the king is in the field bible verse

So I forced myself and offered the burnt offering." Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, "Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD; and the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves." She said to her young men, "Go on before me; behold, I am coming after you." Then he arranged the wood and cut the ox in pieces and laid it on the wood. So he said to the messengers of Ben-hadad, "Tell my lord the king, 'All that you sent for to your servant at the first I will do, but this thing I cannot do.'" He also removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, as well as all the altars which he had built on the mountain of the house of the LORD and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside the city. Now after this it came about that David defeated the Philistines and subdued them and took Gath and its towns from the hand of the Philistines. "For as the LORD lives, who delivers Israel, though it is in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die." While Saul talked to the priest, the commotion in the camp of the Philistines continued and increased; so Saul said to the priest, "Withdraw your hand." All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah. "You shall invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do; and you shall anoint for Me the one whom I designate to you." Then he said to all Israel, "You shall be on one side and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side." Then Jonathan said to the young man who was carrying his armor, "Come and let us cross over to the garrison of these uncircumcised; perhaps the LORD will work for us, for the LORD is not restrained to save by many or by few." "This day the LORD will deliver you up into my hands, and I will strike you down and remove your head from you. For the Lord Most High is to be feared,A great King over all the earth. So the woman arose and did according to the word of the man of God, and she went with her household and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years. read more. So Saul arose and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having with him three thousand chosen men of Israel, to search for David in the wilderness of Ziph. Also the Levites shall be officers before you. And when he had called her, she stood before him. Jehoshaphat also made peace with the king of Israel. He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. So the LORD opened their eyes and they saw; and behold, they were in the midst of Samaria. Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel and he saw the company of Jehu as he came, and said, "I see a company." "When I rose in the morning to nurse my son, behold, he was dead; but when I looked at him carefully in the morning, behold, he was not my son, whom I had borne." Then Joram crossed over to Zair, and all his chariots with him. I So in the twentieth year of Jeroboam the king of Israel, Asa began to reign as king of Judah. He sent horses and chariots and a great army there, and they came by night and surrounded the city. Saul vowed to her by the LORD, saying, "As the LORD lives, no punishment shall come upon you for this thing." The rest of the acts of Joram and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? "The LORD forbid that I should stretch out my hand against the LORD'S anointed; but now please take the spear that is at his head and the jug of water, and let us go." The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the When a lion or a bear came and took a lamb from the flock, I went out after him and attacked him, and rescued it from his mouth; and when he rose up against me, I seized him by his beard and struck him and killed him. And are You not ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? "For You have separated them from all the peoples of the earth as Your inheritance, as You spoke through Moses Your servant, when You brought our fathers forth from Egypt, O Lord GOD." "Now the LORD has fulfilled His word which He spoke; for I have risen in place of my father David and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built the house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel. They brought every man his gift, articles of silver and gold, garments, weapons, spices, horses and mules, so much year by year. The shaft of his spear was like a weaver's beam, and the head of his spear weighed six hundred shekels of iron; his shield-carrier also walked before him. So he said to them, "What counsel do you give that we may answer this people who have spoken to me, saying, 'Lighten the yoke which your father put on us'?" Judah was defeated by Israel, and they fled each to his tent. And she said, "It will be well." But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then you shall say, Absalom is king in Hebron., She looked and behold, the king was standing by the pillar, according to the custom, with the captains and the trumpeters beside the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced and blew trumpets. David slaughtered them from the twilight until the evening of the next day; and not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men who rode on camels and fled. Those deputies provided for King Solomon and all who came to King Solomon's table, each in his month; they left nothing lacking. And Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were appointed over the army and said to them, "Bring her out between the ranks, and whoever follows her put to death with the sword." Thus Jehu eradicated Baal out of Israel. David was a skillful musician, a mighty man of valor, a warrior, one prudent in speech, a handsome man, and the LORD was with him. Then Saul's anger burned against Jonathan and he said to him, "You son of a perverse, rebellious woman! For it came about, when David was in Edom, and Joab the commander of the army had gone up to bury the slain, and had struck down every male in Edom (for Joab and all Israel stayed there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom), that Hadad fled to Egypt, he and certain Edomites of his father's servants with him, while Hadad was a young boy. He said, "Why will you go to him today? When midday was past, they raved until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice; but there was no voice, no one answered, and no one paid attention. The woman had a fattened calf in the house, and she quickly slaughtered it; and she took flour, kneaded it and baked unleavened bread from it. He said to her, "Give me your son." "Moreover, I issue a decree concerning what you are to do for these elders of Judah in the rebuilding of this house of God: the full cost is to be paid to these people from the royal treasury out of the taxes of the provinces beyond the River, and that without delay. By justice a king builds up the land, but he who exacts gifts tears it down. So he said, "I saw all Israel Scattered on the mountains, Like sheep which have no shepherd; And the LORD said, 'These have no master. Hazael said, "Why does my lord weep?" But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. And he sat on the throne of the kings. Then he went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised in his own heart; and he instituted a feast for the sons of Israel and went up to the altar to burn incense. So the great court all around had three rows of cut stone and a row of cedar beams even as the inner court of the house of the LORD, and the porch of the house. She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door behind him and went out. And he said, "Go, sell the oil and pay your debt, and you and your sons can live on the rest." Thus Manasseh misled Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to do more evil than the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the sons of Israel. "You and your sons and your servants shall cultivate the land for him, and you shall bring in the produce so that your master's grandson may have food; nevertheless Mephibosheth your master's grandson shall eat at my table regularly." "The LORD said to him, 'How?' Then King Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the forced labor, and all Israel stoned him to death. Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, "Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a vegetable garden because it is close beside my house, and I will give you a better vineyard than it in its place; if you like, I will give you the price of it in money." Nebuchadnezzar also brought some of the articles of the house of the, About this time tomorrow I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin, and, Let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet. And each one of them took his men who were to come in on the sabbath, with those who were to go out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest. Then he put army commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah. And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, approved by the Levitical priests. So David hid in the field; and when the new moon came, the king sat down to eat food. However, the LORD was not willing to destroy Judah, for the sake of David His servant, since He had promised him to give a lamp to him through his sons always. It came about, as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went to serve Baal and worshiped him. And his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess. But Jehoshaphat was not willing. "Please forgive the transgression of your maidservant; for the LORD will certainly make for my lord an enduring house, because my lord is fighting the battles of the LORD, and evil will not be found in you all your days. He did evil in the sight of the LORD; he did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he made Israel sin. Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah as head and leader among his brothers, for he intended to make him king. Therefore they returned and told him. read more. Then Jehoahaz entreated the favor of the LORD, and the LORD listened to him; for He saw the oppression of Israel, how the king of Aram oppressed them. Return, my son David, for I will not harm you again because my life was precious in your sight this day. He did what was right in the sight of the Lord; he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done. Then David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said to Jonathan, "What have I done? "When they sin against You (for there is no man who does not sin) and You are angry with them and deliver them to an enemy, so that they take them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near; if they take thought in the land where they have been taken captive, and repent and make supplication to You in the land of those who have taken them captive, saying, 'We have sinned and have committed iniquity, we have acted wickedly'; if they return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who have taken them captive, and pray to You toward their land which You have given to their fathers, the city which You have chosen, and the house which I have built for Your name; then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven Your dwelling place, and maintain their cause, and forgive Your people who have sinned against You and all their transgressions which they have transgressed against You, and make them objects of compassion before those who have taken them captive, that they may have compassion on them (for they are Your people and Your inheritance which You have brought forth from Egypt, from the midst of the iron furnace), that Your eyes may be open to the supplication of Your servant and to the supplication of Your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they call to You. Now Saul chose for himself 3,000 men of Israel, of which 2,000 were with Saul in Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel, while 1,000 were with Jonathan at Gibeah of Benjamin. Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man with his master, and highly respected, because by him the LORD had given victory to Aram. Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (Socoh was his and all the land of Hepher); Ben-abinadab, in all the height of Dor (Taphath the daughter of Solomon was his wife); Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean which is beside Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah as far as the other side of Jokmeam; Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead (the towns of Jair, the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead were his: the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars were his); Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim; Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also married Basemath the daughter of Solomon); Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth; Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar; Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin; Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only deputy who was in the land. So the young man, the servant of the prophet, went to Ramoth-gilead. He acted valiantly and defeated the Amalekites, and delivered Israel from the hands of those who plundered them. The number of days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months. read more. He also broke down the houses of the male cult prostitutes which were in the house of the LORD, where the women were weaving hangings for the Asherah. So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day. Now in the eleventh year of Joram, the son of Ahab, Ahaziah became king over Judah. The house, that is, the nave in front of the inner sanctuary, was forty cubits long. David did not leave a man or a woman alive to bring to Gath, saying, "Otherwise they will tell about us, saying, 'So has David done and so has been his practice all the time he has lived in the country of the Philistines.'" 