INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S131_3","010_31_3","1SA","31","3","3","The battle went hard against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was greatly distressed by reason of the archers. ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S131_5","010_31_5","1SA","31","5","5","When his armour bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword, and died with him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S131_6","010_31_6","1SA","31","6","6","So Saul died with his three sons, his armour bearer, and all his men that same day together. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S131_7","010_31_7","1SA","31","7","7","When the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley, and those who were beyond the Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned the cities and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S131_8","010_31_8","1SA","31","8","8","On the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S131_9","010_31_9","1SA","31","9","9","They cut off his head, stripped off his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines all around, to carry the news to the house of their idols and to the people. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S131_10","010_31_10","1SA","31","10","10","They put his armour in the house of the Ashtaroth, and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S131_11","010_31_11","1SA","31","11","11","When the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S131_12","010_31_12","1SA","31","12","12","all the valiant men arose, went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth Shan; and they came to Jabesh and burnt them there. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S131_13","010_31_13","1SA","31","13","13","They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S21_1","011_1_1","2SA","1","1","1","After the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had stayed two days in Ziklag, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S21_2","011_1_2","2SA","1","2","2","on the third day, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul, with his clothes torn and earth on his head. When he came to David, he fell to the earth and showed respect. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S21_3","011_1_3","2SA","1","3","3","David said to him, “Where do you come from?” He said to him, “I have escaped out of the camp of Israel.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S21_4","011_1_4","2SA","1","4","4","David said to him, “How did it go? Please tell me.” He answered, “The people have fled from the battle, and many of the people also have fallen and are dead. Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S21_5","011_1_5","2SA","1","5","5","David said to the young man who told him, “How do you know that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S21_6","011_1_6","2SA","1","6","6","The young man who told him said, “As I happened by chance on Mount Gilboa, behold, Saul was leaning on his spear; and behold, the chariots and the horsemen followed close behind him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S21_7","011_1_7","2SA","1","7","7","When he looked behind him, he saw me and called to me. I answered, ‘Here I am.’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S21_8","011_1_8","2SA","1","8","8","He said to me, ‘Who are you?’ I answered him, ‘I am an Amalekite.’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S21_9","011_1_9","2SA","1","9","9","He said to me, ‘Please stand beside me, and kill me, for anguish has taken hold of me because my life lingers in me.’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S21_10","011_1_10","2SA","1","10","10","So I stood beside him and killed him, because I was sure that he could not live after he had fallen. I took the crown that was on his head and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them here to my lord.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S21_11","011_1_11","2SA","1","11","11","Then David took hold on his clothes and tore them; and all the men who were with him did likewise. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S21_12","011_1_12","2SA","1","12","12","They mourned, wept, and fasted until evening for Saul and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LORD, and for the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S21_13","011_1_13","2SA","1","13","13","David said to the young man who told him, “Where are you from?” He answered, “I am the son of a foreigner, an Amalekite.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S21_14","011_1_14","2SA","1","14","14","David said to him, “Why were you not afraid to stretch out your hand to destroy the LORD’s anointed?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S21_15","011_1_15","2SA","1","15","15","David called one of the young men and said, “Go near, and cut him down!” He struck him so that he died. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S21_16","011_1_16","2SA","1","16","16","David said to him, “Your blood be on your head, for your mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have slain the LORD’s anointed.’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S21_17","011_1_17","2SA","1","17","17","David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S21_18","011_1_18","2SA","1","18","18","(and he commanded them to teach the children of Judah the song of the bow; behold, it is written in the book of Jashar): ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S21_19","011_1_19","2SA","1","19","19","“Your glory, Israel, was slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen! ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S21_20","011_1_20","2SA","1","20","20","Don’t tell it in Gath. Don’t publish it in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S21_21","011_1_21","2SA","1","21","21","You mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain on you, and no fields of offerings; for there the shield of the mighty was defiled and cast away, the shield of Saul was not anointed with oil. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S21_22","011_1_22","2SA","1","22","22","From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, Jonathan’s bow didn’t turn back. Saul’s sword didn’t return empty. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S21_23","011_1_23","2SA","1","23","23","Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives. In their death, they were not divided. They were swifter than eagles. They were stronger than lions. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S21_24","011_1_24","2SA","1","24","24","You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you delicately in scarlet, who put ornaments of gold on your clothing. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S21_25","011_1_25","2SA","1","25","25","How the mighty have fallen in the middle of the battle! Jonathan was slain on your high places. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S21_26","011_1_26","2SA","1","26","26","I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan. You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was wonderful, surpassing the love of women. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S21_27","011_1_27","2SA","1","27","27","How the mighty have fallen, and the weapons of war have perished!” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S22_1","011_2_1","2SA","2","1","1","After this, David enquired of the LORD, saying, “Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah?” The LORD said to him, “Go up.” David said, “Where shall I go up?” He said, “To Hebron.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S22_2","011_2_2","2SA","2","2","2","So David went up there with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S22_3","011_2_3","2SA","2","3","3","David brought up his men who were with him, every man with his household. They lived in the cities of Hebron. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S22_4","011_2_4","2SA","2","4","4","The men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. They told David, “The men of Jabesh Gilead were those who buried Saul.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S22_5","011_2_5","2SA","2","5","5","David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh Gilead, and said to them, “Blessed are you by the LORD, that you have shown this kindness to your lord, even to Saul, and have buried him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S22_6","011_2_6","2SA","2","6","6","Now may the LORD show loving kindness and truth to you. I also will reward you for this kindness, because you have done this thing. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S22_7","011_2_7","2SA","2","7","7","Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be valiant; for Saul your lord is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S22_8","011_2_8","2SA","2","8","8","Now Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul’s army, had taken Ishbosheth the son of Saul and brought him over to Mahanaim. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S22_9","011_2_9","2SA","2","9","9","He made him king over Gilead, over the Ashurites, over Jezreel, over Ephraim, over Benjamin, and over all Israel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S22_10","011_2_10","2SA","2","10","10","Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S22_11","011_2_11","2SA","2","11","11","The time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S22_12","011_2_12","2SA","2","12","12","Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S22_13","011_2_13","2SA","2","13","13","Joab the son of Zeruiah and David’s servants went out, and met them by the pool of Gibeon; and they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool and the other on the other side of the pool. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S22_14","011_2_14","2SA","2","14","14","Abner said to Joab, “Please let the young men arise and compete before us!” Joab said, “Let them arise!” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S22_15","011_2_15","2SA","2","15","15","Then they arose and went over by number: twelve for Benjamin and for Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of David’s servants. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S22_16","011_2_16","2SA","2","16","16","They each caught his opponent by the head and thrust his sword in his fellow’s side; so they fell down together. Therefore that place in Gibeon was called Helkath Hazzurim. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S22_17","011_2_17","2SA","2","17","17","The battle was very severe that day; and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before David’s servants. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S22_18","011_2_18","2SA","2","18","18","The three sons of Zeruiah were there: Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Asahel was as light of foot as a wild gazelle. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S22_19","011_2_19","2SA","2","19","19","Asahel pursued Abner. He didn’t turn to the right hand or to the left from following Abner. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S22_20","011_2_20","2SA","2","20","20","Then Abner looked behind him and said, “Is that you, Asahel?” He answered, “It is.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S22_21","011_2_21","2SA","2","21","21","Abner said to him, “Turn away to your right hand or to your left, and grab one of the young men, and take his armour.” But Asahel would not turn away from following him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S22_22","011_2_22","2SA","2","22","22","Abner said again to Asahel, “Turn away from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then could I look Joab your brother in the face?