JESSE
jes'-e (yishay, meaning doubtful; according to Gesenius it =
"wealthy"; Olshausen, Gram., sections 277 f, conjectures yesh
yah, "Yahweh exists"; Wellhausen (
1Sa 14:49
) explains it as 'abhishay (see ABISHAI); Iessai;
Ru 4:17,22; 1Sa 16; 17; 20; 22; 25:10
;
2Sa 20:1; 23:1; 1Ki 12:16
;
1Ch 10:14; 12:18; Ps 72:20; Isa 11:1,10
( =
Ro 15:12
);
Isaiah 11
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| And a rod hath come out from the stock of Jesse,
And a branch from his roots is fruitful.
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| 2
| Rested on him hath the Spirit of Jehovah, The
spirit of wisdom and understanding, The spirit of
counsel and might, The spirit of knowledge and fear of
Jehovah.
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| 3
| To refresh him in the fear of Jehovah, And by the
sight of his eyes he judgeth not, Nor by the hearing of
his ears decideth.
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| And he hath judged in righteousness the poor, And
decided in uprightness for the humble of earth, And hath
smitten earth with the rod of his mouth, And with the
breath of his lips he putteth the wicked to death.
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| 5
| And righteousness hath been the girdle of his
loins, And faithfulness -- the girdle of his reins.
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| And a wolf hath sojourned with a lamb, And a
leopard with a kid doth lie down, And calf, and young
lion, and fatling [are] together, And a little youth is
leader over them.
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| And cow and bear do feed, Together lie down their
young ones, And a lion as an ox eateth straw.
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| And played hath a suckling by the hole of an asp,
And on the den of a cockatrice Hath the weaned one put
his hand.
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| 9
| Evil they do not, nor destroy in all My holy
mountain, For full hath been the earth with the
knowledge of Jehovah, As the waters are covering the
sea.
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| 10
| And there hath been, in that day, A root of Jesse
that is standing for an ensign of peoples, Unto him do
nations seek, And his rest hath been -- honour!
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| 11
| And it hath come to pass, in that day, The Lord
addeth a second time his power, To get the remnant of
His people that is left, From Asshur, and from Egypt,
And from Pathros, and from Cush, And from Elam, and from
Shinar, And from Hamath, and from isles of the sea,
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| 12
| And He hath lifted up an ensign (signal) to
nations, And gathereth the driven away of Israel, And
the scattered of Judah He assembleth, From the four
wings of the earth.
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| 13
| And turned aside hath the envy of Ephraim, And the
adversaries of Judah are cut off, Ephraim doth not envy
Judah, And Judah doth not distress Ephraim.
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| 14
| And they have flown on the shoulder of the
Philistines westward, Together they spoil the sons of
the east, Edom and Moab sending forth their hand, And
sons of Ammon obeying them.
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| 15
| And Jehovah hath devoted to destruction The tongue
of the sea of Egypt, And hath waved His hand over the
river, In the terror of his wind, And hath smitten it at
the seven streams, And hath caused [men] to tread [it]
with shoes.
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| And there hath been a highway, For the remnant of
His people that is left, from Asshur, As there was for
Israel in the day of his coming up out of the land of
Egypt!
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Mt 1:5,6; Ac 13:22
): Son of Obed, grandson of Boaz, and father of King David. The grouping
of the references to Jesse in 1Sa is bound up with that of the grouping
of the whole narrative of David and Saul. There
seem to be three main veins in the narrative, so far as Jesse is
concerned.
(1) In
1Sa 16:1-13
, where Jesse is called the Bethlehemite. Samuel is sent to seek among
Jesse's sons successor to Saul.
Both Samuel and Jesse fail to discern at first Yahweh's choice, Samuel
thinking that it would be the eldest son
(1Sa 16:6), while Jesse had not thought it worth while to call the youngest to
the feast (
1Sa 16:11
).
(2) (a) In
1Sa 16:14-23
, Saul is mentally disturbed, and is advised to get a harpist. David
"the son of Jesse the Bethlehemite" is recommended by a
courtier, and Saul sends to Jesse for David.
"And Jesse took ten loaves (so emend and translate, and not as the
Revised Version (British and American), "an ass laden with
bread"), and a (skin) bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent
them" to Saul as a present with David, who becomes a courtier of
Saul's with his father's consent.