'I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down. Then Samuel took the flask of oil, poured it on his head, kissed him and said, Has not the Lord anointed you a ruler over His inheritance? So Michal let David down through a window, and he went out and fled and escaped. and Baalath and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for, and all the storage cities which Solomon had, even, And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, Thus says the, I will bless her, and indeed I will give you. Now it happened after many days that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, "Go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain on the face of the earth." And Jehu drew his bow with his full strength and shot Joram between his arms; and the arrow went through his heart and he sank in his chariot. Then the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, his youngest son, king in his place, for the band of men who came with the Arabs to the camp had slain all the older sons. And Jehu said, "Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal " And they proclaimed it. As Samuel turned to go, Saul seized the edge of his robe, and it tore. Now this is the account of the forced labor which King Solomon levied to build the house of the LORD, his own house, the Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer. There was no stranger with us in the house, only the two of us in the house. "They cried out to the LORD and said, 'We have sinned because we have forsaken the LORD and have served the Baals and the Ashtaroth; but now deliver us from the hands of our enemies, and we will serve You.' When this king arrives, he will be the embodiment of the power and presence of the God of Israel, and he will bring about the fulfillment of But as for Saul, he was still in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling. "And may these words of mine, with which I have made supplication before the LORD, be near to the LORD our God day and night, that He may maintain the cause of His servant and the cause of His people Israel, as each day requires, so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God; there is no one else. Now Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. And it was told him, saying, "Behold, he is in Dothan." The LORD did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash. Or what evil is in my hand? He called Gehazi and said, "Call this Shunammite." Now Solomon had 70,000 transporters, and 80,000 hewers of stone in the mountains, besides Solomon's 3,300 chief deputies who were over the project and who ruled over the people who were doing the work. Then Joram crossed over to Zair, and all his chariots with him. And he said, "Go, sell the oil and pay your debt, and you and your sons can live on the rest." Bible Verses About Fields - 58 passages - King James Version Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Hephzibah. and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests; So the Lord said to Solomon, Because you have done this, and you have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant. For Jozacar the son of Shimeath and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David, and Amaziah his son became king in his place. A certain man drew his bow at random and struck the king of Israel in a joint of the armor. Then David said, "Will the men of Keilah surrender me and my men into the hand of Saul?" Judah was defeated by Israel, and they fled each to his tent. So it came about when the command and decree of the king were heard and many young ladies were gathered to the citadel of Susa into the custody of Hegai, that Esther was taken to the kings palace into the custody of Hegai, who was in charge of the women. "If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath, and he comes and takes an oath before Your altar in this house, then hear in heaven and act and judge Your servants, condemning the wicked by bringing his way on his own head and justifying the righteous by giving him according to his righteousness. And she said to him, "Speak." "It will come about when I leave you that the Spirit of the LORD will carry you where I do not know; so when I come and tell Ahab and he cannot find you, he will kill me, although I your servant have feared the LORD from my youth. And the king arose to meet her, bowed before her, and sat on his throne; then he had a throne set for the king's mother, and she sat on his right. Then all the wicked and worthless men among those who went with David said, "Because they did not go with us, we will not give them any of the spoil that we have recovered, except to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead them away and depart." Now David fled and escaped and came to Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him And he and Samuel went and stayed in Naioth. The Lord said to Samuel, Listen to the voice of the people in regard to all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me from being king over them. Then he set the carved image of Asherah that he had made, in the house of which the LORD said to David and to his son Solomon, "In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever. Then she came and told the man of God. When David had finished speaking these words to Saul, Saul said, "Is this your voice, my son David?" that his heart may not be lifted up above his countrymen and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or the left, so that he and his sons may continue long in his kingdom in the midst of Israel. But Neco took Joahaz his brother and brought him to Egypt. 'For the whole house of Ahab shall perish, and I will cut off from Ahab every male person both bond and free in Israel. Then he said to Gehazi, "Gird up your loins and take my staff in your hand, and go your way; if you meet any man, do not salute him, and if anyone salutes you, do not answer him; and lay my staff on the lad's face." The God of Israel said,The Rock of Israel spoke to me,He who rules over men righteously,Who rules in the fear of God. 'Thus I will afflict the descendants of David for this, but not always.'" "Anyone of Baasha who dies in the city the dogs will eat, and anyone of his who dies in the field the birds of the heavens will eat." What is my iniquity? But David said to Abishai, "Do not destroy him, for who can stretch out his hand against the LORD'S anointed and be without guilt?" Ahab king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, "Will you go with me against Ramoth-gilead?" WebThe king in the field is making contact with the source of his sustenance, with the underpinnings of his sovereignty. So the LORD said to Solomon, "Because you have done this, and you have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant. And David went from there to Mizpah of Moab; and he said to the king of Moab, "Please let my father and my mother come and stay with you until I know what God will do for me." "His descendants shall endure forever And his throne as the sun before Me. So the people rescued Jonathan and he did not die. In John 8:12 [emphasis mine], Jesus says, "I AM the Light (the manifest radiance of God's life) of the world, and the one following (or co-walking Then he died in a ripe old age, full of days, riches and honor; and his son Solomon reigned in his place. Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are right and his ways are just; and those who walk in pride he is able to humble. Now what more can he have but the kingdom?" And he sought many wives for them. Then Samuel said to Saul, "Wait, and let me tell you what the LORD said to me last night." Now when Saul returned from pursuing the Philistines, he was told, saying, "Behold, David is in the wilderness of Engedi." King But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of the LORD, the God of Israel, with all his heart; he did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam, which he made Israel sin. So they saddled the donkey for him and he rode away on it. '", "Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who is in Samaria; behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth where he has gone down to take possession of it. So He said, "Go forth and stand on the mountain before the LORD " And behold, the LORD was passing by! And the. And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, "I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses."