1 Kings 2 Cross References - LITV

¹ And the days of David drew near for him to die. And he commanded his son Solomon, saying, ² I am going in the way of all the earth. And you be strong, and be a man, ³ and keep the charge of Jehovah your God, to walk in His ways, to keep statutes, His commands, and His judgments, and His testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, so that you may do wisely all that you do, and there wherever you may turn, ⁴ so that Jehovah may establish His word which He spoke to me, saying, If your sons take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth, with all their heart, and with all their soul, saying, There shall not be a man to you cut off from the throne of Israel. ⁵ And also, you know that which Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, that which he did to the two army commanders of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, that he murdered them, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his girdle, on his loins and in his sandals on his feet; ⁶ and you shall do according to your wisdom, and shall not let his gray hair go down to Sheol in peace. ⁷ You shall be merciful to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and they shall be among those eating at your table, for so they drew near to me when I fled from the face of your brother Absalom. ⁸ And, behold, with you is Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite of Bahurim. And he cursed me with a grievous cursing in the day I went to Mahanaim. And he came down to meet me at the Jordan, and I swore to him by Jehovah, saying, I shall not put you to death by the sword. ⁹ And now, do not acquit him, for you are a wise man, and you know that which you shall do to him and shall bring his old age down with blood to Sheol. ¹⁰ And David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David. ¹¹ And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years. He reigned seven years in Hebron, and he reigned thirty three years in Jerusalem. ¹² And Solomon sat on the throne of his father David, and his kingdom was firmly established. ¹³ And Adonijah the son of Haggith came in to Bathsheba, the mother of Solomon. And she said, Do you come in peace? And he said, Peace. ¹⁴ And he said, A word to you and to me? And she said, Speak. ¹⁵ And he said, You know that the kingdom was mine, and all Israel had set their faces toward me to reign. Yet the kingdom has been turned around and is my brother's, because it was his from Jehovah. ¹⁶ And now I am asking one petition of you. Do not turn away your face. And she said to him, Speak. ¹⁷ And he said, Please speak to king Solomon, for he will not turn away your face, that he give to me Abishag the Shunammite for a wife. ¹⁸ And Bathsheba said, Well! I will speak to the king for you. ¹⁹ And Bathsheba came in to king Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed to her, and sat on his throne, and placed a throne for the king's mother. And she sat at his right hand. ²⁰ And she said, I ask one small petition of you. Do not turn away my face. And the king said to her, Ask, my mother, for I will not turn away your face. ²¹ And she said, let Abishag the Shunammite be given to your brother Adonijah for a wife. ²² And king Solomon answered and said to his mother, And why are you asking Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Also ask the kingdom for him, for he is my older brother; yea, for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah. ²³ And king Solomon swore by Jehovah, saying, So shall God do to me, and so shall He do more, if not Adonijah has not spoken this word against his life. ²⁴ And now, as Jehovah lives, who has established me and caused me to sit on the throne of my father David, and who has made a house for me, as He spoke, surely today Adonijah shall be put to death. ²⁵ And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and he fell on him, and he died. ²⁶ And the king said to Abiathar the priest, Go to Anathoth, to your fields. For you are deserving of death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you have borne the ark of the Lord Jehovah before my father David, and because you were afflicted in all the things with which my father was afflicted. ²⁷ And Solomon drove Abiathar from being priest to Jehovah, to fulfill the word of Jehovah which He spoke concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh. ²⁸ And the report came to Joab, for Joab had turned aside after Adonijah though he did not turn aside after Absalom. And Joab fled to the tabernacle of Jehovah, and lay hold on the horns of the altar. ²⁹ And it was told to king Solomon that Joab had fled to the tabernacle of Jehovah, and, behold, he was by the altar. And Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall on him. ³⁰ And Benaiah came into the tabernacle of Jehovah and said to him, So says the king, Come out. And he said, No, but I will die here. And Benaiah brought back word to the king, saying, So says Joab. Yea, so he answered me. ³¹ And the king said to him, Do as he has said, and fall on him, and bury him, and turn aside the innocent blood which Joab shed, off of me and off of my father's house. ³² And Jehovah shall turn back his blood on his own head, who has fallen on two men more righteous and better than he, and murdered them with the sword; and my father David not knowing: Abner the son of Ner, the commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, the commander of the army of Judah. ³³ Yea, He shall turn back their blood on the head of Joab, and on the head of his seed forever. And as for David and for his seed, and for his house, and for his throne, there shall be peace forever from Jehovah. ³⁴ And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and fell on him, and executed him. And he was buried in his own house in the wilderness. ³⁵ And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his place over the army. And the king put Zadok the priest in the place of Abiathar. ³⁶ And the king sent and called Shimei and said to him, Build a house for yourself in Jerusalem and live there, and do not go out from there anywhere. ³⁷ And it shall be, in the day you go out and cross the torrent Kidron, you shall certainly know that dying you shall die; your blood shall be on your head. ³⁸ And Shimei said to the king, The word is good. As my lord the king has spoken, so your servant shall do. And Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days. ³⁹ And it happened at the end of three years, two of Shimei's servants fled to Achish the son of Maachah, the king of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying, Behold, your servants are in Gath. ⁴⁰ And Shimei rose up and saddled his ass and went to Gath, to Achish, to seek his servants. And Shimei went and brought his servants from Gath. ⁴¹ And it was told to Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and had returned. ⁴² And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, Did I not cause you to swear by Jehovah, and testify to you, saying, In the day you go out, and you have gone anywhere, you certainly shall know that you shall surely die. And you said to me, The word I have heard is good. ⁴³ And why have you not kept the oath of Jehovah, and the charge that I commanded you? ⁴⁴ And the king said to Shimei, You shall know all the evil that your heart has known, that which you did to my father David. Now Jehovah has turned back your evil on your head. ⁴⁵ And king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before Jehovah forever. ⁴⁶ And the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and he went out and fell on him, and he died. And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.

²⁹ And the days of Israel to die drew near. And he called to his son Joseph and said to him, Now if I have found favor in your eyes, please put your hand under my thigh, and do kindness and truth with me. Please do not bury me in Egypt;

¹⁹ And cause him to stand before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation, and give him a charge in their sight.

²⁸ And command Joshua and make him strong, and make him brave, for he shall cross over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which you shall see.

¹⁴ And Jehovah said to Moses, Behold, your days are coming near to die. Call Joshua, and present yourselves at the tabernacle of the congregation, and I shall charge him. And Moses and Joshua went, and they presented themselves at the tabernacle of the congregation.

²³ And He commanded Joshua the son of Nun, and said, Be strong and brave. For you shall bring the sons of Israel into the land which I have sworn to them, and I shall be with you.

¹ And this is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the sons of Israel before his death.

²⁸ Then take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit placed you as overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased through His own blood. ²⁹ For I know this, that after my departure grievous wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock; ³⁰ and out of you yourselves will rise up men speaking perverted things, in order to draw away the disciples after themselves. ³¹ Because of this watch, remembering that I did not cease admonishing each one with tears night and day for three years.

¹⁸ This charge I commit to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies going before as to you, that you might war the good warfare by them,

¹³ I charge you before God, He making all things alive, and Christ Jesus, He witnessing the good confession to Pontius Pilate,

¹ Then I solemnly witness before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, He being about to judge living and dead at His appearance and His kingdom:

⁶ For I am already being poured out, and the time of my release is here.

¹³ But I deem it right, so long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by a reminder, ¹⁴ knowing that the putting off of my tabernacle is soon, as indeed our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me. ¹⁵ And I will also be diligent to cause you always to have memory of these things after my departure.

¹⁹ And it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear Jehovah your God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them; ²⁰ so that his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or to the left; so that he may prolong his days over his kingdom, he and his sons in the midst of Israel.

⁶ Be strong and brave. Do not fear them, or be afraid of them. For Jehovah your God is He who is going with you; He shall not fail you nor forsake you. ⁷ And Moses called for Joshua, and said to him before the eyes of all Israel, Be strong and brave, for you shall go in with this people to the land which Jehovah has sworn to their fathers, to give it to them, and you shall cause them to inherit it.

⁶ Be strong and brave. For you shall cause this people to inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give to them. ⁷ Only be strong and very brave, so that you may take heed to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may act wisely wherever you go.

¹⁴ And, behold! Today I am going in the way of all the earth, and you know with all your heart and with all your soul that there has not failed one thing of all the good things which Jehovah your God has spoken concerning you; all of it has come to you; there has not one thing failed of it.

¹² Be strong, and let us be strong for our people, and for the cities of our God. And may Jehovah do that which seems good in His eyes.

⁷ And now, O Jehovah my God, You have caused Your servant to reign instead of my father David. And I am a little man-child; I do not know to go out and to come in.

²⁰ And David said to his son Solomon, Be strong and brave, and act. Do not fear, nor be afraid, for Jehovah God, my God, shall be with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you until you have finished all the work of the service of the house of Jehovah.

²² For years few in number will come; and I shall not return the way I shall go.

²³ For I know that You will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

⁴⁸ What man lives and never sees death? Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of Sheol? Selah.

¹³ Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep His commandments; for this applies to every man.

¹³ Watch! Stand fast in the faith! Be men! Be strong!