(b) The next mention of Jesse is in three contemptuous references by
Saul to David as "the son of Jesse" in
1Sa 20:27,30,31
, part of the quarrel-scene between Saul and Jonathan. (But it is not
quite certain if
1Sa 20
belongs to the same source as 16:14-23.) In answer to the first
reference, Jonathan calls his friend "David," and Saul repeats
the phrase "the son of Jesse," abusing Jonathan personally (
1Sa 20:30
, where the meaning is uncertain). The reference to David as "the
son of Jesse" here and in the following verse is contemptuous, not
because of any reproach that might attach itself to Jesse, but, as Budde
remarks, because "an upstart is always contemptuously referred to
under his father's name" in courts and society. History repeats
itself!
(c) Further references of a like kind are in the passage,
1Sa 22:6-23
, namely, in 22:7,8,13 by Saul, and repeated by Doeg in 22:9.
(d) The final one of this group is in
1Sa 25:10
, where Nabal sarcastically asks "Who is David ? and who is the son
of Jesse?"
| 1041 B.C.
| the birth of Jesse's son David.
| 1 Chr 2:9-17 |
1 Samuel 25:1
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.
1 Samuel 25:2 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.
1 Samuel 25:3 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.
1 Samuel 25:4 And
David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep.
1 Samuel 25:5 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:
1 Samuel 25:6 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.
1 Samuel 25:7 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.
1 Samuel 25:8 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.
1 Samuel 25:9 And
when David's young men came, they spake to Nabal according to
all those words in the name of David, and ceased.
1 Samuel 25:10 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.
1 Samuel 25:11 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]?
1 Samuel 25:12 So
David's young men turned their way, and went again, and came
and told him all those sayings.
1 Samuel 25:13 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.
1 Samuel 25:14 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.
1 Samuel 25:15 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:
1 Samuel 25:16 They
were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we
were with them keeping the sheep.
1 Samuel 25:17 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.
1 Samuel 25:18 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.
1 Samuel 25:19 And
she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come
after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.
1 Samuel 25:20 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.
1 Samuel 25:21 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.
1 Samuel 25:22 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.
1 Samuel 25:23 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,
1 Samuel 25:24 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.
1 Samuel 25:25 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.
1 Samuel 25:26 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.
1 Samuel 25:27 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.
1 Samuel 25:28 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.
1 Samuel 25:29 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.
1 Samuel 25:30 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;
1 Samuel 25:31 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.
1 Samuel 25:32 And
David said to Abigail, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel,
which sent thee this day to meet me:
1 Samuel 25:33 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.
1 Samuel 25:34 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.
1 Samuel 25:35 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.
1 Samuel 25:36 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.
1 Samuel 25:37 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.
1 Samuel 25:38 And it
came to pass about ten days [after], that the LORD smote
Nabal, that he died.
1 Samuel 25:39 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.
1 Samuel 25:40 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.
1 Samuel 25:41 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.
1 Samuel 25:42 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.
1 Samuel 25:43 David
also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them
his wives.
|
1016 B.C.
|
David meets and marries Abigail.
|
1 Sam 25:2-44 |
David's wives - the symbology:
| Name |
Definition |
Meaning |
Color |
Scripture |
| . |
. |
Attraction Phase |
. |
. |
| 1 lk*ym! (Mikal) |
brook, stream |
water of Word - X-axis |
Blue |
1 Sa. 18:27; 2 Sa 3:3 |
| µ2 <u^ny)j!a^('Achino`am) |
my brother is delight |
love, social friend, breasts - Y-axis |
Yellow |
1 Sa 25:43 |
| 3 ly!g^yb!a^(Abigail) |
my father is rejoicing |
royalty, Spiritual - Z-axis |
Violet |
1 Sa. 25:30 |
| . |
. |
Compatibility Phase |
. |
. |
| 4 hk*u^m^(Ma`akah) |
fondling female, pet |
skin - Adam = red |
Red |
Ge 2:7; 2 Sa 3:3 |
| 5 tyG!j^(Chaggith) |
festal |
dancer |
Green |
2 Sa 3:4 |
| 6 lf^yb!a^('Abital) |
my father is dew |
female sexual response; genitals |
Orange |
2 Sa 3:4 |
| 7 hl*g=u#(`Egelah) |
heifer |
big female |
Indigo |
Judg 14:18; 2 Sa 3:5 |
| . |
. |
Spiritual Rapport |
. |
. |
8 u^Wv-tB^(Bathshu`a)
ub^v#-tB^(Bathsheba`) |
daughter of opulence
daughter of the oath |
(Right Woman substitute) |
White |
1 Chron 3:5
2 Sa 11:3 |
David had eight wives, which represented the testing and
promotion through all the Phases of the Right Man - Right Woman
relationship. The first seven wives represented the completion
of the category of tests of the soul to qualify for Right Woman
while the eighth represented the Right Woman substitute, since David
did not receive his Right Woman. Each wife represented a
specific characteristic of Right Woman and a symbolic color of the
light production, or fruit, of that relationship. David's
wives represented the promotions toward the strategic objective of
the coporate testimony of Marriage in the life of the
believer. His wives demonstrated that one of the strategic
objectives of life is the advance back to the Garden with the Right
Woman.
