GOD in the Old Testament - 1 Chronicles - Part 7

1 Chronicles 19:13

"Be strong, and let us fight bravely for our people and the cities of our God. The LORD will do what is good in his sight."

(see all 1 Chronicles 19 - 20)

 

1 Chronicles 21:7-8  

This command was also evil in the sight of God; so he punished Israel.

    Then David said to God, "I have sinned greatly by doing this. Now, I beg you, take away the guilt of your servant. I have done a very foolish thing."

 

1 Chronicles 21:14-15  

    So the LORD sent a plague on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell dead. And God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem. But as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and relented concerning the disaster and said to the angel who was destroying the people, "Enough! Withdraw your hand." The angel of the LORD was then standing at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

 

1 Chronicles 21:17  

    David said to God, "Was it not I who ordered the fighting men to be counted? I, the shepherd, have sinned and done wrong. These are but sheep. What have they done? LORD my God, let your hand fall on me and my family, but do not let this plague remain on your people."

 

1 Chronicles 21:29-30  

The tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses had made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering were at that time on the high place at Gibeon. But David could not go before it to inquire of God, because he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the LORD.

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GOD in the Old Testament - 1 Chronicles - Part 6

1 Chronicles 17:2-4

    Nathan replied to David, "Whatever you have in mind, do it, for God is with you."

    But that night the word of God came to Nathan, saying:

 

    "Go and tell my servant David, 'This is what the LORD says: You are not the one to build me a house to dwell in.' " 

 

1 Chronicles 17:16-17  

    Then King David went in and sat before the LORD, and he said:

 

    "Who am I, LORD God, and what is my family, that you have brought me this far? And as if this were not enough in your sight, my God, you have spoken about the future of the house of your servant. You, LORD God, have looked on me as though I were the most exalted of men."

 

1 Chronicles 17:20-26  

    "There is no one like you, LORD, and there is no God but you, as we have heard with our own ears. And who is like your people Israel--the one nation on earth whose God went out to redeem a people for himself, and to make a name for yourself, and to perform great and awesome wonders by driving out nations from before your people, whom you redeemed from Egypt? You made your people Israel your very own forever, and you, LORD, have become their God.

    "And now, LORD, let the promise you have made concerning your servant and his house be established forever. Do as you promised, so that it will be established and that your name will be great forever. Then people will say, 'The LORD Almighty, the God over Israel, is Israel's God!' And the house of your servant David will be established before you.

    "You, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build a house for him. So your servant has found courage to pray to you. You, LORD, are God! You have promised these good things to your servant."

(see all 1 Chronicles 17 - 18)    

    

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GOD in the Old Testament - 1 Chronicles - Part 5

1 Chronicles 16:1

    They brought the ark of God and set it inside the tent that David had pitched for it, and they presented burnt offerings and fellowship offerings before God.

 

1 Chronicles 16:4-6  

    He appointed some of the Levites to minister before the ark of the LORD, to extol, thank, and praise the LORD, the God of Israel: Asaph was the chief, and next to him in rank were Zechariah, then Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-Edom and Jeiel. They were to play the lyres and harps, Asaph was to sound the cymbals, and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests were to blow the trumpets regularly before the ark of the covenant of God.

 

1 Chronicles 16:14  

He is the LORD our God;

    his judgments are in all the earth.

 

1 Chronicles 16:35-36  

Cry out, "Save us, God our Savior;

    gather us and deliver us from the nations,

that we may give thanks to your holy name,

    and glory in your praise."

Praise be to the LORD, the God of Israel,

    from everlasting to everlasting.

 

Then all the people said "Amen" and "Praise the LORD."

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GOD in the Old Testament - 1 Chronicles - Part 4

1 Chronicles 15:1-2

    After David had constructed buildings for himself in the City of David, he prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it. Then David said, "No one but the Levites may carry the ark of God, because the LORD chose them to carry the ark of the LORD and to minister before him forever."

 

1 Chronicles 15:12-15  

He said to them, "You are the heads of the Levitical families; you and your fellow Levites are to consecrate yourselves and bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel, to the place I have prepared for it. It was because you, the Levites, did not bring it up the first time that the LORD our God broke out in anger against us. We did not inquire of him how to do it in the prescribed way." So the priests and the Levites consecrated themselves in order to bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel. And the Levites carried the ark of God with poles on their shoulders, as Moses had commanded in accordance with the word of the LORD.

