the king is in the field bible verse

"Please, let us make a little walled upper chamber and let us set a bed for him there, and a table and a chair and a lampstand; and it shall be, when he comes to us, that he can turn in there." Now Joram with all Israel was defending Ramoth-gilead against Hazael king of Aram. But Jehoshaphat was not willing. In a little while the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a heavy shower. But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying, "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, read more. The king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to carry out the words of this covenant that were written in this book. So Solomon built the house and finished it. Then all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark. For they will drink and forget what is decreed. Now the LORD said to Samuel, "How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Now it came about, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David at Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his hand. About this time tomorrow I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over My people Israel; and he will deliver My people from the hand of the Philistines. And they made his chariot ready. But Jehoshaphat said, "Is there not yet a prophet of the LORD here that we may inquire of him?" When he came to the hill, he took them from their hand and deposited them in the house, and he sent the men away, and they departed. Then Saul said to David, "You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are but a youth while he has been a warrior from his youth." Israel and the Philistines drew up in battle array, army against army. He said to his lad, "Run, find now the arrows which I am about to shoot." Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, and they were sitting at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them. And when he showed him the place, he cut off a stick and threw it in there, and made the iron float. But Naaman was furious and went away and said, "Behold, I thought, 'He will surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, and wave his hand over the place and cure the leper.' "Please do not let my lord pay attention to this worthless man, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. He shall build for Me a house, and I will establish his throne forever. But the man refused to strike him. So when David returned from killing the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul with the Philistine's head in his hand. So he departed from him some distance. When a lion or a bear came and took a lamb from the flock, I went out after him and attacked him, and rescued it from his mouth; and when he rose up against me, I seized him by his beard and struck him and killed him. The LORD said to Jehu, "Because you have done well in executing what is right in My eyes, and have done to the house of Ahab according to all that was in My heart, your sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel." Now Michal, Saul's daughter, loved David. The messengers came again and said, Thus says Ben-hadad: I sent to you, saying, Deliver to me your silver and your gold, your wives and your children.. Then the messengers returned and said, "Thus says Ben-hadad, 'Surely, I sent to you saying, "You shall give me your silver and your gold and your wives and your children," but about this time tomorrow I will send my servants to you, and they will search your house and the houses of your servants; and whatever is desirable in your eyes, they will take in their hand and carry away.'" While Saul talked to the priest, the commotion in the camp of the Philistines continued and increased; so Saul said to the priest, "Withdraw your hand." So David said to Abner, "Are you not a man? He did evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done. Now it came about, as soon as the kingdom was firmly in his hand, that he killed his servants who had slain the king his father. But Jonathan replied to Adonijah, "No! It came about when Jehu was executing judgment on the house of Ahab, he found the princes of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah's brothers ministering to Ahaziah, and slew them. Now Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they finished eating. Then Ziba said to the king, "According to all that my lord the king commands his servant so your servant will do." Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. And he said, "Bring up Samuel for me." "Listen to the supplication of Your servant and of Your people Israel, when they pray toward this place; hear in heaven Your dwelling place; hear and forgive. Then David commanded the young men, and they killed them and cut off their hands and feet and hung them up beside the pool in Hebron But they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in the grave of Abner in Hebron. It came about when he became king, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he killed all the household of Baasha; he did not leave a single male, neither of his relatives nor of his friends. But Micaiah said, "As the LORD lives, what my God says, that I will speak." He took great pride in the ways of the LORD and again removed the high places and the Asherim from Judah. And there was a trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all the people. Then Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him and, So David reigned over all Israel; and David. And who is like you in Israel? Some of the Philistines brought gifts and silver as tribute to Jehoshaphat; the Arabians also brought him flocks, 7,700 rams and 7,700 male goats. When he was in distress, he entreated the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. Then he arose and departed and went to Samaria. When they entered, he looked at Eliab and thought, "Surely the LORD'S anointed is before Him." And he said, "Listen, all you people." Let him go up to Jerusalem which is in Judah and rebuild the house of the LORD, the God of Israel; He is the God who is in Jerusalem. "So now swear to me by the LORD that you will not cut off my descendants after me and that you will not destroy my name from my father's household." "But the people took some of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the choicest of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the LORD your God at Gilgal." So Achish gave him Ziklag that day; therefore Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah to this day. So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah. Then David arose and fled that day from Saul, and went to Achish king of Gath. He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen mother, because she had made a horrid image as an Asherah; and Asa cut down her horrid image and burned it at the brook Kidron. They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria, and the dogs licked up his blood (now the harlots bathed themselves there), according to the word of the LORD which He spoke. For we are Gods fellow workers; you are Gods field, Gods building. Then Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD before the new court, and he said, "O LORD, the God of our fathers, are You not God in the heavens? Abiathar told David that Saul had killed the priests of the LORD. Then the king faced about and blessed all the assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel was standing. "If he says, 'It is good,' your servant will be safe; but if he is very angry, know that he has decided on evil. Now therefore come, let us go and tell the king's household." Then there was no harm in the pot. Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard of it Then Saul blew the trumpet throughout the land, saying, "Let the Hebrews hear." The priest gave to the captains of hundreds the spears and shields that had been King David's, which were in the house of the LORD. He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. Now Hiram made the basins and the shovels and the bowls. And when he had called her, she stood before him. For with what could this man make himself acceptable to his lord? 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? So King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Arameans had inflicted on him at Ramah when he fought against Hazael king of Aram Then Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel because he was sick. He defeated Moab, and the Moabites became servants to David, bringing tribute. And he lay down on his bed and turned away his face and ate no food. And Jehu answered, "What have you to do with peace? But Jonathan replied to Adonijah, "No! The Philistine came forward morning and evening for forty days and took his stand. Now the rest of the acts of Menahem and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? "Did I just begin to inquire of God for him today? "Please do not let my lord pay attention to this worthless man, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years; then he turned and rebelled against him. And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi. Then he set the carved image of Asherah that he had made, in the house of which the LORD said to David and to his son Solomon, "In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever. So the priest said, "Let us draw near to God here." Now the king of Aram was warring against Israel; and he counseled with his servants saying, "In such and such a place shall be my camp." Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba, and went in to her and lay with her; and she gave birth to a son, and he named him Solomon. Then he said to him, "Because you have not listened to the voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as you have departed from me, a lion will kill you." Then he took his oldest son who was to reign in his place, and offered him as a burnt offering on the wall. Shallum son of Jabesh became king in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah, and he reigned one month in Samaria. He sent them to Lebanon, 10,000 a month in relays; they were in Lebanon a month and two months at home. Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah as head and leader among his brothers, for he intended to make him king. But Amaziah would not listen. 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? "They have lived in it, and have built You a sanctuary there for Your name, saying, 'Should evil come upon us, the sword, or judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house and before You (for Your name is in this house) and cry to You in our distress, and You will hear and deliver us.' When all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, saying,What portion do we have in David?We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse;To your tents, O Israel!Now look after your own house, David!So Israel departed to their tents. He said to him, "Thus says the LORD, 'Because you have let go out of your hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore your life shall go for his life, and your people for his people.'" Thus Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel. The LORD said to him, "I have heard your prayer and your supplication, which you have made before Me; I have consecrated this house which you have built by putting My name there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually. Then Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to wage war; and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him. For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and after Milcom the detestable idol of the Ammonites. Then Joram said, "Get ready." "As for you, if you will walk before Me as your father David walked, in integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you and will keep My statutes and My ordinances, then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, just as I promised to your father David, saying, 'You shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.' So Samuel went back following Saul, and Saul worshiped the LORD. Now the LORD had said to Ahijah, "Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to inquire of you concerning her son, for he is sick. "For Saul and they and all the men of Israel are in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines." Then the hand of the LORD was on Elijah, and he girded up his loins and outran Ahab to Jezreel. Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man with his master, and highly respected, because by him the LORD had given victory to Aram. Those from all the tribes of Israel who set their hearts on seeking the LORD God of Israel followed them to Jerusalem, to sacrifice to the LORD God of their fathers. Jehu went into the house of Baal with Jehonadab the son of Rechab; and he said to the worshipers of Baal, "Search and see that there is here with you none of the servants of the LORD, but only the worshipers of Baal." But the rest fled to Aphek into the city, and the wall fell on 27,000 men who were left And Ben-hadad fled and came into the city into an inner chamber. So Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, "Send me your son David who is with the flock." So they girded sackcloth on their loins and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel and said, "Your servant Ben-hadad says, 'Please let me live.'" Then he sent out a second horseman, who came to them and said, "Thus says the king, 'Is it peace?'" Q Shaphan the scribe came to the king and brought back word to the king and said, "Your servants have emptied out the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of the LORD." Then Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people, that they would be the LORD'S people, also between the king and the people. "Behold, this day your eyes have seen that the LORD had given you today into my hand in the cave, and some said to kill you, but my eye had pity on you; and I said, 'I will not stretch out my hand against my lord, for he is the LORD'S anointed.' Then open the door and flee and do not wait." "For thus says the LORD, 'You shall not see wind nor shall you see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, so that you shall drink, both you and your cattle and your beasts. Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder, and used to pay the king of Israel 100,000 lambs and the wool of 100,000 rams. "Of all my sons (for the LORD has given me many sons), He has chosen my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel. Now one of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief of Saul's shepherds. And she said, "An old man is coming up, and he is wrapped with a robe " And Saul knew that it was Samuel, and he bowed with his face to the ground and did homage. All the articles of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king and of his officers, he brought them all to Babylon. Thus Saul was David's enemy continually. For I brought neither my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's matter was urgent." The fury of a king is like messengers of death, and they said to him, Behold, you have grown old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD dispossessed before the sons of Israel. Then Jonathan gave his weapons to his lad and said to him, "Go, bring them to the city." "They cried out to the LORD and said, 'We have sinned because we have forsaken the LORD and have served the Baals and the Ashtaroth; but now deliver us from the hands of our enemies, and we will serve You.' For he was wiser than all men, than Ethan the Ezrahite, Heman, Calcol and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his fame was known in all the surrounding nations. But his anger is toward him who acts shamefully. These will wage war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, because He is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those who are with Him are the called and chosen and faithful.. It came about on the next day when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa. Therefore I make a decree that any people, nation or tongue that speaks anything offensive against the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego shall be torn limb from limb and their houses reduced to a rubbish heap, inasmuch as there is no other god who is able to deliver in this way.. Web8 And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.. 