The production of the Intimacy Room is light - not physical
fruit. The fruit, or production, of the Intimacy Room consists
of the seven colors of light of the rainbow. The
fruit-bearing, or production, of the Spiritual Life in the Intimacy
Room is light. The symbolic colors associated with David's
wives are the colors of the light in the Intimacy Room.
After the Flood, God placed a rainbow in the sky as a symbol
of the end of judgment. However, the rainbow was also a
testimony of the breakdown of marriage culture. In Satan's
attack on Marriage, all seven tests of the Right Man - Right Woman
relationship had been failed. The rainbow in the sky was a
testimony of the failed tests and lack of light in the Intimacy Room
of those who rejected the Right Man - Right Woman
relationship. Those who reject Right Man or Right Woman reside
in darkness. And the only way to pass the intimacy tests is
with Bible Doctrine.
Children born before the parents are in Spiritual Rapport
receive various curses. David's family was full of cursing
when he sinned with Bathsheba`. The cursing included rape and
murder. Wild
children from relationships other than Right Man - Right Woman
also inherit cursing. David was a wild child, and he had a
life time of problems with women. His first seven wives
represented the intimacy tests that he had to pass to qualify for
Right Woman.
FROM: http://www.biblenews1.com/garden/David1.html
| 1011 B.C.
| David becomes king over Judah.
| 2 Sam 2:1-7; 1 Chr 3:1-4; Ps 9 |
| 1010 B.C.
| the birth of David's son Amnon.
| 2 Sam 3:1
|
| 1008 B.C.
| the birth of David's son Absalom.
| 2 Sam 3:3
|
| 1004-971 B.C.
| David's reign over Israel.
| 2 Sam 5:4-5, 13-16; 8:15-18; 1 Chr 3:4-9;
14:1-7; 29:27 |
|
David and Bathsheeba
2 Samuel 11
1. And
it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when
kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants
with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon,
and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem.
2. And
it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his
bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the
roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very
beautiful to look upon.
3. And
David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this
Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?
4. And
David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and
he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and
she returned unto her house.
5. And
the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with
child.
6. And
David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab
sent Uriah to David.
7. And
when Uriah was come unto him, David demanded of him how Joab did,
and how the people did, and how the war prospered.
8. And
David said to Uriah, Go down to thy house, and wash thy feet. And
Uriah departed out of the king's house, and there followed him a
mess of meat from the king.
9. But
Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants
of his lord, and went not down to his house.
10. And
when they had told David, saying, Uriah went not down unto his
house, David said unto Uriah, Camest thou not from thy journey?
why then didst thou not go down unto thine house?
11. And
Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in
tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped
in the open fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to
drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul
liveth, I will not do this thing.
12. And
David said to Uriah, Tarry here to day also, and to morrow I will
let thee depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day, and the
morrow.
13. And
when David had called him, he did eat and drink before him; and he
made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the
servants of his lord, but went not down to his house.
14. And
it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab,
and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
15. And
he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of
the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be
smitten, and die.
16. And
it came to pass, when Joab observed the city, that he assigned
Uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant men were.
17. And
the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and there fell
some of the people of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite
died also.
18. Then
Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;
19. And
charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of
telling the matters of the war unto the king,
20. And
if so be that the king's wrath arise, and he say unto thee,
Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight?
knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall?
