July
1
1
Kings 10-12
1Ki
10:1 When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning
the name of Yahweh, she came to prove him with hard questions.
1Ki
10:2 She came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that
bore spices, and very much gold, and precious stones; and when she
was come to Solomon, she talked with him of all that was in her
heart.
1Ki
10:3 Solomon told her all her questions: there was not anything
hidden from the king which he didn't tell her.
1Ki
10:4 When the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, and
the house that he had built,
1Ki
10:5 and the food of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and
the attendance of his ministers, and their clothing, and his cup
bearers, and his ascent by which he went up to the house of Yahweh;
there was no more spirit in her.
1Ki
10:6 She said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in my
own land of your acts, and of your wisdom.
1Ki
10:7 However I didn't believe the words, until I came, and my eyes
had seen it: and behold, the half was not told me; your wisdom and
prosperity exceed the fame which I heard.
1Ki
10:8 Happy are your men, happy are these your servants, who stand
continually before you, and
who hear your wisdom.
1Ki
10:9 Blessed be Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on
the throne of Israel: because Yahweh loved Israel forever, therefore
made he you king, to do justice and righteousness.
1Ki
10:10 She gave the king one hundred 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.
1Ki
10:11 The navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought
in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees and precious stones.
1Ki
10:12 The king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of
Yahweh, and for the king's house, harps also and stringed instruments
for the singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen, to
this day.
1Ki
10:13 King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire,
whatever she asked, besides that which Solomon gave her of his royal
bounty. So she turned, and went to her own land, she and her
servants.
1Ki
10:14 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was
six hundred sixty-six talents of gold,
1Ki
10:15 besides that which
the traders brought,
and the traffic of the merchants, and of all the kings of the mixed
people, and of the governors of the country.
1Ki
10:16 King Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; six
hundred shekels
of gold went to one buckler.
1Ki
10:17 he made
three hundred shields of beaten gold; three minas of gold went to one
shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
1Ki
10:18 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid
it with the finest gold.
1Ki
10:19 There were six steps to the throne, and the top of the throne
was round behind; and there were stays on either side by the place of
the seat, and two lions standing beside the stays.
1Ki
10:20 Twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other on
the six steps: there was nothing like it made in any kingdom.
1Ki
10:21 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.
1Ki
10:22 For the king had at sea a navy of Tarshish with the navy of
Hiram: once every three years came the navy of Tarshish, bringing
gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
1Ki
10:23 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches
and in wisdom.
1Ki
10:24 All the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his
wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
1Ki
10:25 They brought every man his tribute, vessels of silver, and
vessels of gold, and clothing, and armor, and spices, horses, and
mules, a rate year by year.
1Ki
10:26 Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a
thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen,
that he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at
Jerusalem.
1Ki
10:27 The king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars
made he to be as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland, for
abundance.
1Ki
10:28 The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt; and
the king's merchants received them in droves, each drove at a price.
1Ki
10:29 A chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred
shekels of
silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty; and so for all the kings
of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out
by their means.
1Ki
11:1 Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the
daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites,
Sidonians, and Hittites;
1Ki
11:2 of the nations concerning which Yahweh said to the children of
Israel, You shall not go among them, neither shall they come among
you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods:
Solomon joined to these in love.
1Ki
11:3 He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred
concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.
1Ki
11:4 For it happened, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned
away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with
Yahweh his God, as was the heart of David his father.
1Ki
11:5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians,
and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
1Ki
11:6 Solomon did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and
didn't go fully after Yahweh, as did David his father.
1Ki
11:7 Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the abomination
of Moab, on the mountain that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the
abomination of the children of Ammon.
1Ki
11:8 So did he for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and
sacrificed to their gods.
1Ki
11:9 Yahweh was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned
away from Yahweh, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,
1Ki
11:10 and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should
not go after other gods: but he didn't keep that which Yahweh
commanded.
