display: 2 Samuel 14:25

text: ¶ But in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom, for his beautie: from the sole of his foot euen to the crowne of his head, there was no blemish in him.


display: 2 Samuel 14:26

2 Samuel

testament: OT

text: And when he polled his head, (for it was at euery yeres end that he polled it: because the haire was heauy on him, therefore he polled it) hee weighed the haire of his head at two hundred shekels after the kings weight.


display: 2 Samuel 14:27

text: And vnto Absalom there were borne three sonnes, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar: shee was a woman of a faire countenance.


display: 2 Samuel 14:28

text: ¶ So Absalom dwelt two full yeeres in Ierusalem, and saw not the kings face.


display: 2 Samuel 14:29

text: Therefore Absalom sent for Ioab, to haue sent him to the king, but hee would not come to him: and when hee sent againe the second time, hee would not come.


display: 2 Samuel 14:30

text: Therefore hee said vnto his seruants, See, Ioabs field is neere mine, and he hath barley there: goe, and set it on fire: and Absaloms seruants set the field on fire.


display: 2 Samuel 14:31

text: Then Ioab arose, and came to Absalom vnto his house, and said vnto him, Wherefore haue thy seruants set my field on fire?


display: 2 Samuel 14:32

text: And Absalom answered Ioab, Behold, I sent vnto thee, saying, come hither, that I may send thee to the king to say, Wherefore am I come from Geshur? It had bene good for mee to haue bene there still: now therefore let me see the kings face: and if there bee any iniquitie in me, let him kill me.


display: 2 Samuel 14:33

text: So Ioab came to the King, and told him: and when hee had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himselfe on his face to the ground before the king, and the King kissed Absalom.


display: 2 Samuel 15:1

text: And it came to passe after this, that Absalom prepared him charets and horses, and fiftie men to runne before him.


display: 2 Samuel 15:2

text: And Absalom rose vp earely, and stood beside the way of the gate: and it was so, that when any man that had a controuersie, came to the king for iudgment, then Absalom called vnto him, and said, Of what citie art thou? And he said, Thy seruant is of one of the tribes of Israel.


display: 2 Samuel 15:3

text: And Absalom said vnto him, See, thy matters are good & right, but there is no man deputed of the king to heare thee.


display: 2 Samuel 15:4

text: Absalom said moreouer, Oh that I were made Iudge in the land, that euery man which hath any suit or cause, might come vnto me, and I would do him iustice.


display: 2 Samuel 15:5

text: And it was so, that when any man came nigh to him, to doe him obeisance, he put foorth his hand, and tooke him, and kissed him.


display: 2 Samuel 15:6

text: And on this maner did Absalom to all Israel, that came to the King for iudgement: so Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.


display: 2 Samuel 15:7

text: ¶ And it came to passe after fourtie yeeres, that Absalom said vnto the king, I pray thee, let mee goe and pay my vow which I haue vowed vnto the LORD in Hebron.


display: 2 Samuel 15:8

text: For thy seruant vowed a vowe while I abode at Geshur in Syria, saying, If the LORD shall bring mee againe in deed to Ierusalem, then I will serue the LORD.


display: 2 Samuel 15:9

text: And the king said vnto him, Goe in peace. So he arose, and went to Hebron.


display: 2 Samuel 15:10

text: ¶ But Absalom sent spies thorowout all the tribes of Israel, saying, As soone as yee heare the sound of the trumpet, then yee shall say, Absalom reigneth in Hebron.


display: 2 Samuel 15:11

text: And with Absalom went two hundred men out of Ierusalem, that were called, and they went in their simplicitie, and they knew not any thing.


display: 2 Samuel 15:12

text: And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, Dauids counseller, from his citie, euen from Giloh, while he offered sacrifices: and the conspiracie was strong, for the people encreased continually with Absalom.


display: 2 Samuel 15:13

text: ¶ And there came a messenger to Dauid, saying, The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom.


display: 2 Samuel 15:14

text: And Dauid said vnto all his seruants that were with him at Ierusalem, Arise, and let vs flee; for wee shall not else escape from Absalom: make speede to depart, lest hee ouertake vs suddenly, and bring euill vpon vs, and smite the city with the edge of the sword.


display: 2 Samuel 15:15

text: And the kings seruants said vnto the king, Behold, thy seruants are readie to doe whatsoeuer my lord the king shall appoint.


display: 2 Samuel 15:16

text: And the king went foorth, and all his houshold after him: and the King left tenne women, which were concubines, to keepe the house.


display: 2 Samuel 15:17

text: And the king went forth, and all the people after him, and taried in a place that was farre off.


display: 2 Samuel 15:18

text: And all his seruants passed on beside him: and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, sixe hundred men, which came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.


display: 2 Samuel 15:19

text: ¶ Then said the king to Ittai the Gittite, Wherefore goest thou also with vs? Returne to thy place, and abide with the King: for thou art a stranger, and also an exile.


display: 2 Samuel 15:20

text: Whereas thou camest but yesterday, should I this day make thee goe vp and downe with vs? Seeing I goe whither I may, returne thou, and take backe thy brethren: mercie and trueth be with thee.


display: 2 Samuel 15:21

text: And Ittai answered the King, and said, As the LORD liueth, and as my lord the king liueth, surely in what place my lord the king shall be, whether in death or life, euen there also will thy seruant be.


display: 2 Samuel 15:22

text: And Dauid said to Ittai, Goe, and passe ouer. And Ittai the Gittite passed ouer, and all his men, and all the little ones that were with him.


display: 2 Samuel 15:23

text: And all the countrey wept with a loude voice, and all the people passed ouer: the King also himselfe passed ouer the brooke Kidron, and all the people passed ouer, toward the way of the wildernesse.


display: 2 Samuel 15:24

text: ¶ And loe, Zadok also, and all the Leuites were with him, bearing the Arke of the Couenant of God, and they set downe the Arke of God; and Abiathar went vp, vntill all the people had done passing out of the citie.


display: 2 Samuel 15:25

text: And the King said vnto Zadok, Cary backe the Arke of God into the citie: if I shall finde fauour in the eyes of the LORD, he wil bring me againe, and shew me both it, and his habitation.


display: 2 Samuel 15:26

text: But if he thus say, I haue no delight in thee: beholde, here am I, let him doe to me, as seemeth good vnto him.


display: 2 Samuel 15:27

text: The king said also vnto Zadok the Priest, Art not thou a Seer? Returne into the citie in peace, and your two sonnes with you, Ahimaaz thy sonne, and Ionathan the sonne of Abiathar.


display: 2 Samuel 15:28

text: See, I will tarie in the plaine of the wildernesse, vntill there come word from you to certifie me.


display: 2 Samuel 15:29

text: Zadok therefore and Abiathar caried the Arke of God againe to Ierusalem; and they taried there.


display: 2 Samuel 15:30

text: ¶ And Dauid went vp by the ascent of mount Oliuet, and wept as he went vp, and had his head couered, and he went barefoote, and all the people that was with him, couered euery man his head, and they went vp, weeping as they went vp.


display: 2 Samuel 15:31

text: ¶ And one tolde Dauid, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And Dauid sayde, O LORD, I pray thee turne the counsell of Ahithophel into foolishnesse.


display: 2 Samuel 15:32

text: ¶ And it came to passe, that when Dauid was come to the top of the mount, where he worshipped God, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him, with his coat rent, and earth vpon his head:


display: 2 Samuel 15:33

text: Unto whom Dauid said, If thou passest on with me, then thou shalt be a burden vnto me.


display: 2 Samuel 15:34

text: But if thou returne to the citie, and say vnto Absalom, I wil be thy seruant, O king: as I haue bene thy fathers seruant hitherto, so will I now also be thy seruant: then mayest thou for mee defeat the counsell of Ahithophel.


display: 2 Samuel 15:35

text: And hast thou not there with thee Zadok, and Abiathar the Priests? therefore it shall be, that what thing soeuer thou shalt heare out of the kings house, thou shalt tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the Priests.


display: 2 Samuel 15:36

text: Behold, they haue there with them their two sonnes, Ahimaaz Zadoks sonne, and Ionathan Abiathars sonne: and by them ye shall send vnto me euery thing that ye can heare.


display: 2 Samuel 15:37

text: So Hushai Dauids friend came into the citie, and Absalom came into Ierusalem.


display: 2 Samuel 16:1

text: And when Dauid was a little past the top of the hill, Beholde, Ziba the seruant of Mephibosheth met him with a couple of asses sadled, and vpon them two hundred loaues of bread, and an hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer fruits, and a bottell of wine.


display: 2 Samuel 16:2

text: And the King saide vnto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba saide, The asses bee for the kings houshold to ride on, and the bread and summer fruit for the yong men to eate, and the wine, that such as be faint in the wildernesse, may drinke.


display: 2 Samuel 16:3

text: And the king said, And where is thy masters sonne? and Ziba said vnto the king, Behold, he abideth at Ierusalem: for hee said, To day shall the house of Israel restore mee the kingdome of my father.


display: 2 Samuel 16:4

text: Then said the king to Ziba, Behold, thine are all that pertained vnto Mephibosheth. And Ziba saide, I humbly beseech thee that I may finde grace in thy sight, my lord, O king.


display: 2 Samuel 16:5

text: ¶ And when king Dauid came to Bahurim, behold, thence came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei the sonne of Gera: hee came foorth, and cursed still as he came.


display: 2 Samuel 16:6

text: And he cast stones at Dauid, and at all the seruants of king Dauid: and all the people, and all the mighty men were on his right hand, and on his left.


display: 2 Samuel 16:7

text: And thus said Shimei when hee cursed, Come out, come out thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial:


display: 2 Samuel 16:8

text: The LORD hath returned vpon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast raigned, and the LORD hath deliuered the kingdome into the hand of Absalom thy sonne: and behold, thou art taken to thy mischiefe, because thou art a bloody man.


display: 2 Samuel 16:9

text: ¶ Then said Abishai the sonne of Zeruiah vnto the king, Why should this dead dogge curse my lord the king? let mee goe ouer, I pray thee, and take off his head.


display: 2 Samuel 16:10

text: And the king said, What haue I to doe with you, ye sonnes of Zeruiah? So let him curse, because the LORD hath said vnto him, Curse Dauid. Who shall then say, Wherefore hast thou done so?


display: 2 Samuel 16:11

text: And Dauid said to Abishai, and to all his seruants, Beholde, my sonne which came foorth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now may this Beniamite doe it? let him alone, and let him curse: for the LORD hath bidden him.


display: 2 Samuel 16:12

text: It may bee that the LORD will looke on mine affliction, and that the LORD will requite good for his cursing this day.


display: 2 Samuel 16:13

text: And as Dauid and his men went by the way, Shimei went along on the hilles side ouer against him, and cursed as hee went, and threw stones at him, and cast dust.


display: 2 Samuel 16:14

text: And the king, and all the people that were with him, came weary, and refreshed themselues there.


