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{
"book": "1 John",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": "1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;"
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "(For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)"
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:"
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:"
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also."
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life."
},
{
"verse": "26",
"text": "These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you."
},
{
"verse": "27",
"text": "But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him."
},
{
"verse": "28",
"text": "And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming."
},
{
"verse": "29",
"text": "If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?"
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment."
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "4",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:"
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "We love him, because he first loved us."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?"
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "5",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?"
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:"
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen."
}
]
}
]
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{
"book": "1 Kings",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": "1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of Israel, and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the king."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "And the damsel was very fair, and cherished the king, and ministered to him: but the king knew her not."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest: and they following Adonijah helped him."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men which belonged to David, were not with Adonijah."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of Zoheleth, which is by Enrogel, and called all his brethren the king’s sons, and all the men of Judah the king’s servants:"
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "But Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother, he called not."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "Wherefore Nathan spake unto Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, Hast thou not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith doth reign, and David our lord knoweth it not?"
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "Now therefore come, let me, I pray thee, give thee counsel, that thou mayest save thine own life, and the life of thy son Solomon."
},
{
"verse": "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?"
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I also will come in after thee, and confirm thy words."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "And Bathsheba went in unto the king into the chamber: and the king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite ministered unto the king."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "And Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance unto the king. And the king said, What wouldest thou?"
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "And she said unto him, My lord, thou swarest by the LORD thy God unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth; and now, my lord the king, thou knowest it not:"
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "And thou, my lord, O king, the eyes of all Israel are upon thee, that thou shouldest tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "And, lo, while she yet talked with the king, Nathan the prophet also came in."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "And they told the king, saying, Behold Nathan the prophet. And when he was come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground."
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "And Nathan said, My lord, O king, hast thou said, Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne?"
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "26",
"text": "But me, even me thy servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and thy servant Solomon, hath he not called."
},
{
"verse": "27",
"text": "Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not shewed it unto thy servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?"
},
{
"verse": "28",
"text": "Then king David answered and said, Call me Bathsheba. And she came into the king’s presence, and stood before the king."
},
{
"verse": "29",
"text": "And the king sware, and said, As the LORD liveth, that hath redeemed my soul out of all distress,"
},
{
"verse": "30",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "31",
"text": "Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever."
},
{
"verse": "32",
"text": "And king David said, Call me Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. And they came before the king."
},
{
"verse": "33",
"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:"
},
{
"verse": "34",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "37",
"text": "As the LORD hath been with my lord the king, even so be he with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David."
},
{
"verse": "38",
"text": "So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, went down, and caused Solomon to ride upon king David’s mule, and brought him to Gihon."
},
{
"verse": "39",
"text": "And Zadok the priest took an horn of oil out of the tabernacle, and anointed Solomon. And they blew the trumpet; and all the people said, God save king Solomon."
},
{
"verse": "40",
"text": "And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound of them."
},
{
"verse": "41",
"text": "And Adonijah and all the guests that were with him heard it as they had made an end of eating. And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, Wherefore is this noise of the city being in an uproar?"
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "43",
"text": "And Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah, Verily our lord king David hath made Solomon king."
},
{
"verse": "44",
"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:"
},
{
"verse": "45",
"text": "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. This is the noise that ye have heard."
},
{
"verse": "46",
"text": "And also Solomon sitteth on the throne of the kingdom."
},
{
"verse": "47",
"text": "And moreover the king’s servants came to bless our lord king David, saying, God make the name of Solomon better than thy name, and make his throne greater than thy throne. And the king bowed himself upon the bed."
},
{
"verse": "48",
"text": "And also thus said the king, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which hath given one to sit on my throne this day, mine eyes even seeing it."
},
{
"verse": "49",
"text": "And all the guests that were with Adonijah were afraid, and rose up, and went every man his way."
},
{
"verse": "50",
"text": "And Adonijah feared because of Solomon, and arose, and went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar."
},
{
"verse": "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 today that he will not slay his servant with the sword."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "53",
"text": "So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. And he came and bowed himself to king Solomon: and Solomon said unto him, Go to thine house."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying,"
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and shew thyself a man;"
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "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:"
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "Then sat Solomon upon the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was established greatly."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "And Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. And she said, Comest thou peaceably? And he said, Peaceably."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "He said moreover, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And she said, Say on."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "And now I ask one petition of thee, deny me not. And she said unto him, Say on."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "And he said, Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king, (for he will not say thee nay,) that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to wife."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "And Bathsheba said, Well; I will speak for thee unto the king."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "Bathsheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him for Adonijah. 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."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "Then she said, I desire one small petition of thee; I pray thee, say me not nay. And the king said unto her, Ask on, my mother: for I will not say thee nay."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "Then king Solomon sware by the LORD, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah have not spoken this word against his own life."
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "Now therefore, as the LORD liveth, which hath established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who hath made me an house, as he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death this day."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him that he died."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "28",
"text": "Then tidings came to Joab: for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he turned not after Absalom. And Joab fled unto the tabernacle of the LORD, and caught hold on the horns of the altar."
},
{
"verse": "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. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall upon him."
},
{
"verse": "30",
"text": "And Benaiah came to the tabernacle of the LORD, and said unto him, Thus saith the king, Come forth. And he said, Nay; but I will die here. And Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "32",
"text": "And the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "36",
"text": "And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Build thee an house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and go not forth thence any whither."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "38",
"text": "And Shimei said unto the king, The saying is good: as my lord the king hath said, so will thy servant do. And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days."
},
{
"verse": "39",
"text": "And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei ran away unto Achish son of Maachah king of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying, Behold, thy servants be in Gath."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "41",
"text": "And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and was come again."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "43",
"text": "Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the commandment that I have charged thee with?"
},
{
"verse": "44",
"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;"
},
{
"verse": "45",
"text": "And king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the LORD for ever."
},
{
"verse": "46",
"text": "So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; which went out, and fell upon him, that he died. And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude."
},
{
"verse": "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?"
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "And the speech pleased the LORD, that Solomon had asked this thing."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"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;"
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "And this woman’s child died in the night; because she overlaid it."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son. And this said, No; but the dead is thy son, and the living is my son. Thus they spake before the king."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other."
},
{
"verse": "26",
"text": "Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it."
},
{
"verse": "27",
"text": "Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof."
},
{
"verse": "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."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "4",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "So king Solomon was king over all Israel."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "And these were the princes which he had; Azariah the son of Zadok the priest,"
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests:"
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "And Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers: and Zabud the son of Nathan was principal officer, and the king’s friend:"
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "And Ahishar was over the household: and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the tribute."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "And these are their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim:"
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Bethshemesh, and Elonbethhanan:"
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him pertained Sochoh, and all the land of Hepher:"
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; which had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife:"
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "Baana the son of Ahilud; to him pertained Taanach and Megiddo, and all Bethshean, which is by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from Bethshean to Abelmeholah, even unto the place that is beyond Jokneam:"
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "The son of Geber, in Ramothgilead; 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:"
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "Ahinadab the son of Iddo had Mahanaim:"
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "Ahimaaz was in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the daughter of Solomon to wife:"
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "Baanah the son of Hushai was in Asher and in Aloth:"
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar:"
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin:"
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "And Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,"
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon."
},
{
"verse": "26",
"text": "And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "28",
"text": "Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries brought they unto the place where the officers were, every man according to his charge."
},
{
"verse": "29",
"text": "And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore."
},
{
"verse": "30",
"text": "And Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "32",
"text": "And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "34",
"text": "And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, which had heard of his wisdom."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "5",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,"
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the name of the LORD his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "But now the LORD my God hath given me rest on every side, so that there is neither adversary nor evil occurrent."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "And, behold, I purpose to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God, as the LORD spake unto David my father, saying, Thy son, whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room, he shall build an house unto my name."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed be the LORD this day, which hath given unto David a wise son over this great people."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all his desire."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;"
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house."
},
{
"verse": "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."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "6",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "And for the house he made windows of narrow lights."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"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:"
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "And the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying,"
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "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:"
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "So Solomon built the house, and finished it."
},
{
"verse": "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 ceiling: and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "And within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive tree, each ten cubits high."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "And the other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubims were of one measure and one size."
},
{
"verse": "26",
"text": "The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "28",
"text": "And he overlaid the cherubims with gold."
},
{
"verse": "29",
"text": "And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, within and without."
},
{
"verse": "30",
"text": "And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "33",
"text": "So also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive tree, a fourth part of the wall."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "35",
"text": "And he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work."
},
{
"verse": "36",
"text": "And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams."
},
{
"verse": "37",
"text": "In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid, in the month Zif:"
},
{
"verse": "38",
"text": "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. So was he seven years in building it."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "7",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay on forty five pillars, fifteen in a row."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "And there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in three ranks."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against light in three ranks."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "And his house where he dwelt had another court within the porch, which was of the like work. Solomon made also an house for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had taken to wife, like unto this porch."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the LORD, and for the porch of the house."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre."
},
{
"verse": "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. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his work."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"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:"
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily work in the porch, four cubits."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "And upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "28",
"text": "And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had borders, and the borders were between the ledges:"
},
{
"verse": "29",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "34",
"text": "And there were four undersetters to the four corners of one base: and the undersetters were of the very base itself."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "36",
"text": "For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of every one, and additions round about."
},
{
"verse": "37",
"text": "After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one size."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "40",
"text": "And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for the house of the LORD:"
},
{
"verse": "41",
"text": "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;"
},
{
"verse": "42",
"text": "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;"
},
{
"verse": "43",
"text": "And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases;"
},
{
"verse": "44",
"text": "And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;"
},
{
"verse": "45",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "46",
"text": "In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan."
},
{
"verse": "47",
"text": "And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out."
},
{
"verse": "48",
"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,"
},
{
"verse": "49",
"text": "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,"
},
{
"verse": "50",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "51",
"text": "So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the house of the LORD. 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."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "8",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "And they brought up the ark of the LORD, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring up."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled unto him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "For the cherubims spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"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,"
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "Then spake Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell in the thick darkness."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in for ever."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the congregation of Israel: (and all the congregation of Israel stood;)"
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "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,"
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "And it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "And the LORD said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thine heart to build an house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thine heart."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "And the LORD hath performed his word that he spake, and I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"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:"
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "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:"
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "26",
"text": "And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father."
},
{
"verse": "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?"
},
{
"verse": "28",
"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:"
},
{
"verse": "29",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "31",
"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:"
},
{
"verse": "32",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "33",
"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:"
},
{
"verse": "34",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "35",
"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:"
},
{
"verse": "36",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "37",
"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;"
},
{
"verse": "38",
"text": "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:"
},
{
"verse": "39",
"text": "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;)"
},
{
"verse": "40",
"text": "That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers."
},
{
"verse": "41",
"text": "Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name’s sake;"
},
{
"verse": "42",
"text": "(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;"
},
{
"verse": "43",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "44",
"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:"
},
{
"verse": "45",
"text": "Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause."
},
{
"verse": "46",
"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;"
},
{
"verse": "47",
"text": "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;"
},
{
"verse": "48",
"text": "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:"
},
{
"verse": "49",
"text": "Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause,"
},
{
"verse": "50",
"text": "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:"
},
{
"verse": "51",
"text": "For they be thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron:"
},
{
"verse": "52",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "53",
"text": "For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O LORD God."
},
{
"verse": "54",
"text": "And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven."
},
{
"verse": "55",
"text": "And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying,"
},
{
"verse": "56",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "57",
"text": "The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us:"
},
{
"verse": "58",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "59",
"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:"
},
{
"verse": "60",
"text": "That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is God, and that there is none else."
},
{
"verse": "61",
"text": "Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day."
},
{
"verse": "62",
"text": "And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "63",
"text": "And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "65",
"text": "And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days."
},
{
"verse": "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."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "9",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the LORD, and the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do,"
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "That the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"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:"
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"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:"
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "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:"
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "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?"
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD, and the king’s house,"
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "(Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "And he said, What cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto this day."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for a present unto his daughter, Solomon’s wife."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "And Solomon built Gezer, and Bethhoron the nether,"
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,"
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and cities for his chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel,"
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "These were the chief of the officers that were over Solomon’s work, five hundred and fifty, which bare rule over the people that wrought in the work."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he built unto the LORD, and he burnt incense upon the altar that was before the LORD. So he finished the house."
},
{
"verse": "26",
"text": "And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom."
},
{
"verse": "27",
"text": "And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon."
},
{
"verse": "28",
"text": "And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "10",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "And Solomon told her all her questions: there was not any thing hid from the king, which he told her not."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon’s wisdom, and the house that he had built,"
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own country, she and her servants."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,"
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "Beside that he had of the merchantmen, and of the traffick of the spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the country."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom."
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "27",
"text": "And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the vale, for abundance."
},
{
"verse": "28",
"text": "And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king’s merchants received the linen yarn at a price."
},
{
"verse": "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."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "11",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;"
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as did David his father."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"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,"
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods: but he kept not that which the LORD commanded."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "Wherefore the LORD said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "And the LORD stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he was of the king’s seed in Edom."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"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;"
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "(For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had cut off every male in Edom:)"
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "That Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father’s servants with him, to go into Egypt; Hadad being yet a little child."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "And Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him to wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go to mine own country."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "Then Pharaoh said unto him, But what hast thou lacked with me, that, behold, thou seekest to go to thine own country? And he answered, Nothing: howbeit let me go in any wise."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "And God stirred him up another adversary, Rezon the son of Eliadah, which fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah:"
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "26",
"text": "And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon’s servant, whose mother’s name was Zeruah, a widow woman, even he lifted up his hand against the king."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "29",
"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:"
},
{
"verse": "30",
"text": "And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces:"
},
{
"verse": "31",
"text": "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:"
},
{
"verse": "32",
"text": "(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:)"
},
{
"verse": "33",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "34",
"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:"
},
{
"verse": "35",
"text": "But I will take the kingdom out of his son’s hand, and will give it unto thee, even ten tribes."
},
{
"verse": "36",
"text": "And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there."
},
{
"verse": "37",
"text": "And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "39",
"text": "And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for ever."
},
{
"verse": "40",
"text": "Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam. And Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, unto Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon."
},
{
"verse": "41",
"text": "And the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon?"