¹⁰ For the rest, my brothers, be made powerful in the Lord and in the might of His strength.

¹² Let no one despise your youth, but become an example of the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

¹ Then my child, you be empowered by grace in Christ Jesus.

²⁷ And as it is reserved to men once to die, and after this Judgment;

¹ And now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the judgments which I am teaching you to do, so that you may live and go in, and possess the land which Jehovah the God of your fathers is giving to you.

⁵ Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, as Jehovah my God has commanded me, to do them, in the midst of the land where you are going in, to possess it,

⁸ And who is a great nation whose statutes and judgments are as righteous as all this law which I set before you today?

⁴⁵ these are the testimonies and the statutes and the ordinances which Moses spoke to the sons of Israel when they came out of Egypt;

¹ And Moses called to all Israel and said to them, Hear, Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears today. And you shall learn them, and shall take heed to do them.

¹ And this is the commandment, the statute and the judgments which Jehovah your God commanded to teach you, to do them in the land to which you are crossing over, to possess it, ² that you might fear Jehovah your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you; you, and your son, and your sons' son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.

¹⁸ And it shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself a copy of this law in a book, from before the priests, the Levites.

⁹ Then pay attention to the words of this covenant, and do them, that you may act wisely in all that you do.

⁷ Only be strong and very brave, so that you may take heed to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may act wisely wherever you go. ⁸ This book of the Law shall not depart out of your mouth, and you shall meditate on it by day and by night, so that you shall be on guard to do according to all that is written in it. For then you shall prosper your way, and then you shall act wisely.

⁵ Only, be very much on guard to do the commands and the law which Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded you, to love Jehovah your God, and to walk in all His ways, and to keep His commandments, and to cleave to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

⁵ And David went out wherever Saul sent him. And he acted wisely. And Saul set him over the men of war. And it was good in the eyes of all the people, and also.

¹⁴ And David acted wisely in all his ways, and Jehovah was with him.

³⁰ And the rulers of the Philistines came out. And it happened from the time they came out, David acted more wisely than all the servants of Saul. And His name was greatly esteemed.

⁶ And David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus. And the Syrians became servants to David, bearers of tribute. And Jehovah helped David in all places in which he went.

¹⁴ And he put garrisons in all Edom; and all Edom became servants to David. And Jehovah helped David in all places in which he went.

⁷ And Jehovah was with him. He acted prudently every place he went. And he rebelled against the king of Assyria and would not serve him.

¹² Only, may Jehovah give wisdom and understanding to you and command you as to Israel, even to keep the law of Jehovah your God; ¹³ then you shall prosper, if you observe to do the statutes and the judgments that Jehovah commanded Moses as to Israel; be strong and courageous; do not fear, nor be cast down.

⁸ And now in the sight of all Israel, the congregation of Jehovah, and in the hearing of our God, observe and seek out all the commandments of Jehovah your God that you may possess this good land, and cause your sons to inherit after you forever. ⁹ And you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a perfect heart, and with a willing mind. For Jehovah searches out all hearts, and He understands every imagination of thoughts. If you shall seek Him, He shall be found by you. But if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.

¹⁹ and give a perfect heart to my son Solomon, to keep Your commandments, Your testimonies, and Your statutes, and to do all, even to build this magnificent house, for which I have prepared.

²⁰ And Hezekiah did this in all Judah, and did the good and the right and true before Jehovah his God. ²¹ And in every work that he began for the service of the house of God, and in the Law, and in the commandment, to seek his God with all his heart, he worked and prospered.

² But his delight is only in the law of Jehovah, and he meditates in His law day and night. ³ And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivulets of waters, which will give its fruit in its seasons, and its leaf will not wither, and all which he does will prosper.

⁷ The law of Jehovah is perfect, converting the soul. The testimony of Jehovah is sure, making the simple wise.

² Blessed are those keeping His testimonies, who seek Him with the whole heart.

⁹⁸ You make me wiser than my enemies by Your commands; for they are forever mine. ⁹⁹ I have more wisdom than all my teachers; for Your testimonies are a meditation to me. ¹⁰⁰ I understand more than the aged, for I keep Your precepts.

¹¹¹ I have inherited Your testimonies forever; for they are the rejoicing of my heart.

¹³⁸ You have enjoined Your testimonies as righteous and very faithful.

¹ My son, do not forget my law, but let your heart keep my commands, ² for they shall add length of days and long life and peace to you. ³ Mercy and truth will not forsake you; tie them on your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart; ⁴ and you shall find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

⁴ Remember the law of My servant Moses which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel, the statutes and judgments.

¹ And when Abram was ninety nine years old, Jehovah appeared to Abram and said to him, I am the Almighty God! Walk before me and be perfect;

¹⁹ For I have known him, so that whatever he may command his sons and his house after him, even they may keep the way of Jehovah, to do righteousness and justice; to the intent that Jehovah may bring on Abraham that which He has spoken of him.

³ If you walk in My statutes, and keep My commandments, and do them,

⁵ And you shall love Jehovah your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.

¹² And it shall be, because you hear judgments, and keep and do them, even Jehovah your God will keep with you the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers.

¹² And now, Israel, what has Jehovah your God asked of you, except to fear Jehovah your God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve Jehovah your God with all your heart, and with all your soul;

¹³ And it shall be, if you carefully listen to My commands which I command you today, to love Jehovah your God, and to serve Him with all your heart, and with all your soul,

¹¹ even from the day I commanded judges to be over My people Israel. And I will cause you to rest from all your enemies. And Jehovah declares to you that Jehovah will make you a house. ¹² When your days are fulfilled, and you lie with your fathers, then I shall raise up your seed after you, who shall come out from your bowels, and I shall establish his kingdom. ¹³ He shall build a house for My Name, and I shall establish the throne of his kingdom forever. ¹⁴ I shall be a father to him, and he shall be a son to Me. When he sins, then I will chasten him with a rod of men, and with strokes of the sons of men. ¹⁵ But My mercy shall not be taken from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you. ¹⁶ And your house shall be established, and your kingdom before you forever. Your throne shall be established forever.

²⁵ And now, O Jehovah God, establish the word which You have spoken concerning Your servant, and concerning his house, forever. And do as You have spoken.

³ And Solomon loved Jehovah, to walk in the statutes of his father David. Only, he was sacrificing in high places and burning incense.

¹⁴ And if you walk in My ways, to keep My statutes and My commands, as your father David walked, then I will prolong your days.

²³ and said, Jehovah, God of Israel, there is no God like You in the heavens above or on the earth beneath; who keeps covenant and mercy with Your servants that walk before You with all their heart;

²⁵ And now, Jehovah, God of Israel, keep for Your servant David, my father, that which You spoke to him, saying, There shall not be cut off from you a man from before Me, sitting on the throne of Israel; only, if your sons watch their way, to walk before Me as you have walked before Me.

⁵ then I shall establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I spoke to your father David, saying, there shall not fail you a man on the throne of Israel.

³ I pray to You, O Jehovah, please remember how I have walked always before your face in truth, and with a perfect heart, and I have done the good in Your eyes. And Hezekiah wept with a great weeping.

³ And the king stood by the pillar, and made the covenant before Jehovah, to walk after Jehovah, and to keep His commandments, and His testimonies, and His statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to lift up the words of this covenant that were written in this Book. And all the people stood to the covenant.

²⁵ And there was no king before him like him, who turned to Jehovah with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; and after him none rose up like him.

¹¹ and it shall be, when your days have been fulfilled to go away with your fathers, that I shall raise up your seed after you, who shall be of your sons, and I shall establish his kingdom. ¹² He shall build a house for Me, and I shall establish his throne forever; ¹³ I shall be a Father to him, and he shall be a son to Me; and I will not take My mercy away from him, as I took it away from him who was before you; ¹⁴ and I will make him stand in My house and in My kingdom forever; and his throne shall be made to stand forever. ¹⁵ According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.

⁹ Behold, a son shall be born to you; he shall be a man of rest, and I will give him rest from all his enemies all around, for Solomon shall be his name, and I will give peace and quietness to Israel in his days; ¹⁰ he shall build a house to My name, and he shall be a son to Me, and I a Father to him; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever. ¹¹ Now, my son, may Jehovah be with you, and may you prosper and build the house of Jehovah your God, as He spoke concerning you.

⁵ And of all my sons, for Jehovah has given me many sons, He has chosen my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the kingdom of Jehovah, over Israel. ⁶ And He said to me, Your son Solomon shall build My house and My courts, for I have chosen him as a son to Me, and I surely will be a Father to him. ⁷ And I will establish his kingdom forever, if he will be strong to do My commandments and My ordinances, as at this day.

⁹ And you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a perfect heart, and with a willing mind. For Jehovah searches out all hearts, and He understands every imagination of thoughts. If you shall seek Him, He shall be found by you. But if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.

³ And Jehovah was with Jehoshaphat, for he walked in the first ways of his father David; and he did not seek to the Baals.

⁹ For evildoers shall be cut off; and the ones waiting on Jehovah, they shall inherit the earth.

²² For His blessed ones inherit the earth, and those cursed by Him shall be cut off.