 

1 Chronicles 15:24  

Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah and Eliezer the priests were to blow trumpets before the ark of God. Obed-Edom and Jehiah were also to be doorkeepers for the ark.

 

1 Chronicles 15:26  

Because God had helped the Levites who were carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD, seven bulls and seven rams were sacrificed.

(see all 1 Chronicles 15) 

    

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GOD in the Old Testament - 1 Chronicles - Part 3

1 Chronicles 14:9-11

Now the Philistines had come and raided the Valley of Rephaim; so David inquired of God: "Shall I go and attack the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hands?"

    The LORD answered him, "Go, I will deliver them into your hands."

    So David and his men went up to Baal Perazim, and there he defeated them. He said, "As waters break out, God has broken out against my enemies by my hand." So that place was called Baal Perazim ("the lord who breaks out").

 

1 Chronicles 14:13-16  

    Once more the Philistines raided the valley; so David inquired of God again, and God answered him, "Do not go directly after them, but circle around them and attack them in front of the poplar trees. As soon as you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the poplar trees, move out to battle, because that will mean God has gone out in front of you to strike the Philistine army." So David did as God commanded him, and they struck down the Philistine army, all the way from Gibeon to Gezer.

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GOD in the Old Testament - 1 Chronicles - Part 2

1 Chronicles 13:2-3  

He then said to the whole assembly of Israel, "If it seems good to you and if it is the will of the LORD our God, let us send word far and wide to the rest of our people throughout the territories of Israel, and also to the priests and Levites who are with them in their towns and pasturelands, to come and join us. Let us bring the ark of our God back to us, for we did not inquire of it during the reign of Saul."

 

1 Chronicles 13:5-6  

    So David assembled all Israel, from the Shiloh River in Egypt to Lebo Hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kiriath Jearim. David and all Israel went to Baalah of Judah (Kiriath Jearim) to bring up from there the ark of God the LORD, who is enthroned between the cherubim--the ark that is called by the Name.

 

1 Chronicles 13:7-8  

    They moved the ark of God from Abinadab's house on a new cart, with Uzzah and Ahio guiding it. David and all the Israelites were celebrating with all their might before God, with songs and with harps, lyres, timbrels, cymbals and trumpets.

 

1 Chronicles 13:10  

The LORD's anger burned against Uzzah, and he struck him down because he had put his hand on the ark. So he died there before God.

 

1 Chronicles 13:12  

    David was afraid of God that day and asked, "How can I ever bring the ark of God to me?"

 

1 Chronicles 13:14  

The ark of God remained with the family of Obed-Edom in his house for three months, and the LORD blessed his household and everything he had.

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GOD in the Old Testament - 1 Chronicles - Part 1

1 Chronicles 1 - 9

    Genealogies from Creation to Restoration

 

1 Chronicles 10  

    Death of King Saul.

 

1 Chronicles 11:1-2  

    All Israel came together to David at Hebron and said, "We are your own flesh and blood. In the past, even when Saul was king, you were the one who led Israel on their military campaigns. And the LORD your God said to you, 'You will shepherd my people Israel, and you will become their ruler.' "

 

1 Chronicles 11:18-19  

So the three broke through the Philistine lines, drew water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem and carried it back to David. But he refused to drink it; instead, he poured it out to the LORD. "God forbid that I should do this!" he said. "Should I drink the blood of these men who went at the risk of their lives?" Because they risked their lives to bring it back, David would not drink it.

    Such were the exploits of the three mighty warriors.

(see all 1 Chronicles 11)

 

1 Chronicles 12:17-18  

David went out to meet them and said to them, "If you have come to me in peace to help me, I am ready for you to join me. But if you have come to betray me to my enemies when my hands are free from violence, may the God of our ancestors see it and judge you."

    Then the Spirit came on Amasai, chief of the Thirty, and he said:

 

    "We are yours, David!

        We are with you, son of Jesse!

    Success, success to you,

        and success to those who help you, 

            for your God will help you."

 

    So David received them and made them leaders of his raiding bands.

 

1 Chronicles 12:22  

Day after day men came to help David, until he had a great army, like the army of God.