},
{
"verse": "42",
"text": "And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years."
},
{
"verse": "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."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "12",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"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;)"
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "That they sent and called him. And Jeroboam and all the congregation of Israel came, and spake unto Rehoboam, saying,"
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "And he said unto them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to me. And the people departed."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men, that stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, How do ye advise that I may answer this people?"
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "And they spake unto him, saying, If thou wilt be a servant unto this people this day, and wilt serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be thy servants for ever."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"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:"
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "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?"
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king had appointed, saying, Come to me again the third day."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men’s counsel that they gave him;"
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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. So Israel departed unto their tents."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "But as for the children of Israel which dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the tribute; and all Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. Therefore king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "So Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "But the word of God came unto Shemaiah the man of God, saying,"
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "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,"
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "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. They hearkened therefore to the word of the LORD, and returned to depart, according to the word of the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and went out from thence, and built Penuel."
},
{
"verse": "26",
"text": "And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David:"
},
{
"verse": "27",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "29",
"text": "And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan."
},
{
"verse": "30",
"text": "And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan."
},
{
"verse": "31",
"text": "And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi."
},
{
"verse": "32",
"text": "And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made."
},
{
"verse": "33",
"text": "So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Bethel 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."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "13",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the LORD unto Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Bethel, that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "The altar also was rent, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "And the king answered and said unto the man of God, Intreat now the face of the LORD thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again. And the man of God besought the LORD, and the king’s hand was restored him again, and became as it was before."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "And the king said unto the man of God, Come home with me, and refresh thyself, and I will give thee a reward."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"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:"
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to Bethel."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "Now there dwelt an old prophet in Bethel; and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel: the words which he had spoken unto the king, them they told also to their father."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "And their father said unto them, What way went he? For his sons had seen what way the man of God went, which came from Judah."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they saddled him the ass: and he rode thereon,"
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "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? And he said, I am."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"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:"
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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. But he lied unto him."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"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:"
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "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,"
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he saddled for him the ass, to wit, for the prophet whom he had brought back."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "27",
"text": "And he spake to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass. And they saddled him."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "30",
"text": "And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother!"
},
{
"verse": "31",
"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:"
},
{
"verse": "32",
"text": "For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "34",
"text": "And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "14",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "And Jeroboam’s wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"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,"
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "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;"
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "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:"
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: and when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"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;"
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah an Ammonitess."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:"
},
{
"verse": "26",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "27",
"text": "And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king’s house."
},
{
"verse": "28",
"text": "And it was so, when the king went into the house of the LORD, that the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guard chamber."
},
{
"verse": "29",
"text": "Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?"
},
{
"verse": "30",
"text": "And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days."
},
{
"verse": "31",
"text": "And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And his mother’s name was Naamah an Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "15",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"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:"
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa’s heart was perfect with the LORD all his days."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated, and the things which himself had dedicated, into the house of the LORD, silver, and gold, and vessels."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"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 Benhadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,"
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "So Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of the hosts which he had against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abelbethmaachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that he left off building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned over Israel two years."
},
{
"verse": "26",
"text": "And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "28",
"text": "Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and reigned in his stead."
},
{
"verse": "29",
"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:"
},
{
"verse": "30",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "31",
"text": "Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?"
},
{
"verse": "32",
"text": "And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days."
},
{
"verse": "33",
"text": "In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years."
},
{
"verse": "34",
"text": "And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "16",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,"
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "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;"
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?"
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah: and Elah his son reigned in his stead."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "In the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of Judah began Elah the son of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirzah, two years."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza steward of his house in Tirzah."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "And Zimri went in and smote him, and killed him, in the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his stead."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,"
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, by which they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?"
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "In the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah did Zimri reign seven days in Tirzah. And the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "And it came to pass, when Zimri saw that the city was taken, that he went into the palace of the king’s house, and burnt the king’s house over him with fire, and died,"
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "For his sins which he sinned in doing evil in the sight of the LORD, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, to make Israel to sin."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he wrought, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?"
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver, and built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill, Samaria."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD, and did worse than all that were before him."
},
{
"verse": "26",
"text": "For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities."
},
{
"verse": "27",
"text": "Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his might that he shewed, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?"
},
{
"verse": "28",
"text": "So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria: and Ahab his son reigned in his stead."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "30",
"text": "And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD above all that were before him."
},
{
"verse": "31",
"text": "And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him."
},
{
"verse": "32",
"text": "And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "34",
"text": "In his days did Hiel the Bethelite 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."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "17",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying,"
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying,"
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "So he arose and went to Zarephath. 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."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Elijah."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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?"
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "And he cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?"
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, I pray thee, let this child’s soul come into him again."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou art a man of God, and that the word of the LORD in thy mouth is truth."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "18",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "And Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab. And there was a sore famine in Samaria."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his house. (Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly:"
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)"
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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?"
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "And he answered him, I am: go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "And he said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?"
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the LORD, how I hid an hundred men of the LORD’s prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?"
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here: and he shall slay me."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "And Elijah said, As the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, I will surely shew myself unto him to day."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him: and Ahab went to meet Elijah."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel?"
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel’s table."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together unto mount Carmel."
},
{
"verse": "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. And the people answered him not a word."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"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:"
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "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. And all the people answered and said, It is well spoken."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "26",
"text": "And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "28",
"text": "And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them."
},
{
"verse": "29",
"text": "And it came to pass, when midday was past, and they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded."
},
{
"verse": "30",
"text": "And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD that was broken down."
},
{
"verse": "31",
"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:"
},
{
"verse": "32",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "33",
"text": "And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid him on the wood, and said, Fill four barrels with water, and pour it on the burnt sacrifice, and on the wood."
},
{
"verse": "34",
"text": "And he said, Do it the second time. And they did it the second time. And he said, Do it the third time. And they did it the third time."
},
{
"verse": "35",
"text": "And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water."
},
{
"verse": "36",
"text": "And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word."
},
{
"verse": "37",
"text": "Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the LORD God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again."
},
{
"verse": "38",
"text": "Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "40",
"text": "And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there."
},
{
"verse": "41",
"text": "And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain."
},
{
"verse": "42",
"text": "So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees,"
},
{
"verse": "43",
"text": "And said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times."
},
{
"verse": "44",
"text": "And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man’s hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not."
},
{
"verse": "45",
"text": "And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel."
},
{
"verse": "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."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "19",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God."
},
{
"verse": "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?"
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. 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:"
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?"
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"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:"
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee?"
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "20",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "And Benhadad 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."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the city, and said unto him, Thus saith Benhadad,"
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy children, even the goodliest, are mine."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "And the king of Israel answered and said, My lord, O king, according to thy saying, I am thine, and all that I have."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "And the messengers came again, and said, Thus speaketh Benhadad, saying, Although I have sent unto thee, saying, Thou shalt deliver me thy silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy children;"
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "And all the elders and all the people said unto him, Hearken not unto him, nor consent."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "Wherefore he said unto the messengers of Benhadad, 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. And the messengers departed, and brought him word again."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "And Benhadad sent unto him, and said, The gods do so unto me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "And it came to pass, when Ben-hadad heard this message, as he was drinking, he and the kings in the pavilions, that he said unto his servants, Set yourselves in array. And they set themselves in array against the city."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Even by the young men of the princes of the provinces. Then he said, Who shall order the battle? And he answered, Thou."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "And they went out at noon. But Benhadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "And the young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Benhadad sent out, and they told him, saying, There are men come out of Samaria."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "So these young men of the princes of the provinces came out of the city, and the army which followed them."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "And they slew every one his man: and the Syrians fled; and Israel pursued them: and Benhadad the king of Syria escaped on an horse with the horsemen."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "And do this thing, Take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put captains in their rooms:"
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "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. And he hearkened unto their voice, and did so."