²⁹ And I have established his Seed forever, and His throne as the days of the heavens. ³⁰ If his children forsake My law and do not walk in My judgments; ³¹ if they profane My statutes and do not keep My commandments; ³² then I will visit their transgressions with the rod, and their sins with stripes. ³³ But I will not annul My mercy from him, and I will not be false in My faithfulness. ³⁴ I will not profane My covenant, nor change what goes from My lips. ³⁵ Once I have sworn by My holiness; I will not lie to David. ³⁶ His seed shall be forever, and his throne as the sun before Me. ³⁷ Like the moon, it shall be forever; and a faithful witness in the sky. Selah.

¹¹ Jehovah has sworn to David in truth; He will not turn from it; I will set one of the fruit of your body on the throne for you. ¹² If your sons will keep My covenant and My testimonies which I will teach them, their sons shall also sit on your throne till forever.

² For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem. And the city shall be captured, and the houses plundered, and the women ravished. And half the city shall go into exile and the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

³⁷ And Jesus said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind." Deut. 6:5

⁶ And they were both righteous before God, walking blameless in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

⁹ As the Father loved Me, I also loved you; continue in My love. ¹⁰ If you keep My commandments you will continue in My love, as I have kept My Father's commandments and continue in His love.

²⁰ But you, beloved, building yourselves up by your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, ²¹ keep yourselves in the love of God, eagerly awaiting the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to everlasting life.

²⁴ Now to Him being able to keep you without stumbling, and to set you before His glory without blemish, with unspeakable joy;

¹⁸ And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel. And Asahel was swift with his feet, like one of the gazelles in the field.

²⁷ And Abner returned to Hebron. And Joab turned him aside into the middle of the gate, to speak with him privately. And he struck him in the belly there, and he died, because of the blood of his brother Asahel.

³⁹ And I am weak today, though anointed king. And these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too hard for me. May Jehovah reward the doer of evil according to his evil!

²⁵ And Absalom had set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. And Amasa was the son of a man whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who had gone in to Abigail, the daughter of Nahash, the sister of Zeruiah, the brother of Joab.

⁵ And the king commanded Joab, and Abishai, and Ittai, saying, For my sake deal gently with the young man, with Absalom. And all the people heard as the king commanded the commanders concerning Absalom.

¹² And the man said to Joab, Yes, though I weighed a thousand silverlings in my hand, I would not put forth my hand to the king's son. For in our ears the king commanded you, and Abishai, and Ittai saying, Take heed, whoever goes against the young man, against Absalom.

¹⁴ And Joab said, I will not wait this wait before you. And he took three darts in his hand and struck them into Absalom's heart while he was alive, in the midst of the oak.

⁵ And Joab came in to the king to the house, and said, You have put to shame today the faces of all your servants, those delivering your life today, and the life of your sons, and of your daughters, and the life of your wives, and the life of your concubines, ⁶ by loving those who hate you, and by hating those who love you, for you have declared today that there are no leaders nor servants to you. For I know today that if Absalom were alive and all of us dead today, that it would be right in your eyes. ⁷ And now rise up; go out and speak to the heart of your servants. For I have sworn by Jehovah that if you do not go out, not a man shall remain with you tonight. And this would be worse for you than all the evil that has come on you from your youth until now.

¹⁰ And Amasa was not on guard against the sword in Joab's hand. And he struck him with it, to the belly, and poured out his bowels to the ground, and did not strike him again. And he died. And Joab and his brother Abishai pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.

⁷ And his words were with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest. And they helped, going after Adonijah.

¹⁸ And now, behold, Adonijah reigns. And now, my lord O king, you have not known. ¹⁹ And he sacrifices oxen, and fatlings, and sheep in abundance, and has called all the king's sons, and Abiathar the priest and Joab the commander of the army. But he has not called to your servant Solomon.

³² And Jehovah shall turn back his blood on his own head, who has fallen on two men more righteous and better than he, and murdered them with the sword; and my father David not knowing: Abner the son of Ner, the commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, the commander of the army of Judah.

³⁴ Also on your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents; you did not find them breaking in, but on all these.

¹⁵ Were they ashamed when they made an abomination? They were not at all ashamed, nor did they know to blush. So they shall fall among those who fall. At the time I visit them, they shall be cast down, says Jehovah.

⁷ For her blood is in her midst, she set it on a shining rock. She did not pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust. ⁸ In order to cause fury to come up to take vengeance, I have put her blood on a shining rock, that it should not be covered.

⁶ Whoever sheds man's blood, his blood shall be shed by man. For He made man in the image of God.

³⁸ And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. And if harm should happen to him in the way in which you go, you would bring down my gray hair in sorrow to the grave.

³³ And you shall not pollute the land in which you are, for blood pollutes the land. And no ransom is to be taken for the land for blood which is shed in it, except for the blood of him who sheds it;

⁹ And now, do not acquit him, for you are a wise man, and you know that which you shall do to him and shall bring his old age down with blood to Sheol.

²⁸ And the report came to Joab, for Joab had turned aside after Adonijah though he did not turn aside after Absalom. And Joab fled to the tabernacle of Jehovah, and lay hold on the horns of the altar. ²⁹ And it was told to king Solomon that Joab had fled to the tabernacle of Jehovah, and, behold, he was by the altar. And Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall on him. ³⁰ And Benaiah came into the tabernacle of Jehovah and said to him, So says the king, Come out. And he said, No, but I will die here. And Benaiah brought back word to the king, saying, So says Joab. Yea, so he answered me. ³¹ And the king said to him, Do as he has said, and fall on him, and bury him, and turn aside the innocent blood which Joab shed, off of me and off of my father's house. ³² And Jehovah shall turn back his blood on his own head, who has fallen on two men more righteous and better than he, and murdered them with the sword; and my father David not knowing: Abner the son of Ner, the commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, the commander of the army of Judah. ³³ Yea, He shall turn back their blood on the head of Joab, and on the head of his seed forever. And as for David and for his seed, and for his house, and for his throne, there shall be peace forever from Jehovah. ³⁴ And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and fell on him, and executed him. And he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.

²⁰ Behold! Even so I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered into your grave in peace; and your eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring on this place. And they brought back this word to the king.

³⁷ Watch the perfect and behold the upright one; for the end of that man is peace.

²⁶ A wise king scatters the wicked and turns the wheel over them.

¹⁷ Any man oppressed with the blood of a soul shall flee to the pit; let them not uphold him.

¹¹ Where sentence on an evil work is not executed speedily, on account of this the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

²² There is no peace, says Jehovah, to the wicked.

² He shall enter peace; they shall rest on their couches, walking in his uprightness.

²¹ There is no peace to the wicked, says my God.

²⁰ There shall not still be an infant of days, or an old man that has not filled his days. For the youth shall die the son of a hundred years, but the sinner the son of a hundred years shall be accursed.

⁷ And David said to him, Do not be afraid, for I will certainly show kindness to you because of your father Jonathan. And I will give back to you all the land of your father Saul. And you shall eat bread at my table continually.

¹⁰ And you shall till the land for him, you and your sons and your servants. And you shall bring in the fruits, so that your master's son may have bread to eat. But Mephibosheth your master's son shall eat bread continually at my table. And Ziba had fifteen sons, and twenty servants.

¹³ And a messenger came to David, saying, The hearts of the men of Israel have gone after Absalom. ¹⁴ And David said to all his servants who were with him in Jerusalem, Rise up, and we will flee; for we have no escape from the face of Absalom. Hurry to leave, that he not overtake us and bring evil down on us, and strike the city with the mouth of the sword. ¹⁵ And the king's servants said to the king, According to all that my lord the king desires, behold, your servants will do .

²⁷ And it happened as David came into Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash, from Rabbah of the sons of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel, from Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite, from Rogelim, ²⁸ brought beds, and basins, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and roasted grain, and beans, and lentils, and roasted grain, ²⁹ and honey, and curds and sheep, and cheese from the herd, for David, and for the people who were with him to eat. For they said, The people are hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness.

²⁸ For all the house of my father would be nothing except men of death before my lord the king, and you have set your servant among those eating at your table. And what right is there to any more, even to cry any more to the king?

³¹ And Barzillai the Gileadite had gone down from Rogelim and had crossed over the Jordan with the king, to send him away over the Jordan. ³² And Barzillai was very old, a son of eighty years, and he had sustained the king as he abode in Mahanaim, for he was a very great man. ³³ And the king said to Barzillai, You pass over with me and I will sustain you with me in Jerusalem. ³⁴ And Barzillai said to the king, How many are the days of the years of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem? ³⁵ I am a son of eighty years today. Can I distinguish between good and evil? Can your servant taste that which I am eating, and that which I drink? Can I any more listen to the voice of singing men and singing women? And why should your servant be any more as a burden to my lord the king? ³⁶ Just a little way your servant shall cross over the Jordan with the king. And why should the king repay me with this reward? ³⁷ Please let your servant return, and I shall die in my own city, near the burying place of my father and my mother. And, behold your servant Chimham! Let him cross over with my lord the king, and you do to him the good in your eyes. ³⁸ And the king said, Chimham shall go over with me, and I shall do to him that which is good in your eyes. Yea, all that you shall choose of me I will do for you. ³⁹ And all the people crossed over the Jordan, and the king crossed over. And the king gave a kiss to Barzillai and blessed him. And he returned to his place. ⁴⁰ And the king crossed over to Gilgal. And Chimham crossed over with him, and all the people of Judah. And they brought the king over, and also half of the people of Israel.