9 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.. 10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. So she went from him and shut the door behind her and her sons; they were bringing the vessels to her and she poured. Nabal is his name and folly is with him; but I your maidservant did not see the young men of my lord whom you sent. So King Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him and said to King Jehoshaphat, "Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD and so bring wrath on yourself from the LORD? "Shall I then take my bread and my water and my meat that I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give it to men whose origin I do not know?" The doorway for the lowest side chamber was on the right side of the house; and they would go up by winding stairs to the middle story, and from the middle to the third. He said, "Why will you go to him today? Elijah came near to all the people and said, "How long will you hesitate between two opinions? And she said to him, "Speak." "Whenever any dispute comes to you from your brethren who live in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and ordinances, you shall warn them so that they may not be guilty before the LORD, and wrath may not come on you and your brethren. He engraved on the plates of its stays and on its borders, cherubim, lions and palm trees, according to the clear space on each, with wreaths all around. For one of the people came to destroy the king your lord. So she said to Elijah, "What do I have to do with you, O man of God? and especially those who indulge the flesh in its corrupt desires and despise authority.Daring, self-willed, they do not tremble when they revile angelic majesties. For your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one.'" And he repaired the altar of the LORD which had been torn down. Only the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. 45 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: So Jehoiakim gave the silver and gold to Pharaoh, but he taxed the land in order to give the money at the command of Pharaoh. So Ahab came into his house sullen and vexed because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him; for he said, "I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers." Between the passes by which Jonathan sought to cross over to the Philistines' garrison, there was a sharp crag on the one side and a sharp crag on the other side, and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh. And he put his hand on it, then Elisha laid his hands on the king's hands. But all Israel and Judah loved David, and he went out and came in before them. Then David said to the Philistine, "You come to me with a sword, a spear, and a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have taunted. Then Jonathan climbed up on his hands and feet, with his armor bearer behind him; and they fell before Jonathan, and his armor bearer put some to death after him. Now Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of his father David, except he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. Now when he had departed from there, he met Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him; and he greeted him and said to him, "Is your heart right, as my heart is with your heart?" So none of the people tasted food. And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. The number of days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months. Now in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the king sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah the son of Meshullam the scribe, to the house of the LORD saying, read more. He made 300 shields of beaten gold, using three minas of gold on each shield, and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon. And the LORD said, 'These have no master. Now it came about when he had finished speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as himself. "They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the time we were with them tending the sheep. And the king of Israel said to him, "No, for the LORD has called these three kings together to give them into the hand of Moab." Am I not the Philistine and you servants of Saul? So a horseman went to meet him and said, "Thus says the king, 'Is it peace?'" All the officials, the mighty men, and also all the sons of King David pledged allegiance to King Solomon. For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and captured Gezer and burned it with fire, and killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and had given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon's wife. Elisha said to her, "What shall I do for you? Turn behind me." "Yet have regard to the prayer of Your servant and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which Your servant prays before You today; that Your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, toward the place of which You have said, 'My name shall be there,' to listen to the prayer which Your servant shall pray toward this place. The lowest story was five cubits wide, and the middle was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide; for on the outside he made offsets in the wall of the house all around in order that the beams would not be inserted in the walls of the house. He did away with the horses which the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the official, which was in the precincts; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire. But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, thought, "Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Aramean, by not receiving from his hands what he brought As the LORD lives, I will run after him and take something from him." "Then take the flask of oil and pour it on his head and say, 'Thus says the LORD, "I have anointed you king over Israel."' He did right in the sight of the LORD and walked in all the way of his father David, nor did he turn aside to the right or to the left. In those days the LORD began to cut off portions from Israel; and Hazael defeated them throughout the territory of Israel: from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites and the Reubenites and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan. read more. "So look, and learn about all the hiding places where he hides himself and return to me with certainty, and I will go with you; and if he is in the land, I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah." David inquired of the LORD, saying, "Shall I pursue this band? The king said to her, "Do not be afraid; but what do you see?" Thus Zimri destroyed all the household of Baasha, according to the word of the LORD, which He spoke against Baasha through Jehu the prophet, for all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned and which they made Israel sin, provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their idols.

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