Znaleziono 1930 Wyniki dla: Choosing A King
In Syria, the king’s advisers told him, If the Israelites have defeated us, that is because their gods are gods of the hills; best to offer them battle on the low-lying ground, where we shall have them at our mercy. (1 Kings 20, 23)
To the king of Israel God sent out one of his servants with this message: Thus says the Lord, Thinks Syria that I am God of the hills, and not of the valleys too? Over all this great array I will give thee victory; such proof you shall have that I am the Lord. (1 Kings 20, 28)
and there his courtiers told him, This is the tale we have heard about the kings of Israel, that they are merciful men. Let us put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes on our heads, and give ourselves up to the king of Israel; it may be he will spare our lives. (1 Kings 20, 31)
So, with sackcloth on their loins and ropes on their heads, they betook themselves to the king of Israel; Thy servant Benadad, they told him, pleads for his life. And Achab answered, Lives he yet, he is my brother. (1 Kings 20, 32)
So the prophet went out to meet the king on the open road, first smearing his face and eyes with dust; (1 Kings 20, 38)
and as the king passed, he cried out to him, My lord, a word with thee! I was lately in the thick of the battle, and one brought a fugitive to me, bidding me mount guard over him; did he slip through my hands, it was my life for his, or else I must pay a talent of silver. (1 Kings 20, 39)
And then, as I looked this way and that in the press, all at once he was gone. Why then, said the king of Israel, thou must pay the forfeit that was named. (1 Kings 20, 40)
With that, he wiped the dust from his face, so that the king of Israel knew him for one of the prophets; (1 Kings 20, 41)
A sullen man was the king of Israel and an ill man to cross when he reached his home in Samaria. (1 Kings 20, 43)
Now turn we to the vineyard at Jezrahel, which belonged to Naboth the Jezrahelite, close to Achab’s palace, that was King of Samaria. (1 Kings 21, 1)
A fine king thou art, she said, as ever ruled in Israel! Up with thee, and eat, set thy heart at rest; I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezrahelite. (1 Kings 21, 7)
Then two rogues must be suborned to bear false witness against him, accusing him of blasphemous speech about God and the king; and so they were to have him out, and stone him to death. (1 Kings 21, 10)