display: 2 Samuel 16:15

text: ¶ And Absalom and al the people the men of Israel, came to Ierusalem, and Ahithophel with him.


display: 2 Samuel 16:16

text: And it came to passe when Hushai the Archite, Dauids friend, was come vnto Absalom, that Hushai said vnto Absalom, God saue the king, God saue the king.


display: 2 Samuel 16:17

text: And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this thy kindnesse to thy friend? Why wentest thou not with thy friend?


display: 2 Samuel 16:18

text: And Hushai said vnto Absalom, Nay, but whom the LORD and this people, and all the men of Israel chuse, his will I bee, and with him will I abide.


display: 2 Samuel 16:19

text: And againe, whom should I serue? should I not serue in the presence of his sonne? as I haue serued in thy fathers presence, so will I be in thy presence.


display: 2 Samuel 16:20

text: ¶ Then said Absalom to Ahithophel, Giue counsell among you what we shall doe.


display: 2 Samuel 16:21

text: And Ahithophel said vnto Absalom, Goe in vnto thy fathers concubines, which he hath left to keepe the house, and all Israel shall heare that thou art abhorred of thy father, then shall the hands of all that are with thee be strong.


display: 2 Samuel 16:22

text: So they spread Absalom a tent vpon the top of the house, and Absalom went in vnto his fathers concubines, in the sight of all Israel.


display: 2 Samuel 16:23

text: And the counsell of Ahithophel which he counselled in those dayes, was as if a man had enquired at the Oracle of God: so was all the counsell of Ahithophel, both with Dauid and with Absalom.


display: 2 Samuel 17:1

text: Moreouer Ahithophel said vnto Absalom, Let mee nowe chuse out twelue thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after Dauid this night.


display: 2 Samuel 17:2

text: And I wil come vpon him while hee is wearie and weake handed, and wil make him afraid: and all the people that are with him shall flee, and I will smite the king onely.


display: 2 Samuel 17:3

text: And I wil bring backe all the people vnto thee: the man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: so all the people shall be in peace.


display: 2 Samuel 17:4

text: And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the Elders of Israel.


display: 2 Samuel 17:5

text: Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let vs heare likewise what he saith.


display: 2 Samuel 17:6

text: And when Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom spake vnto him, saying, Ahithophel hath spoken after this maner: shall we doe after his saying? if not, speake thou.


display: 2 Samuel 17:7

text: And Hushai said vnto Absalom, The counsell that Ahithophel hath giuen, is not good at this time.


display: 2 Samuel 17:8

text: For, (said Hushai,) thou knowest thy father and his men, that they bee mightie men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a beare robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father is a man of warre, and will not lodge with the people.


display: 2 Samuel 17:9

text: Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some other place: and it wil come to passe when some of them bee ouerthrowen at the first, that whosoeuer heareth it, wil say, There is a slaughter among the people that followe Absalom.


display: 2 Samuel 17:10

text: And he also that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a Lyon, shall vtterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that thy father is a mightie man, and they which be with him are valiant men.


display: 2 Samuel 17:11

text: Therefore I counsell, that all Israel be generally gathered vnto thee, from Dan euen to Beer-sheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude, and that thou goe to battell in thine owne person.


display: 2 Samuel 17:12

text: So shall wee come vpon him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light vpon him as the dew falleth on the ground: and of him and of all the men that are with him, there shall not be left so much as one.


display: 2 Samuel 17:13

text: Moreouer, if hee be gotten into a citie, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the riuer, vntill there be not one small stone found there.


display: 2 Samuel 17:14

text: And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsell of Hushai the Archite, is better then the counsell of Ahithophel: For the LORD had appointed to defeate the good counsell of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring euill vpon Absalom.


display: 2 Samuel 17:15

text: ¶ Then said Hushai vnto Zadok and to Abiathar the Priestes, Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsell Absalom and the Elders of Israel, and thus and thus haue I counselled.


display: 2 Samuel 17:16

text: Now therefore send quickly, and tell Dauid, saying, Lodge not this night in the plaines of the wildernes, but speedily passe ouer, lest the King be swallowed vp, and all the people that are with him.


display: 2 Samuel 17:17

text: Now Ionathan and Ahimaaz stayed by En-rogel: (for they might not be seene to come into the citie) and a wench went and tolde them: and they went, and tolde king Dauid.


display: 2 Samuel 17:18

text: Neuerthelesse, a ladde saw them, and tolde Absalom: but they went both of them away quickely, and came to a mans house in Bahurim, which had a Well in his court, whither they went downe.


display: 2 Samuel 17:19

text: And the woman tooke and spread a couering ouer the welles mouth, and spread ground corne thereon; and the thing was not knowen.


display: 2 Samuel 17:20

text: And when Absaloms seruants came to the woman to the house, they said, Where is Ahimaaz and Ionathan? And the woman said vnto them, They be gone ouer the brooke of water. And when they had sought, and could not finde them, they returned to Ierusalem.


display: 2 Samuel 17:21

text: And it came to passe after they were departed, that they came vp out of the Well, and went and tolde king Dauid, and said vnto Dauid, Arise, and passe quickely ouer the water: for thus hath Ahithophel counselled against you.


display: 2 Samuel 17:22

text: Then Dauid arose, and all the people that were with him, and they passed ouer Iordane: by the morning light there lacked not one of them that was not gone ouer Iordane.


display: 2 Samuel 17:23

text: ¶ And when Ahithophel sawe that his counsell was not followed, he sadled his asse, and arose, and gate him home to his house, to his citie, and put his houshold in order, and hanged himselfe, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.


display: 2 Samuel 17:24

text: Then Dauid came to Mahanaim: and Absalom passed ouer Iordane, he and all the men of Israel with him.


display: 2 Samuel 17:25

text: ¶ And Absalom made Amasa captaine of the hoste in stead of Ioab: which Amasa was a mans sonne whose name was Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigal the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Ioabs mother.


display: 2 Samuel 17:26

text: So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead.


display: 2 Samuel 17:27

text: ¶ And it came to passe when Dauid was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the sonne of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the sonne of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite, of Rogelim,


display: 2 Samuel 17:28

text: Brought beds, and basins, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and floure, and parched corne, & beanes, and lentiles, and parched pulse,


display: 2 Samuel 17:29

text: And honie, and butter, and sheepe, and cheese of kine for Dauid, and for the people that were with him, to eate: for they said, The people is hungrie, and wearie, and thirstie in the wildernesse.


display: 2 Samuel 18:1

text: And Dauid numbred the people that were with him, and set captaines of thousands, and captaines of hundreds ouer them.


display: 2 Samuel 18:2

text: And Dauid sent forth a third part of the people vnder the hand of Ioab, and a third part vnder the hand of Abishai the sonne of Zeruiah Ioabs brother, and a third part vnder the hand of Ittai the Gittite: and the king said vnto the people, I will surely goe foorth with you my selfe also.


display: 2 Samuel 18:3

text: But the people answered, Thou shalt not goe foorth: for if we flee away, they will not care for vs, neither if halfe of vs die will they care for vs: but now thou art worth ten thousand of vs: therfore now it is better that thou succour vs out of the citie.


display: 2 Samuel 18:4

text: And the King sayde vnto them, What seemeth you best, I will doe. And the King stood by the gate side, and all the people came out by hundreds, and by thousands.


display: 2 Samuel 18:5

text: And the king commanded Ioab, and Abishai, and Ittai, saying, Deale gently for my sake with the yong man, euen with Absalom. And all the people heard when the king gaue all the captaines charge concerning Absalom.


display: 2 Samuel 18:6

text: ¶ So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battell was in the wood of Ephraim,


display: 2 Samuel 18:7

text: Where the people of Israel were slaine before the seruants of Dauid, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men.


display: 2 Samuel 18:8

text: For the battell was there scattered ouer the face of all the countrey: and the wood deuoured more people that day, then the sword deuoured.


display: 2 Samuel 18:9

text: ¶ And Absalom met the seruants of Dauid; and Absalom rode vpon a mule, and the mule went vnder the thicke boughs of a great Oke, and his head caught hold of the Oke, and hee was taken vp betweene the heauen and the earth, and the mule that was vnder him, went away.


display: 2 Samuel 18:10

text: And a certaine man saw it, and told Ioab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an Oke.


display: 2 Samuel 18:11

text: And Ioab said vnto the man that told him, And behold, thou sawest him, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground, and I would haue giuen thee tenne shekels of siluer, and a girdle?


display: 2 Samuel 18:12

text: And the man saide vnto Ioab, Though I should receiue a thousand shekels of siluer in mine hand, yet would I not put foorth mine hand against the Kings sonne: for in our hearing the King charged thee, and Abishai, and Ittai, saying, Beware that none touch the yong man Absalom.


display: 2 Samuel 18:13

text: Otherwyse, I should haue wrought falshood against mine owne life: for there is no matter hid from the King, and thou thy selfe wouldest haue set thy selfe against me.


display: 2 Samuel 18:14

text: Then said Ioab, I may not tary thus with thee. And hee tooke three darts in his hand, and thrust them thorow the heart of Absalom, while hee was yet aliue in the midst of the Oke.


display: 2 Samuel 18:15

text: And ten yong men that bare Ioabs armour, compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.


display: 2 Samuel 18:16

text: And Ioab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel: for Ioab helde backe the people.


display: 2 Samuel 18:17

text: And they tooke Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the wood, and layd a very great heape of stones vpon him: and all Israel fled euery one to his tent.


display: 2 Samuel 18:18

text: ¶ Now Absalom in his life time had taken and reared vp for himselfe a pillar, which is in the Kings dale: for hee said, I haue no sonne to keepe my name in remembrance: And hee called the pillar after his owne name, and it is called vnto this day, Absaloms place.


display: 2 Samuel 18:19

text: ¶ Then said Ahimaaz the sonne of Zadok, Let mee now runne, and beare the King tidings, how that the LORD hath auenged him of his enemies.


display: 2 Samuel 18:20

text: And Ioab said vnto him, Thou shalt not beare tidings this day, but thou shalt beare tidings another day: but this day thou shalt beare no tidings, because the Kings sonne is dead.


display: 2 Samuel 18:21

text: Then said Ioab to Cushi, Goe tell the King what thou hast seene. And Cushi bowed himselfe vnto Ioab, and ranne.


display: 2 Samuel 18:22

text: Then said Ahimaaz the sonne of Zadok yet againe to Ioab, But howsoeuer, let mee, I pray thee, also runne after Cushi. And Ioab said, Wherefore wilt thou runne, my sonne, seeing that thou hast no tidings ready?


display: 2 Samuel 18:23

text: But howsoeuer, (said he) let mee runne: And hee said vnto him, Runne. Then Ahimaaz ranne by the way of the plaine, and ouerranne Cushi.


display: 2 Samuel 18:24

text: And Dauid sate betweene the two gates: and the watchman went vp to the roofe ouer the gate vnto the wall, and lift vp his eyes, and looked, and behold, a man running alone.