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GOD in the Old Testament - 2 Kings - Part 16

2 Kings 22:15-16

    She said to them, "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Tell the man who sent you to me, 'This is what the LORD says: I am going to bring disaster on this place and its people, according to everything written in the book the king of Judah has read.' "

 

2 Kings 22:18-19  

"Tell the king, of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, 'This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says concerning the words you heard: Because your heart was responsive and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I have spoken against this place and its people--that they would become a curse and be laid waste--and because you tore your robes and wept in my presence, I also have heard you, declares the LORD.' "

(see all 2 Kings 22)

 

2 Kings 23:16-19  

Then Josiah looked around, and when he saw the tombs that were there on the hillside, he had the bones removed from them and burned on the altar to defile it, in accordance with the word of the LORD proclaimed by the man of God who foretold all these things.

    The king asked, "What is that tombstone I see?"

    The people of the city said, "It marks the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and pronounced against the altar of Bethel the very things you have done to it."

    "Leave it alone," he said. "Don't let anyone disturb his bones." So they spared his bones and those of the prophet who had come from Samaria.

 

2 Kings 23:21-23  

    The king gave this order to all the people: "Celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant." Neither in the days of the judges who led Israel nor in the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah had any such Passover been observed. But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was celebrated to the LORD in Jerusalem.

(see all 2 Kings 23 - 25) 

    

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GOD in the Old Testament - 2 Kings - Part 15

2 Kings 19:4

"It may be that the LORD your God will hear all the words of the field commander, whom his master, the king of Assyria, has sent to ridicule the living God, and that he will rebuke him for the words the LORD your God has heard. Therefore, pray for the remnant that still survives."

 

2 Kings 19:15-16  

And Hezekiah prayed to the LORD: "LORD, the God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. Give ear, LORD, and hear; open your eyes, LORD, and see; listen to the words Sennacherib has sent to ridicule the living God."

 

2 Kings 19:19  

"Now, LORD our God, deliver us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone, LORD, are God." 

 

2 Kings 19:20  

    Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I have heard your prayer concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria." 

(see all 2 Kings 19)  

 

2 Kings 20:5  

"Go back and tell Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, 'This is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the temple of the LORD.' "

(see all 2 Kings 20)

 

2 Kings 21:11-12  

"Manasseh king of Judah has committed these detestable sins. He has done more evil than the Amorites who preceded him and has led Judah into sin with his idols. Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I am going to bring such disaster on Jerusalem and Judah that the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle."

 

2 Kings 21:20-22  

He did evil in the eyes of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done. He followed completely the ways of his father, worshiping the idols his father had worshiped, and bowing down to them. He forsook the LORD, the God of his ancestors, and did not walk in obedience to him.

(see all 2 Kings 21) 

    

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GOD in the Old Testament - 2 Kings - Part 14

2 Kings 16:2

Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. Unlike David his father, he did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD his God.

(see all 2 Kings 16)

 

2 Kings 17:7-9  

    All this took place because the Israelites had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them up out of Egypt from under the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They worshiped other gods and followed the practices of the nations the LORD had driven out before them, as well as the practices that the kings of Israel had introduced. The Israelites secretly did things against the LORD their God that were not right. From watchtower to fortified city they built themselves high places in all their towns.

 

2 Kings 17:39  

"Rather, worship the LORD your God; it is he who will deliver you from the hand of all your enemies."

(see all 2 Kings 17)

 

2 Kings 18:5  

    Hezekiah trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel. There was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, either before him or after him.

 

2 Kings 18:11-12  

    The king of Assyria deported Israel to Assyria and settled them in Halah, in Gozan on the Habor River and in towns of the Medes. This happened because they had not obeyed the LORD their God, but had violated his covenant--all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded. They neither listened to the commands nor carried them out.

 

2 Kings 18:22  

        " 'But if you say to me, "We are

    depending on the LORD our God--isn't

    he the one whose high places and

    altars Hezekiah removed, saying to 

    Judah and Jerusalem, "You must 

    worship before this altar in Jerusalem."?' "

(see all 2 Kings 18) 

    

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GOD in the Old Testament - 2 Kings - Part 13

2 Kings 8:7-8  (continued)

    Elisha went to Damascus, and Ben-Hadad king of Aram was ill. When the king was told, "The man of God has come all the way up here," he said to Hazael, "Take a gift with you and go to meet the man of God. Consult the LORD through him; ask him, 'Will I recover from this illness?' "

 

2 Kings 8:10-12  

    Elisha answered, "Go and say to him, 'You will certainly recover.' Nevertheless, the LORD has revealed to me that he will in fact die." He stared at him with a fixed gaze until Hazael was embarrassed. Then the man of God began to weep.