1Ki
11:11 Therefore Yahweh said to Solomon, Because this is done of you,
and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have
commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you, and will give
it to your servant.
1Ki
11:12 Notwithstanding in your days I will not do it, for David your
father's sake: but I will tear it out of the hand of your son.
1Ki
11:13 However I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will give
one tribe to your son, for David my servant's sake, and for
Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen.
1Ki
11:14 Yahweh raised up an adversary to Solomon, Hadad the Edomite:
he was of the king's seed in Edom.
1Ki
11:15 For it happened, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain
of the army was gone up to bury the slain, and had struck every male
in Edom
1Ki
11:16 (for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he
had cut off every male in Edom);
1Ki
11:17 that Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father's
servants with him, to go into Egypt, Hadad being yet a little child.
1Ki
11:18 They arose out of Midian, and came to Paran; and they took men
with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of
Egypt, who gave him a house, and appointed him food, and gave him
land.
1Ki
11:19 Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he
gave him as wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes
the queen.
1Ki
11:20 The sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath his son, whom
Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh's house; and Genubath was in Pharaoh's
house among the sons of Pharaoh.
1Ki
11:21 When Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers,
and that Joab the captain of the army was dead, Hadad said to
Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go to my own country.
1Ki
11:22 Then Pharaoh said to him, But what have you lacked with me,
that behold, you seek to go to your own country? He answered,
Nothing: however only let me depart.
1Ki
11:23 God raised up another
adversary to him, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his lord
Hadadezer king of Zobah.
1Ki
11:24 He gathered men to him, and became captain over a troop, when
David killed them of Zobah:
and they went to Damascus, and lived therein, and reigned in
Damascus.
1Ki
11:25 He was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, besides
the mischief that Hadad did:
and he abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria.
1Ki
11:26 Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant
of Solomon, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow, he also lifted
up his hand against the king.
1Ki
11:27 This was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the
king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breach of the city of
David his father.
1Ki
11:28 The man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor; and Solomon saw
the young man that he was industrious, and he put him in charge of
all the labor of the house of Joseph.
1Ki
11:29 It happened at that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem,
that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; now
Ahijah had
clad himself with a new garment; and they two were alone in the
field.
1Ki
11:30 Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and tore
it in twelve pieces.
1Ki
11:31 He said to Jeroboam, Take ten pieces; for thus says Yahweh,
the God of Israel, Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of
Solomon, and will give ten tribes to you
1Ki
11:32 (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);
1Ki
11:33 because that they have forsaken me, and have worshiped
Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and
Milcom the god of the children of Ammon; and they have not walked in
my ways, to do that which is right in my eyes, and to
keep my statutes and my ordinances, as
did David his father.
1Ki
11:34 However 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, who kept my commandments and my
statutes;
1Ki
11:35 but I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will
give it to you, even ten tribes.
1Ki
11:36 To his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may
have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have
chosen me to put my name there.
1Ki
11:37 I will take you, and you shall reign according to all that
your soul desires, and shall be king over Israel.
1Ki
11:38 It shall be, if you will listen to all that I command you, and
will walk in my ways, and do that which is right in my eyes, to keep
my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will
be with you, and will build you a sure house, as I built for David,
and will give Israel to you.
1Ki
11:39 I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not forever.
1Ki
11:40 Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam; but Jeroboam arose,
and fled into Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until
the death of Solomon.
1Ki
11:41 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and
his wisdom, aren't they written in the book of the acts of Solomon?
1Ki
11:42 The time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was
forty years.
1Ki
11:43 Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of
David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.
1Ki
12:1 Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem
to make him king.
1Ki
12:2 It happened, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for
he was yet in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of king
Solomon, and Jeroboam lived in Egypt,
1Ki
12:3 and they sent and called him), that Jeroboam and all the
assembly of Israel came, and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,
1Ki
12:4 Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make you the
grievous service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on
us, lighter, and we will serve you.
1Ki
12:5 He said to them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to
me. The people departed.
1Ki
12:6 King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood
before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel do
you give me to return answer to this people?
1Ki
12:7 They spoke to him, saying, If you will be a servant to this
people this day, and will serve them, and answer them, and speak good
words to them, then they will be your servants forever.
1Ki
12:8 But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given
him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him,
who stood before him.
1Ki
12:9 He said to them, What counsel do you give, that we may return
answer to this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke
that your father did put on us lighter?
1Ki
12:10 The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying,
Thus you shall tell this people who spoke to you, saying, Your father
made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter to us; you shall say to
them, My little finger is thicker than my father's waist.
1Ki
12:11 Now whereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will
add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will
chastise you with scorpions.
1Ki
12:12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day,
as the king bade, saying, Come to me again the third day.
1Ki
12:13 The king answered the people roughly, and forsook the counsel
of the old men which they had given him,
1Ki
12:14 and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying,
My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke: my
father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with
scorpions.
1Ki
12:15 So the king didn't listen to the people; for it was a thing
brought about of Yahweh, that he might establish his word, which
Yahweh spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
1Ki
12:16 When all Israel saw that the king didn't listen to 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,
Israel: now see to your own house, David. So Israel departed to their
tents.
1Ki
12:17 But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of
Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
1Ki
12:18 Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the men subject
to forced labor; and all Israel stoned him to death with stones. King
Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to
Jerusalem.
1Ki
12:19 So Israel rebelled against the house of David to this day.
1Ki
12:20 It happened, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was returned,
that they sent and called him to the congregation, and made him king
over all Israel: there was none who followed the house of David, but
the tribe of Judah only.
1Ki
12:21 When Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the
house of Judah, and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty
thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against the house of
Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
1Ki
12:22 But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
1Ki
12:23 Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to
all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people,
saying,
1Ki
12:24 Thus says Yahweh, You shall not go up, nor fight against your
brothers the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for
this thing is of me. So they listened to the word of Yahweh, and
returned and went their way, according to the word of Yahweh.
1Ki
12:25 Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim,
and lived therein; and he went out from there, and built Penuel.
1Ki
12:26 Jeroboam said in his heart, Now will the kingdom return to the
house of David:
1Ki
12:27 if this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of
Yahweh at Jerusalem, then will the heart of this people turn again to
their lord, even to Rehoboam king of Judah; and they will kill me,
and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.
1Ki
12:28 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold;
and he said to them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem:
see your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
1Ki
12:29 He set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.
1Ki
12:30 This thing became a sin; for the people went to
worship before the one, even to Dan.
1Ki
12:31 He made houses of high places, and made priests from among all
the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.
1Ki
12:32 Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the
fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he
went up to the altar; so did he in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves
that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high
places that he had made.
1Ki
12:33 He went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the
fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had
devised of his own heart: and he ordained a feast for the children of
Israel, and went up to the altar, to burn incense.
July
2
1
Kings 13-15
1Ki
13:1 Behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of
Yahweh to Beth El: and Jeroboam was standing by the altar to burn
incense.
1Ki
13:2 He cried against the altar by the word of Yahweh, and said,
altar, altar, thus says Yahweh: Behold, a son shall be born to the
house of David, Josiah by name; and on you shall he sacrifice the
priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and men's bones
shall they burn on you.
1Ki
13:3 He gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the sign which
Yahweh has spoken: Behold, the altar shall be torn, and the ashes
that are on it shall be poured out.
1Ki
13:4 It happened, when the king heard the saying of the man of God,
which he cried against the altar in Bethel, that Jeroboam put forth
his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. His hand, which he
put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back
again to him.
1Ki
13:5 The altar also was torn, and the ashes poured out from the
altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the
word of Yahweh.
1Ki
13:6 The king answered the man of God, Entreat now the favor of
Yahweh your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me
again. The man of God entreated Yahweh, and the king's hand was
restored him again, and became as it was before.