display: 2 Samuel 18:25

text: And the watchman cried, and told the King. And the king said, If he bee alone, there is tidings in his mouth. And he came apace, and drew neere.


display: 2 Samuel 18:26

text: And the watchman saw another man running, and the watchman called vnto the porter, and said, Behold, another man running alone. And the King said, He also bringeth tidings.


display: 2 Samuel 18:27

text: And the watchman said, Mee thinketh the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the sonne of Zadok. And the King said, Hee is a good man, and commeth with good tidings.


display: 2 Samuel 18:28

text: And Ahimaaz called, and said vnto the King, All is well. And hee fell downe to the earth vpon his face before the King, and saide, Blessed bee the LORD thy God which hath deliuered vp the men that lift vp their hande against my lord the King.


display: 2 Samuel 18:29

text: And the king said, Is the yong man Absalom safe? And Ahimaaz answered, When Ioab sent the kings seruant, and me thy seruant, I saw a great tumult, but I knew not what it was.


display: 2 Samuel 18:30

text: And the king said vnto him, Turne aside and stand here. And hee turned aside, and stood still.


display: 2 Samuel 18:31

text: And behold, Cushi came, and Cushi said, Tidings my lord the king: for the LORD hath auenged thee this day of all them that rose vp against thee.


display: 2 Samuel 18:32

text: And the king said vnto Cushi, Is the yong man Absalom safe? And Cushi answered, The enemies of my lord the king, and all that rise against thee to doe thee hurt, be as that yong man is.


display: 2 Samuel 18:33

text: ¶ And the king was much moued, and went vp to the chamber ouer the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus hee said, O my sonne Absalom, my sonne, my sonne Absalom: would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my sonne, my sonne.


display: 2 Samuel 19:1

text: And it was told Ioab, Beholde, the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom.


display: 2 Samuel 19:2

text: And the victorie that day was turned into mourning vnto all the people: for the people heard say that day, how the king was grieued for his sonne.


display: 2 Samuel 19:3

text: And the people gate them by stealth that day into the citie, as people beeing ashamed steale away when they flee in battell.


display: 2 Samuel 19:4

text: But the king couered his face, and the king cried with a loud voyce, O my sonne Absalom, O Absalom my sonne, my sonne.


display: 2 Samuel 19:5

text: And Ioab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy seruants, which this day haue saued thy life, and the liues of thy sonnes, & of thy daughters, and the liues of thy wiues, and the liues of thy concubines,


display: 2 Samuel 19:6

text: In that thou louest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends; for thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest neither princes, nor seruants: for this day I perceiue, that if Absalom had liued, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well.


display: 2 Samuel 19:7

text: Now therefore arise, goe foorth, and speake comfortably vnto thy seruants: for I sweare by the LORD, if thou goe not forth, there wil not tarie one with thee this night, and that will be worse vnto thee then all the euill that befell thee from thy youth vntill now.


display: 2 Samuel 19:8

text: Then the King rose, and sate in the gate: and they told vnto all the people, saying, Behold, the king doth sit in the gate: and all the people came before the king: for Israel had fled euery man to his tent.


display: 2 Samuel 19:9

text: ¶ And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king saued vs out of the hand of our enemies, and he deliuered vs out of the hand of the Philistines, and now he is fled out of the land for Absalom.


display: 2 Samuel 19:10

text: And Absalom whom wee anointed ouer vs, is dead in battell: nowe therefore why speake ye not a word of bringing the king backe?


display: 2 Samuel 19:11

text: ¶ And King Dauid sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speake vnto the Elders of Iudah, saying, Why are ye the last to bring the king backe to his house? (seeing the speech of all Israel is come to the king, euen to his house.)


display: 2 Samuel 19:12

text: Yee are my brethren, Yee are my bones and my flesh: wherfore then are ye the last to bring backe the king?


display: 2 Samuel 19:13

text: And say ye to Amasa: Art thou not of my bone, and of my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captaine of the hoste before me continually in the roome of Ioab.


display: 2 Samuel 19:14

text: And he bowed the heart of all the men of Iudah, euen as the heart of one man, so that they sent this word vnto the King, Returne thou and all thy seruants.


display: 2 Samuel 19:15

text: So the King returned, and came to Iordan: and Iudah came to Gilgal, to goe to meet the King, to conduct the king ouer Iordane.


display: 2 Samuel 19:16

text: ¶ And Shimei the sonne of Gera, a Beniamite, which wass of Bahurim, hasted, & came downe with the men of Iudah, to meet King Dauid.


display: 2 Samuel 19:17

text: And there were a thousand men of Beniamin with him, and Ziba the seruant of the house of Saul, and his fifteene sonnes and his twenty seruants with him, and they went ouer Iordane before the King.


display: 2 Samuel 19:18

text: And there went ouer a ferry-boat to cary ouer the kings houshold, and to doe what he thought good: and Shimei the sonne of Gera fell downe before the king as he was come ouer Iordane;


display: 2 Samuel 19:19

text: And said vnto the king, Let not my lord impute iniquitie vnto me, neither do thou remember that which thy seruant did peruersly the day that my lord the king went out of Ierusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.


display: 2 Samuel 19:20

text: For thy seruant doeth know that I haue sinned: therefore behold, I am come the first this day of all the house of Ioseph, to goe downe to meete my lord the king.


display: 2 Samuel 19:21

text: But Abishai the sonne of Zeruiah answered, and sayd, Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because hee cursed the LORDs Anointed?


display: 2 Samuel 19:22

text: And Dauid said, What haue I to doe with you, yee sonnes of Zeruiah, that yee should this day be aduersaries vnto me? shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel? for doe not I know, that I am this day King ouer Israel?


display: 2 Samuel 19:23

text: Therfore the king said vnto Shimei, Thou shalt not die: and the King sware vnto him.


display: 2 Samuel 19:24

text: ¶ And Mephibosheth the sonne of Saul came downe to meet the king, and had neither dressed his feete, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the King departed, vntill the day hee came againe in peace.


display: 2 Samuel 19:25

text: And it came to passe when he was come to Ierusalem to meete the King, that the King sayd vnto him, Wherefore wentest not thou with me, Mephibosheth?


display: 2 Samuel 19:26

text: And hee answered, My lord O king, my seruant deceiued mee; for thy seruant sayd, I will saddle me an asse that I may ride thereon, and goe to the king, because thy seruant is lame:


display: 2 Samuel 19:27

text: And hee hath slandered thy seruant vnto my lord the king, but my lord the King is as an Angel of God: doe therefore what is good in thine eyes.


display: 2 Samuel 19:28

text: For all of my fathers house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet diddest thou set thy seruant among them that did eate at thine owne table: what right therefore haue I yet to crie any more vnto the king?


display: 2 Samuel 19:29

text: And the king said vnto him, Why speakest thou any more of thy matters? I haue said, Thou and Ziba diuide the land.


display: 2 Samuel 19:30

text: And Mephibosheth said vnto the king, Yea, let him take all, forasmuch as my lorde the king is come againe in peace vnto his owne house.


display: 2 Samuel 19:31

text: ¶ And Barzillai the Gileadite came downe from Rogelim, and went ouer Iordane with the king, to conduct him ouer Iordane.


display: 2 Samuel 19:32

text: Now Barzillai was a very aged man, euen fourescore yeeres olde, and he had prouided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim: for he was a very great man.


display: 2 Samuel 19:33

text: And the king said vnto Barzillai, Come thou ouer with me, and I will feede thee with me in Ierusalem.


display: 2 Samuel 19:34

text: And Barzillai sayde vnto the king, How long haue I to liue, that I should goe vp with the King vnto Ierusalem?


display: 2 Samuel 19:35

text: I am this day fourescore yeeres olde: and can I discerne betweene good and euill? Can thy seruant taste what I eate, or what I drinke? can I heare any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherfore then should thy seruant bee yet a burden vnto my lord the king?


display: 2 Samuel 19:36

text: Thy seruant will goe a little way ouer Iordane with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?


display: 2 Samuel 19:37

text: Let thy seruant, I pray thee, turne backe againe, that I may die in mine owne citie, and be buried by the graue of my father, and of my mother: but behold thy seruant Chimham, let him go ouer with my lord the king, and doe to him what shall seeme good vnto thee.


display: 2 Samuel 19:38

text: And the king answered, Chimham shal goe ouer with me, and I will doe to him that which shall seeme good vnto thee: and whatsoeuer thou shalt require of me, that will I doe for thee.


display: 2 Samuel 19:39

text: And all the people went ouer Iordane: and when the king was come ouer, the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him, and he returned vnto his owne place.


display: 2 Samuel 19:40

text: Then the King went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him: and all the people of Iudah conducted the king, and also halfe the people of Israel.


display: 2 Samuel 19:41

text: ¶ And behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said vnto the king, Why haue our brethren the men of Iudah stollen thee away, and haue brought the King and his houshold, and all Dauids men with him, ouer Iordane?


display: 2 Samuel 19:42

text: And all the men of Iudah answered the men of Israel, Because the king is neere of kinne to vs: wherefore then be ye angrie for this matter? Haue we eaten at all of the kings cost? or hath he giuen vs any gift?


display: 2 Samuel 19:43

text: And the men of Israel answered the men of Iudah, and said, Wee haue ten parts in the king, and we haue also more right in Dauid then yee: why then did yee despise vs, that our aduice should not be first had in bringing backe our king? And the wordes of the men of Iudah were fiercer then the words of the men of Israel.


display: 2 Samuel 20:1

text: And there happened to bee there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba the sonne of Bichri, a Beniamite, & hee blew a trumpet, and said, Wee haue no part in Dauid, neither haue we inheritance in the sonne of Iesse: euery man to his tents, O Israel.


display: 2 Samuel 20:2

text: So euery man of Israel went vp from after Dauid, and followed Sheba the sonne of Bichri: but the men of Iudah claue vnto their king, from Iordane euen to Ierusalem.


display: 2 Samuel 20:3

text: ¶ And Dauid came to his house at Ierusalem, and the king tooke the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in vnto them: so they were shut vp vnto the day of their death, liuing in widowhood.


display: 2 Samuel 20:4

text: ¶ Then said the king to Amasa, Assemble me the men of Iudah within three dayes, and be thou here present.


display: 2 Samuel 20:5

text: So Amasa went to assemble the men of Iudah; but hee taried longer then the set time which he had appointed him.


display: 2 Samuel 20:6

text: And Dauid said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the sonne of Bichri doe vs more harme then did Absalom: take thou thy lords seruants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fenced cities, and escape vs.


display: 2 Samuel 20:7

text: And there went out after him Ioabs men, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men: and they went out of Ierusalem, to pursue after Sheba the sonne of Bichri.


display: 2 Samuel 20:8

text: When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa went before them: and Ioabs garment that he had put on, was girded vnto him, and vpon it a girdle with a sword fastned vpon his loynes in the sheath thereof, and as hee went forth, it fell out.