¹⁰ Do not forsake your friend, nor your father's friend, and do not go into your brother's house in the day of your calamity, for a near neighbor is better than a brother far away.

³⁷ Blessed are those slaves whom the Lord will find watching when he comes. Truly I say to you that he will gird himself and will make them recline, and coming up he will serve them.

²⁸ But you are those continuing with Me in My temptation. ²⁹ And I appoint a kingdom to you, as My Father appointed to Me, ³⁰ that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom; and you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

²⁰ Behold, I stand at the door and knock: If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will enter to him, and I will dine with him, and he with Me. ²¹ The one overcoming, I will give to him to sit with Me in My throne, as I also overcame and sat with My Father in His throne.

⁵ And king David came to Bahurim. And, behold, a man was coming out from there, of the family of the house of Saul; and his name was Shimei, the son of Gera. He came out, and he came cursing. ⁶ And he stoned David with stones and all the servants of king David, and all the people, and all the mighty men on his right and on his left. ⁷ And Shimei said this in his cursing, Go out! Go out, O man of blood, O worthless man! ⁸ Jehovah has turned back on you all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned. And Jehovah shall give the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. And, behold, you are taken in your mischief, for you are a man of blood.

¹⁶ And Shimei, the son of Gera, the Benjamite, from Bahurim, hastened and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David. ¹⁷ And a thousand men were with him from Benjamin; also Ziba, the servant of the house of Saul, and his thirteen sons and his twenty servants with him. And they had rushed over the Jordan before the king. ¹⁸ And they had crossed over the ford to carry over the king's household, and to do the good in his eyes. And Shimei the son of Gera had fallen before the face of the king as he crossed over the Jordan. ¹⁹ And he said to the king, Do not let my lord charge iniquity to me, nor shall you remember that which your servant perversely did in the day that my lord the king went out from Jerusalem, for the king to take it to his heart. ²⁰ For your servant knows that I have sinned; and behold, I come today, the first of the house of Joseph, to go down to meet my lord the king. ²¹ And Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the anointed of Jehovah? ²² And David said, What have I to do with you, O sons of Zeruiah, that you are as my foe today? Shall any man be executed today in Israel? For do I not know that today I am king over Israel? ²³ And the king said to Shimei, You shall not die. And the king swore to him.

³⁶ And the king sent and called Shimei and said to him, Build a house for yourself in Jerusalem and live there, and do not go out from there anywhere. ³⁷ And it shall be, in the day you go out and cross the torrent Kidron, you shall certainly know that dying you shall die; your blood shall be on your head. ³⁸ And Shimei said to the king, The word is good. As my lord the king has spoken, so your servant shall do. And Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days. ³⁹ And it happened at the end of three years, two of Shimei's servants fled to Achish the son of Maachah, the king of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying, Behold, your servants are in Gath. ⁴⁰ And Shimei rose up and saddled his ass and went to Gath, to Achish, to seek his servants. And Shimei went and brought his servants from Gath. ⁴¹ And it was told to Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and had returned. ⁴² And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, Did I not cause you to swear by Jehovah, and testify to you, saying, In the day you go out, and you have gone anywhere, you certainly shall know that you shall surely die. And you said to me, The word I have heard is good. ⁴³ And why have you not kept the oath of Jehovah, and the charge that I commanded you? ⁴⁴ And the king said to Shimei, You shall know all the evil that your heart has known, that which you did to my father David. Now Jehovah has turned back your evil on your head. ⁴⁵ And king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before Jehovah forever. ⁴⁶ And the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and he went out and fell on him, and he died. And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.

² and you will swear, As Jehovah lives, in truth, in justice, and in righteousness; even the nations shall bless themselves in Him, and in Him they will glory.

³¹ it will be when he sees that the youth is not, he will die. And your servants will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father to the grave in sorrow.

⁷ You shall not take the name of Jehovah your God in vain; for Jehovah will not leave unpunished the one who takes His name in vain.

²⁸ You shall not revile God, and you shall not curse a ruler among your people.

²³ But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against Jehovah, and know that your sin will find you out.

⁶ and you shall do according to your wisdom, and shall not let his gray hair go down to Sheol in peace.

¹² behold, I have done according to your words. Behold, I have given to you a wise and understanding heart, so that there was none like you before you, and after you none shall rise up like you.

²⁸ And all Israel heard of the judgment that the king had judged, and feared from the face of the king; for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to do judgment.

²⁸ I am afraid of all my sorrows; I know that You will not hold me innocent;

⁷ And David captured the stronghold of Zion. It is the city of David.

²¹ And it will be, when my lord the king lies with his fathers, that I, my son Solomon and I, shall be offenders.

¹ And Solomon made an alliance by marriage with Pharaoh the king of Egypt. And he took Pharaoh's daughter and brought her into the city of David, until he finished building his own house, and the house of Jehovah, and the wall of Jerusalem all around.

⁴³ and Solomon lay with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David; and his son Rehoboam reigned in his place.

⁷ And David lived in the fortress; on this account they called it the City of David.

²⁸ And he died in a good old age, satisfied with days, riches, and honor. And his son Solomon reigned in his place.

²⁹ Men, brothers, it is permitted to say to you with plainness as to the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is among us until this day.

³⁶ For having served his own generation by the counsel of God, David truly fell asleep and was added to his fathers and saw corruption. 1 Kg. 2:10

⁴ And David was a son of thirty years when he became king; he reigned forty years. ⁵ In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months; and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty three years over all Israel and Judah.

²⁶ And David the son of Jesse had reigned over all Israel; ²⁷ and the days that he reigned over Israel were forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron, and he reigned thirty three years in Jerusalem.

¹² When your days are fulfilled, and you lie with your fathers, then I shall raise up your seed after you, who shall come out from your bowels, and I shall establish his kingdom. ¹³ He shall build a house for My Name, and I shall establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

²⁹ And now, let it please You to bless the house of Your servant, to be forever before You. For You, O Lord Jehovah, have spoken, and with Your blessing shall the house of Your servant be blessed forever.

⁴⁶ And also Solomon has sat on the throne of the kingdom.

²³ And Solomon sat on the throne of Jehovah as king instead of his father David, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him. ²⁴ And all the rulers, and the mighty men, and also all the sons of king David, submitted themselves to Solomon the king. ²⁵ And Jehovah magnified Solomon to a height in the eyes of all Israel, and put the honor of the kingdom on him, such as had not been on any king over Israel before him.

¹ And Solomon the son of David made himself strong over his kingdom, and Jehovah his God was with him, and made him exceedingly great.

⁸ He shall also rule from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth. ⁹ Those dwelling in the desert will bow before Him, and His enemies will lick the dust. ¹⁰ The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents; the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts. ¹¹ Yea, all kings shall fall down before Him; all nations shall serve Him. ¹² For He shall save the needy who cries, and the poor with no helper. ¹³ He shall have pity on the poor and needy; and He saves the souls of the needy ones. ¹⁴ He shall redeem their souls from oppression and violence; and their blood shall be precious in His eyes. ¹⁵ And He shall live, and the gold of Sheba shall be given to Him; and prayer shall be made for Him continually; He shall bless Him all the day long. ¹⁶ A fullness of grain shall be in the earth on top of the mountains; its fruit shall shake like Lebanon; and they of the city shall flourish like the grass of the earth. ¹⁷ His name shall be forever; His name shall continue before the sun; and they shall bless themselves by Him; all nations shall call Him blessed. ¹⁸ Blessed is Jehovah God, the God of Israel, who alone does wonderful things. ¹⁹ And blessed is His glorious name forever; and the whole earth is filled with His glory! Amen and amen! ²⁰ The prayers of David the son of Jesse have ended.

¹² If your sons will keep My covenant and My testimonies which I will teach them, their sons shall also sit on your throne till forever.

⁴ And Samuel did what Jehovah said, and came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the city trembled to meet him, and said, Do you come in peace? ⁵ And he said, Peace! I have come to sacrifice to Jehovah. Sanctify yourselves and you shall come to me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.

⁵ And Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will reign. And he prepared a chariot for himself, and horsemen, and fifty men running before his face. ⁶ And his father had not troubled him all his days, saying, Why have you done so? And he also was very good of form, and one had borne him after Absalom. ⁷ And his words were with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest. And they helped, going after Adonijah. ⁸ But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men who were to David, were not with Adonijah. ⁹ And Adonijah sacrificed sheep and oxen and fatlings near the Stone of Serpents which is near En-rogel. And he called all his brothers, the sons of the king, and all the men of Judah, the servants of the king. ¹⁰ But he did not call Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and his brother Solomon.

⁵⁰ And Adonijah was afraid because of Solomon, and he rose up and went and lay hold on the horns of the altar. ⁵¹ And it was told to Solomon, saying, Adonijah is afraid of king Solomon. And, behold, he has laid hold on the horns of the altar, saying, Let king Solomon swear to me as of today that he will not put his servant to death by the sword. ⁵² And Solomon said, If he becomes a son of virtue, not a hair of his head shall fall to the earth. But if evil is found in him, then he shall die. ⁵³ And king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. And he came in and bowed to king Solomon. And Solomon said to him, Go to your house.