1Ki
13:7 The king said to the man of God, Come home with me, and refresh
yourself, and I will give you a reward.
1Ki
13:8 The man of God said to the king, If you will give me half your
house, I will not go in with you, neither will I eat bread nor drink
water in this place;
1Ki
13:9 for so was it commanded me by the word of Yahweh, saying, You
shall eat no bread, nor drink water, neither return by the way that
you came.
1Ki
13:10 So he went another way, and didn't return by the way that he
came to Bethel.
1Ki
13:11 Now there lived an old prophet in Bethel; and one of 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 to the king, them also they
told to their father.
1Ki
13:12 Their father said to them, Which way did he go? Now his sons
had seen which way the man of God went, who came from Judah.
1Ki
13:13 He said to his sons, Saddle me the donkey. So they saddled him
the donkey; and he rode thereon.
1Ki
13:14 He went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an
oak; and he said to him, Are you the man of God who came from Judah?
He said, I am.
1Ki
13:15 Then he said to him, Come home with me, and eat bread.
1Ki
13:16 He said, I may not return with you, nor go in with you;
neither will I eat bread nor drink water with you in this place:
1Ki
13:17 for it was said to me by the word of Yahweh, You shall eat no
bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that you
came.
1Ki
13:18 He said to him, I also am a prophet as you are; and an angel
spoke to me by the word of Yahweh, saying, Bring him back with you
into your house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But
he lied to him.
1Ki
13:19 So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house, and
drank water.
1Ki
13:20 It happened, as they sat at the table, that the word of Yahweh
came to the prophet who brought him back;
1Ki
13:21 and he cried to the man of God who came from Judah, saying,
Thus says Yahweh, Because you have been disobedient to the mouth of
Yahweh, and have not kept the commandment which Yahweh your God
commanded you,
1Ki
13:22 but came back, and have eaten bread and drunk water in the
place of which he said to you, Eat no bread, and drink no water; your
body shall not come to the tomb of your fathers.
1Ki
13:23 It happened, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk,
that he saddled for him the donkey, to
wit, for the prophet whom he had brought
back.
1Ki
13:24 When he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and killed him:
and his body was cast in the way, and the donkey stood by it; the
lion also stood by the body.
1Ki
13:25 Behold, men passed by, and saw the body cast in the way, and
the lion standing by the body; and they came and told it in the city
where the old prophet lived.
1Ki
13:26 When the prophet who brought him back from the way heard of
it, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient to the mouth
of Yahweh: therefore Yahweh has delivered him to the lion, which has
torn him, and slain him, according to the word of Yahweh, which he
spoke to him.
1Ki
13:27 He spoke to his sons, saying, Saddle me the donkey. They
saddled it.
1Ki
13:28 He went and found his body cast in the way, and the donkey and
the lion standing by the body: the lion had not eaten the body, nor
torn the donkey.
1Ki
13:29 The prophet took up the body of the man of God, and laid it on
the donkey, and brought it back; and he came to the city of the old
prophet, to mourn, and to bury him.
1Ki
13:30 He laid his body in his own grave; and they mourned over him,
saying,
Alas, my brother!
1Ki
13:31 It happened, after he had buried him, that he spoke to his
sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the tomb in which the
man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.
1Ki
13:32 For the saying which he cried by the word of Yahweh against
the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places
which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely happen.
1Ki
13:33 After this thing Jeroboam didn't return from his evil way, but
made again from among all the people priests of the high places:
whoever would, he consecrated him, that there might be priests of the
high places.
1Ki
13:34 This thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it
off, and to destroy it from off the surface of the earth.
1Ki
14:1 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.
1Ki
14:2 Jeroboam said to his wife, Please get up and disguise yourself,
that you not be known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and go to Shiloh:
behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, who spoke concerning me that I
should be king over this people.
1Ki
14:3 Take with you ten loaves, and cakes, and a jar of honey, and go
to him: he will tell you what shall become of the child.