display: 2 Samuel 20:9

text: And Ioab saide to Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother? And Ioab tooke Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kisse him.


display: 2 Samuel 20:10

text: But Amasa tooke no heed to the sword that was in Ioabs hand: so hee smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and strake him not againe, and he died: so Ioab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the sonne of Bichri.


display: 2 Samuel 20:11

text: And one of Ioabs men stood by him, and said, He that fauoureth Ioab, and hee that is for Dauid, let him goe after Ioab.


display: 2 Samuel 20:12

text: And Amasa wallowed in blood in the mids of the high way: and when the man saw that all the people stood still, he remoued Amasa out of the high way into the field, and cast a cloth vpon him, when hee saw that euery one that came by him, stood still.


display: 2 Samuel 20:13

text: When he was remoued out of the high way, all the people went on after Ioab, to pursue after Sheba the sonne of Bichri.


display: 2 Samuel 20:14

text: ¶ And hee went thorow all the tribes of Israel vnto Abel, and to Bethmaachah, and all the Berites: and they were gathered together, and went also after him.


display: 2 Samuel 20:15

text: And they came and besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah, and they cast vp a banke against the citie, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that were with Ioab, battered the wall, to throw it downe.


display: 2 Samuel 20:16

text: ¶ Then cried a wise woman out of the citie, Heare, heare; say, I pray you, vnto Ioab, Come neere hither, that I may speake with thee.


display: 2 Samuel 20:17

text: And when he was come neere vnto her, the woman said, Art thou Ioab? And he answered, I am he: Then shee said vnto him, Heare the words of thine handmaid. And he answered, I doe heare.


display: 2 Samuel 20:18

text: Then she spake, saying, They were wont to speake in old time, saying, They shall surely aske counsell at Abel: and so they ended the matter.


display: 2 Samuel 20:19

text: I am one of them that are peaceable and faithfull in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a citie, and a mother in Israel: Why wilt thou swallow vp the inheritance of the LORD ?


display: 2 Samuel 20:20

text: And Ioab answered and saide, Farre be it, farre be it from me, that I should swallow vp or destroy.


display: 2 Samuel 20:21

text: The matter is not so: but a man of mount Ephraim (Sheba the sonne of Bichri by name) hath lift vp his hand against the king, euen against Dauid: deliuer him onely, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said vnto Ioab, Behold, his head shall be throwen to thee ouer the wall.


display: 2 Samuel 20:22

text: Then the woman went vnto all the people in her wisedome, and they cut off the head of Sheba the sonne of Bichri, and cast it out to Ioab: and hee blew a trumpet, and they retired from the citie, euery man to his tent: & Ioab returned to Ierusalem vnto the king.


display: 2 Samuel 20:23

text: ¶ Now Ioab was ouer all the hoste of Israel, and Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada was ouer the Cherethites, and ouer the Pelethites.


display: 2 Samuel 20:24

text: And Adoram was ouer the tribute, and Iehoshaphat the sonne of Ahilud was Recorder.


display: 2 Samuel 20:25

text: And Sheua was scribe, and Zadok, and Abiathar were the Priests.


display: 2 Samuel 20:26

text: And Ira also the Iairite, was a chiefe ruler about Dauid.


display: 2 Samuel 21:1

text: Then there was a famine in the dayes of Dauid three yeeres, yeere after yeere, and Dauid enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloodie house, because he slew the Gibeonites.


display: 2 Samuel 21:2

text: And the king called the Gibeonites, and said vnto them, (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites, and the children of Israel had sworne vnto them: and Saul sought to slay them, in his zeale to the children of Israel and Iudah)


display: 2 Samuel 21:3

text: Wherefore Dauid said vnto the Gibeonites, What shall I doe for you? and wherwith shall I make the atonement, that ye may blesse the inheritance of the LORD ?


display: 2 Samuel 21:4

text: And the Gibeonites saide vnto him, We will haue no siluer nor golde of Saul, nor of his house, neither for vs shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he said, What you shall say, that will I doe for you.


display: 2 Samuel 21:5

text: And they answered the king, The man that consumed vs, and that deuised against vs, that we should be destroied from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel,


display: 2 Samuel 21:6

text: Let seuen men of his sonnes bee deliuered vnto vs, and wee will hang them vp vnto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, whome the LORD did chuse. And the king said, I will giue them.


display: 2 Samuel 21:7

text: But the king spared Mephibosheth the sonne of Ionathan the sonne of Saul, because of the LORDs othe that was between them, betweene Dauid, and Ionathan the sonne of Saul.


display: 2 Samuel 21:8

text: But the king tooke the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare vnto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth, and the fiue sonnes of Michal the daughter of Saul, whome she brought vp for Adriel the sonne of Barzillai the Meholathite.


display: 2 Samuel 21:9

text: And hee deliuered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell all seuen together, and were put to death in the dayes of haruest, in the first dayes, in the beginning of barley haruest.


display: 2 Samuel 21:10

text: ¶ And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah tooke sackecloth, and spread it for her vpon the rocke, from the beginning of haruest, vntill water dropped vpon them out of heauen, and suffered neither the birds of the aire to rest on them by day, nor the beastes of the fielde by night.


display: 2 Samuel 21:11

text: And it was tolde Dauid what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah the concubine of Saul had done.


display: 2 Samuel 21:12

text: ¶ And Dauid went and tooke the bones of Saul, and the bones of Ionathan his sonne from the men of Iabesh Gilead, which had stollen them from the street of Bethshan where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slaine Saul in Gilboa.


display: 2 Samuel 21:13

text: And hee brought vp from thence the bones of Saul, and the bones of Ionathan his sonne, and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.


display: 2 Samuel 21:14

text: And the bones of Saul and Ionathan his sonne buried they in the countrey of Beniamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they perfourmed all that the king commanded: and after that, God was entreated for the land.


display: 2 Samuel 21:15

text: ¶ Moreouer, the Philistines had yet warre againe with Israel, and Dauid went down, and his seruants with him, and fought against the Philistines, and Dauid waxed faint.


display: 2 Samuel 21:16

text: And Ishbi-benob which was of the sonnes of the gyant, (the weight of whose speare weighed three hundred shekels of brasse in weight) he being girded with a new sword, thought to haue slaine Dauid.


display: 2 Samuel 21:17

text: But Abishai the sonne of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of Dauid sware vnto him, saying, Thou shalt goe no more out with vs to battell, that thou quench not the light of Israel.


display: 2 Samuel 21:18

text: And it came to passe after this, that there was againe a battell with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph, which was of the sonnes of the Gyant.


display: 2 Samuel 21:19

text: And there was againe a battell in Gob, with the Philistines, where Elhanan the sonne of Iaare-Oregim a Bethlehemite, slewe the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staffe of whose speare was like a weauers beame.


display: 2 Samuel 21:20

text: And there was yet a battell in Gath, where was a man of great stature, that had on euery hand sixe fingers, and on euery foote sixe toes, foure and twenty in number, and he also was borne to the Gyant.


display: 2 Samuel 21:21

text: And when he defied Israel, Ionathan the sonne of Shimea the brother of Dauid, slew him.


display: 2 Samuel 21:22

text: These foure were borne to the Gyant in Gath, and fell by the hand of Dauid, and by the hand of his seruants.


display: 2 Samuel 22:1

text: And Dauid spake vnto the LORD the wordes of this song, in the day that the LORD had deliuered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul.


display: 2 Samuel 22:2

text: And he said, The LORD is my rocke and my fortresse, and my deliuerer:


display: 2 Samuel 22:3

text: The God of my rocke, in him will I trust: hee is my shield, and the horne of my saluation, my high tower, and my refuge, my Sauiour; thou sauest me from violence.


display: 2 Samuel 22:4

text: I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saued from mine enemies.


display: 2 Samuel 22:5

text: When the waues of death compassed me: the floods of vngodly men made me afraid.


display: 2 Samuel 22:6

text: The sorowes of Hell compassed me about: the snares of death preuented me.


display: 2 Samuel 22:7

text: In my distresse I called vpon the LORD, and cryed to my God, and hee did heare my voice out of his Temple, and my crie did enter into his eares.


display: 2 Samuel 22:8

text: Then the earth shooke and trembled: the foundations of heauen mooued and shooke, because hee was wroth.


display: 2 Samuel 22:9

text: There went vp a smoake out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth deuoured: coales were kindled by it.


display: 2 Samuel 22:10

text: Hee bowed the heauens also and came downe: and darkenesse was vnder his feete.


display: 2 Samuel 22:11

text: And he rode vpon a Cherub, and did flie: and hee was seene vpon the wings of the winde.


display: 2 Samuel 22:12

text: And hee made darkenesse pauilions round about him, darke waters, and thicke clouds of the skies.


display: 2 Samuel 22:13

text: Through the brightnesse before him, were coales of fire kindled.


display: 2 Samuel 22:14

text: The LORD thundred from heauen: and the most high vttered his voice.


display: 2 Samuel 22:15

text: And he sent out arrowes, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.


display: 2 Samuel 22:16

text: And the channels of the Sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discouered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.


display: 2 Samuel 22:17

text: He sent from aboue, he tooke me: he drew me out of many waters.


display: 2 Samuel 22:18

text: He deliuered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated mee: for they were too strong for me.


display: 2 Samuel 22:19

text: They preuented me in the day of my calamitie: but the LORD was my stay.


display: 2 Samuel 22:20

text: Hee brought me forth also into a large place: he deliuered me, because hee delighted in me.


display: 2 Samuel 22:21

text: The LORD rewarded mee according to my righteousnesse: according to the cleannesse of my hands, hath hee recompensed me.


display: 2 Samuel 22:22

text: For I haue kept the wayes of the LORD, and haue not wickedly departed from my God.


display: 2 Samuel 22:23

text: For all his iudgements were before me: and as for his Statutes, I did not depart from them.


display: 2 Samuel 22:24

text: I was also vpright before him: and haue kept my selfe from mine iniquitie.


display: 2 Samuel 22:25

text: Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me, according to my righteousnesse: according to my cleannesse in his eye sight.


display: 2 Samuel 22:26

text: With the merciful thou wilt shew thy selfe mercifull, and with the vpright man thou wilt shew thy selfe vpright.


display: 2 Samuel 22:27

text: With the pure thou wilt shew thy selfe pure: and with the froward, thou wilt shew thy selfe vnsauoury.


display: 2 Samuel 22:28

text: And the afflicted people thou wilt saue: but thine eyes are vpon the hautie, that thou mayest bring them downe.


display: 2 Samuel 22:29

text: For thou art my lampe, O LORD: and the LORD wil lighten my darkenesse.


display: 2 Samuel 22:30

text: For by thee I haue run through a troupe: by my God haue I leaped ouer a wall.


display: 2 Samuel 22:31

text: As for God, his way is perfect, the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him.


display: 2 Samuel 22:32

text: For who is God, saue the LORD ? and who is a rocke, saue our God?