¹⁸ And the rider on the horse went to meet him, and said, So says the king, Is it peace? And Jehu said, What have you to do with peace? Turn behind me. And the watchman spoke, saying, The messenger came to them, and he has not returned. ¹⁹ And he sent a second rider on a horse. And he came to them, and said, So says the king, Peace? And Jehu said, What have you to do with peace? Turn behind me. ²⁰ And the watchman spoke, saying, He came to them, and he has not returned. And the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi, for he drives madly. ²¹ And Jehoram said, Harness up! And his chariot was harnessed. And Jehoram the king of Israel and Ahaziah the king of Judah went out, each in his chariot. And they went out to meet Jehu, and found him in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite. ²² And it happened, when Jehoram saw Jehu, he said, Peace, Jehu? And he said, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of your mother Jezebel and her sorceries are so many?

¹⁷ And David went out before them, and answered and said to them, If you have come to me for peace, to help me, I have a heart to unite with yours. But if to betray me to my foe, there is no violence in my hand; the God of our fathers shall see and reprove. ¹⁸ And the Spirit enwrapped Amasai, the head of the thirty: To you, O David, and with you, O son of Jesse, peace! Peace to you, and peace to your helpers, for your God has helped you. And David received them, and put them among the heads of the band.

⁵ And into whatever house you may enter, first say, Peace to this house. ⁶ And if a son of peace is truly there, your peace shall rest on it; but if not so, it shall return to you.

¹² And the woman said, Please let your servant speak a word to my lord the king. And he said, Speak.

⁴⁰ And answering, Jesus said to the man, Simon, I have a thing to say to you. And he said, Teacher, say it .

¹² When your days are fulfilled, and you lie with your fathers, then I shall raise up your seed after you, who shall come out from your bowels, and I shall establish his kingdom.

²⁴ And David comforted his wife Bathsheba. And he went into her, and lay with her. And she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. And Jehovah loved him,

⁶ And Absalom acted this way to all Israel who came in to the king for judgment. And Absalom stole the heart of the men of Israel.

¹³ And a messenger came to David, saying, The hearts of the men of Israel have gone after Absalom.

¹⁸ And Hushai said to Absalom, No, for he whom Jehovah and this people have chosen, even all the men of Israel, his I shall be, and I shall remain with him.

⁵ And Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will reign. And he prepared a chariot for himself, and horsemen, and fifty men running before his face.

²⁵ For he has gone down today and sacrificed oxen, and fatlings, and sheep in abundance, and has called all the king's sons, and the army commanders, and Abiathar the priest. And behold, they are eating and drinking before him, and they are saying, Let king Adonijah live!

⁹ Behold, a son shall be born to you; he shall be a man of rest, and I will give him rest from all his enemies all around, for Solomon shall be his name, and I will give peace and quietness to Israel in his days; ¹⁰ he shall build a house to My name, and he shall be a son to Me, and I a Father to him; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.

³⁰ There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel before Jehovah.

⁵ I have made the earth, the man, and the animals on the face of the earth, by My great power, and by My outstretched arm; and I have given it to whom it seemed right in My eyes. ⁶ And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant. And I have also given him the beast of the field to serve him. ⁷ And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the time of his own land comes, and his time . And many nations and great kings shall enslave him. ⁸ And it shall be, the nation and kingdom which will not serve him, Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put its neck in the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation, says Jehovah, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the plague, until I have destroyed them by his hand.

²² He reveals the deep and secret things; He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells in Him.

¹⁰ For Your servant David's sake do not turn away the face of Your anointed.

⁷ I have asked two things from You: Do not hold back from me before I die,

⁷ And Saul had a concubine, and her name was Rizpah the daughter of Aiah. And Ishbosheth said to Abner, Why have you gone in to my father's concubine?

⁸ And I gave you the house of your master, and your master's wives into your bosom. And I gave you the house of Israel and of Judah. And if that were too little, then I would have added to you these and those things .

² And his servants said to him, Let them seek out a young woman for my lord the king, a virgin, and she shall stand before the king, and be a nurse to him, and lie in your bosom, and my lord the king shall have heat. ³ And they sought out a beautiful young woman in all the border of Israel. And they found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her in to the king. ⁴ And the young woman was exceedingly beautiful, and she was a nurse to the king and served him. But the king did not know her.

¹⁵ The simple believes every word, but the wise considers his step.

¹² Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long on the land which Jehovah your God is giving to you.

³ Each man of you shall revere his mother and his father, and keep My sabbaths; I am Jehovah your God.

³² You shall rise up in the face of gray hair; and you shall honor the face of an old man; and be afraid of your God. I am Jehovah.

¹³ And he also removed his mother Maachah from being queen, in that she made a horrid thing for Asherah. And Asa cut down her horrid thing and burned it by the torrent Kidron.

⁹ King's daughters are among Your precious ones; the queen stands at Your right hand in gold of Ophir.

¹ A Psalm of David. A statement of Jehovah to my Lord: Sit at My right hand, until I place Your enemies as Your footstool.

³³ And indeed He will set the sheep off His right, but the goats off the left hand .

⁷ Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. ⁸ For each one that asks receives, and the one that seeks finds; and to the one knocking, it will be opened. ⁹ Or what man of you is there, if his son should ask a loaf of him, will he give him a stone? ¹⁰ And if he should ask a fish, will he give him a snake? ¹¹ Therefore, if you, being evil. know to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in Heaven give good things to those that ask Him?

³⁵ I came to dissever a man from his father, and a daughter from her mother, and a bride from her mother-in-law. ³⁶ "And a man's enemies shall be those of his own house." Mic. 7:6

²⁴ But I say to you, It will be more bearable for the land of Sodom in Judgment day than for you.

¹⁹ Again I say to you, If two of you agree on earth as to anything, whatever they shall ask, it shall be to them from My Father in Heaven.

²⁰ Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came near to Him, along with her sons, worshipping, and asking something from Him. ²¹ And He said to her, What do you desire? She said to Him, Say that these two sons of mine may sit one on Your right, and one on Your left in Your Kingdom.

⁹ And I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. ¹⁰ For everyone asking receives, and the one seeking finds, and to the one knocking, it will be opened.

³ And being short of wine, the mother of Jesus said to Him, They have no wine. ⁴ Jesus said to her, What is that to Me and to you, woman? My hour has not yet come.

¹³ And whatever you may ask in My Name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. ¹⁴ If you ask anything in My Name, I will do it .

¹⁶ You have not chosen Me, but I chose you out and planted you, that you should go and should bear fruit, and your fruit remain, that whatever you should ask the Father in My name, He may give you.

²¹ And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Go in to your father's concubines, those he left to keep the house. And all Israel shall hear that you have become odious with your father. And the hands of all who are with you will be strong. ²² And they spread out a tent for Absalom on the roof. And Absalom went to his father's concubines before the eyes of all Israel.

³ And they sought out a beautiful young woman in all the border of Israel. And they found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her in to the king.

⁵ And Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will reign. And he prepared a chariot for himself, and horsemen, and fifty men running before his face. ⁶ And his father had not troubled him all his days, saying, Why have you done so? And he also was very good of form, and one had borne him after Absalom. ⁷ And his words were with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest. And they helped, going after Adonijah.

¹¹ And Nathan spoke to Bathsheba, the mother of Solomon, saying, Have you not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith reigns, and our lord David does not know?

²⁴ And Nathan said, My lord O king, have you said, Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne? ²⁵ For he has gone down today and sacrificed oxen, and fatlings, and sheep in abundance, and has called all the king's sons, and the army commanders, and Abiathar the priest. And behold, they are eating and drinking before him, and they are saying, Let king Adonijah live!

² the third, Absalom, the son of Maachah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith;

⁵ And these were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, four to Bathsheba the daughter of Ammiel;

²² But answering, Jesus said, You do not know what you ask. Are you able to drink the cup which I am about to drink, and to be baptized with the baptism with which I am to be baptized? They said to Him, We are able.

³⁸ But Jesus said to them, You do not know what you ask. Are you able to drink the cup which I drink, and to be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with ?

³ You ask, and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, in order that you may spend on your lusts.

¹⁷ Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May Jehovah do to me, and more so, if anything but death part you and me.

⁴⁴ And Saul said, God do so and more also, for you shall surely die, Jonathan.

⁹ May God do to Abner, and more so, if I do not do to David as Jehovah has sworn,

³⁵ And all the people came to cause David to eat food while it was yet day. But David swore, saying, So may God do to me, and still more, if I taste bread or anything before the sun goes in.

¹³ And say to Amasa, Are you not my bone and my flesh? So shall God do to me, and more so He shall do, if you are not commander of the army before me all the days, instead of Joab.

¹⁰ And Ben-hadad sent to him, and said, So shall the gods do to me and more also if the dust of Samaria shall be enough for handfuls for all the people that follow me.

³¹ And he said, So may God do to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall remain on him today.

⁸ So they shall be confounded; their tongue falls upon themselves; everyone seeing them shall flee.

⁹ As for the leaders of those around me, let the evil of their own lips cover them.

⁶ A fool's lips enter into strife, and his mouth calls for strokes. ⁷ A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are a snare of his soul.