1Ki
14:4 Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came
to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were
set by reason of his age.
1Ki
14:5 Yahweh said to Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam comes to
inquire of you concerning her son; for he is sick: thus and thus you
shall tell her; for it will be, when she comes in, that she will
feign herself to be another woman.
1Ki
14:6 It was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came
in at the door, that he said, Come in, you wife of Jeroboam; why do
you pretend to be another? for I am sent to you with heavy news.
1Ki
14:7 Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: Because
I exalted you from among the people, and made you prince over my
people Israel,
1Ki
14:8 and tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it
you; and yet you have 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 my eyes,
1Ki
14:9 but have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone
and made you other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger,
and have cast me behind your back:
1Ki
14:10 therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam,
and will cut off from Jeroboam everyone who urinates on a wall, him
who is shut up and him who is left at large in Israel, and will
utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweeps away dung,
until it be all gone.
1Ki
14:11 Him who dies of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and
him who dies in the field shall the birds of the sky eat: for Yahweh
has spoken it.
1Ki
14:12 Arise therefore, go to your house: and
when your feet enter into the city, the child shall die.
1Ki
14:13 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 Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the house of
Jeroboam.
1Ki
14:14 Moreover Yahweh will raise him up a king over Israel, who
shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now.
1Ki
14:15 For Yahweh will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the
water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave
to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because
they have made their Asherim, provoking Yahweh to anger.
1Ki
14:16 He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which
he has sinned, and with which he has made Israel to sin.
1Ki
14:17 Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and
as she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.
1Ki
14:18 All Israel buried him, and mourned for him, according to the
word of Yahweh, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet.
1Ki
14:19 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.
1Ki
14:20 The days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and
he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place.
1Ki
14:21 Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was
forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen
years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the
tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother's name was
Naamah the Ammonitess.
1Ki
14:22 Judah did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and they
provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above
all that their fathers had done.
1Ki
14:23 For they also built them high places, and pillars, and
Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;
1Ki
14:24 and there were also sodomites in the land: they did according
to all the abominations of the nations which Yahweh drove out before
the children of Israel.
1Ki
14:25 It happened in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak
king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem;
1Ki
14:26 and he took away the treasures of the house of Yahweh, 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.
1Ki
14:27 King Rehoboam made in their place shields of brass, and
committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept
the door of the king's house.
1Ki
14:28 It was so, that as often as the king went into the house of
Yahweh, the guard bore them, and brought them back into the guard
chamber.
1Ki
14:29 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did,
aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Judah?
1Ki
14:30 There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
1Ki
14:31 Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
fathers in the city of David: and his mother's name was Naamah the
Ammonitess. Abijam his son reigned in his place.
1Ki
15:1 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat
began Abijam to reign over Judah.
1Ki
15:2 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was
Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
1Ki
15:3 He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done
before him; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the
heart of David his father.
1Ki
15:4 Nevertheless for David's sake did Yahweh his God give him a
lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish
Jerusalem;
1Ki
15:5 because David did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh,
and didn't turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the
days of his life, except only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
1Ki
15:6 Now there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of
his life.
1Ki
15:7 The rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, aren't
they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
There was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
1Ki
15:8 Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city
of David: and Asa his son reigned in his place.
1Ki
15:9 In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Asa to
reign over Judah.
1Ki
15:10 Forty-one years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's name
was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
1Ki
15:11 Asa did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, as did
David his father.
1Ki
15:12 He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the
idols that his fathers had made.
1Ki
15:13 Also Maacah his mother he removed from being queen, because
she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her
image, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
1Ki
15:14 But the high places were not taken away: nevertheless the
heart of Asa was perfect with Yahweh all his days.
1Ki
15:15 He brought into the house of Yahweh the things that his father
had dedicated, and the things that himself had dedicated, silver, and
gold, and vessels.
1Ki
15:16 There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their
days.