21. Who
smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a
piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in
Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant
Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
22. So
the messenger went, and came and shewed David all that Joab had
sent him for.
23. And
the messenger said unto David, Surely the men prevailed against
us, and came out unto us into the field, and we were upon them
even unto the entering of the gate.
24. And
the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants; and some of
the king's servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is
dead also.
25. Then
David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let
not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well
as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and
overthrow it: and encourage thou him.
26. And
when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she
mourned for her husband.
27. And
when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his
house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing
that David had done displeased the LORD.
2 Samuel 12
1. And
the LORD sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and said
unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the
other poor.
2. The
rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds:
3. But
the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had
bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and
with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his
own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.
4. And
there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of
his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man
that was come unto him; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed
it for the man that was come to him.
5. And
David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to
Nathan, As the LORD liveth, the man that hath done this thing
shall surely die:
6. And
he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and
because he had no pity.
7. And
Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. Thus saith the LORD God of
Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out
of the hand of Saul;
8. And
I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives into thy
bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that
had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such
and such things.
9. Wherefore
hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his
sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast
taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword
of the children of Ammon.
10. Now
therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because
thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the
Hittite to be thy wife.
11. Thus
saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of
thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and
give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in
the sight of this sun.
12. For
thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all
Israel, and before the sun.
13. And
David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan
said unto David, The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt
not die.
14. Howbeit,
because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies
of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee
shall surely die.
15. And
Nathan departed unto his house. And the LORD struck the child that
Uriah's wife bare unto David, and it was very sick.
16. David
therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went
in, and lay all night upon the earth.
17. And
the elders of his house arose, and went to him, to raise him up
from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with
them.
18. And
it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And the
servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead: for
they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spake unto
him, and he would not hearken unto our voice: how will he then vex
himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?
19. But
when David saw that his servants whispered, David perceived that
the child was dead: therefore David said unto his servants, Is the
child dead? And they said, He is dead.
20. Then
David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and
changed his apparel, and came into the house of the LORD, and
worshipped: then he came to his own house; and when he required,
they set bread before him, and he did eat.
21. Then
said his servants unto him, What thing is this that thou hast
done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it was alive;
but when the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread.
22. And
he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I
said, Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the
child may live?
23. But
now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back
again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
24. And
David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay
with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon: and
the LORD loved him.
25. And
he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he called his name
Jedidiah, because of the LORD.
26. And
Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the
royal city.
27. And
Joab sent messengers to David, and said, I have fought against
Rabbah, and have taken the city of waters.
28. Now
therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp
against the city, and take it: lest I take the city, and it be
called after my name.
29. And
David gathered all the people together, and went to Rabbah, and
fought against it, and took it.
30. And
he took their king's crown from off his head, the weight whereof
was a talent of gold with the precious stones: and it was set on
David's head. And he brought forth the spoil of the city in great
abundance.
31. And
he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under
saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made
them pass through the brick-kiln: and thus did he unto all the
cities of the children of Ammon. So David and all the people
returned unto Jerusalem.
|
| 992 B.C.
| David's adultery with Bathsheba; the child dies.
| 2 Sam 11:1-12:23; Ps 6, 32, 38, 39, 51, 143
|
| 991 B.C.
| the birth of David's son Solomon.
| 2 Sam 12:24-25
|
| 977 B.C.
| David brings the ark to Jerusalem; God establishes a
Messianic covenant with David and his line.
| 2 Sam 6:1-7:29; 1 Chr 13:1-14; 15:1-17:27; Psa
2, 15, 24, 65, 68, 103, 108 |
| 973 B.C.
| David's preparations for the temple; he addresses the
officials.
| 1 Chr 22:1-19; 23:3-26:32; 28:1-29:22
|
| 973 B.C.
| David's psalms for use in the temple: Psa 29, 30, 37,
95, 101, 122, 123, 124, 129, 131, 133, 145.
|
|
| 972 B.C.
| the birth of Solomon's son Rehoboam.