},
{
"verse": "26",
"text": "And it came to pass at the return of the year, that Benhadad numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "28",
"text": "And there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of Israel, and said, Thus saith the LORD, Because the Syrians have said, The LORD is God of the hills, but he is not God of the valleys, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know that I am the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "29",
"text": "And they pitched one over against the other seven days. 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."
},
{
"verse": "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. And Benhadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "32",
"text": "So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant Benhadad saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother."
},
{
"verse": "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 Benhadad. Then he said, Go ye, bring him. Then Benhadad came forth to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot."
},
{
"verse": "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. Then said Ahab, I will send thee away with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and sent him away."
},
{
"verse": "35",
"text": "And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said unto his neighbour in the word of the LORD, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man refused to smite him."
},
{
"verse": "36",
"text": "Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall slay thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him."
},
{
"verse": "37",
"text": "Then he found another man, and said, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man smote him, so that in smiting he wounded him."
},
{
"verse": "38",
"text": "So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with ashes upon his face."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "40",
"text": "And as thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone. And the king of Israel said unto him, So shall thy judgment be; thyself hast decided it."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "42",
"text": "And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Because thou hast let go out of thy hand a man whom I appointed to utter destruction, therefore thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his people."
},
{
"verse": "43",
"text": "And the king of Israel went to his house heavy and displeased, and came to Samaria."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "21",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "And it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "And Naboth said to Ahab, The LORD forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee."
},
{
"verse": "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. And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread?"
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, dwelling with Naboth."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people:"
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him, that he may die."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, and as it was written in the letters which she had sent unto them."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people."
},
{
"verse": "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. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,"
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel,"
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "And will make thine house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger, and made Israel to sin."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "And of Jezebel also spake the LORD, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up."
},
{
"verse": "26",
"text": "And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as did the Amorites, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel."
},
{
"verse": "27",
"text": "And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly."
},
{
"verse": "28",
"text": "And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,"
},
{
"verse": "29",
"text": "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."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "22",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "And they continued three years without war between Syria and Israel."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "And the king of Israel said unto his servants, Know ye that Ramoth in Gilead is ours, and we be still, and take it not out of the hand of the king of Syria?"
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to battle to Ramothgilead? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as thou art, my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Enquire, I pray thee, at the word of the LORD to day."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go against Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for the LORD shall deliver it into the hand of the king."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "And Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD besides, that we might enquire of him?"
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Hasten hither Micaiah the son of Imlah."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramothgilead, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver it into the king’s hand."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "And Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, what the LORD saith unto me, that will I speak."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "So he came to the king. And the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go against Ramothgilead to battle, or shall we forbear? And he answered him, Go, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver it into the hand of the king."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "And the king said unto him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou tell me nothing but that which is true in the name of the LORD?"
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee that he would prophesy no good concerning me, but evil?"
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one said on this manner, and another said on that manner."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee."
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee?"
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see in that day, when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself."
},
{
"verse": "26",
"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;"
},
{
"verse": "27",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "28",
"text": "And Micaiah said, If thou return at all in peace, the LORD hath not spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, O people, every one of you."
},
{
"verse": "29",
"text": "So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramothgilead."
},
{
"verse": "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. And the king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle."
},
{
"verse": "31",
"text": "But the king of Syria commanded his thirty and two captains that had rule over his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, save only with the king of Israel."
},
{
"verse": "32",
"text": "And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely it is the king of Israel. And they turned aside to fight against him: and Jehoshaphat cried out."
},
{
"verse": "33",
"text": "And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots perceived that it was not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "36",
"text": "And there went a proclamation throughout the host about the going down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man to his own country."
},
{
"verse": "37",
"text": "So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "39",
"text": "Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he made, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?"
},
{
"verse": "40",
"text": "So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead."
},
{
"verse": "41",
"text": "And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel."
},
{
"verse": "42",
"text": "Jehoshaphat was thirty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "44",
"text": "And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel."
},
{
"verse": "45",
"text": "Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he shewed, and how he warred, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?"
},
{
"verse": "46",
"text": "And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land."
},
{
"verse": "47",
"text": "There was then no king in Edom: a deputy was king."
},
{
"verse": "48",
"text": "Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Eziongeber."
},
{
"verse": "49",
"text": "Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "51",
"text": "Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned two years over Israel."
},
{
"verse": "52",
"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:"
},
{
"verse": "53",
"text": "For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger the LORD God of Israel, according to all that his father had done."
}
]
}
]
}fs_store()
{
"book": "1 Peter",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": "1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,"
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,"
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,"
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:"
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:"
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:"
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:"
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;"
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:"
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;"
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:"
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;"
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:"
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,"
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:"
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever."
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:"
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,"
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:"
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,"
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,"
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:"
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;"
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;"
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:"
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:"
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:"
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:"
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;"
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;"
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:"
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:"
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:"
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good?"
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "But and if ye suffer for righteousness’ sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;"
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:"
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:"
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;"
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:"
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "4",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;"
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:"
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:"
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "Use hospitality one to another without grudging."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:"
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men’s matters."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?"
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?"
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "5",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:"
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;"
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "Neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but being ensamples to the flock."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:"
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:"
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "By Silvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein ye stand."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you; and so doth Marcus my son."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "Greet ye one another with a kiss of charity. Peace be with you all that are in Christ Jesus. Amen."
}
]
}
]
}fs_store()
{
"book": "1 Samuel",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": "1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "Now there was a certain man of Ramathaimzophim, 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:"
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "And this man went up out of his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice unto the LORD of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the LORD, were there."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:"
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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?"
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD, and wept sore."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "And it came to pass, as she continued praying before the LORD, that Eli marked her mouth."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "And she said, Let thine handmaid find grace in thy sight. So the woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more sad."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer unto the LORD the yearly sacrifice, and his vow."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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. So the woman abode, and gave her son suck until she weaned him."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "And they slew a bullock, and brought the child to Eli."
},
{
"verse": "26",
"text": "And she said, Oh my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord, I am the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "27",
"text": "For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my petition which I asked of him:"
},
{
"verse": "28",
"text": "Therefore also I have lent him to the LORD; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the LORD. And he worshipped the LORD there."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto the LORD before Eli the priest."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"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;"
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "And he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fleshhook brought up the priest took for himself. So they did in Shiloh unto all the Israelites that came thither."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD: for men abhorred the offering of the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded with a linen ephod."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The LORD give thee seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to the LORD. And they went unto their own home."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "And the LORD visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil dealings by all this people."
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the LORD’s people to transgress."
},
{
"verse": "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? Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the LORD would slay them."