1Ki
15:17 Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah,
that he might not allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa king of
Judah.
1Ki
15:18 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in
the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king's
house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants; and king Asa
sent them to Ben Hadad, the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king
of Syria, who lived at Damascus, saying,
1Ki
15:19 There is a treaty between me and you, between my father and
your father: behold, I have sent to you a present of silver and gold;
go, break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart
from me.
1Ki
15:20 Ben Hadad listened to king Asa, and sent the captains of his
armies against the cities of Israel, and struck Ijon, and Dan, and
Abel Beth Maacah, and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.
1Ki
15:21 It happened, when Baasha heard of it, that he left off
building Ramah, and lived in Tirzah.
1Ki
15:22 Then king Asa made a proclamation to all Judah; none was
exempted: and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and its timber,
with which Baasha had built; and king Asa built therewith Geba of
Benjamin, and Mizpah.
1Ki
15:23 Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and
all that he did, and the cities which he built, aren't they written
in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? But in the time
of his old age he was diseased in his feet.
1Ki
15:24 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
place.
1Ki
15:25 Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the
second year of Asa king of Judah; and he reigned over Israel two
years.
1Ki
15:26 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and walked
in the way of his father, and in his sin with which he made Israel to
sin.
1Ki
15:27 Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired
against him; and Baasha struck him at Gibbethon, which belonged to
the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel were laying siege to
Gibbethon.
1Ki
15:28 Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha kill
him, and reigned in his place.
1Ki
15:29 It happened that, as soon as he was king, he struck all the
house of Jeroboam: he didn't leave to Jeroboam any who breathed,
until he had destroyed him; according to the saying of Yahweh, which
he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite;
1Ki
15:30 for the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and with which he
made Israel to sin, because of his provocation with which he provoked
Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger.
1Ki
15:31 Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, aren't
they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
1Ki
15:32 There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their
days.
1Ki
15:33 In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of
Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, and
reigned twenty-four years.
1Ki
15:34 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and walked
in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin with which he made Israel to
sin.
Jul. 1
Acts 3
Act 3:1
Peter and John were going up into the temple at the hour of prayer,
the ninth hour.
Act 3:2
A certain man who was lame from his mother's womb was being carried,
whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called
Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the
temple.
Act 3:3
Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked to
receive gifts for the needy.
Act 3:4
Peter, fastening his eyes on him, with John, said, "Look at
us."
Act 3:5
He listened to them, expecting to receive something from them.
Act 3:6
But Peter said, "Silver and gold have I none, but what I have,
that I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and
walk!"
Act 3:7
He took him by the right hand, and raised him up. Immediately his
feet and his ankle bones received strength.
Act 3:8
Leaping up, he stood, and began to walk. He entered with them into
the temple, walking, leaping, and praising God.
Act 3:9
All the people saw him walking and praising God.
Act
3:10 They recognized him, that it was he who used to sit begging for
gifts for the needy at the Beautiful Gate of the temple. They were
filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.
Act
3:11 As the lame man who was healed held on to Peter and John, all
the people ran together to them in the porch that is called
Solomon's, greatly wondering.
Act
3:12 When Peter saw it, he responded to the people, "You men of
Israel, why do you marvel at this man? Why do you fasten your eyes on
us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him walk?
Act
3:13 The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers,
has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up, and denied in
the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him.
Act
3:14 But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a
murderer to be granted to you,
Act
3:15 and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead,
to which we are witnesses.
Act
3:16 By faith in his name, his name has made this man strong, whom
you see and know. Yes, the faith which is through him has given him
this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
Act
3:17 "Now, brothers, I know that you did this in ignorance, as
did also your rulers.
Act
3:18 But the things which God announced by the mouth of all his
prophets, that Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.
Act
3:19 "Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be
blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the
presence of the Lord,
Act
3:20 and that he may send Christ Jesus, who was ordained for you
before,
Act
3:21 whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all
things, which God spoke long ago by the mouth of his holy prophets.