One of Solomon's wives was Naamah, an Ammonite. She was
the mother of Rehoboam
(1 Kings 14:31; 2 Chr. 12:13).
| 1 Kgs 14:21
|
| 972 B.C.
| David secures Solomon's succession.
| 1 Kgs 1:1-53; 1 Chr 23:1-2; Ps 72, 110
|
| 971 B.C.
| the death of David; Solomon avenges David's enemies.
| 2 Sam 23:1-7; 1 Kgs 2:1-38; 1 Chr
29:22-25
|
| 969 B.C.
| Solomon marries the daughter of Pharaoh Siamun.
| 1 Kgs 3:1; Ps 45
|
| 969 B.C.
| God grants unprecedented wisdom to Solmon.
| 1 Kgs 3:2-23; 2 Chr 1:1-17; Prov. 1:1-29:27;
Song 1:1-8:14
|
| 966-959 B.C.
| the building of Solomon's temple 480 years after the
Exodus.
| 1 Kgs 6:1-38, 7:13-51; 2 Chr 3:1-4:22
|
| 959 B.C.
| the temple is dedicated; God warns Solomon to remain
faithful.
| 1 Kgs 8:1-9:9; 2 Chr 5:1-7:22
|
| 959 B.C.
| psalms associated with the temple dedication: Psa 47,
91, 92, 93, 94, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 104, 127, 128, 132
|
|
| 959-946 B.C.
| the building of Solmon's palace.
| 1 Kgs 7:1-12
|
| c. 950 B.C.
| the wisdom of Agur and Lemuel; Solomon's search for
meaning.
| Prov. 30:1-31:31; Ecc. 1:1-12:14
|
| c. 949 B.C.
| the birth of Rehoboam's son Abijam (Abijah).
|
|
| 947 B.C.
| Hiram is displeased with Solomon's payment.
| 1 Kgs 9:10-28
|
| 947 B.C.
| the glory of Solomon and the visit of the Queen of
Sheba.
| 1 Kgs 10:1-29; 2 Chr 8:1-9:28
|
| 947 B.C.
| Solomon becomes corrupt; Hadad rebels against him.
| 1 Kgs 11:1-14
|
| c. 940 B.C.
| Rezon (Hezion, r. 940-915) of Aram harasses Solomon.
| 1 Kgs 11:23-25
|
| c. 940 B.C.
| the prophet Ahijah predicts the division of the
kingdom and the rise of Jeroboam; Jeroboam hides in
Egypt until Solomon's death.
| 1 Kgs 11:26-40; Ps 120
|
| 933 B.C.
| the birth of Jehoiada.
| 2 Chr 24:15
|
| 931 B.C.
| the death of Solomon.
| 1 Kgs 11:41-43; 2 Chr 9:29-31
|
FROM: http://faith.propadeutic.com/history/united.html
(3) The parts of
1Sa 17-18:5
which are omitted by Septuagint B, i.e. 17:12-31,41,48b,50,55-18:6a.
Here Jesse is mentioned as "an Ephrathite of Beth-lehem-judah"
(17:12, not "that" Ephrathite, which is a grammatically
impossible translation of the Massoretic Text), Ephrath or Ephrathah
being another name for Bethlehem, or rather for the district. He is
further said to have eight sons (17:12), of whom the three eldest had
followed Saul to the war (17:13).
Jesse sends David, the shepherd, to his brothers with provisions (
1Sa 17:17
). Afterward David, on being brought to Saul and asked who he is,
answers, "I am the son of thy servant Jesse the Bethlehemite"
(
1Sa 17:58
). Jesse is also described (
1Sa 17:12
) as being "in the days of Saul an old man, advanced in years"
(so emend and translate, not as the Revised Version (British and
American), "stricken in years among men"). The mention of his
having 8 sons in
1Sa 17:12
is not in agreement with
1Ch 2:13-15
, which gives only 7 sons with two sisters, but where Syriac gives 8,
adding, from 27:18, Elihu which Massoretic Text has there probably by
corruption (Curtis, Chronicles, 88).
1Sa 16:10
should be translated" and Jesse made his 7 sons to pass before
Samuel" (not as the Revised Version (British and American), the
King James Version, "seven of his sons"). Budde (Kurz. Hand-Komm.,
"Samuel," 114) holds
1Sa 16:1-13
to be a late Midrash, and (ibid., 123 f) omits
(a) "that" in 17:12;
(b) also "and he had 8 sons" as due to a wrong inference from
16:10;
(c) the names of the 3 eldest in 17:13;
(d) 17:14b; he then changes 17:15a, and reads thus: (12) "Now David
was the son of an Ephrathite of Bethlehem-Judah, whose name was Jesse
who was .... (years) old at the time of Saul. (13) And the 3 eldest sons
of Jesse had marched with Saul to the war, (14) and David was the
youngest, (15) and David had remained to feed his father's sheep at
Bethlehem. (16) Now the Philistines came," etc.