},
{
"verse": "26",
"text": "And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with the LORD, and also with men."
},
{
"verse": "27",
"text": "And there came a man of God unto Eli, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Did I plainly appear unto the house of thy father, when they were in Egypt in Pharaoh’s house?"
},
{
"verse": "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?"
},
{
"verse": "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?"
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "31",
"text": "Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thine arm, and the arm of thy father’s house, that there shall not be an old man in thine house."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "36",
"text": "And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in thine house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests’ offices, that I may eat a piece of bread."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "And the child Samuel ministered unto the LORD before Eli. And the word of the LORD was precious in those days; there was no open vision."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"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;"
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "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;"
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "That the LORD called Samuel: and he answered, Here am I."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "And he ran unto Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou calledst me. And he said, I called not; lie down again. And he went and lay down."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "And the LORD called yet again, Samuel. And Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou didst call me. And he answered, I called not, my son; lie down again."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, neither was the word of the LORD yet revealed unto him."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "And the LORD called Samuel again the third time. And he arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou didst call me. And Eli perceived that the LORD had called the child."
},
{
"verse": "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. So Samuel went and lay down in his place."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "And the LORD came, and stood, and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel answered, Speak; for thy servant heareth."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "And the LORD said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli’s house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for ever."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "And Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the house of the LORD. And Samuel feared to shew Eli the vision."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "Then Eli called Samuel, and said, Samuel, my son. And he answered, Here am I."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "And he said, What is the thing that the LORD hath said unto thee? 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."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And he said, It is the LORD: let him do what seemeth him good."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and did let none of his words fall to the ground."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "And all Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "And the LORD appeared again in Shiloh: for the LORD revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the LORD."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "4",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and pitched beside Ebenezer: and the Philistines pitched in Aphek."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Wherefore hath the LORD smitten us to day before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of Shiloh unto us, that, when it cometh among us, it may save us out of the hand of our enemies."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "And when the ark of the covenant of the LORD came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang again."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, What meaneth the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? And they understood that the ark of the LORD was come into the camp."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come into the camp. And they said, Woe unto us! for there hath not been such a thing heretofore."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day with his clothes rent, and with earth upon his head."
},
{
"verse": "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. And when the man came into the city, and told it, all the city cried out."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "And when Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, What meaneth the noise of this tumult? And the man came in hastily, and told Eli."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "And the man said unto Eli, I am he that came out of the army, and I fled to day out of the army. And he said, What is there done, my son?"
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken."
},
{
"verse": "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. And he had judged Israel forty years."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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. But she answered not, neither did she regard it."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father in law and her husband."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "And she said, The glory is departed from Israel: for the ark of God is taken."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "5",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Ebenezer unto Ashdod."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the LORD. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that come into Dagon’s house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod unto this day."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts thereof."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines unto them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel? And they answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried about unto Gath. And they carried the ark of the God of Israel about thither."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to slay us and our people."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods: and the cry of the city went up to heaven."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "6",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "And the ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines seven months."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him? 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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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?"
},
{
"verse": "7",
"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:"
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh, 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."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:"
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "And the kine took the straight way to the way of Bethshemesh, 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 Bethshemesh."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "And they of Bethshemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Bethshemite, 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."
},
{
"verse": "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 Bethshemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"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;"
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "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 Bethshemite."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, 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."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "And the men of Bethshemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy LORD God? and to whom shall he go up from us?"
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjathjearim, saying, The Philistines have brought again the ark of the LORD; come ye down, and fetch it up to you."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "7",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "And the men of Kirjathjearim came, and fetched up the ark of the LORD, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "And it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjathjearim, that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of Israel lamented after the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth, and served the LORD only."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I will pray for you unto the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured it out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against the LORD. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpeh."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "And when the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were gathered together to Mizpeh, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. And when the children of Israel heard it, they were afraid of the Philistines."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Cease not to cry unto the LORD our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "And the men of Israel went out of Mizpeh, and pursued the Philistines, and smote them, until they came under Bethcar."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped us."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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. And there was peace between Israel and the Amorites."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "And he went from year to year in circuit to Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places."
},
{
"verse": "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."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "8",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: they were judges in Beersheba."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah,"
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;"
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "And the LORD said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye every man unto his city."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "9",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a Benjamite, a mighty man of power."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "And the asses of Kish Saul’s father were lost. And Kish said to Saul his son, Take now one of the servants with thee, and arise, go seek the asses."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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?"
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "(Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to enquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for he that is now called a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)"
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go. So they went unto the city where the man of God was."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "And as they went up the hill to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them, Is the seer here?"
},
{
"verse": "12",
"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:"
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "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. Now therefore get you up; for about this time ye shall find him."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "Now the LORD had told Samuel in his ear a day before Saul came, saying,"
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, where the seer’s house is."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "And as for thine asses that were lost three days ago, set not thy mind on them; for they are found. And on whom is all the desire of Israel? Is it not on thee, and on all thy father’s house?"
},
{
"verse": "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?"
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "And Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into the parlour, and made them sit in the chiefest place among them that were bidden, which were about thirty persons."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "And Samuel said unto the cook, Bring the portion which I gave thee, of which I said unto thee, Set it by thee."
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "And the cook took up the shoulder, and that which was upon it, and set it before Saul. 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. So Saul did eat with Samuel that day."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "And when they were come down from the high place into the city, Samuel communed with Saul upon the top of the house."
},
{
"verse": "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. And Saul arose, and they went out both of them, he and Samuel, abroad."
},
{
"verse": "27",
"text": "And as they were going down to the end of the city, Samuel said to Saul, Bid the servant pass on before us, (and he passed on), but stand thou still a while, that I may shew thee the word of God."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "10",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and said, Is it not because the LORD hath anointed thee to be captain over his inheritance?"
},
{
"verse": "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?"
},
{
"verse": "3",
"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 Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:"
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "And they will salute thee, and give thee two loaves of bread; which thou shalt receive of their hands."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"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:"
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "And the Spirit of the LORD will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "And it came to pass, when all that knew him beforetime saw that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets, then the people said one to another, What is this that is come unto the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?"
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "And one of the same place answered and said, But who is their father? Therefore it became a proverb, Is Saul also among the prophets?"
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "And when he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the high place."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "And Saul’s uncle said unto him and to his servant, Whither went ye? And he said, To seek the asses: and when we saw that they were no where, we came to Samuel."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "And Saul’s uncle said, Tell me, I pray thee, what Samuel said unto you."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "And Saul said unto his uncle, He told us plainly that the asses were found. But of the matter of the kingdom, whereof Samuel spake, he told him not."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "And Samuel called the people together unto the LORD to Mizpeh;"
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "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:"
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "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. Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes, and by your thousands."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "And when Samuel had caused all the tribes of Israel to come near, the tribe of Benjamin was taken."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "Therefore they enquired of the LORD further, if the man should yet come thither. And the LORD answered, Behold, he hath hid himself among the stuff."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom the LORD hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people? And all the people shouted, and said, God save the king."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the LORD. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house."
},
{
"verse": "26",
"text": "And Saul also went home to Gibeah; and there went with him a band of men, whose hearts God had touched."
