5:12
end: 5:12
text:
[Are] not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean?


book: 2Ki
start: 5:13
end: 5:13
text:
And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, [if] the prophet had bid thee [do some] great thing, wouldest thou not have done [it]? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?


book: 2Ki
start: 5:14
end: 5:14
text:
Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.


book: 2Ki
start: 5:15
end: 5:15
text:
¶ And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that [there is] no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of thy servant.


book: 2Ki
start: 5:17
end: 5:17
text:
And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be given to thy servant two mules’ burden of earth? for thy servant will henceforth offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, but unto the LORD.


book: 2Ki
start: 5:18
end: 5:18
text:
In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, [that] when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing.


book: 2Ki
start: 5:20
end: 5:20
text:
¶ But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, [as] the LORD liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.


book: 2Ki
start: 5:22
end: 5:22
text:
My master hath sent me, saying, Behold, even now there be come to me from mount Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets: give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of garments.


book: 2Ki
start: 5:23
end: 5:23
text:
And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and laid [them] upon two of his servants; and they bare [them] before him.


book: 2Ki
start: 5:24
end: 5:24
text:
And when he came to the tower, he took [them] from their hand, and bestowed [them] in the house: and he let the men go, and they departed.


book: 2Ki
start: 6:5
end: 6:5
text:
But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.


book: 2Ki
start: 6:9
end: 6:9
text:
And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel, saying, Beware that thou pass not such a place; for thither the Syrians are come down.


book: 2Ki
start: 6:11
end: 6:11
text:
Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for this thing; and he called his servants, and said unto them, Will ye not shew me which of us [is] for the king of Israel?


book: 2Ki
start: 6:12
end: 6:12
text:
And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but Elisha, the prophet that [is] in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bedchamber.


book: 2Ki
start: 6:14
end: 6:14
text:
Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a great host: and they came by night, and compassed the city about.


book: 2Ki
start: 6:17
end: 6:17
text:
And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain [was] full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.


book: 2Ki
start: 6:19
end: 6:19
text:
¶ And Elisha said unto them, This [is] not the way, neither [is] this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek.


book: 2Ki
start: 6:21
end: 6:21
text:
And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw them, My father, shall I smite [them]? shall I smite [them]?


book: 2Ki
start: 6:22
end: 6:22
text:
And he answered, Thou shalt not smite [them]: wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow? set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.


book: 2Ki
start: 6:23
end: 6:23
text:
And he prepared great provision for them: and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master.


book: 2Ki
start: 6:25
end: 6:25
text:
And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass’s head was [sold] for fourscore [pieces] of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove’s dung for five [pieces] of silver.


book: 2Ki
start: 6:27
end: 6:27
text:
And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?


book: 2Ki
start: 6:29
end: 6:29
text:
So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.


book: 2Ki
start: 6:30
end: 6:30
text:
¶ And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the wall, and the people looked, and, behold, [he had] sackcloth within upon his flesh.


book: 2Ki
start: 6:32
end: 6:32
text:
But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and [the king] sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away mine head? look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door: [is] not the sound of his master’s feet behind him?


book: 2Ki
start: 6:33
end: 6:33
text:
And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil [is] of the LORD; what should I wait for the LORD any longer?


book: 2Ki
start: 7:1
end: 7:1
text:
Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, To morrow about this time [shall] a measure of fine flour [be sold] for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.


book: 2Ki
start: 7:3
end: 7:3
text:
¶ And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?


book: 2Ki
start: 7:4
end: 7:4
text:
If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine [is] in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also.


book: 2Ki
start: 7:4
end: 7:4
text:
Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.


book: 2Ki
start: 7:5
end: 7:5
text:
And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, behold, [there was] no man there.


book: 2Ki
start: 7:6
end: 7:6
text:
For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, [even] the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.


book: 2Ki
start: 7:8
end: 7:8
text:
And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid [it]; and came again, and entered into another tent, and carried thence [also], and went and hid [it].


book: 2Ki
start: 7:9
end: 7:9
text:
Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day [is] a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go and tell the king’s household.


book: 2Ki
start: 7:10
end: 7:10
text:
So they came and called unto the porter of the city: and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, [there was] no man there, neither voice of man, but horses tied, and asses tied, and the tents as they [were].


book: 2Ki
start: 7:12
end: 7:12
text:
They know that we [be] hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city.


book: 2Ki
start: 7:13
end: 7:13
text:
And one of his servants answered and said, Let [some] take, I pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city, (behold, they [are] as all the multitude of Israel that are left in it: behold, [I say], they [are] even as all the multitude of the Israelites that are consumed:) and let us send and see.