According to all these narratives in 1 Samuel, whether all 3 be entirely
independent of one another or not, Jesse had land in Bethlehem, probably
outside the town wall, like Boaz
his grandfather (
Ru 4:17
). In
1Sa 22:3,1
David entrusts his father and mother to the care of the king of Moab,
but from 20:29 some have inferred that Jesse was dead (although most
critics assign 22:3 at any rate to the same stratum as chapter 20).
Jonathan tells Saul that David wanted to attend a family sacrificial
feast at Bethlehem (
1Sa 20:29
). Massoretic Text reads, "And he, my brother, has commanded
me," whereas we should probably read with Septuagint, "and my
brethren have commanded me," i.e. the members of the clan, as we
have farther on in the verse, "Let me get away, I pray thee, and
see my brethren." As to Jesse's daughters, Abigail, Nahash.
(4) Of the other references to Jesse, the most noteworthy is that in
Isa 11:1
: "There shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse, and a
branch out of his roots shall bear fruit," i.e. out of Jesse's
roots (compare
Re 5:5
). "Why Jesse and not David?" asks Duhm; and he answers,
"Because the Messiah will be a second David, rather than a
descendant of David." Marti explains it to mean that he will be,
not from David, but from a collateral line of descent. Duhm's
explanation suggests a parallelism between David and Christ, of whom the
former may be treated as a type similar to Aaron and Melchizedek in He.
Saul might pour contempt upon "the son of Jesse," but Isaiah
has given Jesse here a name above all Hebrew names, and thus does
Providence mock "society."
David Francis Roberts
|
1 Kings 11
The Lord Punishes Solomon for Idolatry
11:1 King Solomon
fell in love with many foreign women (besides Pharaoh’s daughter),
including Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites. 11:2
They came from nations about which the Lord
had warned the Israelites, “You must not establish friendly
relations with them!1
If you do, they will surely shift your allegiance to their gods.”2
But Solomon was irresistibly attracted to them.3
11:3 He had seven hundred
royal wives4
and three hundred concubines;5
his wives had a powerful influence over him.6
11:4 When Solomon became old,
his wives shifted his allegiance to7
other gods; he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord
his God, as his father David had been.8
11:5 Solomon worshiped9
the Sidonian goddess Astarte and the detestable Ammonite god Milcom.10
11:6 Solomon did evil before11
the Lord; he did not remain loyal to12
the Lord, like his father David had.
11:7 Furthermore,13
on the hill east of Jerusalem14
Solomon built a high place15
for the detestable Moabite god Chemosh16
and for the detestable Ammonite god Milcom.17
11:8 He built high places for all his foreign wives so they
could burn incense and make sacrifices to their gods.18
11:9 The Lord
was angry with Solomon because he had shifted his allegiance19
away from the Lord, the God of Israel,
who had appeared to him on two occasions20
11:10 and had warned him
about this very thing so that he would not follow other gods.21
But he did not obey22
the Lord’s command.
11:11 So the Lord
said to Solomon, “Because you insist on doing these things and have
not kept the covenantal rules I gave you,23
I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your
servant.
11:12 However, for your father David’s
sake I will not do this while you are alive. I will tear it away from
your son’s hand instead.
11:13 But I will not tear away the
entire kingdom; I will leave24
your son one tribe for my servant David’s sake and for the sake of
my chosen city Jerusalem.”
11:14 The Lord
brought25
against Solomon an enemy, Hadad the Edomite, a descendant of the
Edomite king.
11:15 During David’s campaign
against Edom,26
Joab, the commander of the army, while on a mission to bury the dead,
killed every male in Edom.