    "Why is my lord weeping?" asked Hazael.

    "Because I know the harm you will do to the Israelites," he answered. "You will set fire to their fortified places, kill their young men with the sword, dash their little children to the ground, and rip open their pregnant women."

(see all 2 Kings 8)

 

2 Kings 9:6  

    Jehu got up and went into the house. Then the prophet poured the oil on Jehu's head and declared, "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'I anoint you king over the Lord's people Israel.' " 

(see all 2 Kings 9)

 

2 Kings 10:3  

Yet Jehu was not careful to keep the law of the LORD, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam, which he had caused Israel to commit. 

(see all 2 Kings 10 - 12)

 

2 Kings 13:18-19  

    Then he said, "Take the arrows," and the king took them. Elisha told him, "Strike the ground." He struck it three times and stopped. The man of God was angry with him and said, "You should have struck the ground five or six times; then you would have defeated Aram and completely destroyed it. But now you will defeat it only three times."

(see all 2 Kings 13)

 

2 Kings 14:25  

He was the one who restored the boundaries of Israel from Lebo Hamath to the Dead Sea, in accordance with the word of the LORD, the God of Israel, spoken through his servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath Hepher.

(see all 2 Kings 14 - 15) 

    

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GOD in the Old Testament - 2 Kings - Part 12

2 Kings 6:30-31  (continued)

    When the king heard the woman's words, he tore his robes. As he went along the wall, the people looked, and they saw that, under his robes, he had sackcloth on his body. He said, "May God deal with me, be it ever so severely, if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders today!"

(see all 2 Kings 6)

 

2 Kings 7:2  

    The officer on whose arm the king was leaning said to the man of God, "Look, even if the LORD should open the floodgates of the heavens, could this happen?"

    "You will see it with your own eyes," answered Elisha, "but you will not eat any of it."

 

2 Kings 7:17-20  

    Now the king had put the officer on whose arm he leaned in charge of the gate, and the people trampled him in the gateway, and he died, just as the man of God had foretold when the king came down to his house. It happened as the man of God had said to the king: "About this time tomorrow, a seah of the finest flour will sell for a shekel and two seahs of barley for a shekel at the gate of Samaria." 

    The officer had said to the man of God, "Look, even if the LORD should open the floodgates of the heavens, could this happen?" The man of God had replied, "You will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it!" And that is exactly what happened to him, for the people trampled him in the gateway, and he died.

(see all 2 Kings 7)

 

2 Kings 8:2  

    The woman proceeded to do as the man of God said. She and her family went away and stayed in the land of the Philistines seven years.

 

2 Kings 8:4  

The king was talking to Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, and had said, "Tell me about all the great things Elisha has done."

(2 Kings 8 continues tomorrow) 

    

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GOD in the Old Testament - 2 Kings - Part 11

2 Kings 5:7-8

    As soon as the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his robes and said, "Am I God? Can I kill and bring back to life? Why does this fellow send someone to me to be cured of his leprosy? See how he is trying to pick a quarrel with me!"

    When Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his robes, he sent him this message: "Why have you torn your robes? Have the man come to me and he will know that there is a prophet in Israel." 

 

2 Kings 5:11  

    But Naaman went away angry and said, "I thought he would surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, wave his hands over the spot and cure me of my leprosy."

 

2 Kings 5:14-15  

So he went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, as the man of God had told him, and his flesh was restored and became clean like that of a young boy.

    Then Naaman and all his attendants went back to the man of God. He stood before him and said, "Now I know that there is no God in all the world except in Israel. So please accept a gift from your servant." 

 

2 Kings 5:20  

... Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said to himself, "My master was too easy on Naaman, this Aramean, by not accepting from him what he had brought. As surely as the LORD lives, I will run after him and get something from him." 

(see all 2 Kings 5) 

 

2 Kings 6:6  

    The man of God asked, "Where did it fall?" When he showed him the place, Elisha cut a stick and threw it there, and made the iron float. 

