the king is in the field bible verse the king is in the field bible verse

And the people were weary. Then Saul sent messengers to take David, but when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, with Samuel standing and presiding over them, the Spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul; and they also prophesied. I will be a father to him and he will be a son to Me; when he commits iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men and the strokes of the sons of men, but My lovingkindness shall not depart from him, as I took it away from Saul, whom I removed from before you. Now David knew that Saul was plotting evil against him; so he said to Abiathar the priest, "Bring the ephod here." "How much more, if only the people had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies which they found! Now the rest of the acts of Jehu and all that he did and all his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? It is an abomination for kings to commit wicked acts,For a throne is established on righteousness. Then Saul said, "Let us go down after the Philistines by night and take spoil among them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them." For the Lord Most High is to be feared,A great King over all the earth. So he said, "Go." So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah. Then Elisha prayed and said, "O LORD, I pray, open his eyes that he may see " And the LORD opened the servant's eyes and he saw; and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha. "Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this one to act the madman in my presence? Thus you shall do and you will not be guilty. It happened after a while that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land. Nevertheless Saul did not speak anything that day, for he thought, "It is an accident, he is not clean, surely he is not clean." Then we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we will be stronger than they." And he lay down on his bed and turned away his face and ate no food. And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah were sitting each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them. When he came to the king, the king said to him, "Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall we refrain?" He took great pride in the ways of the LORD and again removed the high places and the Asherim from Judah. Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah. "After whom has the king of Israel come out? The four wheels were underneath the borders, and the axles of the wheels were on the stand. When the Arameans of Damascus came to help Hadadezer, king of Zobah, David killed 22,000 Arameans. Why will you still be struck down? Thus Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel. Now Joab was over the whole army of Israel, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; The kings wrath is like the roaring of a lion,But his favor is like dew on the grass. Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Then they took the ox which was given them and they prepared it and called on the name of Baal from morning until noon saying, "O Baal, answer us." He also walked according to their counsel, and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab king of Israel to wage war against Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth-gilead. So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah went up against Ramoth-gilead. So Samuel called to the LORD, and the LORD sent thunder and rain that day; and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel. No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him. Now the king's sons, seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who were rearing them. "Now therefore, behold, the LORD has put a deceiving spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and the LORD has proclaimed disaster against you." So he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, along with the evil that Hadad did; and he abhorred Israel and reigned over Aram. Solomon reigned forty years in Jerusalem over all Israel. He did evil in the sight of the LORD, though not like his father and his mother; for he put away the sacred pillar of Baal which his father had made. Please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak favorably." Then he took him from her bosom and carried him up to the upper room where he was living, and laid him on his own bed. They went out at noon, while Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the temporary shelters with the thirty-two kings who helped him. His prayer also and how God was entreated by him, and all his sin, his unfaithfulness, and the sites on which he built high places and erected the Asherim and the carved images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the records of the Hozai. Then the king of Assyria invaded the whole land and went up to Samaria and besieged it three years. They strengthened the kingdom of Judah and supported Rehoboam the son of Solomon for three years, for they walked in the way of David and Solomon for three years. So these went out from the city, the young men of the rulers of the provinces, and the army which followed them. They arose from Midian and came to Paran; and they took men with them from Paran and came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house and assigned him food and gave him land. Nevertheless, he clung to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel sin; he did not depart from them. "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. How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, Your God reigns., And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who was seated on the throne, saying, Amen. "He inquired of the LORD for him, gave him provisions, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine." For with what could this man make himself acceptable to his lord? "Let your heart therefore be wholly devoted to the LORD our God, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments, as at this day." Jonathan said, "Far be it from you! Then Asa took all the silver and the gold which were left in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the treasuries 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 Aram, who lived in Damascus, saying, "Let there be a treaty between you and me, as between my father and your father. Amen. "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."' When the lad was gone, David rose from the south side and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed three times And they kissed each other and wept together, but David wept the more. And it will be that the king will enrich the man who kills him with great riches and will give him his daughter and make his father's house free in Israel." The house, while it was being built, was built of stone prepared at the quarry, and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any iron tool heard in the house while it was being built. He took the captains of hundreds and the Carites and the guards and all the people of the land; and they brought the king down from the house of the LORD, and came by the way of the gate of the guards to the king's house. Now there came a day when Elisha passed over to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman, and she persuaded him to eat food. So both of them went out to the field. Render to all what is due them: tax to whom tax is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor. The time that Jeroboam reigned was twenty-two years; and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place. read more. And I will give the dead bodies of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the sky and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, and that all this assembly may know that the LORD does not deliver by sword or by spear; for the battle is the LORD'S and He will give you into our hands." So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom; and they made a circuit of seven days' journey, and there was no water for the army or for the cattle that followed them. He made ten basins of bronze, one basin held forty baths; each basin was four cubits, and on each of the ten stands was one basin. Now Hazael king of Aram had oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz. For who is able to judge this great people of Yours?" And he said to them, "You know very well the man and his talk." And he said to him, "I am as you are, and my people as your people, and we will be with you in the battle." Now Elisha spoke to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, "Arise and go with your household, and sojourn wherever you can sojourn; for the LORD has called for a famine, and it will even come on the land for seven years." Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? All the prophets were prophesying thus, saying, "Go up to Ramoth-gilead and prosper, for the LORD will give it into the hand of the king." David took these words to heart and greatly feared Achish king of Gath. He was a widow's son from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze; and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill for doing any work in bronze So he came to King Solomon and performed all his work. David then arose and came to the place where Saul had camped. And the watchman reported, "The messenger came to them, but he did not return." So they divided the land between them to survey it; Ahab went one way by himself and Obadiah went another way by himself. When they had come into Samaria, Elisha said, "O LORD, open the eyes of these men, that they may see." Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. For your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one.'" The KJV does not get more original or authentic than this. Pul, king of Assyria, came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver so that his hand might be with him to strengthen the kingdom under his rule. He said, "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who spoke with His mouth to my father David and has fulfilled it with His hand, saying, 'Since the day that I brought My people Israel from Egypt, I did not choose a city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house that My name might be there, but I chose David to be over My people Israel.' After he had buried him, he spoke to his sons, saying, "When I die, bury me in the grave in which the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones. Pharaohs officials saw her and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaohs house. He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. 'Now go and strike Amalek and utterly destroy all that he has, and do not spare him; but put to death both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.'" Then David said to Achish, "If now I have found favor in your sight, let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country, that I may live there; for why should your servant live in the royal city with you?" But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then you shall say, , She looked and behold, the king was standing, Again he prostrated himself and said, What is your servant, that you should regard, They told the king, saying, Here is Nathan the prophet. And when he came in before the king, he prostrated himself. Then he sent out a second horseman, who came to them and said, "Thus says the king, 'Is it peace?'" And Agag came to him cheerfully. Then Solomon awoke, and behold, it was a dream And he came to Jerusalem and stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and made peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants. And she said, "Do you come peacefully?" The altars which were on the roof, the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, the king broke down; and he smashed them there and threw their dust into the brook Kidron. "Now behold, the sons of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom You did not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt (they turned aside from them and did not destroy them), see how they are rewarding us by coming to drive us out from Your possession which You have given us as an inheritance. So it has been from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel to this day. Thus says the LORD God of Israel, 'It is I who anointed you king over Israel and it is I who delivered you from the hand of Saul. However, as for the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel sin, from these Jehu did not depart, even the golden calves that were at Bethel and that were at Dan. And the king said to the guards who were attending him, "Turn around and put the priests of the LORD to death, because their hand also is with David and because they knew that he was fleeing and did not reveal it to me " But the servants of the king were not willing to put forth their hands to attack the priests of the LORD. Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made horns of iron for himself and said, "Thus says the LORD, 'With these you shall gore the Arameans until they are consumed.'" And Azariah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David, and Jotham his son became king in his place. So Abiathar brought the ephod to David. 'Then you shall strike every fortified city and every choice city, and fell every good tree and stop all springs of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.'" 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 Sauls shepherds. Why then have you not guarded your lord the king? Hallelujah! 'For the whole house of Ahab shall perish, and I will cut off from Ahab every male person both bond and free in Israel. They went to bury her, but they found nothing more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands. He also defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter pass through the fire for Molech. Now the king was talking with Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, saying, "Please relate to me all the great things that Elisha has done." Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the detestable idol of Moab, on the mountain which is east of Jerusalem, and for Molech the detestable idol of the sons of Ammon. They rose early in the morning, and the sun shone on the water, and the Moabites saw the water opposite them as red as blood. And Joram said, "Take a horseman and send him to meet them and let him say, 'Is it peace?'" After this event Jeroboam did not return from his evil way, but again he made priests of the high places from among all the people; any who would, he ordained, to be priests of the high places. It happened just as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, "Two measures of barley for a shekel and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, will be sold tomorrow about this time at the gate of Samaria." And he said, "Your servant went nowhere." Then Jehu said to Bidkar his officer, "Take him up and cast him into the property of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite, for I remember when you and I were riding together after Ahab his father, that the LORD laid this oracle against him: 'Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons,' says the LORD, 'and I will repay you in this property,' says the LORD. And David said, "It is my voice, my lord the king." Then Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem and tore down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate, 400 cubits. Then the woman said to Elijah, "Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the LORD in your mouth is truth." He said to his lad, "Run, find now the arrows which I am about to shoot." "When they sin against You (for there is no man who does not sin) and You are angry with them and deliver them to an enemy, so that they take them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near; if they take thought in the land where they have been taken captive, and repent and make supplication to You in the land of those who have taken them captive, saying, 'We have sinned and have committed iniquity, we have acted wickedly'; if they return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who have taken them captive, and pray to You toward their land which You have given to their fathers, the city which You have chosen, and the house which I have built for Your name; then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven Your dwelling place, and maintain their cause, and forgive Your people who have sinned against You and all their transgressions which they have transgressed against You, and make them objects of compassion before those who have taken them captive, that they may have compassion on them (for they are Your people and Your inheritance which You have brought forth from Egypt, from the midst of the iron furnace), that Your eyes may be open to the supplication of Your servant and to the supplication of Your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they call to You. Now Saul chose for himself 3,000 men of Israel, of which 2,000 were with Saul in Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel, while 1,000 were with Jonathan at Gibeah of Benjamin. Selah. "Please do not let my lord pay attention to this worthless man, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the most holy place, under the wings of the cherubim. The people answered him in accord with this word, saying, "Thus it will be done for the man who kills him." Now Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. And the. Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? Lets go out into the field. He will slay your daughters on the mainland with the sword; and he will make siege walls against you, cast up a ramp against you and raise up a large shield against you. Then Samuel said to Jesse, "Send and bring him; for we will not sit down until he comes here." Do I not know that you are choosing the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of your mother's nakedness? Then one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine and gathered from it his lap full of wild gourds, and came and sliced them into the pot of stew, for they did not know what they were. For it came about, when David was in Edom, and Joab the commander of the army had gone up to bury the slain, and had struck down every male in Edom (for Joab and all Israel stayed there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom), that Hadad fled to Egypt, he and certain Edomites of his father's servants with him, while Hadad was a young boy.