11:16 For six months Joab and the entire Israelite army27
stayed there until they had exterminated every male in Edom.28
11:17 Hadad,29
who was only a small boy at the time, escaped with some of his
father’s Edomite servants and headed for Egypt.30
11:18 They went from Midian to Paran; they took some
men from Paran and went to Egypt. Pharaoh, king of Egypt, supplied him
with a house and food and even assigned him some land.31
11:19 Pharaoh liked Hadad so well32
he gave him his sister-in-law (Queen Tahpenes’ sister) as a wife.33
11:20 Tahpenes’ sister gave34
him a son named Genubath. Tahpenes raised35
him in Pharaoh’s palace; Genubath grew up in Pharaoh’s palace
among Pharaoh’s sons.
11:21 While in Egypt Hadad heard that
David had passed away36
and that Joab, the commander of the army, was dead. So Hadad asked
Pharaoh, “Give me permission to leave37
so I can return to my homeland.”
11:22 Pharaoh said to him, “What
do you lack here that makes you want to go to your homeland?”38
Hadad replied,39
“Nothing, but please give me permission to leave.”40
11:23 God also brought
against Solomon41
another enemy, Rezon son of Eliada who had run away from his master,
King Hadadezer of Zobah. 11:24 He
gathered some men and organized a raiding band.42
When David tried to kill them,43
they went to Damascus, where they settled down and gained control of
the city.
11:25 He was Israel’s enemy throughout
Solomon’s reign and, like Hadad, caused trouble. He loathed44
Israel and ruled over Syria.
11:26 Jeroboam son of Nebat, one of
Solomon’s servants, rebelled against45
the king. He was an Ephraimite46
from Zeredah whose mother was a widow named Zeruah.
11:27 This is what prompted him to
rebel against the king.47
Solomon built a terrace and he closed up a gap in the wall of the city
of his father David.48
11:28 Jeroboam was a talented man;49
when Solomon saw that the young man was an accomplished worker, he
made him the leader of the work crew from the tribe50
of Joseph.
11:29 At that time, when Jeroboam had
left Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite met him on the road;
the two of them were alone in the open country. Ahijah51
was wearing a brand new robe,
11:30 and he grabbed the robe52
and tore it into twelve pieces.
11:31 Then he told Jeroboam, “Take ten
pieces, for this is what the Lord God
of Israel says: ‘Look, I am about to tear the kingdom from
Solomon’s hand and I will give ten tribes to you.
11:32 He will retain one tribe, for my
servant David’s sake and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city I have
chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.
11:33 I am taking the kingdom from
him53
because they have54
abandoned me and worshiped the Sidonian goddess Astarte, the Moabite
god Chemosh, and the Ammonite god Milcom. They have not followed my
instructions55
by doing what I approve and obeying my rules and regulations, like
Solomon’s father David did.56
11:34 I will not take the whole
kingdom from his hand. I will allow him to be ruler for the rest of
his life for the sake of my chosen servant David who kept my
commandments and rules.
11:35 I will take the kingdom from the
hand of his son and give ten tribes to you.57
11:36 I will leave58
his son one tribe so my servant David’s dynasty may continue to
serve me59
in Jerusalem, the city I have chosen as my home.60
11:37 I will select61
you; you will rule over all you desire to have and you will be king
over Israel.
11:38 You must obey62
all I command you to do, follow my instructions,63
do what I approve,64
and keep my rules and commandments, like my servant David did. Then I
will be with you and establish for you a lasting dynasty, as I did for
David;65
I will give you Israel.
11:39 I will humiliate David’s
descendants because of this,66
but not forever.”67
11:40 Solomon tried to kill
Jeroboam, but Jeroboam escaped to Egypt and found refuge with King
Shishak of Egypt.68
He stayed in Egypt until Solomon died.
Solomon’s Reign Ends
11:41 The rest of
the events of Solomon’s reign, including all his accomplishments and
his wise decisions, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of
Solomon.69
11:42 Solomon ruled over all Israel
from Jerusalem70
for forty years. 11:43 Then Solomon
passed away71
and was buried in the city of his father David.72
His son Rehoboam replaced him as king.73
|
What
share have we in David? We have no inheritance in the son of
Jesse. To your tents, O Israel! Now, see to your own house, O
David!' So Israel departed to their tents (1 Kings 12:16).