 

2 Kings 6:9-10  

    The man of God sent word to the king of Israel: "Beware of passing that place, because the Arameans are going down there." So the king of Israel checked on the place indicated by the man of God. Time and again Elisha warned the king, so that he was on his guard in such places.

 

2 Kings 6:15  

    When the servant of the man of God got up and went out early the next morning, an army with horses and chariots had surrounded the city. "Oh no, my lord! What shall we do?" the servant asked.

(2 Kings 6 continues tomorrow) 

    

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GOD in the Old Testament - 2 Kings - Part 10

2 Kings 4:16-17  (continued)

"About this time next year," Elisha said, "you will hold a son in your arms."

    "No, my lord!" she objected. "Please, man of God, don't mislead your servant!"

    But the woman became pregnant and the next year about that same time she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.

 

2 Kings 4:20-21  

After the servant had lifted him up and carried him to his mother, the boy sat on her lap until noon, and then he died. She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, then shut the door and went out.

 

2 Kings 4:22  

    She called her husband and said, "Please send me one of the servants and a donkey so I can go to the man of God quickly and return." 

 

2 Kings 4:25-27  

So she set out and came to the man of God at Carmel.

    When he saw her in the distance, the man of God said to his servant Gehazi, "Look! There's the Shunammite!  Run to meet her and ask her, 'Are you all right? Is your husband all right? Is your child all right?' "

    Everything is all right," she said.

    When she reached the man of God at the mountain, she took hold of his feet. Gehazi came over to push her away, but the man of God said, "Leave her alone! She is in bitter distress, but the LORD has hidden it from me and has not told me why." 

 

2 Kings 4:40  

The stew was poured out for the men, but as they began to eat it, they cried out, "Man of God, there is death in the pot!" And they could not eat it.

 

2 Kings 4:42  

    A man came from Baal Shalishah, bringing the man of God twenty loaves of barley bread baked from the first ripe grain, along with some heads of new grain. "Give it to the people to eat," Elisha said. 

(see all 2 Kings 4) 

    

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GOD in the Old Testament - 2 Kings - Part 9

2 Kings 1:13  (continued)

    So the king sent a third captain with his fifty men. This third captain went up and fell on his knees before Elijah. "Man of God," he begged, "please have respect for my life and the lives of these fifty men, your servants! See, fire has fallen from heaven and consumed the first two captains and all their men. But now have respect for my life!"

    The angel of the LORD said to Elijah, "Go down with him; do not be afraid of him." So Elijah got up and went down with him to the king.

 

2 Kings 1:16  

    He told the king, "This is what the LORD says: Is it because there is no God in Israel for you to consult that you have sent messengers to consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron? Because you have done this, you will never leave the bed you are lying on. You will certainly die!"

(see all 2 Kings 1)

 

2 Kings 2:13-14  

    Elisha then picked up Elijah's cloak that had fallen from him and went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan. He took the cloak that had fallen from Elijah and struck the water with it. "Where now is the LORD, the God of Elijah?' he asked. When he struck the water, it divided to the right and to the left, and he crossed over.

(see all 2 Kings 2 - 3)

 

2 Kings 4:5-7  

    She left him and shut the door behind her and her sons. They brought the jars to her and she kept pouring. When all the jars were full, she said to her son, "Bring me another one."

    But he replied, "There is not a jar left." Then the oil stopped flowing.

    She went and told the man of God, and he said, "Go, sell the oil and pay your debts. You and your sons can live on what is left."

 

2 Kings 4:9-10  

She said to her husband, "I know that this man who often comes our way is a holy man of God. Let's make a small room on the roof and put in it a bed and a table, a chair and a lamp for him. Then he can stay there whenever he comes to us."

(2 Kings 4 continues tomorrow) 

    

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GOD in the Old Testament - 1 - 2 Kings - Part 8

1 Kings 19:8 

So he got up and ate and drank. Strengthened by the food, he traveled forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.

 

1 Kings 19:10  

    He replied, "I have been very zealous for the LORD God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me, too."

 

1 Kings 19:14  

    He replied, "I have been very zealous for the LORD God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me, too."