Act
3:22 For Moses indeed said to the fathers, 'The Lord God will raise
up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me. You shall
listen to him in all things whatever he says to you.
Act
3:23 It will be, that every soul that will not listen to that
prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.'
Act
3:24 Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel and those who followed
after, as many as have spoken, they also told of these days.
Act
3:25 You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which
God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, 'In your seed will all
the families of the earth be blessed.'
Act
3:26 God, having raised up his servant, Jesus, sent him to you
first, to bless you, in turning away everyone of you from your
wickedness."
Jul. 2
Acts 4
Act 4:1
As they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the
temple and the Sadducees came to them,
Act 4:2
being upset because they taught the people and proclaimed in Jesus
the resurrection from the dead.
Act 4:3
They laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day,
for it was now evening.
Act 4:4
But many of those who heard the word believed, and the number of the
men came to be about five thousand.
Act 4:5
It happened in the morning, that their rulers, elders, and scribes
were gathered together in Jerusalem.
Act 4:6
Annas the high priest was there, with Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and
as many as were relatives of the high priest.
Act 4:7
When they had stood them in the middle of them, they inquired, "By
what power, or in what name, have you done this?"
Act 4:8
Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, "You
rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,
Act 4:9
if we are examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled
man, by what means this man has been healed,
Act
4:10 be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that
in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God
raised from the dead, in him does this man stand here before you
whole.
Act
4:11 He is 'the stone which was regarded as worthless by you, the
builders, which has become the head of the corner.'
Act
4:12 There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any
other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be
saved!"
Act
4:13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and had
perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled.
They recognized that they had been with Jesus.
Act
4:14 Seeing the man who was healed standing with them, they could
say nothing against it.
Act
4:15 But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the
council, they conferred among themselves,
Act
4:16 saying, "What shall we do to these men? Because indeed a
notable miracle has been done through them, as can be plainly seen by
all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we can't deny it.
Act
4:17 But so that this spreads no further among the people, let's
threaten them, that from now on they don't speak to anyone in this
name."
Act
4:18 They called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor
teach in the name of Jesus.
Act
4:19 But Peter and John answered them, "Whether it is right in
the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for
yourselves,
Act
4:20 for we can't help telling the things which we saw and heard."
Act
4:21 When they had further threatened them, they let them go,
finding no way to punish them, because of the people; for everyone
glorified God for that which was done.
Act
4:22 For the man on whom this miracle of healing was performed was
more than forty years old.
Act
4:23 Being let go, they came to their own company, and reported all
that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.
Act
4:24 When they heard it, they lifted up their voice to God with one
accord, and said, "O Lord, you are God, who made the heaven, the
earth, the sea, and all that is in them;
Act
4:25 who by the mouth of your servant, David, said, 'Why do the
nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
Act
4:26 The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take
council together, against the Lord, and against his Christ.'
Act
4:27 "For truly, in this city against your holy servant, Jesus,
whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles
and the people of Israel, were gathered together
Act
4:28 to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to
happen.
Act
4:29 Now, Lord, look at their threats, and grant to your servants to
speak your word with all boldness,
Act
4:30 while you stretch out your hand to heal; and that signs and
wonders may be done through the name of your holy Servant Jesus."
Act
4:31 When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were
gathered together. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and
they spoke the word of God with boldness.
Act
4:32 The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul.
Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he
possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.
Act
4:33 With great power, the apostles gave their testimony of the
resurrection of the Lord Jesus. Great grace was on them all.
Act
4:34 For neither was there among them any who lacked, for as many as
were owners of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of
the things that were sold,
Act
4:35 and laid them at the apostles' feet, and distribution was made
to each, according as anyone had need.
Act
4:36 Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas (which is,
being interpreted, Son of Encouragement), a Levite, a man of Cyprus
by race,
Act
4:37 having a field, sold it, and brought the money and laid it at
the apostles' feet.
