Fondare 2053 Risultati per: King Solomon
Once, when it was harvest-time, these three, the foremost of the Thirty, were at the king’s side in the cave of Odollam; the Philistines had encamped in the Valley of the Giants, (2 Samuel 23, 13)
The king said to Joab, the chief of his army, Go through all the tribes of Israel from Dan to Bersabee, and make a muster-roll of the people, so that I may know the full tale of them. (2 Samuel 24, 2)
Why, said Joab, my prayer is that the Lord may increase yet more the number of the people, great as it is, and that thou mayest live to see it a hundred times as great! But what is it my lord the king means by this design? (2 Samuel 24, 3)
But all that Joab and the captains of the army could say might not thwart the king’s will; so Joab and the other commanders left the king’s presence to make a register of Israel. (2 Samuel 24, 4)
And Joab gave in the register to the king; it proved that there were eight hundred thousand warriors that bore arms in Israel, and five hundred thousand in Juda. (2 Samuel 24, 9)
and when Areuna looked round, to see the king and the king’s servants coming towards him, (2 Samuel 24, 20)
he came forward, bowing down with his face to the ground to do the king reverence. What would my lord king with his servant? he asked. And David said, I have come to buy thy threshing-floor; I must build an altar here to the Lord, to put an end to the mortality which goes unhindered among the people. (2 Samuel 24, 21)
Then Areuna answered, Let the king’s grace take all he needs for his offering; here are sheep for a burnt-sacrifice, here is the waggon, and the yoke my oxen bear, for kindling-wood. (2 Samuel 24, 22)
All this is Areuna’s royal gift to the king.✻ And may the Lord, Areuna added, grant thy prayer. (2 Samuel 24, 23)
But the king would not let him have his will; Nay, said he, I must buy it from thee; the victims I offer to the Lord my God must not be procured without cost. So David bought threshing-floor and ox-team for fifty silver pieces; (2 Samuel 24, 24)
And of all the fair maids in Israel they chose out one, Abisag from Sunam, who was brought into the king’s presence; (1 Kings 1, 3)
a fair maid indeed, who now shared the king’s bed and waited on him, yet never did the king mate with her. (1 Kings 1, 4)