(see all 1 Kings 19)

 

1 Kings 20:28  

    The man of God came up and told the king of Israel, "This is what the LORD says: 'Because the Arameans think the LORD is a god of the hills and not a god of the valleys, I will deliver this vast army into your hands, and you will know that I am the LORD!" 

(see all 1 Kings 20) 

 

1 Kings 21:9-10  

In those letters she wrote:

        "Proclaim a day of fasting and seat

    Naboth in a prominent place among

    the people. But seat two scoundrels 

    opposite him and have them bring

    charges that he has cursed both God

    and the king. Then take him out and 

    stone him to death." 

 

1 Kings 21:13  

Then two scoundrels came and sat opposite him and brought charges against Naboth before the people, saying, "Naboth has cursed both God and the king." So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death.

(see all 1 Kings 21)

 

1 Kings 22:53  

He served and worshiped Baal and aroused the anger of the LORD, the God of Israel, just as his father had done.

(see all 1 Kings 22)

 

2 Kings 1:3-4  

    But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, "Go up and meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and ask them, 'Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going off to consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron?' Therefore this is what the LORD says: 'You will not leave the bed you are lying on. You will certainly die.' " So Elijah went.

 

2 Kings 1:6  

    "A man came to meet us," they replied. "And he said to us, 'Go back to the king who sent you and tell him, "This is what the LORD says: Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending messengers to consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not leave the bed you are lying on. You will certainly die!" ' " 

 

2 Kings 1:9-12  

    Then he sent to Elijah a captain with his company of fifty men. The captain went up to Elijah, who was sitting on the top of a hill, and said to him, "Man of God, the king says, 'Come down!' "

    Elijah answered the captain, "If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men!" Then fire fell from heaven and consumed the captain and his men.

    At this the king sent to Elijah another captain with his fifty men. The captain said to him, "Man of God, this is what the king says, 'Come down at once!' "

    "If I am a man of God, " Elijah replied, "may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men!" Then the fire of God fell from heaven and consumed him and his fifty men.

(2 Kings 1 continues tomorrow) 

    

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GOD in the Old Testament - 1 Kings - Part 7

1 Kings 17:1 

    Now Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the LORD, the God of Israel lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word."

 

1 Kings 17:12  

    "As surely as the LORD your God lives," she replied, "I don't have any bread--only a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. I am gathering a few sticks to take home and make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it--and die."

 

1 Kings 17:14  

"For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD sends rain on the land.' "

 

1 Kings 17:18  

She said to Elijah, "What do you have against me, man of God? Did you come to remind me of my sin and kill my son?"

 

1 Kings 17:20-21  

Then he cried out to the LORD, "LORD, my God, have you brought tragedy even on this widow I am staying with, by causing her son to die?" Then he stretched himself out on the boy three times and cried out to the LORD, "LORD my God, let this boy's life return to him!" 

 

1 Kings 17:24  

    Then the woman said to Elijah, "Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the LORD from your mouth is the truth."

(see all 1 Kings 17)

 

1 Kings 18:10-11  

"As surely as the LORD your God lives, there is not a nation or kingdom where my master has not sent someone to look for you. And whenever a nation or kingdom claimed you were not there, he made them swear they could not find you. But now you tell me to go to my master and say, 'Elijah is here.' " 

 

1 Kings 18:21  

Elijah went before the people and said, "How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him."

    But the people said nothing.

 

1 Kings 18:24  

"Then you call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the LORD. The god who answers by fire--he is God."

 

1 Kings 18:36-37  

    At the time of the sacrifice, the prophet Elijah stepped forward and prayed: "LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and have done all these things at your command. Answer me, LORD, answer me, so these people will know that you, LORD, are God, and that you are turning hearts back again."

 

1 Kings 18:39  

    When all the people saw this, they fell prostrate and cried, "The LORD--he is God! The LORD--he is God!"

(see all 1 Kings 18) 

    

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GOD in the Old Testament - 1 Kings - Part 6

1 Kings 13:23-24

    When the man of God had finished eating and drinking, the prophet who had brought him back saddled his donkey for him. As he went on his way, a lion met him on the road and killed him, and his body was left lying on the road, with both the donkey and the lion standing beside it.

 

1 Kings 13:26  

    When the prophet who had brought him back from his journey heard of it, he said, "It is the man of God who defied the word of the LORD. The LORD has given him over to the lion, which has mauled him and killed him, as the word of the LORD had warned him."