book: 2Ki
start: 7:14
end: 7:14
text:
They took therefore two chariot horses; and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.


book: 2Ki
start: 7:15
end: 7:15
text:
And they went after them unto Jordan: and, lo, all the way [was] full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste.


book: 2Ki
start: 7:17
end: 7:17
text:
¶ And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died, as the man of God had said, who spake when the king came down to him.


book: 2Ki
start: 7:18
end: 7:19
text:
And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be to morrow about this time in the gate of Samaria: And that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, [if] the LORD should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be?


book: 2Ki
start: 8:1
end: 8:1
text:
Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the LORD hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years.


book: 2Ki
start: 8:2
end: 8:2
text:
And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.


book: 2Ki
start: 8:3
end: 8:3
text:
And it came to pass at the seven years’ end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land.


book: 2Ki
start: 8:7
end: 8:7
text:
¶ And Elisha came to Damascus; and Ben–hadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come hither.


book: 2Ki
start: 8:10
end: 8:10
text:
And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly recover: howbeit the LORD hath shewed me that he shall surely die.


book: 2Ki
start: 8:12
end: 8:12
text:
And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.


book: 2Ki
start: 8:15
end: 8:15
text:
And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took a thick cloth, and dipped [it] in water, and spread [it] on his face, so that he died: and Hazael reigned in his stead.


book: 2Ki
start: 8:18
end: 8:18
text:
And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in the sight of the LORD.


book: 2Ki
start: 8:21
end: 8:21
text:
So Joram went over to Zair, and all the chariots with him: and he rose by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots: and the people fled into their tents.


book: 2Ki
start: 8:24
end: 8:24
text:
And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.


book: 2Ki
start: 8:26
end: 8:26
text:
Two and twenty years old [was] Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem.


book: 2Ki
start: 8:27
end: 8:27
text:
And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of the LORD, as [did] the house of Ahab: for he [was] the son in law of the house of Ahab.


book: 2Ki
start: 8:28
end: 8:28
text:
¶ And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war against Hazael king of Syria in Ramoth–gilead; and the Syrians wounded Joram.


book: 2Ki
start: 9:1
end: 9:3
text:
And Elisha the prophet called one of the children of the prophets, and said unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take this box of oil in thine hand, and go to Ramoth–gilead: And when thou comest thither, look out there Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise up from among his brethren, and carry him to an inner chamber; Then take the box of oil, and pour [it] on his head, and say, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king over Israel.


book: 2Ki
start: 9:5
end: 9:5
text:
And when he came, behold, the captains of the host [were] sitting; and he said, I have an errand to thee, O captain.


book: 2Ki
start: 9:6
end: 9:6
text:
And he arose, and went into the house; and he poured the oil on his head, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I have anointed thee king over the people of the LORD, [even] over Israel.


book: 2Ki
start: 9:8
end: 9:10
text:
For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel: And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah: And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and [there shall be] none to bury [her].


book: 2Ki
start: 9:11
end: 9:11
text:
¶ Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and [one] said unto him, [Is] all well? wherefore came this mad [fellow] to thee?


book: 2Ki
start: 9:20
end: 9:20
text:
And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not again: and the driving [is] like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously.


book: 2Ki
start: 9:25
end: 9:26
text:
Then said [Jehu] to Bidkar his captain, Take up, [and] cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for remember how that, when I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, the LORD laid this burden upon him; Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, saith the LORD; and I will requite thee in this plat, saith the LORD.


book: 2Ki
start: 9:30
end: 9:30
text:
¶ And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard [of it]; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window.


book: 2Ki
start: 9:33
end: 9:33
text:
So they threw her down: and [some] of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trode her under foot.


book: 2Ki
start: 9:34
end: 9:34
text:
And when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and said, Go, see now this cursed [woman], and bury her: for she [is] a king’s daughter.


book: 2Ki
start: 9:35
end: 9:35
text:
And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of [her] hands.


book: 2Ki
start: 9:36
end: 9:37
text:
And he said, This [is] the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel: And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel; [so] that they shall not say, This [is] Jezebel.


book: 2Ki
start: 10:1
end: 10:3
text:
And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to them that brought up Ahab’s [children], saying, Now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your master’s sons [are] with you, and [there are] with you chariots and horses, a fenced city also, and armour; Look even out the best and meetest of your master’s sons, and set [him] on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house.


book: 2Ki
start: 10:4
end: 10:4
text:
But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, two kings stood not before him: how then shall we stand?