¹² The words of a wise mouth are grace, but the lips of a stupid one swallow him;

²² But he said to him, I will judge you out of your own mouth, wicked slave. You knew that I am an exacting man, taking what I did not lay down, and reaping what I did not sow.

²¹ And it was, because the midwives feared God, He made houses for them.

²⁸ I beg you, bear with the transgression of your handmaid, for Jehovah shall certainly make a sure house for my lord. For my lord has fought the battles of Jehovah, and evil has not been found in you all your days.

¹¹ even from the day I commanded judges to be over My people Israel. And I will cause you to rest from all your enemies. And Jehovah declares to you that Jehovah will make you a house.

²⁷ For You, O Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, You have uncovered the ear of Your servant, saying, I will build a house for you. On account of this Your servant has found his heart to pray to You this prayer.

²⁹ And the king swore and said, As Jehovah lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all distress,

⁵² And Solomon said, If he becomes a son of virtue, not a hair of his head shall fall to the earth. But if evil is found in him, then he shall die.

⁶ And Solomon said, You have shown great kindness to Your servant, my father David, as he walked before You in truth and in righteousness and in uprightness of heart with You. And You have kept for him this great kindness, and have given to him a son sitting on his throne, as today. ⁷ And now, O Jehovah my God, You have caused Your servant to reign instead of my father David. And I am a little man-child; I do not know to go out and to come in.

⁹ Blessed be Jehovah your God who delighted in you, to put you on the throne of Israel, because Jehovah loved Israel forever, therefore He made you king, to do judgment and righteousness.

¹⁰ yea, even from the day that I appointed judges over My people Israel. And I will humble all your enemies; and I declare to you that Jehovah shall build a house for you;

¹⁷ And this was a small thing in Your eyes, O God; but You have spoken to Your servant house for a great while to come, and have looked upon me as a type of the Man who is on high, O Jehovah God!

²³ And now, O Jehovah, the word that You have spoken as to Your servant, and as to his house, let it be established forever, and do as You have spoken;

¹⁰ he shall build a house to My name, and he shall be a son to Me, and I a Father to him; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.

²³ And Solomon sat on the throne of Jehovah as king instead of his father David, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him.

⁸ And Solomon said to God, You have acted with great kindness with my father David, and have made me king in his place. ⁹ Now, O Jehovah God, Your word with my father David is confirmed, for You have made me to reign over a people as many as the dust of the earth.

¹ A Song of Ascents, for Solomon. If Jehovah does not build the house, they who build it labor in vain; if Jehovah does not keep the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.

¹¹ Where sentence on an evil work is not executed speedily, on account of this the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. ¹² Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged to him, yet surely I know that it shall be well to those who fear God, who fear before Him. ¹³ But it shall not be well for the wicked; and he shall not lengthen his days like a shadow; because he does not fear before God.

²⁰ And he said to his first-born, Jether, Rise up, kill them. But the young man did not draw his sword, for he was afraid, for he was still a youth. ²¹ And Zebah and Zalmunna said, You rise up and fall on us, for as the man, so is his might. And Gideon rose up and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the moon crescents which were on the necks of their camels.

³³ And Samuel said, As your sword has bereaved women of children, so shall your mother be bereft among women. And Samuel cut Agag in pieces before Jehovah in Gilgal.

¹⁵ And David called to one of the young men, and said, Draw near and fall on him. And he struck him, and he died.

¹² And David commanded his young men. And they killed them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hung them by the pool in Hebron. And they took the head of Ishbosheth and buried it in burying place of Abner in Hebron.

¹⁸ and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over both the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were priests.

³¹ And the king said to him, Do as he has said, and fall on him, and bury him, and turn aside the innocent blood which Joab shed, off of me and off of my father's house.

³⁴ And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and fell on him, and executed him. And he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.

⁴⁶ And the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and he went out and fell on him, and he died. And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.

¹⁸ Anathoth and its open lands, and Almon and its open lands; four cities.

²⁰ And one son escaped of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub. And his name was Abiathar, and he fled after David. ²¹ And Abiathar told David that Saul had killed the priests of Jehovah. ²² And David said to Abiathar, I knew on that day when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he certainly would tell Saul. I am accountable for all the lives of your father's house. ²³ Stay with me. Do not fear. For he who seeks my life seeks your life. For with me you will be under protection.

⁶ And it happened, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David, near Keilah, an ephod came in his hand. ⁷ And it was told to Saul that David had come to Keilah. And Saul said, God has estranged him into my hand. For he is shut in, to enter into a city of gates and a bar. ⁸ And Saul heard and called all the people to battle, to go down to Keilah, to lay siege to David and to his men. ⁹ But David knew that Saul was devising evil against him. And he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring the ephod near.

¹⁶ This thing which you have done is not good. As Jehovah lives, you also are sons of death, in that you have not watched over your lord, over the anointed of Jehovah. And now, see where the king's spear is, and the jar of water which was at his head-place?

⁵ And David's anger glowed greatly against the man. And he said to Nathan, As Jehovah lives, surely the man who did this is a son of death.

²⁴ And, behold, Zadok also came, and all the Levites with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God. And they set the ark of God down. And Abiathar went up until all the people finished passing on out of the city. ²⁵ And the king said to Zadok, Take the ark of God back to the city. If I find grace in the eyes of Jehovah, then He will bring me back and show it and His dwelling place to me. ²⁶ And if He says this, I have not delighted in you, behold, I am here. He shall do to me as seems good in His eyes. ²⁷ And the king said to Zadok the priest, Are you a seer? Return to the city in peace, and your two sons with you, your son Ahimaaz, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar. ²⁸ Behold, I will wait in the plain of the wilderness until word comes from you to report to me. ²⁹ And Zadok and Abiathar took the ark of God back to Jerusalem. And they remained there.

³⁵ And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his place over the army. And the king put Zadok the priest in the place of Abiathar.

¹¹ And David called to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, and to the Levites, to Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab, ¹² and said to them, You are the heads of your fathers of the Levites; sanctify yourselves, you and your brothers, and you shall bring up the ark of Jehovah, the God of Israel, to the place I have prepared for it.

³⁰ Shriek with your voice, daughter of ruins; bow, Laish, afflicted of Anathoth.

¹ The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, one of the priests who resided in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin,

⁴² And whoever gives only a cup of cold water to drink to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple, truly I say to you, In no way will he lose his reward.

²⁸ But you are those continuing with Me in My temptation.

⁴ Did you suffer so much vainly, if indeed it also was vainly?

¹ And all the company of the sons of Israel were gathered at Shiloh. And they established the tabernacle of the congregation there. And the land had been subdued before them.

²⁷ And a man of God came to Eli, and said to him, So says Jehovah: Did I reveal Myself plainly to the house of your father when they were in Egypt, at the house of Pharaoh, ²⁸ even to choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be priest to Me, to go up on My altar, to cause incense to smoke, to bear an ephod before Me? And did I give to your father's house all the fire offerings of the sons of Israel? ²⁹ Why do you kick at My sacrifice and at My offering which I commanded in My habitation? And why do you honor your sons above Me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of My people? ³⁰ So says Jehovah the God of Israel, I said indeed that your house and your father's house should walk before Me until forever. But now Jehovah says, Be it far from Me! For those who honor Me, I will honor; and those despising Me will be despicable. ³¹ Behold, days come when I shall cut off your arm, and the arm of your father's house, that no old man shall be in your house. ³² And you shall see an adversary in My habitation, in all that he does good with Israel. And there shall not be an old man in your house all the days. ³³ And the man of yours that I shall not cut off from My altar shall be to cause your eyes to fail, and to grieve your soul. And all the increase of your house shall die young men. ³⁴ And this shall be the sign to you, that which shall come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day the both of them shall die. ³⁵ And I shall raise up for Myself a faithful priest. He shall do all that is in My heart and in My soul. And I shall build for him a sure house; and he shall walk before My anointed all the days. ³⁶ And it shall be, everyone who is left in your house shall come in to bow to him for a wage of silver and a loaf of bread. And they shall say, please admit me into one of the priest's offices, to eat a bit of bread.

¹² In that day I will confirm to Eli all that I have spoken to his house, beginning and making an end. ¹³ And I declare to him that I am judging his house forever, for the iniquity which he has known; for his sons have been making themselves vile, and he has not restrained them. ¹⁴ And so I have sworn to the house of Eli, the iniquity of the house of Eli shall not be atoned for, by sacrifice or by offering, until forever.

⁶⁰ And He left the tabernacle of Shiloh; the tent He dwelt in among men;

¹² But go now to My place which was in Shiloh, where I made My name dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the evil of My people Israel. ¹³ And now, because you have done all these works, says Jehovah, and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you did not hear. Yea, I called you, but you did not answer. ¹⁴ And I will do to the house on which My name is called, in which you are trusting, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.

⁵⁶ But all this is happening that the Scriptures of the prophets may be fulfilled. Then all the disciples ran away, forsaking Him.

³⁸ so that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he said, "Lord, who has believed our report? And the arm of the Lord, to whom was it revealed?" Isa. 53:1

²⁴ Then they said to one another, Let us not tear it, but let us cast lots about it, whose it will be (that the Scripture might be fulfilled which said, "They divided My garments among them," and "they threw a lot for My garment." Then indeed the soldiers did these things. LXX-Psa. 21:19; MT-Psa. 22:18)

²⁸ After this, knowing that all things have now been finished that the Scripture be completed, Jesus said, I thirst.

³⁶ For these things happened that the Scripture might be fulfilled, "Not a bone of Him shall be broken." Ex. 12:46; Psa. 34:20 ³⁷ And again, a different Scripture says, "They shall look at Him whom they have pierced." Zech. 12:10

² And you shall make its horns on its four corners. Its horns shall be a part of itself. And you shall overlay it with bronze.

³⁵ Vengeance and retribution belong to Me; in due time their foot will slip; for the day of their calamity is near, and the things prepared are hurrying for them.

² And David sent one third of the people by the hand of Joab, and one third by the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and one third by Ittai the Gittite. And the king said to the people. Going out I will go with you, I also.

¹⁴ And Joab said, I will not wait this wait before you. And he took three darts in his hand and struck them into Absalom's heart while he was alive, in the midst of the oak. ¹⁵ And they went around, ten young men bearing Joab's weapons, and struck Absalom, and killed him.

⁵⁰ And Adonijah was afraid because of Solomon, and he rose up and went and lay hold on the horns of the altar.

¹⁴ And when a man seethes insolently against his neighbor, to kill him by deceit, you shall take him from My altar to die.

²⁵ And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and he fell on him, and he died.

⁶ Slay old men, choice men, and virgins, and children, and women, all to destruction. But to every man who has the mark on him, do not come near. And begin from My sanctuary. And they began with the old men who were before the house.

¹⁷ Because the time has come to begin the judgment from the house of God; and if firstly from us, what will be the end of the ones disobeying the gospel of God?

⁵ And surely the blood of your lives I will demand. At the hand of every animal I will demand it, and at the hand of man. I will demand the life of man at the hand of every man's brother. ⁶ Whoever sheds man's blood, his blood shall be shed by man. For He made man in the image of God.

¹² then the elders of his city shall send and bring from him there, and give him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die. ¹³ Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the innocent blood from Israel, and it shall be well with you.

⁸ O Jehovah, be merciful to Your people Israel, whom You have redeemed, and do not allow innocent blood in the midst of Your people Israel. And the blood shall be forgiven them. ⁹ And you shall put away the innocent blood from among you, for you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah.

²⁸ And afterward David heard, and said, I and my kingdom are guiltless before Jehovah forever from the blood of Abner the son of Her.

²⁶ Surely yesterday I have seen the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, says Jehovah. And I will repay you in this portion, says Jehovah. Now, then, take him up, throw him into the portion of Naboth, according to the word of Jehovah.

⁴ And when the foreigners saw the beast hanging from his hand, they said to one another, By all means this man is a murderer, whom being saved out of the sea, Justice did not permit to live.

¹¹ And now you are cursed more than the ground which opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.

²⁴ that the violence against Jerubbaal's seventy sons, even their blood, might be put on their brother Abimelech who killed them, and on the leaders of Shechem, who made his hands strong to kill his brothers.

⁵⁷ And all the evil of the men of Shechem God turned back on their heads. And the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal came on them.

²⁸ And Samuel said to him, Jehovah has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today, and has given it to your neighbor who is better than you.

²⁶ And Joab left David, and sent messengers after Abner. And they brought him back from the well of Sirah. But David did not know it. ²⁷ And Abner returned to Hebron. And Joab turned him aside into the middle of the gate, to speak with him privately. And he struck him in the belly there, and he died, because of the blood of his brother Asahel.

³⁷ And all the people, even all Israel, knew in that day that it was not from the king to kill Abner the son of Her.

¹¹ And when wicked men have slain a righteous man in his own house on his bed, should I not even now seek his blood from your hand, and glean you from the earth?

⁹ And Joab said to Amasa, Is it well with you, my brother? And Joab's right hand took hold of Amasa's beard to give a kiss to him. ¹⁰ And Amasa was not on guard against the sword in Joab's hand. And he struck him with it, to the belly, and poured out his bowels to the ground, and did not strike him again. And he died. And Joab and his brother Abishai pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.

⁵ And also, you know that which Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, that which he did to the two army commanders of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, that he murdered them, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his girdle, on his loins and in his sandals on his feet;

⁴⁴ And the king said to Shimei, You shall know all the evil that your heart has known, that which you did to my father David. Now Jehovah has turned back your evil on your head.

¹³ and you walk in the way of the kings of Israel, and caused Judah and the people of Jerusalem to commit fornication like the fornications of the house of Ahab; and also you have killed your brothers, the house of your father, who were better than yourself;

¹⁹ If it please the king, let there be a royal decree from him, and let it be written among the laws of Persia and Media so that it shall not pass away, that Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus. And let the king give her royal estate to a neighbor who is better than she is.

¹⁶ His mischief shall return on his own head, and his violence shall come down on his own crown.

²⁸ And afterward David heard, and said, I and my kingdom are guiltless before Jehovah forever from the blood of Abner the son of Her. ²⁹ May it whirl about the head of Joab, and on all his father's house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that has an issue, or that is a leper, or that leans on a staff, or who falls by the sword, or that lacks bread!

²⁷ Yea, the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you, and to your seed forever. And he went out from him as leprous as snow.

²⁹ And I have established his Seed forever, and His throne as the days of the heavens.

⁸ In the mornings I will cut off all the wicked of the land, so that I may cut off all the evil workers from the city of Jehovah.

⁶ Set a wicked man over him; and let an adversary stand at his right hand; ⁷ when he is judged, let him go out wicked; and let his prayer become sin; ⁸ let his days be few; and let another take his office; ⁹ his sons be orphans, and his wife a widow; ¹⁰ and let his sons always beg and wander, and seek food out of their ruins; ¹¹ let the moneylender lay a snare for all that is his; and let strangers plunder his labor; ¹² let there be none giving mercy to him; nor any to have pity on his orphans; ¹³ let his posterity be cut off; let their name be blotted out in the following generation; ¹⁴ let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered to Jehovah; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out; ¹⁵ let them be always before Jehovah, so that He may cut off the memory of them from the earth;

⁵ Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne is established in righteousness.

⁶ For a Child is born; to us a Son is given; and the government is on His shoulder; and His name is called Wonderful, Counselor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. ⁷ There is no end to the increase of His government and of peace on the throne of David, and on His kingdom, to order it, and to sustain it with justice and with righteousness, from now and forever. The zeal of Jehovah of Hosts will do this.

¹ And a Shoot goes out from the stump of Jesse, and a Branch will bear fruit out of his roots. ² And the Spirit of Jehovah shall rest on Him; He will have the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and power, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Jehovah. ³ And He is made to breathe in the fear of Jehovah. But He shall not judge by the seeing of His eyes, nor decide by the hearing of His ears. ⁴ But He shall judge the poor in righteousness, and shall decide rightly for the meek of the earth. And He shall strike the earth with the rod of His mouth, and He shall slay the wicked with the breath of His lips. ⁵ And righteousness shall be the encircler of His loins, and faithfulness the encircler of His reins. ⁶ And the wolf shall live with the lamb; and the leopard shall lie with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little boy shall lead them. ⁷ The cow and the bear shall feed, their young shall lie together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. ⁸ And the infant shall play on the hole of the asp; yea, the weaned child shall put his hand on the viper's den. ⁹ They shall not do evil, nor destroy in all My holy mountain. For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of Jehovah, as the waters cover the sea.

²⁵ And answering, all the people said, His blood be on us and on our children.

³¹ And behold! You will conceive in your womb and bear a Son, and you will call His name Jesus. ³² This One will be great and will be called Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David. ³³ And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever; and of His kingdom there will be no end.

¹⁴ Glory to God in the highest, and peace on earth, good will among men.

⁶¹ In the wilderness, Beth-arabah, Middin, and Secacah,

¹⁸ And Manasseh lay with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his house in the Garden of Uzza. And his son Amon reigned in his place.

²⁰ And Manasseh lay with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house. And his son Amon reigned in his place.

¹ Now in those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea,

¹¹ Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned My wrath away from the sons of Israel while he was zealous for My sake among them, so that I did not consume the sons of Israel in My jealousy. ¹² Therefore say, behold, I give to him My covenant of peace; ¹³ And it shall be to him, and to his seed after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and atone for the sons of Israel.

³⁵ And I shall raise up for Myself a faithful priest. He shall do all that is in My heart and in My soul. And I shall build for him a sure house; and he shall walk before My anointed all the days.

²⁷ And Solomon drove Abiathar from being priest to Jehovah, to fulfill the word of Jehovah which He spoke concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.

⁴ And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army. And Zadok and Abiathar were priests.

⁴ Eleazar fathered Phinehas; Phinehas fathered Abishua; ⁵ and Abishua fathered Bukki; and Bukki fathered Uzzi; ⁶ and Uzzi fathered Zerahiah; and Zerahiah fathered Meraioth; ⁷ Meraioth fathered Amariah; and Amariah fathered Ahitub; ⁸ and Ahitub fathered Zadok; and Zadok fathered Ahimaaz; ⁹ and Ahimaaz fathered Azariah; and Azariah fathered Johanan; ¹⁰ and Johanan fathered Azariah, he who acted in the priest's office in the temple that Solomon built in Jerusalem. ¹¹ And Azariah fathered Amariah; and Amariah fathered Ahitub; ¹² and Ahitub fathered Zadok; and Zadok fathered Shallum; ¹³ and Shallum fathered Hilkiah; and Hilkiah fathered Azariah; ¹⁴ and Azariah fathered Seraiah; and Seraiah fathered Jehozadak; ¹⁵ and Jehozadak went away when Jehovah exiled Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.