display: 2 Samuel 22:33

text: God is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect.


display: 2 Samuel 22:34

text: Hee maketh my feet like hindes feet: and setteth mee vpon my high places.


display: 2 Samuel 22:35

text: He teacheth my hands to warre: so that a bow of steele is broken by mine armes.


display: 2 Samuel 22:36

text: Thou hast also giuen mee the shield of thy saluation: and thy gentlenesse hath made me great.


display: 2 Samuel 22:37

text: Thou hast enlarged my steps vnder me: so that my feet did not slip.


display: 2 Samuel 22:38

text: I haue pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them: and turned not againe vntill I had consumed them.


display: 2 Samuel 22:39

text: And I haue consumed them and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they are fallen vnder my feet.


display: 2 Samuel 22:40

text: For thou hast girded mee with strength to battel: them that rose vp against me, hast thou subdued vnder me.


display: 2 Samuel 22:41

text: Thou hast also giuen mee the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.


display: 2 Samuel 22:42

text: They looked, but there was none to saue: euen vnto the LORD, but he answered them not.


display: 2 Samuel 22:43

text: Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth: I did stampe them as the myre of the street, and did spread them abroad.


display: 2 Samuel 22:44

text: Thou also hast deliuered mee from the striuings of my people, thou hast kept mee to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not, shall serue me.


display: 2 Samuel 22:45

text: Strangers shall submit themselues vnto me: as soone as they heare, they shall be obedient vnto me.


display: 2 Samuel 22:46

text: Strangers shall fade away: and they shall bee afraid out of their close places.


display: 2 Samuel 22:47

text: The LORD liueth, and blessed be my rocke: and exalted be the God of the rocke of my saluation.


display: 2 Samuel 22:48

text: It is God that auengeth mee, and that bringeth downe the people vnder me:


display: 2 Samuel 22:49

text: And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies: thou also hast lifted mee vp on high aboue them that rose vp against me: thou hast deliuered me from the violent man.


display: 2 Samuel 22:50

text: Therefore I will giue thankes vnto thee, O LORD, among the heathen: and I will sing praises vnto thy Name.


display: 2 Samuel 22:51

text: He is the towre of saluation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his Anointed, vnto Dauid, and to his seede for euermore.


display: 2 Samuel 23:1

text: Nowe these bee the last words of Dauid: Dauid the sonne of Iesse saide, and the man who was raised vp on high, the Anointed of the God of Iacob, and the sweet Psalmist of Israel, said,


display: 2 Samuel 23:2

text: The spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.


display: 2 Samuel 23:3

text: The God of Israel said, the Rocke of Israel spake to me: he that ruleth ouer men must be iust, ruling in the feare of God:


display: 2 Samuel 23:4

text: And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the Sunne riseth, euen a morning, without cloudes; as the tender grasse springing out of the earth by cleare shining after raine:


display: 2 Samuel 23:5

text: Although my house be not so with God: yet he hath made with mee an euerlasting couenant, ordred in al things and sure: for this is all my saluation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.


display: 2 Samuel 23:6

text: ¶ But the sonnes of Belial shall bee all of them as thornes thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands,


display: 2 Samuel 23:7

text: But the man that shal touch them, must be fenced with yron, and the staffe of a speare, and they shall bee vtterly burnt with fire in the same place.


display: 2 Samuel 23:8

text: ¶ These be the names of the mightie men whome Dauid had: The Tachmonite that sate in the seat, chiefe among the captaines, (the same was Adino the Eznite:) hee lift vp his speare against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time.


display: 2 Samuel 23:9

text: And after him was Eleazar the sonne of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three mightie men with Dauid, when they defied the Philistines that were there gathered together to battell, and the men of Israel were gone away.


display: 2 Samuel 23:10

text: He arose, and smote the Philistines vntill his hand was wearie, and his hand claue vnto the sword: and the LORD wrought a great victorie that day, and the people returned after him onely to spoile.


display: 2 Samuel 23:11

text: And after him was Shammah the sonne of Agee the Hararite: and the Philistines were gathered together into a troupe, where was a piece of ground full of lentiles: and the people fled from the Philistines.


display: 2 Samuel 23:12

text: But hee stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and slewe the Philistines: and the LORD wrought a great victorie.


display: 2 Samuel 23:13

text: And three of the thirtie chiefe went downe and came to Dauid in the haruest time, vnto the caue of Adullam: and the troupe of the Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim.


display: 2 Samuel 23:14

text: And Dauid was then in an holde, and the garison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.


display: 2 Samuel 23:15

text: And Dauid longed, and said, Oh that one would giue mee drinke of the water of the well of Bethlehem which is by the gate.


display: 2 Samuel 23:16

text: And the three mightie men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the Well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and tooke it, and brought it to Dauid: neuerthelesse he would not drinke thereof, but powred it out vnto the LORD.


display: 2 Samuel 23:17

text: And he said, Be it farre from me, O LORD, that I should doe this: is not this the blood of the men that went in ieopardie of their liues? therefore he would not drinke it. These things did these three mightie men.


display: 2 Samuel 23:18

text: And Abishai the brother of Ioab, the sonne of Zeruiah, was chiefe among three, and he lift vp his speare against three hundred, and slew them, and had the name among three.


display: 2 Samuel 23:19

text: Was hee not most honourable of three? therefore he was their captaine: howbeit, hee attained not vnto the first three.


display: 2 Samuel 23:20

text: And Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada the sonne of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many actes, he slew two lion-like men of Moab: hee went downe also, and slewe a Lyon in the middest of a pit in time of snow.


display: 2 Samuel 23:21

text: And he slew an Egyptian a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a speare in his hand; but he went downe to him with a staffe, and plucked the speare out of the Egyptians hand, and slewe him with his owne speare.


display: 2 Samuel 23:22

text: These things did Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada, and had the name among three mightie men.


display: 2 Samuel 23:23

text: Hee was more honourable then the thirtie, but hee attained not to the first three: and Dauid set him ouer his guard.


display: 2 Samuel 23:24

text: Asahel the brother of Ioab was one of the thirtie: Elhanan the sonne of Dodo of Bethlehem,


display: 2 Samuel 23:25

text: Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,


display: 2 Samuel 23:26

text: Helez the Paltite, Ira the sonne of Ikkesh the Tekoite,


display: 2 Samuel 23:27

text: Abiezer the Anethothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite,


display: 2 Samuel 23:28

text: Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,


display: 2 Samuel 23:29

text: Heleb the sonne of Baanah, a Netophathite, Ittai the sonne of Ribai out of Gibeah of the children of Beniamin.


display: 2 Samuel 23:30

text: Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brookes of Gaash,


display: 2 Samuel 23:31

text: Abialbon the Arbathite, Azmaueth the Barhumite,


display: 2 Samuel 23:32

text: Elihaba the Shaalbonite: of the sonnes of Iashen, Ionathan,


display: 2 Samuel 23:33

text: Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the sonne of Sharar the Hararite,


display: 2 Samuel 23:34

text: Eliphelet the sonne of Ahasbai, the sonne of the Maachathite, Eliam the sonne of Ahithophel the Gilonite,


display: 2 Samuel 23:35

text: Hezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite,


display: 2 Samuel 23:36

text: Igal the sonne of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,


display: 2 Samuel 23:37

text: Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, armour-bearer to Ioab the sonne of Zeruiah,


display: 2 Samuel 23:38

text: Ira an Ithrite, Gareb an Ithrite,


display: 2 Samuel 23:39

text: Uriah the Hittite: thirtie and seuen in all.


display: 2 Samuel 24:1

text: And againe the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and hee mooued Dauid against them, to say, Goe, number Israel and Iudah.


display: 2 Samuel 24:2

text: For the king said to Ioab the captaine of the hoste, which was with him, Goe now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan euen to Beer-sheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the people.


display: 2 Samuel 24:3

text: And Ioab sayde vnto the King, Now the LORD thy God adde vnto the people (how many soeuer they be) an hundred folde, and that the eyes of my lorde the king may see it: but why doeth my lord the king delight in this thing?


display: 2 Samuel 24:4

text: Notwithstanding, the kings word preuailed against Ioab, and against the captaines of the hoste: and Ioab and the captaines of the host went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel.


display: 2 Samuel 24:5

text: ¶ And they passed ouer Iordane, and pitched in Aroer, on the right side of the citie that lieth in the midst of the riuer of Gad, and toward Iazer.


display: 2 Samuel 24:6

text: Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim-Hodshi; and they came to Dan-Iaan, and about to Zidon,


display: 2 Samuel 24:7

text: And came to the strong holde of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hiuites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the South of Iudah, euen to Beer-sheba.


display: 2 Samuel 24:8

text: So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Ierusalem at the ende of nine moneths, and twentie dayes.


display: 2 Samuel 24:9

text: And Ioab gaue vp the summe of the number of the people vnto the king, and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drewe the sword: and the men of Iudah were fiue hundred thousand men.


display: 2 Samuel 24:10

text: ¶ And Dauids heart smote him, after that hee had numbred the people: and Dauid sayde vnto the LORD, I haue sinned greatly in that I haue done: and nowe I beseech thee, O LORD, take away the iniquitie of thy seruant, for I haue done very foolishly.


display: 2 Samuel 24:11

text: For when Dauid was vp in the morning, the word of the LORD came vnto the Prophet Gad Dauids Seer, saying,


display: 2 Samuel 24:12

text: Goe and say vnto Dauid, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things; chuse thee one of them, that I may doe it vnto thee.


display: 2 Samuel 24:13

text: So Gad came to Dauid, and told him, and said vnto him, Shall seuen yeeres of famine come vnto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three moneths before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three dayes pestilence in thy land? Now aduise, and see what answere I shall returne to him that sent me.


display: 2 Samuel 24:14

text: And Dauid saide vnto Gad, I am in a great strait: let vs fall now into the hand of the LORD (for his mercies are great,) and let me not fall into the hand of man.


display: 2 Samuel 24:15

text: ¶ So the LORD sent a pestilence vpon Israel, from the morning, euen to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan euen to Beersheba, seuentie thousand men.


display: 2 Samuel 24:16

text: And when the Angel stretched out his hand vpon Ierusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the euill, and said to the Angel that destroyed the people, It is ynough: stay now thine hand. And the Angel of the LORD was by the threshing place of Araunah the Iebusite.


display: 2 Samuel 24:17

text: And Dauid spake vnto the LORD when he saw the Angel that smote the people, and said, Loe, I haue sinned, and I haue done wickedly: but these sheepe, what haue they done? Let thine hand, I pray thee, be against mee, and against my fathers house.


display: 2 Samuel 24:18

text: ¶ And Gad came that day to Dauid, and said vnto him, Goe vp, reare an Altar vnto the LORD, in the threshing floore of Araunah the Iebusite.


display: 2 Samuel 24:19

text: And Dauid, according to the saying of Gad, went vp, as the LORD commanded.


display: 2 Samuel 24:20

text: And Araunah looked, and saw the King and his seruants comming on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himselfe before the King on his face vpon the ground.


display: 2 Samuel 24:21

text: And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the King come to his seruant? and Dauid saide, To buy the threshing floore of thee, to build an Altar vnto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people.


display: 2 Samuel 24:22

text: And Araunah said vnto Dauid, Let my lord the King take and offer vp what seemeth good vnto him: Beholde, here be oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments, and other instruments of the oxen for wood.


display: 2 Samuel 24:23

text: All these things did Araunah, as a king, giue vnto the King: and Araunah saide vnto the King, The LORD thy God accept thee.


display: 2 Samuel 24:24

text: And the King said vnto Araunah, Nay, but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings vnto the LORD my God, of that which doeth cost mee nothing. So Dauid bought the threshing floore, and the oxen, for fiftie shekels of siluer.


display: 2 Samuel 24:25

text: Aud Dauid built there an Altar vnto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings, and peace offerings: so the LORD was intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.


display: 1 Kings 1:1

text: Now King Dauid was olde, and striken in yeeres, and they couered him with clothes, but hee gate no heate.


display: 1 Kings 1:2

text: Wherefore his seruants said vnto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a yong virgin, and let her stand before the King, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosome, that my lord the King may get heate.


display: 1 Kings 1:3

text: So they sought for a faire damosel throughout all the coasts of Israel, and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the King.


display: 1 Kings 1:4

text: And the damosell was very faire, and cherished the king, and ministred to him: but the king knew her not.


display: 1 Kings 1:5

text: ¶ Then Adoniiah the sonne of Haggith exalted himselfe, saying, I wil be king: And he prepared him charets and horesemen, and fiftie men to runne before him.


display: 1 Kings 1:6

text: And his father had not displeased him at any time, in saying, Why hast thou done so? And hee also was a very goodly man, and his mother bare him after Absalom.


display: 1 Kings 1:7

text: And hee conferred with Ioab the sonne of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the Priest: and they following Adoniiah, helped him.


display: 1 Kings 1:8

text: But Zadok the Priest, and Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada, and Nathan the Prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mightie men which belonged to Dauid, were not with Adoniiah.


display: 1 Kings 1:9

text: And Adoniiah slew sheepe, and oxen, and fat cattell, by the stone of Zoheleth, which is by En-Rogel, and called all his brethren the kings sonnes, and all the men of Iudah the kings seruants.


display: 1 Kings 1:10

text: But Nathan the Prophet, and Benaiah, and the mightie men, and Solomon his brother he called not.


display: 1 Kings 1:11

text: ¶ Wherefore Nathan spake vnto Bath-sheba the mother of Solomon, saying, Hast thou not heard that Adoniiah the son of Haggith doth reigne, and Dauid our lord knoweth it not?


display: 1 Kings 1:12

text: Now therefore come, let mee, I pray thee, giue thee counsell, that thou mayest saue thine owne life, and the life of thy sonne Solomon.


display: 1 Kings 1:13

text: Goe, and get thee in vnto King Dauid, and say vnto him, Diddest not thou, my lord, O king, sweare vnto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy sonne shall reigne after mee, and he shall sit vpon my throne? why then doth Adoniiah reigne?


display: 1 Kings 1:14

text: Beholde, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I also will come in after thee, and confirme thy words.


display: 1 Kings 1:15

text: ¶ And Bath-sheba went in vnto the King into the chamber: and the king was very olde, and Abishag the Shunammite ministred vnto the king.


display: 1 Kings 1:16

text: And Bathsheba bowed, and did obeysance vnto the king: and the king said, What wouldest thou?


display: 1 Kings 1:17

text: And she said vnto him, My lord, thou swarest by the LORD thy God vnto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy sonne shall reigne after me, and he shall sit vpon my throne:


display: 1 Kings 1:18

text: And now behold, Adoniiah reigneth; and now my lord the king, thou knowest it not.


display: 1 Kings 1:19

text: And he hath slaine oxen, and fat cattell, and sheepe in abundance, and hath called all the sonnes of the king, and Abiathar the Priest, and Ioab the captaine of the hoste: but Solomon thy seruant hath he not called.


display: 1 Kings 1:20

text: And thou, my lord O king, the eyes of all Israel are vpon thee, that thou shouldest tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.


display: 1 Kings 1:21

text: Otherwise it shall come to passe, when my lord the king shal sleepe with his fathers, that I and my sonne Solomon shall be counted offenders.


display: 1 Kings 1:22

text: ¶ And loe, while shee yet talked with the king, Nathan the Prophet also came in.


display: 1 Kings 1:23

text: And they tolde the king, saying, Beholde Nathan the Prophet. And when hee was come in before the king, he bowed himselfe before the king with his face to the ground.


display: 1 Kings 1:24

text: And Nathan said, My lord O king, hast thou said, Adoniiah shall reigne after mee, and hee shall sit vpon my throne?


display: 1 Kings 1:25

text: For hee is gone downe this day, and hath slaine oxen, and fat cattel, and sheepe in abundance, and hath called all the kings sonnes, and the captaines of the host, and Abiathar the Priest: and behold, they eate and drinke before him, and say, God saue king Adoniiah.


display: 1 Kings 1:26

text: But me, euen me thy seruant, and Zadok the Priest, and Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada, and thy seruant Solomon hath he not called.


display: 1 Kings 1:27

text: Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not shewed it vnto thy seruant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the king, after him?


display: 1 Kings 1:28

text: ¶ Then king Dauid answered, and said, Call me Bathsheba. And she came into the kings presence, and stood before the king.


display: 1 Kings 1:29

text: And the king sware, and said, As the LORD liueth, that hath redeemed my soule out of all distresse,


display: 1 Kings 1:30

text: Euen as I sware vnto thee by the LORD God of Israel, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy sonne shall reigne after me, and he shal sit vpon my throne in my stead; euen so wil I certainly doe this day.


display: 1 Kings 1:31

text: Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did reuerence to the king, and said, Let my lord king Dauid liue for euer.


display: 1 Kings 1:32

text: ¶ And king Dauid said, Call me Zadok the Priest, and Nathan the Prophet, and Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada. And they came before the king.


display: 1 Kings 1:33

text: The king also saide vnto them, Take with you the seruants of your lord, and cause Solomon my sonne to ride vpon mine owne mule, and bring him downe to Gihon.


display: 1 Kings 1:34

text: And let Zadok the Priest, and Nathan the Prophet, anoint him there King ouer Israel: and blow ye with the trumpet, and say, God saue King Solomon.


display: 1 Kings 1:35

text: Then ye shall come vp after him, that hee may come and sit vpon my throne; for he shall be king in my stead: and I haue appointed him to be ruler ouer Israel, and ouer Iudah.


display: 1 Kings 1:36

text: And Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada answered the King, and said, Amen: The LORD God of my lord the king say so too.


display: 1 Kings 1:37

text: As the LORD hath bene with my lord the King, euen so be he with Solomon, and make his throne greater then the throne of my lord King Dauid.


display: 1 Kings 1:38

text: So Zadok the Priest, and Nathan the Prophet, and Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites went downe, and caused Solomon to ride vpon King Dauids mule, and brought him to Gihon.


display: 1 Kings 1:39

text: And Zadok the Priest tooke an horne of oile out of the Tabernacle, and anointed Solomon: and they blew the trumpet, and all the people said, God saue King Solomon.


display: 1 Kings 1:40

text: And all the people came vp after him, and the people piped with pipes, and reioyced with great ioy, so that the earth rent with the sound of them.


display: 1 Kings 1:41

text: ¶ And Adoniiah and all the ghests that were with him, heard it as they had made an end of eating: and when Ioab heard the sound of the trumpet, hee said, Wherefore is this noise of the citie, being in an vproare?


display: 1 Kings 1:42

text: And while hee yet spake, behold, Ionathan the sonne of Abiathar the Priest came, and Adoniiah sayde vnto him, Come in, for thou art a valiant man, and bringest good tidings.


display: 1 Kings 1:43

text: And Ionathan answered, and said to Adoniiah, Uerily our lorde king Dauid hath made Solomon king.


display: 1 Kings 1:44

text: And the king hath sent with him Zadok the Priest, and Nathan the Prophet, and Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and they haue caused him to ride vpon the kings mule.


display: 1 Kings 1:45

text: And Zadok the Priest, and Nathan the Prophet haue anointed him king in Gihon: and they are come vp from thence reioycing, so that the citie rang againe: this is the noyse that yee haue heard.


display: 1 Kings 1:46

text: And also Solomon sitteth on the throne of the kingdome.


display: 1 Kings 1:47

text: And moreouer, the kings seruants came to blesse our lorde king Dauid, saying, God make the name of Solomon better then thy name, and make his throne greater then thy throne. And the king bowed himselfe vpon the bed.


display: 1 Kings 1:48

text: And also thus sayde the King, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which hath giuen one to sit on my throne this day, mine eyes euen seeing it.


display: 1 Kings 1:49

text: And all the guests that were with Adoniiah, were afraid, and rose vp, and went euery man his way.


display: 1 Kings 1:50

text: ¶ And Adoniiah feared because of Solomon, and arose, and went, and caught hold on the hornes of the Altar.


display: 1 Kings 1:51

text: And it was tolde Solomon, saying, Behold, Adoniiah feareth King Solomon: for loe, he hath caught hold on the hornes of the Altar, saying, Let King Solomon sweare vnto mee to day, that hee will not slay his seruant with the sword.


display: 1 Kings 1:52

text: And Solomon sayd, If hee will shewe himselfe a worthy man, there shall not an haire of him fall to the earth: but if wickednesse shall be found in him, he shall die.


display: 1 Kings 1:53

text: So king Solomon sent, and they brought him downe from the Altar, and hee came and bowed himselfe to king Solomou: and Solomon sayde vnto him, Goe to thine house.


display: 1 Kings 2:1

text: Now the dayes of Dauid drew nigh, that he should die, and he charged Solomon his sonne, saying;


display: 1 Kings 2:2

text: I goe the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and shew thy selfe a man.


display: 1 Kings 2:3

text: And keepe the charge of the LORD thy God, to walke in his wayes, to keepe his Statutes, and his Commandements, & his Iudgements, and his Testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoeuer thou turnest thy selfe:


display: 1 Kings 2:4

text: That the LORD may continue his word which hee spake concerning me, saying, If thy children take heede to their way, to walke before mee in trueth, with all their heart, and with all their soule, there shall not faile thee (sayd hee) a man on the throne of Israel.


display: 1 Kings 2:5

text: Moreouer thou knowest also what Ioab the sonne of Zeruiah did to mee, and what he did to the two captaines of the hostes of Israel, vnto Abner the sonne of Ner, and vnto Amasa the sonne of Iether, whom hee slewe, and shed the blood of warre in peace, and put the blood of warre vpon his girdle that was about his loynes, and in his shooes that were on his feet.


display: 1 Kings 2:6

text: Doe therefore according to thy wisedome, and let not his hoare head goe downe to the graue in peace.


display: 1 Kings 2:7

text: But shewe kindnesse vnto the sonnes of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be of those that eate at thy table: for so they came to me when I fled because of Absalom thy brother.


display: 1 Kings 2:8

text: And behold, thou hast with thee Shimei the sonne of Gera, a Beniamite of Bahurim, which cursed mee with a grieuous curse, in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but hee came downe to meete me at Iordane, and I sware to him by the LORD, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword.


display: 1 Kings 2:9

text: Nowe therefore holde him not guiltlesse: for thou art a wise man, and knowest what thou oughtest to doe vnto him, but his hoare head bring thou downe to the graue with blood.


display: 1 Kings 2:10

text: So Dauid slept with his fathers, and was buried in the citie of Dauid.


display: 1 Kings 2:11

text: And the dayes that Dauid raigned ouer Israel, were fourty yeeres: seuen yeeres raigned hee in Hebron, and thirty and three yeeres raigned hee in Ierusalem.


display: 1 Kings 2:12

text: ¶ Then sate Solomon vpon the throne of Dauid his father, and his kingdome was established greatly.


display: 1 Kings 2:13

text: ¶ And Adoniiah the sonne of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, and she said, Commest thou peaceably? And he said, Peaceably.


display: 1 Kings 2:14

text: He said moreouer, I haue somewhat to say vnto thee. And she saide, Say on.


display: 1 Kings 2:15

text: And he said, Thou knowest that the kingdome was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should raigne: howbeit the kingdome is turned about, and is become my brothers: for it was his from the LORD.


display: 1 Kings 2:16

text: And now I aske one petition of thee, deny me not. And she saide vnto him, Say on.


display: 1 Kings 2:17

text: And hee saide, Speake, I pray thee, vnto Solomon the king (for hee will not say thee nay) that he giue me Abishag the Shunammite to wife.


display: 1 Kings 2:18

text: And Bathsheba said, Wel, I will speake for thee vnto the king.


display: 1 Kings 2:19

text: ¶ Bathsheba therefore went vnto king Solomon, to speake vnto him for Adoniiah: and the king rose vp to meete her, and bowed himselfe vnto her, and sate downe on his throne, and caused a seate to bee set for the Kings mother, and she sate on his right hand.


display: 1 Kings 2:20

text: Then she said, I desire one small petition of thee, I pray thee say me not nay: and the King said vnto her, Aske on, my mother, for I will not say thee nay.


display: 1 Kings 2:21

text: And she saide, Let Abishag the Shunammite be giuen to Adoniiah thy brother to wife.


display: 1 Kings 2:22

text: And king Solomon answered, and said vnto his mother, And why doest thou aske Abishag the Shunammite for Adoniiah? Aske for him the kingdome also (for he is mine elder brother) euen for him, and for Abiathar the Priest, & for Ioab the sonne of Zeruiah.


display: 1 Kings 2:23

text: Then king Solomon sware by the LORD, saying, God doe so to me, and more also, if Adoniiah haue not spoken this word against his owne life.


display: 1 Kings 2:24

text: Now therefore as the LORD liueth, which hath established mee, and set mee on the throne of Dauid my father, and who hath made me an house as he promised, Adoniiah shall be put to death this day.


display: 1 Kings 2:25

text: And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada, and he fell vpon him that he died.


display: 1 Kings 2:26

text: ¶ And vnto Abiathar the Priest saide the King, Get thee to Anathoth, vnto thine own fields, for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the arke of the Lord GOD before Dauid my father, and because thou hast bene afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.


display: 1 Kings 2:27

text: So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from beeing Priest vnto the LORD: that hee might fulfill the word of the LORD, which hee spake concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.


display: 1 Kings 2:28

text: ¶ Then tidings came to Ioab (for Ioab had turned after Adoniiah, though hee turned not after Absalom) and Ioab fled vnto the Tabernacle of the LORD, and caught hold on the hornes of the Altar.


display: 1 Kings 2:29

text: And it was told king Solomon that Ioab was fled vnto the Tabernacle of the LORD, and behold, hee is by the Altar: Then Solomon sent Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada, saying, Goe fall vpon him.


display: 1 Kings 2:30

text: And Benaiah came to the Tabernacle of the LORD, and said vnto him, Thus saith the king, Come foorth. And he said, Nay, but I will die heere. And Benaiah brought the king word againe, saying, Thus said Ioab, and thus he answered me.


display: 1 Kings 2:31

text: And the king saide vnto him, Doe as he hath said, and fall vpon him, and bury him, that thou mayest take away the innocent blood which Ioab shed, from mee, and from the house of my father.


display: 1 Kings 2:32

text: And the LORD shall returne his blood vpon his owne head, who fell vpon two men, more righteous and better then hee, and slew them with the sword, my father Dauid not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the sonne of Ner, captaine of the hoste of Israel, and Amasa the sonne of Iether, captaine of the hoste of Iudah.


display: 1 Kings 2:33

text: Their blood shall therefore returne vpon the head of Ioab, and vpon the head of his seed for euer: but vpon Dauid, and vpon his seede, and vpon his house, and vpon his throne, shall there bee peace for euer from the LORD.


display: 1 Kings 2:34

text: So Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada went vp, and fell vpon him, and slewe him, and hee was buried in his owne house in the wildernesse.


display: 1 Kings 2:35

text: ¶ And the king put Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada in his roome ouer the hoste, and Zadok the Priest did the king put in the roume of Abiathar.


display: 1 Kings 2:36

text: ¶ And the king sent, and called for Shimei, and said vnto him, Build thee an house in Ierusalem, and dwell there, and goe not forth thence any whither.


display: 1 Kings 2:37

text: For it shall be, that on the day thou goest out, & passest ouer the brooke Kidron, thou shalt know for certaine, that thou shalt surely die: thy blood shal be vpon thine owne head.


display: 1 Kings 2:38

text: And Shimei said vnto the King, The saying is good: as my lord the king hath said, so will thy seruant doe. And Shimei dwelt in Ierusalem many dayes.


display: 1 Kings 2:39

text: And it came to passe at the end of three yeeres, that two of the seruants of Shimei ranne away vnto Achish sonne of Maachah king of Gath: and they told Shimei, saying, Beholde, thy seruants be in Gath.


display: 1 Kings 2:40

text: And Shimei arose, and sadled his asse, and went to Gath to Achish, to seeke his seruants: and Shimei went and brought his seruants from Gath.


display: 1 Kings 2:41

text: And it was told Solomon, that Shimei had gone from Ierusalem to Gath, and was come againe.


display: 1 Kings 2:42

text: And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said vnto him, Did I not make thee to sweare by the LORD, and protested vnto thee, saying, Know for a certaine, that on the day thou goest out, and walkest abroad any whither, that thou shalt surely die? And thou saidest vnto me, The word that I haue heard, is good.


display: 1 Kings 2:43

text: Why then hast thou not kept the Oath of the LORD, and the commandement that I haue charged thee with?


display: 1 Kings 2:44

text: The king said moreuer to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickednesse which thine heart is priuie to, that thou diddest to Dauid my father: therefore the LORD shall returne thy wickednesse vpon thine owne head.


display: 1 Kings 2:45

text: And king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of Dauid shall bee established before the LORD for euer.


display: 1 Kings 2:46

text: So the king commaunded Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada, which went out, and fell vpon him, that he died, and the kingdome was established in the hand of Solomon.


display: 1 Kings 3:1

text: And Solomon made affinitie with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and tooke Pharaohs daughter, and brought her into the citie of Dauid, vntill he had made an end of building his owne house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of Ierusalem round about.


display: 1 Kings 3:2

text: Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built vnto the Name of the LORD vntill those dayes.


display: 1 Kings 3:3

text: And Solomon loued the LORD, walking in the statutes of Dauid his father: onely he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.


display: 1 Kings 3:4

text: And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer vp on that Altar.


display: 1 Kings 3:5

text: ¶ In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dreame by night: and God sayd, Aske what I shall giue thee.


display: 1 Kings 3:6

text: And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed vnto thy seruant Dauid my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in trueth, and in righteousnesse, and in vprightnesse of heart with thee, and thou hast kept for him this great kindnesse, that thou hast giuen him a sonne to sit on his throne, as it is this day.


display: 1 Kings 3:7

text: And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy seruant King in stead of Dauid my father: and I am but a litle childe: I know not how to goe out or come in.


display: 1 Kings 3:8

text: And thy seruant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbred, nor counted for multitude.


display: 1 Kings 3:9

text: Giue therefore thy seruant an understanding heart, to iudge thy people, that I may discerne betweene good and bad: for who is able to iudge this thy so great a people?


display: 1 Kings 3:10

text: And the speach pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.


display: 1 Kings 3:11

text: And God said vnto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thy selfe long life, neither hast asked riches for thy selfe, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies, but hast asked for thy selfe vnderstanding to discerne iudgement;


display: 1 Kings 3:12

text: Behold, I haue done according to thy word: loe, I haue giuen thee a wise and an vnderstanding heart, so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like vnto thee.


display: 1 Kings 3:13

text: And I haue also giuen thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches, and honour: so that there shall not be any among the Kings like vnto thee, all thy dayes.


display: 1 Kings 3:14

text: And if thou wilt walke in my wayes, to keepe my Statutes and my Commandements, as thy father Dauid did walke, then I will lengthen thy dayes.


display: 1 Kings 3:15

text: And Solomon awoke, and behold, it was a dreame: and he came to Ierusalem, and stood before the Arke of the Couenant of the LORD, and offered vp burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his seruants.


display: 1 Kings 3:16

text: ¶ Then came there two women that were harlots, vnto the king, and stood before him.


display: 1 Kings 3:17

text: And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house, and I was deliuered of a childe, with her in the house.


display: 1 Kings 3:18

text: And it came to passe the third day after that I was deliuered, that this woman was deliuered also: and wee were together; there was no stranger with vs in the house, saue we two in the house.


display: 1 Kings 3:19

text: And this womans childe died in the night: because she ouerlaid it.


display: 1 Kings 3:20

text: And shee arose at midnight, and tooke my sonne from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and layd it in her bosome, and layd her dead childe in my bosome.


display: 1 Kings 3:21

text: And when I rose in the morning to giue my childe sucke, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, beholde, it was not my sonne, which I did beare.


display: 1 Kings 3:22

text: And the other woman said, Nay, but the liuing is my sonne, and the dead is thy sonne: And this said, No, but the dead is thy sonne, and the liuing is my sonne. Thus they spake before the king.


display: 1 Kings 3:23

text: Then said the King, The one saith, This is my sonne, that liueth, and thy sonne is the dead: and the other saith Nay: but thy sonne is the dead, and my sonne is the liuing.


display: 1 Kings 3:24

text: And the King said, Bring mee a sword. And they brought a sword before the king:


display: 1 Kings 3:25

text: And the king said, Diuide the liuing childe in two, and giue halfe to the one, and halfe to the other.