book: 2Ki
start: 10:5
end: 10:5
text:
And he that [was] over the house, and he that [was] over the city, the elders also, and the bringers up [of the children], sent to Jehu, saying, We [are] thy servants, and will do all that thou shalt bid us; we will not make any king: do thou [that which is] good in thine eyes.


book: 2Ki
start: 10:9
end: 10:9
text:
And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and said to all the people, Ye [be] righteous: behold, I conspired against my master, and slew him: but who slew all these?


book: 2Ki
start: 10:10
end: 10:10
text:
Know now that there shall fall unto the earth nothing of the word of the LORD, which the LORD spake concerning the house of Ahab: for the LORD hath done [that] which he spake by his servant Elijah.


book: 2Ki
start: 10:13
end: 10:13
text:
And they answered, We [are] the brethren of Ahaziah; and we go down to salute the children of the king and the children of the queen.


book: 2Ki
start: 10:14
end: 10:14
text:
And they took them alive, and slew them at the pit of the shearing house, [even] two and forty men; neither left he any of them.


book: 2Ki
start: 10:15
end: 10:15
text:
¶ And when he was departed thence, he lighted on Jehonadab the son of Rechab [coming] to meet him: and he saluted him, and said to him, Is thine heart right, as my heart [is] with thy heart?


book: 2Ki
start: 10:18
end: 10:18
text:
¶ And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said unto them, Ahab served Baal a little; [but] Jehu shall serve him much.


book: 2Ki
start: 10:19
end: 10:19
text:
Now therefore call unto me all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests; let none be wanting: for I have a great sacrifice [to do] to Baal; whosoever shall be wanting, he shall not live.


book: 2Ki
start: 10:21
end: 10:21
text:
And Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the worshippers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that came not.


book: 2Ki
start: 10:25
end: 10:25
text:
And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, [and] slay them; let none come forth.


book: 2Ki
start: 10:25
end: 10:25
text:
And they smote them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast [them] out, and went to the city of the house of Baal.


book: 2Ki
start: 10:31
end: 10:31
text:
But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin.


book: 2Ki
start: 10:32
end: 10:33
text:
¶ In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel; From Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which [is] by the river Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.


book: 2Ki
start: 11:2
end: 11:2
text:
But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king’s sons [which were] slain; and they hid him, [even] him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.


book: 2Ki
start: 11:5
end: 11:6
text:
And he commanded them, saying, This [is] the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall even be keepers of the watch of the king’s house; And a third part [shall be] at the gate of Sur; and a third part at the gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the watch of the house, that it be not broken down.


book: 2Ki
start: 11:8
end: 11:8
text:
And ye shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand: and he that cometh within the ranges, let him be slain: and be ye with the king as he goeth out and as he cometh in.


book: 2Ki
start: 11:9
end: 11:9
text:
And the captains over the hundreds did according to all [things] that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that should go out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.


book: 2Ki
start: 11:12
end: 11:12
text:
And he brought forth the king’s son, and put the crown upon him, and [gave him] the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, God save the king.


book: 2Ki
start: 11:14
end: 11:14
text:
And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the manner [was], and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason.


book: 2Ki
start: 11:15
end: 11:15
text:
But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth without the ranges: and him that followeth her kill with the sword.


book: 2Ki
start: 11:16
end: 11:16
text:
And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by the which the horses came into the king’s house: and there was she slain.


book: 2Ki
start: 11:17
end: 11:17
text:
¶ And Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people, that they should be the LORD’S people; between the king also and the people.


book: 2Ki
start: 11:18
end: 11:18
text:
And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.


book: 2Ki
start: 11:19
end: 11:19
text:
And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of the LORD, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king’s house.


book: 2Ki
start: 11:20
end: 11:20
text:
And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was in quiet: and they slew Athaliah with the sword [beside] the king’s house.


book: 2Ki
start: 12:3
end: 12:3
text:
But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.


book: 2Ki
start: 12:4
end: 12:5
text:
¶ And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated things that is brought into the house of the LORD, [even] the money of every one that passeth [the account], the money that every man is set at, [and] all the money that cometh into any man’s heart to bring into the house of the LORD, Let the priests take [it] to them, every man of his acquaintance: and let them repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be found.


book: 2Ki
start: 12:7
end: 12:7
text:
Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the [other] priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore receive no [more] money of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.


book: 2Ki
start: 12:9
end: 12:9
text:
But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of the LORD: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money [that was] brought into the house of the LORD.


book: 2Ki
start: 12:11
end: 12:12
text:
And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of them that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of the LORD: and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house of the LORD, And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair [it].


book: 2Ki
start: 12:13
end: 12:14
text:
Howbeit there were not made for the house of the LORD bowls of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money [that was] brought into the house of the LORD: But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith the house of the LORD.