},
{
"verse": "27",
"text": "But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents. But he held his peace."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "11",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabeshgilead: and all the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve thee."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes, and lay it for a reproach upon all Israel."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "And, behold, Saul came after the herd out of the field; and Saul said, What aileth the people that they weep? And they told him the tidings of the men of Jabesh."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "And the Spirit of God came upon Saul when he heard those tidings, and his anger was kindled greatly."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out with one consent."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "And when he numbered them in Bezek, the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "And they said unto the messengers that came, Thus shall ye say unto the men of Jabeshgilead, To morrow, by that time the sun be hot, ye shall have help. And the messengers came and shewed it to the men of Jabesh; and they were glad."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "Therefore the men of Jabesh said, To morrow we will come out unto you, and ye shall do with us all that seemeth good unto you."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "Then said Samuel to the people, Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there."
},
{
"verse": "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."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "12",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "And Samuel said unto all Israel, Behold, I have hearkened unto your voice in all that ye said unto me, and have made a king over you."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken ought of any man’s hand."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "And he said unto them, The LORD is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that ye have not found ought in my hand. And they answered, He is witness."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "And Samuel said unto the people, It is the LORD that advanced Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the LORD of all the righteous acts of the LORD, which he did to you and to your fathers."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "When Jacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried unto the LORD, then the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, which brought forth your fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this place."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "And when they forgat the LORD their God, he sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the host of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "And the LORD sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and ye dwelled safe."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"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:"
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "Now therefore stand and see this great thing, which the LORD will do before your eyes."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "Is it not wheat harvest to day? 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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"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;"
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"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:"
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "13",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "Saul reigned one year; and when he had reigned two years over Israel,"
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "And all Israel heard say that Saul had smitten a garrison of the Philistines, and that Israel also was had in abomination with the Philistines. And the people were called together after Saul to Gilgal."
},
{
"verse": "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 Bethaven."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "And some of the Hebrews went over Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. As for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "And Saul said, Bring hither a burnt offering to me, and peace offerings. And he offered the burnt offering."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "And Samuel said, What hast thou done? 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;"
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "And Samuel arose, and gat him up from Gilgal unto Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people that were present with him, about six hundred men."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"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:"
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "And another company turned the way to Bethhoron: and another company turned to the way of the border that looketh to the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"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:"
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "14",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "Now it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said unto the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over to the Philistines’ garrison, that is on the other side. But he told not his father."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"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;"
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "And Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod’s brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the LORD’s priest in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "The forefront of the one was situate northward over against Michmash, and the other southward over against Gibeah."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over unto these men, and we will discover ourselves unto them."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "And the men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armourbearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will shew you a thing. And Jonathan said unto his armourbearer, Come up after me: for the LORD hath delivered them into the hand of Israel."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armourbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plow."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "Then said Saul unto the people that were with him, Number now, and see who is gone from us. And when they had numbered, behold, Jonathan and his armourbearer were not there."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "And Saul said unto Ahiah, Bring hither the ark of God. For the ark of God was at that time with the children of Israel."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "Moreover the Hebrews that were with the Philistines before that time, which went up with them into the camp from the country round about, even they also turned to be with the Israelites that were with Saul and Jonathan."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "Likewise all the men of Israel which had hid themselves in mount Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "So the LORD saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over unto Bethaven."
},
{
"verse": "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. So none of the people tasted any food."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "And all they of the land came to a wood; and there was honey upon the ground."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "28",
"text": "Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food this day. And the people were faint."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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?"
},
{
"verse": "31",
"text": "And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were very faint."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "33",
"text": "Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against the LORD, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have transgressed: roll a great stone unto me this day."
},
{
"verse": "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. And all the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and slew them there."
},
{
"verse": "35",
"text": "And Saul built an altar unto the LORD: the same was the first altar that he built unto the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "36",
"text": "And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and spoil them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them. And they said, Do whatsoever seemeth good unto thee. Then said the priest, Let us draw near hither unto God."
},
{
"verse": "37",
"text": "And Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down after the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into the hand of Israel? But he answered him not that day."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "39",
"text": "For, as the LORD liveth, which saveth Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But there was not a man among all the people that answered him."
},
{
"verse": "40",
"text": "Then said he unto all Israel, Be ye on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side. And the people said unto Saul, Do what seemeth good unto thee."
},
{
"verse": "41",
"text": "Therefore Saul said unto the LORD God of Israel, Give a perfect lot. And Saul and Jonathan were taken: but the people escaped."
},
{
"verse": "42",
"text": "And Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was taken."
},
{
"verse": "43",
"text": "Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast done. And Jonathan told him, and said, I did but taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in mine hand, and, lo, I must die."
},
{
"verse": "44",
"text": "And Saul answered, God do so and more also: for thou shalt surely die, Jonathan."
},
{
"verse": "45",
"text": "And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel? 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. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died not."
},
{
"verse": "46",
"text": "Then Saul went up from following the Philistines: and the Philistines went to their own place."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "48",
"text": "And he gathered an host, and smote the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of them that spoiled them."
},
{
"verse": "49",
"text": "Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishui, and Melchishua: and the names of his two daughters were these; the name of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal:"
},
{
"verse": "50",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "51",
"text": "And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel."
},
{
"verse": "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."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "15",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley."
},
{
"verse": "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. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "Then came the word of the LORD unto Samuel, saying,"
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "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. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up a place, and is gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?"
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what the LORD hath said to me this night. And he said unto him, Say on."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "And Samuel said, When thou wast little in thine own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed thee king over Israel?"
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "And the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the LORD?"
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God in Gilgal."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "27",
"text": "And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent."
},
{
"verse": "28",
"text": "And Samuel said unto him, The LORD hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbour of thine, that is better than thou."
},
{
"verse": "29",
"text": "And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "31",
"text": "So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshipped the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "32",
"text": "Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past."
},
{
"verse": "33",
"text": "And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal."
},
{
"verse": "34",
"text": "Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul."
},
{
"verse": "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."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "16",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "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 Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me. And the LORD said, Take an heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "And Samuel did that which the LORD spake, and came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, Comest thou peaceably?"
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "And he said, Peaceably: I am come to sacrifice unto the LORD: sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the LORD’s anointed is before him."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, Neither hath the LORD chosen this."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said, Neither hath the LORD chosen this."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "Again, Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. And Samuel said unto Jesse, The LORD hath not chosen these."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he come hither."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the LORD said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he."
},
{
"verse": "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. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "And Saul’s servants said unto him, Behold now, an evil spirit from God troubleth thee."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, that is cunning in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the LORD is with him."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy son, which is with the sheep."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "And Jesse took an ass laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his son unto Saul."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him greatly; and he became his armourbearer."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David, I pray thee, stand before me; for he hath found favour in my sight."
},
{
"verse": "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."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "17",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and were gathered together at Shochoh, which belongeth to Judah, and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and pitched by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of brass between his shoulders."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehemjudah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "And David was the youngest: and the three eldest followed Saul."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"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."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "For Israel and the Philistines had put the battle in array, army against army."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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?"
},
{
"verse": "27",
"text": "And the people answered him after this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man that killeth him."
},
{
"verse": "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? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle."
},
{
"verse": "29",
"text": "And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?"