⁵⁰ And these were the sons of Aaron: Eleazar, his son; Phinehas, his son; Abishua, his son; ⁵¹ Bukki, his son; Uzzi, his son; Zerahiah, his son; ⁵² Meraioth, his son; Amariah, his son; Ahitub, his son; ⁵³ Zadok, his son; Ahimaaz, his son.

³ And David divided them according to their offices in their service, even Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar.

²² And they ate and drank before Jehovah on that day with great joy, and made Solomon the son of David king a second time, and anointed him before Jehovah as ruler, and Zadok as priest.

²⁴ He will break mighty men in pieces without inquiry, and make stand others in their place.

⁸ let his days be few; and let another take his office;

²⁰ For it has been written in the scroll of Psalms, Let his estate become forsaken, and he not be living in it. And, "Let another take his overseership." LXX-Psa. 68:26; Psa. 108:8; MT-Psa. 69:25; Psa. 109:8

²⁴ And the king said, Let him turn to his house, and he shall not see my face. And Absalom turned to his house, and he did not see the king's face.

²⁸ And Absalom lived in Jerusalem two years, and had not seen the king's face.

⁵ And king David came to Bahurim. And, behold, a man was coming out from there, of the family of the house of Saul; and his name was Shimei, the son of Gera. He came out, and he came cursing. ⁶ And he stoned David with stones and all the servants of king David, and all the people, and all the mighty men on his right and on his left. ⁷ And Shimei said this in his cursing, Go out! Go out, O man of blood, O worthless man! ⁸ Jehovah has turned back on you all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned. And Jehovah shall give the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. And, behold, you are taken in your mischief, for you are a man of blood. ⁹ And Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, Why does this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me pass over, I beg you, and I will take off his head.

⁵³ And king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. And he came in and bowed to king Solomon. And Solomon said to him, Go to your house.

⁸ And, behold, with you is Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite of Bahurim. And he cursed me with a grievous cursing in the day I went to Mahanaim. And he came down to meet me at the Jordan, and I swore to him by Jehovah, saying, I shall not put you to death by the sword. ⁹ And now, do not acquit him, for you are a wise man, and you know that which you shall do to him and shall bring his old age down with blood to Sheol.

⁸ A king who sits on the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes. ⁹ And any man who curses his father and his mother shall certainly be put to death; he has cursed his father and his mother; his blood shall be on him.

¹⁹ And it shall be, anyone who goes outside from the doors of your house his blood shall be on his head, and we shall be innocent. And anyone who is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand is on him.

¹⁶ And David said to him, Your blood be on your own head, for your mouth has testified against you, saying, I put to death the anointed of Jehovah.

²³ And all the land was weeping with a loud voice. And all the people were passing over. And the king was passing over through the torrent Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.

³³ Yea, He shall turn back their blood on the head of Joab, and on the head of his seed forever. And as for David and for his seed, and for his house, and for his throne, there shall be peace forever from Jehovah.

⁶ And he brought out the Asherah from the house of Jehovah to the outside of Jerusalem, to the torrent Kidron, and burned it at the torrent Kidron, and ground it to powder, and threw the powder of it on the graves of the sons of the people.

¹⁶ And the priests went into the inner part of the house of Jehovah to clean, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of Jehovah to the court of the house of Jehovah; and the Levites received and took it out to the torrent Kidron outside.

⁴⁰ And the whole valley of the dead bodies and the ashes and all the fields to the torrent Kidron, to the corner of the Horse Gate east, shall be holy to Jehovah. It shall not be torn up, nor thrown down any more, forever.

¹³ he has loaned on interest and has taken increase; shall he also live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be on him.

¹ Having said these things, Jesus went out with His disciples across the winter stream Kidron, where there was a garden into which He and His disciples entered.

⁴ And the king of Israel answered and said, According to your word, my lord, O king, I am yours, and all that I have.

¹⁹ And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, The word of Jehovah that you have spoken is good. And he said, Is it not good if peace and truth are in my days?

¹⁰ And David rose up and fled from the face of Saul on that day, and he came to Achish the king of Gath.

² And David rose up and crossed over, he and six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, the king of Gath. ³ And David lived with Achish in Gath, he and his men, each one and his household: David and his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel, and Abigail the former wife of Nabal of Carmel.

²⁷ He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes shall live.

¹⁵ And He said to them, Beware, and keep back from covetousness; for one's life is not in the abundance of the things which are his.

¹⁰ For the love of money is a root of all evils, by means of which some having lusted after it were seduced from the faith, and they themselves pierced through by many pains.

³⁶ And the king sent and called Shimei and said to him, Build a house for yourself in Jerusalem and live there, and do not go out from there anywhere. ³⁷ And it shall be, in the day you go out and cross the torrent Kidron, you shall certainly know that dying you shall die; your blood shall be on your head. ³⁸ And Shimei said to the king, The word is good. As my lord the king has spoken, so your servant shall do. And Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days.

⁴ In his eyes, the reprobate has been despised, but he honors those who fear Jehovah: He has sworn to his hurt, and will not change it.

²² But the father said to his slaves, Bring out the best robe and clothe him, and give a ring for his hand and sandals for his feet.

² And the king called for the Gibeonites and said to them (as to the Gibeonites, they were not of the sons of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites, and the sons of Israel had sworn to them) and Saul sought to strike them in his zeal for the sons of Israel and Judah.

¹² Also, in Judah the hand of God was to give to them one heart to do the king's command, and of the leaders, by the word of Jehovah.

² I say, Keep the king's word, even on the matter of the oath of God;

¹⁸ And he has despised the oath by breaking the covenant. And, behold, he had given his hand, and he has done all these things. ¹⁹ So the Lord Jehovah says this: As I live, surely My oath that he has despised, and My covenant that he has broken, I will even give it on his head.

⁵ Because of this, it is necessary to be subject, not only on account of wrath, but also on account of conscience.

³⁹ And David heard that Nabal had died, and said, Blessed be Jehovah who has contended for the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal; and His servant has been kept back from evil. And Jehovah has caused the evil doing of Nabal to return on his head. And David sent and spoke with Abigail, to take her to himself for a wife.

⁵ And king David came to Bahurim. And, behold, a man was coming out from there, of the family of the house of Saul; and his name was Shimei, the son of Gera. He came out, and he came cursing. ⁶ And he stoned David with stones and all the servants of king David, and all the people, and all the mighty men on his right and on his left. ⁷ And Shimei said this in his cursing, Go out! Go out, O man of blood, O worthless man! ⁸ Jehovah has turned back on you all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned. And Jehovah shall give the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. And, behold, you are taken in your mischief, for you are a man of blood. ⁹ And Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, Why does this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me pass over, I beg you, and I will take off his head. ¹⁰ And the king said, What have I to do with you, sons of Zeruiah? For let him curse, even because Jehovah has said to him, Curse David. And who shall say, Why have you done so? ¹¹ And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son who came out of my loins is seeking my life, and surely now also the Benjamite. Leave him alone, and let him curse, for Jehovah has spoken to him. ¹² It may be Jehovah will look on my affliction, and Jehovah will return good to me for his cursing this day. ¹³ And David went with his men in the highway, and Shimei was going along at the side of the hill across from him. As he went, he cursed, and stoned with stones across from him, and dusted with dust.

³² And Jehovah shall turn back his blood on his own head, who has fallen on two men more righteous and better than he, and murdered them with the sword; and my father David not knowing: Abner the son of Ner, the commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, the commander of the army of Judah. ³³ Yea, He shall turn back their blood on the head of Joab, and on the head of his seed forever. And as for David and for his seed, and for his house, and for his throne, there shall be peace forever from Jehovah.

²² His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sin.

¹⁹ So the Lord Jehovah says this: As I live, surely My oath that he has despised, and My covenant that he has broken, I will even give it on his head.

⁹ And it will be, Like people, like priest. And I will visit their ways on them and repay them for their deeds.

⁹ But hearing, and being convicted by the conscience, they went out one by one, beginning from the older ones, until the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the middle.

¹⁵ who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience witnessing with them, and the thoughts between one another accusing or even excusing,

²⁰ that if our heart accuses us, we know that God is greater than our heart and knows all things.

¹³ He shall build a house for My Name, and I shall establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

²⁴ And now, as Jehovah lives, who has established me and caused me to sit on the throne of my father David, and who has made a house for me, as He spoke, surely today Adonijah shall be put to death.

⁶ For You have set him blessings forever; You have rejoiced him in the joy of Your face.

¹⁷ His name shall be forever; His name shall continue before the sun; and they shall bless themselves by Him; all nations shall call Him blessed.

¹² And Solomon sat on the throne of his father David, and his kingdom was firmly established.

⁴⁵ And king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before Jehovah forever.

⁴ A king establishes a land by justice, but he taking bribes tears it down.