Discovery Box| (1.00) | 2Sa 24:13 |
| Gad went to David and told him, “Shall seven 1 years of famine come upon your land? Or shall you flee for three months from your enemy with him in hot pursuit? Or shall there be three days of plague in your land? Now decide 2 what I should tell the one who sent me.” |
| (1.00) | 2Sa 24:16 |
| When the angel 1 extended his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the Lord relented from his judgment. 2 He told the angel who was killing the people, “That’s enough! Stop now!” 3 (Now the Lord’s angel was near the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.) |
| (1.00) | 2Sa 24:19 |
| So David went up as Gad instructed him to do, according to the Lord’s instructions. |
| (1.00) | 1Ki 1:7 |
| He collaborated 1 with Joab son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest, and they supported 2 him. 3 |
| (1.00) | 1Ki 1:14 |
| While 1 you are still there speaking to the king, I will arrive 2 and verify your report.” 3 |
| (1.00) | 1Ki 1:17 |
| She replied to him, “My master, you swore an oath to your servant by the Lord your God, ‘Solomon your son will be king after me and he will sit on my throne.’ |
| (1.00) | 1Ki 1:27 |
| Has my master the king authorized this without informing your servants 1 who should succeed my master the king on his throne?” 2 |
| (1.00) | 1Ki 1:41 |
| Now Adonijah and all his guests heard the commotion just as they had finished eating. 1 When Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he asked, “Why is there such a noisy commotion in the city?” 2 |
| (1.00) | 1Ki 1:42 |
| As he was still speaking, Jonathan 1 son of Abiathar the priest arrived. Adonijah said, “Come in, for 2 an important man like you must be bringing good news.” 3 |
| (1.00) | 1Ki 1:45 |
| Then Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anointed 1 him king in Gihon. They went up from there rejoicing, and the city is in an uproar. That is the sound you hear. |
| (1.00) | 1Ki 1:47 |
| The king’s servants have even come to congratulate 1 our master 2 King David, saying, ‘May your God 3 make Solomon more famous than you and make him an even greater king than you!’ 4 Then the king leaned 5 on the bed |
| (1.00) | 1Ki 1:48 |
| and said 1 this: ‘The Lord God of Israel is worthy of praise because 2 today he has placed a successor on my throne and allowed me to see it.’” 3 |
| (1.00) | 1Ki 1:51 |
| Solomon was told, “Look, Adonijah fears you; 1 see, he has taken hold of the horns of the altar, saying, ‘May King Solomon solemnly promise 2 me today that he will not kill his servant with the sword.’” |
| (1.00) | 1Ki 1:52 |
| Solomon said, “If he is a loyal subject, 1 not a hair of his head will be harmed, but if he is found to be a traitor, 2 he will die.” |
| (1.00) | 1Ki 2:3 |
| Do the job the Lord your God has assigned you 1 by following his instructions 2 and obeying 3 his rules, commandments, regulations, and laws as written in the law of Moses. Then you will succeed in all you do and seek to accomplish, 4 |
| (1.00) | 1Ki 2:4 |
| and the Lord will fulfill his promise to me, 1 ‘If your descendants watch their step 2 and live faithfully in my presence 3 with all their heart and being, 4 then,’ he promised, 5 ‘you will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’ 6 |
| (1.00) | 1Ki 2:14 |
| He added, 1 “I have something to say to you.” She replied, “Speak.” |
| (1.00) | 1Ki 2:23 |
| King Solomon then swore an oath by the Lord, “May God judge me severely, 1 if Adonijah does not pay for this request with his life! 2 |
| (1.00) | 1Ki 2:24 |
| Now, as certainly as the Lord lives (he who made me secure, allowed me to sit on my father David’s throne, and established a dynasty 1 for me as he promised), Adonijah will be executed today!” |
| (1.00) | 1Ki 2:26 |
| The king then told Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your property 1 in Anathoth. You deserve to die, 2 but today I will not kill you because you did carry the ark of the sovereign Lord before my father David and you suffered with my father through all his difficult times.” 3 |