 

1 Kings 13:29  

    So the prophet picked up the body of the man of God, laid it on the donkey, and brought it back to his own city to mourn for him and bury him.

 

1 Kings 13:31  

    After burying him, he said to his sons, "When I die, bury me in the grave where the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones."

(see all 1 Kings 13)

 

1 Kings 14:7  

"Go, tell Jeroboam that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel says: 'I raised you up from among the people and appointed you ruler over my people Israel.' "

 

1 Kings 14:13  

"All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. He is the only one belonging to Jeroboam who will be buried, because he is the only one in the house of Jeroboam in whom the LORD, the God of Israel, has found anything good."

(see all 1 Kings 14)

 

1 Kings 15:3-4  

    He committed all the sins his father had done before him; his heart was not fully devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his forefather had been. Nevertheless, for David's sake the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem by raising up a son to succeed him and by making Jerusalem strong.

 

1 Kings 15:29-30  

    As soon as he began to reign, he killed Jeroboam's whole family. He did not leave Jeroboam anyone that breathed, but destroyed them all, according to the word of the LORD given through his servant Ahijah the Shilonite. This happened because of the sins Jeroboam had committed and had caused Israel to commit and because he aroused the anger of the LORD, the God of Israel.

(see all 1 Kings 15)

 

1 Kings 16:12-13  

So Zimri destroyed the whole family of Baasha, in accordance with the word of the LORD spoken against Baasha through the prophet Jehu--because of all the sins Baasha and his son Elah had committed and had caused Israel to commit, so that they aroused the anger of the LORD, the God of Israel, by their worthless idols.

 

1 Kings 16:26  

He followed completely the ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat, committing the same sin Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit, so that they aroused the anger of the LORD, the God of Israel, by their worthless idols. 

 

1 Kings 16:33  

Ahab also made an Asherah pole and did more to arouse the anger of the LORD, the God of Israel, than did all the kings of Israel before him.

(see all 1 Kings 16) 

    

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GOD in the Old Testament - 1 Kings - Part 5

1 Kings 13:1-3 

    By the word of the LORD a man of God came from Judah to Bethel, as Jeroboam was standing by the altar to make an offering. By the word of the LORD he cried out against the altar: "Altar, altar! This is what the LORD says: 'A son named Josiah will be born to the house of David. On you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who make offerings here, and human bones will be burned on you.' " That same day the man of God gave a sign: "This is the sign the LORD has declared: The altar will be split apart and the ashes on it will be poured out."

 

1 Kings 13:4-5  

    When King Jeroboam heard what the man of God cried out against the altar at Bethel, he stretched out his hand from the altar and said, "Seize him!" But the hand he stretched out toward the man shriveled up so that he could not pull it back. Also, the altar was split apart and its ashes poured out according to the sign given to the man of God by the word of the LORD.

 

1 Kings 13:6-8  

    Then the king said to the man of God, "Intercede with the LORD your God and pray for me that my hand may be restored." So the man of God interceded with the LORD, and the king's hand was restored and became as it was before.

    The king said to the man of God, "Come home with me for a meal, and I will give you a gift."

    But the man of God answered the king, "Even if you were to give me half your possessions, I would not go with you, nor would I eat bread or drink water here."

 

1 Kings 13:11-14  

    Now there was a certain old prophet living in Bethel, whose sons came and told him all that the man of God had done there that day. They also told their father what he had said to the king. Their father asked them, "Which way did he go?" And his sons showed him which road the man of God from Judah had taken. So he said to his sons, "Saddle the donkey for me." And when they had saddled the donkey for him, he mounted it and rode after the man of God. He found him sitting under an oak tree and asked, "Are you the man of God who came from Judah?"

    "I am," he replied.

 

1 Kings 13:16  

    The man of God said, "I cannot turn back and go with you, nor can I eat bread or drink water with you in this place."

 

1 Kings 13:19  

So the man of God returned with him and ate and drank in his house.

 

1 Kings 13:21  

He cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah, "This is what the LORD says: 'You have defied the word of the LORD and have not kept the command the LORD your God gave you."