display: 1 Kings 3:26

text: Then spake the woman whose the liuing childe was, vnto the king, (for her bowels yerned vpon her sonne) and she said, O my lord, giue her the liuing childe, and in no wise slay it: But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but diuide it.


display: 1 Kings 3:27

text: Then the King answered and said, Giue her the liuing child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.


display: 1 Kings 3:28

text: And all Israel heard of the Iudgement which the king had iudged, and they feared the King: for they saw that the wisedome of God was in him, to doe Iudgement.


display: 1 Kings 4:1

text: So King Solomon was king ouer all Israel.


display: 1 Kings 4:2

text: And these were the Princes which he had, Azariah the sonne of Zadok, the Priest,


display: 1 Kings 4:3

text: Elihoreph, and Ahiah the sonnes of Shisha, Scribes: Iehoshaphat the sonne of Ahilud the Recorder;


display: 1 Kings 4:4

text: And Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada was ouer the host: And Zadok and Abiathar were the Priests:


display: 1 Kings 4:5

text: And Azariah the sonne of Nathan was ouer the officers: and Zabud the sonne of Nathan was principall officer, and the kings friend.


display: 1 Kings 4:6

text: And Ahishar was ouer the houshold: and Adoniram the sonne of Abda was ouer the tribute.


display: 1 Kings 4:7

text: ¶ And Solomon had twelue officers ouer all Israel, which prouided victuals for the king and his houshold: each man his moneth in a yeere made prouision.


display: 1 Kings 4:8

text: And these are their names: the sonne of Hur in mount Ephraim,


display: 1 Kings 4:9

text: The sonne of Dekar in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Bethshemesh, and Elon-Bethhanan.


display: 1 Kings 4:10

text: The sonne of Heseb in Aruboth, to him pertained Sochoh, and all the land of Hepher;


display: 1 Kings 4:11

text: The sonne of Abinadab in all the region of Dor, which had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife:


display: 1 Kings 4:12

text: Baana the sonne of Ahilud, to him pertained Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean, which is by Zartanah beneath Iezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-Meholah, euen vnto the place that is beyond Iokneam:


display: 1 Kings 4:13

text: The sonne of Geber in Ramoth Gilead, to him pertained the townes of Iair the sonne of Manasseh, which are in Gilead: to him also pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities, with walles, and brasen barres.


display: 1 Kings 4:14

text: Ahinadab the sonne of Iddo had Mahanaim.


display: 1 Kings 4:15

text: Ahimaaz was in Naphtali; he also tooke Basmath the daughter of Solomon to wife.


display: 1 Kings 4:16

text: Baanah the sonne of Hushai was in Asher and in Aloth:


display: 1 Kings 4:17

text: Iehoshaphat the sonne of Paruah in Issachar:


display: 1 Kings 4:18

text: Shimei the sonne of Elah in Beniamin:


display: 1 Kings 4:19

text: Geber the sonne of Uri was in the countrey of Gilead, in the countrey of Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og king of Bashan; and hee was the onely officer which was in the land.


display: 1 Kings 4:20

text: ¶ Iudah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merrie.


display: 1 Kings 4:21

text: And Solomon reigned ouer all kingdoms from the riuer vnto the land of the Philistines, and vnto the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and serued Solomon all the dayes of his life.


display: 1 Kings 4:22

text: ¶ And Solomons prouision for one day, was thirtie measures of fine floure, and threescore measures of meale,


display: 1 Kings 4:23

text: Ten fat oxen, and twentie oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheepe, beside Harts, and Roe-buckes, and fallow Deere, and fatted foule.


display: 1 Kings 4:24

text: For he had dominion ouer all the region on this side the Riuer, from Tiphsah euen to Azzah ouer all the kings on this side the Riuer: and he had peace on all sides round about him.


display: 1 Kings 4:25

text: And Iudah and Israel dwelt safely, euery man vnder his Uine, and vnder his Figtree, from Dan euen to Beer-sheba, all the dayes of Solomon.


display: 1 Kings 4:26

text: ¶ And Solomon had fourtie thousand stalles of horses for his charets, and twelue thousand horsemen.


display: 1 Kings 4:27

text: And those officers prouided victuall for king Solomon, and for all that came vnto king Solomons table, euery man in his moneth: they lacked nothing.


display: 1 Kings 4:28

text: Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries, brought they vnto the place where the officers were, euery man according to his charge.


display: 1 Kings 4:29

text: ¶ And God gaue Solomon wisdome, and vnderstanding, exceeding much, and largenesse of heart, euen as the sand that is on the sea shoare.


display: 1 Kings 4:30

text: And Solomons wisedome excelled the wisedome of all the children of the East countrey, and all the wisedome of Egypt.


display: 1 Kings 4:31

text: For hee was wiser then all men; then Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda the sonnes of Mahol: and his fame was in all nations round about.


display: 1 Kings 4:32

text: And he spake three thousand prouerbes: and his songs were a thousand and fiue.


display: 1 Kings 4:33

text: And hee spake of trees, from the Cedar tree that is in Lebanon, euen vnto the Hyssope that springeth out of the wall: hee spake also of beasts, and of foule, and of creeping things, and of fishes.


display: 1 Kings 4:34

text: And there came of all people to heare the wisedome of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, which had heard of his wisedome.


display: 1 Kings 5:1

text: And Hiram king of Tyre sent his seruants vnto Solomon: (for hee had heard that they had anointed him King in the roume of his father,) for Hiram was euer a louer of Dauid.


display: 1 Kings 5:2

text: And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,


display: 1 Kings 5:3

text: Thou knowest how that Dauid my father could not build an house vnto the Name of the LORD his God, for the warres which were about him on euery side, vntill the LORD put them vnder the soles of his feet.


display: 1 Kings 5:4

text: But now the LORD my God hath giuen me rest on euery side, so that there is neither aduersary, nor euill occurrent.


display: 1 Kings 5:5

text: And behold, I purpose to build an house vnto the Name of the LORD my God, as the LORD spake vnto Dauid my father, saying, Thy sonne, whom I will set vpon thy throne in thy roume, he shall build an house vnto my Name.


display: 1 Kings 5:6

text: Now therefore command thou, that they hew me Cedar trees out of Lebanon, and my seruants shall bee with thy seruants: and vnto thee will I giue hire for thy seruants, according to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that there is not among vs, any that can skill to hew timber, like vnto the Sidonians.


display: 1 Kings 5:7

text: ¶ And it came to passe when Hiram heard the wordes of Solomon, that hee reioyced greatly, and said, Blessed be the LORD this day, which hath giuen vnto Dauid a wise sonne ouer this great people.


display: 1 Kings 5:8

text: And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I haue considered the things which thou sentest to me for: and I will doe all thy desire concerning timber of Cedar, and concerning timber of firre.


display: 1 Kings 5:9

text: My seruants shall bring them downe from Lebanon vnto the Sea: and I wil conuey them by sea in flotes, vnto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receiue them: and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giuing food for my houshold.


display: 1 Kings 5:10

text: So Hiram gaue Solomon Cedar trees, and Firre trees, according to all his desire.


display: 1 Kings 5:11

text: And Solomon gaue Hiram twentie thousand measures of wheate for food to his houshold, and twentie measures of pure oile: thus gaue Solomon to Hiram yeere by yeere.


display: 1 Kings 5:12

text: And the LORD gaue Solomon wisedome, as hee promised him: and there was peace betweene Hiram and Solomon, and they two made a league together.


display: 1 Kings 5:13

text: ¶ And King Solomon raised a leuie out of all Israel, and the leuie was thirtie thousand men.


display: 1 Kings 5:14

text: And hee sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a moneth by courses: a moneth they were in Lebanon, and two moneths at home: and Adoniram was ouer the leuie.


display: 1 Kings 5:15

text: And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourescore thousand hewers in the mountaines:


display: 1 Kings 5:16

text: Besides the chiefe of Solomons officers which were ouer the worke, three thousand and three hundred, which ruled ouer the people that wrought in the worke.


display: 1 Kings 5:17

text: And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.


display: 1 Kings 5:18

text: And Solomons builders, and Hirams builders, did hewe them, and the stone-squarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.


display: 1 Kings 6:1

text: And it came to passe in the foure hundred and fourescore yeere after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth yere of Solomons reigne ouer Israel, in the moneth Zif, which is the second moneth, that he began to build the house of the LORD.


display: 1 Kings 6:2

text: And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof was threescore cubites, and the breadth thereof twentie cubits, and the height thereof thirtie cubites.


display: 1 Kings 6:3

text: And the porch before the Temple of the house: twentie cubites was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house, and tenne cubites was the breadth thereof before the house.


display: 1 Kings 6:4

text: And for the house he made windowes of narrow lights.


display: 1 Kings 6:5

text: ¶ And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, against the walles of the house round about, both of the Temple and of the Oracle: and hee made chambers round about.


display: 1 Kings 6:6

text: The nethermost chamber was fiue cubites broad, and the middle was sixe cubites broad, and the third was seuen cubites broad: for without in the wall of the house hee made narrowed rests round about, that the beames should not bee fastened in the walles of the house.


display: 1 Kings 6:7

text: And the house when it was in building, was built of stone, made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe, nor any toole of yron heard in the house, while it was in building.


display: 1 Kings 6:8

text: The doore for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: and they went vp with winding staires into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third.


display: 1 Kings 6:9

text: So he built the house and finished it: and couered the house with beams and boards of Cedar.


display: 1 Kings 6:10

text: And then hee built chambers against all the house, fiue cubites high: and they rested on the house with timber of Cedar.


display: 1 Kings 6:11

text: ¶ And the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying;


display: 1 Kings 6:12

text: Concerning this House which thou art in building, if thou wilt walke in my Statutes, and execute my Iudgments, and keepe all my Commandements to walke in them: then will I performe my word with thee, which I spake vnto Dauid thy father.


display: 1 Kings 6:13

text: And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.


display: 1 Kings 6:14

text: So Solomon built the house, and finished it.


display: 1 Kings 6:15

text: And hee built the walles of the house within with boards of Cedar, both the floore of the house, and the walles of the sieling: and hee couered them on the inside with wood, and couered the floore of the house with plankes of firre.


display: 1 Kings 6:16

text: And hee built twentie cubites on the sides of the house, both the floore, and the walles with boards of Cedar: he euen built them for it within, euen for the Oracle, euen for the most holy place.


display: 1 Kings 6:17

text: And the house, that is, the Temple before it, was fortie cubites long.


display: 1 Kings 6:18

text: And the Cedar of the house within was carued with knops, and open flowres: all was Cedar, there was no stone seene.


display: 1 Kings 6:19

text: And the Oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the Arke of the Couenant of the LORD.


display: 1 Kings 6:20

text: And the Oracle in the forepart, was twenty cubits in length and twentie cubites in breadth, and twentie cubites in the height thereof: and hee ouerlayd it with pure golde, and so couered the Altar which was of Cedar.