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "31",
"text": "And when the words were heard which David spake, they rehearsed them before Saul: and he sent for him."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "34",
"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:"
},
{
"verse": "35",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "37",
"text": "David said moreover, The LORD that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go, and the LORD be with thee."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "39",
"text": "And David girded his sword upon his armour, and he assayed to go; for he had not proved it. And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with these; for I have not proved them. And David put them off him."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "41",
"text": "And the Philistine came on and drew near unto David; and the man that bare the shield went before him."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "43",
"text": "And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods."
},
{
"verse": "44",
"text": "And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "48",
"text": "And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came, and drew nigh to meet David, that David hastened, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "51",
"text": "Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw their champion was dead, they fled."
},
{
"verse": "52",
"text": "And the men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued the Philistines, until thou come to the valley, and to the gates of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even unto Gath, and unto Ekron."
},
{
"verse": "53",
"text": "And the children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines, and they spoiled their tents."
},
{
"verse": "54",
"text": "And David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his armour in his tent."
},
{
"verse": "55",
"text": "And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said unto Abner, the captain of the host, Abner, whose son is this youth? And Abner said, As thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell."
},
{
"verse": "56",
"text": "And the king said, Enquire thou whose son the stripling is."
},
{
"verse": "57",
"text": "And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand."
},
{
"verse": "58",
"text": "And Saul said to him, Whose son art thou, thou young man? And David answered, I am the son of thy servant Jesse the Bethlehemite."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "18",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father’s house."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of musick."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands."
},
{
"verse": "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?"
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "And Saul eyed David from that day and forward."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "And Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him, and was departed from Saul."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "And David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the LORD was with him."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "Wherefore when Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he was afraid of him."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he went out and came in before them."
},
{
"verse": "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. For Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him."
},
{
"verse": "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?"
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "But it came to pass at the time when Merab Saul’s daughter should have been given to David, that she was given unto Adriel the Meholathite to wife."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "And Michal Saul’s daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son in law in the one of the twain."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "And Saul’s servants spake those words in the ears of David. And David said, Seemeth it to you a light thing to be a king’s son in law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?"
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spake David."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king’s enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife."
},
{
"verse": "28",
"text": "And Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David, and that Michal Saul’s daughter loved him."
},
{
"verse": "29",
"text": "And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became David’s enemy continually."
},
{
"verse": "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."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "19",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"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:"
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"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:"
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "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?"
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan: and Saul sware, As the LORD liveth, he shall not be slain."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan shewed him all those things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as in times past."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "And when the messengers were come in, behold, there was an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats’ hair for his bolster."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "And Saul said unto Michal, Why hast thou deceived me so, and sent away mine enemy, that he is escaped? And Michal answered Saul, He said unto me, Let me go; why should I kill thee?"
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "So David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "And it was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "And when it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they prophesied likewise. And Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they prophesied also."
},
{
"verse": "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? And one said, Behold, they be at Naioth in Ramah."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "And he stripped off his clothes also, and prophesied before Samuel in like manner, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Wherefore they say, Is Saul also among the prophets?"
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "20",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "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?"
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "Then said Jonathan unto David, Whatsoever thy soul desireth, I will even do it for thee."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "If thy father at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city: for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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?"
},
{
"verse": "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?"
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me? or what if thy father answer thee roughly?"
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "And Jonathan said unto David, Come, and let us go out into the field. And they went out both of them into the field."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"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;"
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "And thou shalt not only while yet I live shew me the kindness of the LORD, that I die not:"
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, Let the LORD even require it at the hand of David’s enemies."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "Then Jonathan said to David, To morrow is the new moon: and thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "And when thou hast stayed three days, then thou shalt go down quickly, and come to the place where thou didst hide thyself when the business was in hand, and shalt remain by the stone Ezel."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "And I will shoot three arrows on the side thereof, as though I shot at a mark."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "And, behold, I will send a lad, saying, Go, find out the arrows. 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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "And as touching the matter which thou and I have spoken of, behold, the LORD be between thee and me for ever."
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, the king sat him down to eat meat."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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?"
},
{
"verse": "28",
"text": "And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem:"
},
{
"verse": "29",
"text": "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. Therefore he cometh not unto the king’s table."
},
{
"verse": "30",
"text": "Then Saul’s anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said unto him, Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman, do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own confusion, and unto the confusion of thy mother’s nakedness?"
},
{
"verse": "31",
"text": "For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he shall surely die."
},
{
"verse": "32",
"text": "And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him, Wherefore shall he be slain? what hath he done?"
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "35",
"text": "And it came to pass in the morning, that Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little lad with him."
},
{
"verse": "36",
"text": "And he said unto his lad, Run, find out now the arrows which I shoot. And as the lad ran, he shot an arrow beyond him."
},
{
"verse": "37",
"text": "And when the lad was come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the lad, and said, Is not the arrow beyond thee?"
},
{
"verse": "38",
"text": "And Jonathan cried after the lad, Make speed, haste, stay not. And Jonathan’s lad gathered up the arrows, and came to his master."
},
{
"verse": "39",
"text": "But the lad knew not any thing: only Jonathan and David knew the matter."
},
{
"verse": "40",
"text": "And Jonathan gave his artillery unto his lad, and said unto him, Go, carry them to the city."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "42",
"text": "And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, forasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name of the LORD, saying, The LORD be between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed for ever. And he arose and departed: and Jonathan went into the city."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "21",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "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?"
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "Now therefore what is under thine hand? give me five loaves of bread in mine hand, or what there is present."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread is in a manner common, yea, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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. And David said, There is none like that; give it me."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "And David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath."
},
{
"verse": "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?"
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad: wherefore then have ye brought him to me?"
},
{
"verse": "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?"
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "22",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "And the prophet Gad said unto David, Abide not in the hold; depart, and get thee into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hareth."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"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;)"
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "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;"
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "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?"
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "And he enquired of the LORD for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "And Saul said, Hear now, thou son of Ahitub. And he answered, Here I am, my lord."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "And Saul said unto him, Why have ye conspired against me, thou and the son of Jesse, in that thou hast given him bread, and a sword, and hast enquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?"
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king’s son in law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thine house?"
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "Did I then begin to enquire 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."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father’s house."
},
{
"verse": "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. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "And Abiathar shewed David that Saul had slain the LORD’s priests."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "23",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they rob the threshingfloors."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "Therefore David enquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go and smite these Philistines? And the LORD said unto David, Go, and smite the Philistines, and save Keilah."
},
{
"verse": "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?"
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "Then David enquired of the LORD yet again. And the LORD answered him and said, Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into thine hand."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "So David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and smote them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "And it came to pass, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his hand."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "And it was told Saul that David was come to Keilah. 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."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "And Saul called all the people together to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "And David knew that Saul secretly practised mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "Then said David, O LORD God of Israel, thy servant hath certainly heard that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul come down, as thy servant hath heard? O LORD God of Israel, I beseech thee, tell thy servant. And the LORD said, He will come down."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul? And the LORD said, They will deliver thee up."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "Then David and his men, which were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever they could go. And it was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he forbare to go forth."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "And Jonathan Saul’s son arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "And they two made a covenant before the LORD: and David abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon?"