book: 2Ki
start: 12:15
end: 12:15
text:
Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully.


book: 2Ki
start: 12:17
end: 12:17
text:
¶ Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it: and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.


book: 2Ki
start: 12:18
end: 12:18
text:
And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold [that was] found in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and in the king’s house, and sent [it] to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.


book: 2Ki
start: 12:21
end: 12:21
text:
For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.


book: 2Ki
start: 13:2
end: 13:2
text:
And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.


book: 2Ki
start: 13:4
end: 13:4
text:
And Jehoahaz besought the LORD, and the LORD hearkened unto him: for he saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Syria oppressed them.


book: 2Ki
start: 13:5
end: 13:5
text:
(And the LORD gave Israel a saviour, so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians: and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents, as beforetime.


book: 2Ki
start: 13:6
end: 13:6
text:
Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, [but] walked therein: and there remained the grove also in Samaria.)


book: 2Ki
start: 13:7
end: 13:7
text:
Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing.


book: 2Ki
start: 13:9
end: 13:9
text:
And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria: and Joash his son reigned in his stead.


book: 2Ki
start: 13:11
end: 13:11
text:
And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD; he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin: [but] he walked therein.


book: 2Ki
start: 13:13
end: 13:13
text:
And Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat upon his throne: and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.


book: 2Ki
start: 13:17
end: 13:17
text:
And he said, The arrow of the LORD’S deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria: for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have consumed [them].


book: 2Ki
start: 13:19
end: 13:19
text:
And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed [it]: whereas now thou shalt smite Syria [but] thrice.


book: 2Ki
start: 13:21
end: 13:21
text:
And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band [of men]; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.


book: 2Ki
start: 14:3
end: 14:3
text:
And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his father did.


book: 2Ki
start: 14:4
end: 14:4
text:
Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.


book: 2Ki
start: 14:6
end: 14:6
text:
But the children of the murderers he slew not: according unto that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall be put to death for his own sin.


book: 2Ki
start: 14:9
end: 14:9
text:
And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that [was] in Lebanon sent to the cedar that [was] in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that [was] in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.


book: 2Ki
start: 14:10
end: 14:10
text:
Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart hath lifted thee up: glory [of this], and tarry at home: for why shouldest thou meddle to [thy] hurt, that thou shouldest fall, [even] thou, and Judah with thee?


book: 2Ki
start: 14:11
end: 14:11
text:
Therefore Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth–shemesh, which [belongeth] to Judah.


book: 2Ki
start: 14:16
end: 14:16
text:
And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead.


book: 2Ki
start: 14:19
end: 14:19
text:
Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.


book: 2Ki
start: 14:20
end: 14:20
text:
And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.


book: 2Ki
start: 14:24
end: 14:24
text:
And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.


book: 2Ki
start: 14:26
end: 14:26
text:
For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, [that it was] very bitter: for [there was] not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel.


book: 2Ki
start: 14:27
end: 14:27
text:
And the LORD said not that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven: but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.


book: 2Ki
start: 14:29
end: 14:29
text:
And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, [even] with the kings of Israel; and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead.


book: 2Ki
start: 15:3
end: 15:4
text:
And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done; Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.


book: 2Ki
start: 15:7
end: 15:7
text:
So Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.


book: 2Ki
start: 15:9
end: 15:9
text:
And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fathers had done: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.


book: 2Ki
start: 15:13
end: 15:13
text:
¶ Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and thirtieth year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned a full month in Samaria.


book: 2Ki
start: 15:16
end: 15:16
text:
¶ Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that [were] therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not [to him], therefore he smote [it; and] all the women therein that were with child he ripped up.


book: 2Ki
start: 15:18
end: 15:18
text:
And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.


book: 2Ki
start: 15:19
end: 15:19
text:
[And] Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.


book: 2Ki
start: 15:24
end: 15:24
text:
And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.


book: 2Ki
start: 15:25
end: 15:25
text:
But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king’s house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room.


book: 2Ki
start: 15:34
end: 15:34
text:
And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.


book: 2Ki
start: 15:35
end: 15:35
text:
¶ Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places.


book: 2Ki
start: 15:38
end: 15:38
text:
And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.


book: 2Ki
start: 16:5
end: 16:5
text:
¶ Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome [him].


book: 2Ki
start: 16:6
end: 16:6
text:
At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there unto this day.


book: 2Ki
start: 16:7
end: 16:7
text:
So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath–pileser king of Assyria, saying, I [am] thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, which rise up against me.


book: 2Ki
start: 16:9
end: 16:9
text:
And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried [the people of] it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.