| 12:1 |
And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come
to Shechem to make him king. |
| 12:2 |
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;) |
| 12:3 |
That they sent and called him. And Jeroboam and all the
congregation of Israel came, and spake unto Rehoboam,
saying, |
| 12:4 |
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. |
| 12:5 |
And he said unto them, Depart yet for three days, then
come again to me. And the people departed. |
| 12:6 |
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? |
| 12:7 |
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. |
| 12:8 |
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: |
| 12:9 |
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? |
| 12:10 |
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. |
| 12:11 |
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. |
| 12:12 |
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. |
| 12:13 |
And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook
the old men's counsel that they gave him; |
| 12:14 |
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. |
| 12:15 |
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. |
| 12:16 |
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. |
| 12:17 |
But as for the children of Israel which dwelt in the
cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them. |
| 12:18 |
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. |
| 12:19 |
So Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this
day. |
| 12:20 |
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. |
| 12:21 |
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. |
| 12:22 |
But the word of God came unto Shemaiah the man of God,
saying, |
| 12:23 |
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, |
| 12:24 |
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. |
| 12:25 |
Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt
therein; and went out from thence, and built Penuel. |
| 12:26 |
And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom
return to the house of David: |
| 12:27 |
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. |
| 12:28 |
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. |
| 12:29 |
And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in
Dan. |
| 12:30 |
And this thing became a sin: for the people went to
worship before the one, even unto Dan. |
| 12:31 |
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. |
| 12:32 |
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. |
| 12:33 |
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. |
| 13:1 |
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. |
| 13:2 |
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. |
| 13:3 |
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. |
| 13:4 |
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. |
| 13:5 |
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. |
| 13:6 |
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. |
| 13:7 |
And the king said unto the man of God, Come home with
me, and refresh thyself, and I will give thee a reward. |
| 13:8 |
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: |
| 13:9 |
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. |
| 13:10 |
So he went another way, and returned not by the way that
he came to Bethel. |
| 13:11 |
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. |
| 13:12 |
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. |
| 13:13 |
And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they
saddled him the ass: and he rode thereon, |
| 13:14 |
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. |
| 13:15 |
Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread. |
| 13:16 |
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: |
| 13:17 |
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. |
| 13:18 |
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. |
| 13:19 |
So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his
house, and drank water. |
| 13:20 |
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: |
| 13:21 |
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, |
| 13:22 |
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. |
| 13:23 |
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. |
| 13:24 |
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. |
| 13:25 |
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. |
| 13:26 |
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. |
| 13:27 |
And he spake to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass. And
they saddled him. |
| 13:28 |
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. |
| 13:29 |
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. |
| 13:30 |
And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they
mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother! |
| 13:31 |
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: |
| 13:32 |
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. |
| 13:33 |
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. |
| 13:34 |
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. |
| 14:1 |
At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick. |
| 14:2 |
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. |
| 14:3 |
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. |
| 14:4 |
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. |
| 14:5 |
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. |
| 14:6 |
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. |
| 14:7 |
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, |
| 14:8 |
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; |
| 14:9 |
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: |
| 14:10 |
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. |
| 14:11 |
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. |
| 14:12 |
Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: and
when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die. |
| 14:13 |
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. |
| 14:14 |
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. |
| 14:15 |
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. |
| 14:16 |
And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of
Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin. |
| 14:17 |
And Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to
Tirzah: and when she came to the threshold of the door,
the child died; |
| 14:18 |
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. |
| 14:19 |
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. |
| 14:20 |
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. |
| 14:21 |
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. |
| 14:22 |
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. |
| 14:23 |
For they also built them high places, and images, and
groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree. |
| 14:24 |
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. |
| 14:25 |
And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam,
that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem: |
| 14:26 |
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. |
| 14:27 |
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. |
| 14:28 |
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. |
| 14:29 |
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? |
| 14:30 |
And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all
their days. |
| 14:31 |
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. |
| 15:1 |
Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of
Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah. |
| 15:2 |
Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. and his mother's
name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom. |
| 15:3 |
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. |
| 15:4 |
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: |
| 15:5 |
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. |
| 15:6 |
And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the
days of his life. |
| 15:7 |
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. |
| 15:8 |
And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him
in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his
stead. |
| 15:9 |
And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel
reigned Asa over Judah. |
| 15:10 |
And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom. |
| 15:11 |
And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the
LORD, as did David his father. |
| 15:12 |
And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and
removed all the idols that his fathers had made. |
| 15:13 |
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. |
| 15:14 |
But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's
heart was perfect with the LORD all his days. |
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