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "And Saul said, Blessed be ye of the LORD; for ye have compassion on me."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "Saul also and his men went to seek him. And they told David: wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "27",
"text": "But there came a messenger unto Saul, saying, Haste thee, and come; for the Philistines have invaded the land."
},
{
"verse": "28",
"text": "Wherefore Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines: therefore they called that place Selahammahlekoth."
},
{
"verse": "29",
"text": "And David went up from thence, and dwelt in strong holds at Engedi."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "24",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "And it came to pass, when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, that it was told him, saying, Behold, David is in the wilderness of Engedi."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "And the men of David said unto him, Behold the day of which the LORD said unto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into thine hand, that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good unto thee. Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul’s robe privily."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "And it came to pass afterward, that David’s heart smote him, because he had cut off Saul’s skirt."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "And he said unto his men, The LORD forbid that I should do this thing unto my master, the LORD’s anointed, to stretch forth mine hand against him, seeing he is the anointed of the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "So David stayed his servants with these words, and suffered them not to rise against Saul. But Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, My lord the king. And when Saul looked behind him, David stooped with his face to the earth, and bowed himself."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men’s words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?"
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "The LORD judge between me and thee, and the LORD avenge me of thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "The LORD therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "And it came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking these words unto Saul, that Saul said, Is this thy voice, my son David? And Saul lifted up his voice, and wept."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "And now, behold, I know well that thou shalt surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in thine hand."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "Swear now therefore unto me by the LORD, that thou wilt not cut off my seed after me, and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of my father’s house."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "And David sware unto Saul. And Saul went home; but David and his men gat them up unto the hold."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "25",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"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:"
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "Ask thy young men, and they will shew thee. 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."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "And when David’s young men came, they spake to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence they be?"
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "So David’s young men turned their way, and went again, and came and told him all those sayings."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his sword. 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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"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:"
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"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,"
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "26",
"text": "Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal."
},
{
"verse": "27",
"text": "And now this blessing which thine handmaid hath brought unto my lord, let it even be given unto the young men that follow my lord."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "30",
"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;"
},
{
"verse": "31",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "32",
"text": "And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me:"
},
{
"verse": "33",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "34",
"text": "For in very deed, as the LORD God of Israel liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "37",
"text": "But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone."
},
{
"verse": "38",
"text": "And it came to pass about ten days after, that the LORD smote Nabal, that he died."
},
{
"verse": "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. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife."
},
{
"verse": "40",
"text": "And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spake unto her, saying, David sent us unto thee, to take thee to him to wife."
},
{
"verse": "41",
"text": "And she arose, and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let thine handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "43",
"text": "David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives."
},
{
"verse": "44",
"text": "But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallim."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "26",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "And the Ziphites came unto Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon?"
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "And Saul pitched in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon, by the way. But David abode in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come in very deed."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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?"
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"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:"
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "And David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, Answerest thou not, Abner? Then Abner answered and said, Who art thou that criest to the king?"
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "This thing is not good that thou hast done. As the LORD liveth, ye are worthy to die, because ye have not kept your master, the LORD’s anointed. And now see where the king’s spear is, and the cruse of water that was at his bolster."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "And Saul knew David’s voice, and said, Is this thy voice, my son David? And David said, It is my voice, my lord, O king."
},
{
"verse": "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?"
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. 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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "And David answered and said, Behold the king’s spear! and let one of the young men come over and fetch it."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "And, behold, as thy life was much set by this day in mine eyes, so let my life be much set by in the eyes of the LORD, and let him deliver me out of all tribulation."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "Then Saul said to David, Blessed be thou, my son David: thou shalt both do great things, and also shalt still prevail. So David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "27",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "And David arose, and he passed over with the six hundred men that were with him unto Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "And David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal’s wife."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "And it was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought no more again for him."
},
{
"verse": "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?"
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: wherefore Ziklag pertaineth unto the kings of Judah unto this day."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "And the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel, and returned, and came to Achish."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "And Achish said, Whither have ye made a road to day? And David said, Against the south of Judah, and against the south of the Jerahmeelites, and against the south of the Kenites."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring tidings to Gath, saying, Lest they should tell on us, saying, So did David, and so will be his manner all the while he dwelleth in the country of the Philistines."
},
{
"verse": "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."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "28",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. And Achish said unto David, Know thou assuredly, that thou shalt go out with me to battle, thou and thy men."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "And David said to Achish, Surely thou shalt know what thy servant can do. And Achish said to David, Therefore will I make thee keeper of mine head for ever."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "And when Saul saw the host of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart greatly trembled."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "And when Saul enquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and enquire of her. And his servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at Endor."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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?"
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "And Saul sware to her by the LORD, saying, As the LORD liveth, there shall no punishment happen to thee for this thing."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? And he said, Bring me up Samuel."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "And the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what sawest thou? And the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods ascending out of the earth."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "And he said unto her, What form is he of? And she said, An old man cometh up; and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to the ground, and bowed himself."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? 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."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?"
},
{
"verse": "17",
"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:"
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "And the woman came unto Saul, and saw that he was sore troubled, and said unto him, Behold, thine handmaid hath obeyed thy voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have hearkened unto thy words which thou spakest unto me."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with the woman, compelled him; and he hearkened unto their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat upon the bed."
},
{
"verse": "24",
"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:"
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "And she brought it before Saul, and before his servants; and they did eat. Then they rose up, and went away that night."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "29",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek: and the Israelites pitched by a fountain which is in Jezreel."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "Then said the princes of the Philistines, What do these Hebrews here? And Achish said unto the princes of the Philistines, Is not this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, which hath been with me these days, or these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell unto me unto this day?"
},
{
"verse": "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?"
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands?"
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines."
},
{
"verse": "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?"
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "So David and his men rose up early to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "30",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"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;"
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "And David’s two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech’s son, I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "And David enquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"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;"
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "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."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou? 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."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "And David said to him, Canst thou bring me down to this company? And he said, Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee down to this company."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drave before those other cattle, and said, This is David’s spoil."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "Then answered all the wicked men and men of Belial, of those that went with David, and said, Because they went not with us, we will not give them ought of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead them away, and depart."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "Then said David, Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that which the LORD hath given us, who hath preserved us, and delivered the company that came against us into our hand."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day."
},
{
"verse": "26",
"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;"
},
{
"verse": "27",
"text": "To them which were in Bethel, and to them which were in south Ramoth, and to them which were in Jattir,"
},
{
"verse": "28",
"text": "And to them which were in Aroer, and to them which were in Siphmoth, and to them which were in Eshtemoa,"
},
{
"verse": "29",
"text": "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,"
},
{
"verse": "30",
"text": "And to them which were in Hormah, and to them which were in Chorashan, and to them which were in Athach,"
},
{
"verse": "31",
"text": "And to them which were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men were wont to haunt."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "31",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Melchishua, Saul’s sons."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers."
},
{
"verse": "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. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword, and died with him."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men, that same day together."
},
{
"verse": "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."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in mount Gilboa."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish it in the house of their idols, and among the people."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth: and they fastened his body to the wall of Bethshan."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "And when the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead heard of that which the Philistines had done to Saul;"
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "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 Bethshan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days."
}
]
}
]
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