(1 Kings 13 continues tomorrow) 

    

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GOD in the Old Testament - 1 Kings - Part 4

1 Kings 9:8-9

"This temple will become a heap of rubble. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff and say, 'Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?' People will answer, 'Because they have forsaken the LORD their God, who brought their ancestors out of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them--that is why the LORD has brought disaster on them.' " 

(see all 1 Kings 9)

 

1 Kings 10:9  

"Praise be to the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and placed you on the throne of Israel. Because of the LORD's eternal love for Israel, he has made you king to maintain justice and righteousness." 

 

1 Kings 10:24  

The whole world sought audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom God had put in his heart.

(see all 1 Kings 10)

 

1 Kings 11:4  

As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father had been. 

 

1 Kings 11:9  

    The LORD became angry with Solomon because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice.

 

1 Kings 11:23  

    And God raised up against Solomon another adversary, Rezon son of Eliada, who had fled from his master, Hadadezer king of Zobah.

 

1 Kings 11:29-31  

    About that time Jeroboam was going out of Jerusalem, and Ahijah the prophet of Shiloh met him on the way, wearing a new cloak. The two of them were alone out in the country, and Ahijah took hold of the new cloak he was wearing and tore it into twelve pieces. Then he said to Jeroboam, "Take ten pieces for yourself, for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'See, I am going to tear the kingdom out of Solomon's hand and give you ten tribes."

(see all 1 Kings 11) 

 

1 Kings 12:22-24  

    But this word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God: "Say to Rehoboam son of Solomon king of Judah, to all Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people, 'This is what the LORD says: Do not go up to fight against your brothers, the Israelites. Go home, every one of you, for this is my doing.' So they obeyed the word of the LORD and went home again, as the LORD had ordered.

(see all 1 Kings 12) 

    

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GOD in the Old Testament - 1 Kings - Part 3

1 Kings 8:15-17 

Then he said:

 

        "Praise be to the LORD, the God of 

    Israel, who with his own hand has

    fulfilled what he promised with his 

    own mouth to my father David. For

    he said, 'Since the day I brought my

    people out of Egypt I have not

    chosen a city in any tribe of Israel to

    have a temple built so that my Name

    might be there, but I have chosen

    David to rule my people Israel.'

        My father David had it in his 

    heart to build a temple for the Name

    of the LORD, the God of Israel."

 

1 Kings 8:20  

        "The LORD has kept the promise

    he made: I have succeeded David

    my father and now I sit on the throne

    of Israel, just as the LORD promised,

    and I have built the temple for the

    Name of the LORD, the God of Israel."

 

1 Kings 8:22-23  

    Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in front of the whole assembly of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven and said:

        "LORD, the God of Israel, there is

    no God like you in heaven above or

    on earth below--you who keep your

    covenant of love with your servants

    who continue wholeheartedly in your

    way."

 

1 Kings 8:25-26  

        "Now LORD, the God of Israel,

    keep for your servant David my father

    the promises you made to him

    when you said, 'You shall never fail

    to have a successor to sit before me

    on the throne of Israel, if only your

    descendants are careful in all they do

    to walk before me faithfully as you

    have done.' And now, God of Israel,

    let your word that you promised your

    servant David my father come true."

 

1 Kings 8:27-28  

        "But will God really dwell on

    earth? The heavens, even the highest

    heavens, cannot contain you. How

    much less this temple I have built!

    Yet give attention to your servant's

    prayer and his plea for mercy, LORD

    my God. Hear the cry and the prayer

    that your servant is praying in your

    presence this day."

 

1 Kings 8:57  

        "May the LORD our God be with us as he

    was with our ancestors; may he never

    leave us or forsake us."

 

1 Kings 8:59-61  

        "And may these words of mine,

    which I have prayed before the

    LORD, be near to the LORD our God

    day and night, that he may uphold

    the cause of his servant and the cause

    of his people Israel according to each

    day's need, so that all the peoples

    of the earth may know that the LORD

    is God and that there is no other.

    And may your hearts be fully committed

    to the LORD our God, to live by his

    decrees and obey his commands, 

    as at this time."

 

1 Kings 8:65  

    So Solomon observed the festival at that time, and all Israel with him--a vast assembly, the people from Lebo Hamath to the Wadi of Egypt. They celebrated it before the LORD our God for seven days and seven days more, fourteen days in all.

(see all 1 Kings 8) 

    

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