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S22_23","011_2_23","2SA","2","23","23","However, he refused to turn away. Therefore Abner with the back end of the spear struck him in the body, so that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there and died in the same place. As many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S22_24","011_2_24","2SA","2","24","24","But Joab and Abishai pursued Abner. The sun went down when they had come to the hill of Ammah, that lies before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S22_25","011_2_25","2SA","2","25","25","The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner and became one band, and stood on the top of a hill. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S22_26","011_2_26","2SA","2","26","26","Then Abner called to Joab, and said, “Shall the sword devour forever? Don’t you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long will it be then, before you ask the people to return from following their brothers?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S22_27","011_2_27","2SA","2","27","27","Joab said, “As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely then in the morning the people would have gone away, and not each followed his brother.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S22_28","011_2_28","2SA","2","28","28","So Joab blew the trumpet; and all the people stood still and pursued Israel no more, and they fought no more. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S22_29","011_2_29","2SA","2","29","29","Abner and his men went all that night through the Arabah; and they passed over the Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and came to Mahanaim. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S22_30","011_2_30","2SA","2","30","30","Joab returned from following Abner; and when he had gathered all the people together, nineteen men of David’s and Asahel were missing. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S22_31","011_2_31","2SA","2","31","31","But David’s servants had struck Benjamin Abner’s men so that three hundred and sixty men died. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S22_32","011_2_32","2SA","2","32","32","They took up Asahel and buried him in the tomb of his father, which was in Bethlehem. Joab and his men went all night, and the day broke on them at Hebron. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S23_1","011_3_1","2SA","3","1","1","Now there was long war between Saul’s house and David’s house. David grew stronger and stronger, but Saul’s house grew weaker and weaker. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S23_2","011_3_2","2SA","3","2","2","Sons were born to David in Hebron. His firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S23_3","011_3_3","2SA","3","3","3","and his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S23_4","011_3_4","2SA","3","4","4","and the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S23_5","011_3_5","2SA","3","5","5","and the sixth, Ithream, of Eglah, David’s wife. These were born to David in Hebron. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S23_6","011_3_6","2SA","3","6","6","While there was war between Saul’s house and David’s house, Abner made himself strong in Saul’s house. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S23_7","011_3_7","2SA","3","7","7","Now Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah; and Ishbosheth said to Abner, “Why have you gone in to my father’s concubine?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S23_8","011_3_8","2SA","3","8","8","Then Abner was very angry about Ishbosheth’s words, and said, “Am I a dog’s head that belongs to Judah? Today I show kindness to your father Saul’s house, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hand of David; and yet you charge me today with a fault concerning this woman! ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S23_9","011_3_9","2SA","3","9","9","God do so to Abner, and more also, if, as the LORD has sworn to David, I don’t do even so to him: ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S23_10","011_3_10","2SA","3","10","10","to transfer the kingdom from Saul’s house, and to set up David’s throne over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beersheba.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S23_11","011_3_11","2SA","3","11","11","He could not answer Abner another word, because he was afraid of him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S23_12","011_3_12","2SA","3","12","12","Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, “Whose is the land?” and saying, “Make your alliance with me, and behold, my hand will be with you to bring all Israel around to you.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S23_13","011_3_13","2SA","3","13","13","David said, “Good. I will make a treaty with you, but one thing I require of you. That is, you will not see my face unless you first bring Michal, Saul’s daughter, when you come to see my face.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S23_14","011_3_14","2SA","3","14","14","David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, saying, “Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I was given to marry for one hundred foreskins of the Philistines.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S23_15","011_3_15","2SA","3","15","15","Ishbosheth sent and took her from her husband, Paltiel the son of Laish. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S23_16","011_3_16","2SA","3","16","16","Her husband went with her, weeping as he went, and followed her to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, “Go! Return!” and he returned. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S23_17","011_3_17","2SA","3","17","17","Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, “In times past, you sought for David to be king over you. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S23_18","011_3_18","2SA","3","18","18","Now then do it! For the LORD has spoken of David, saying, ‘By the hand of my servant David, I will save my people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S23_19","011_3_19","2SA","3","19","19","Abner also spoke in the ears of Benjamin; and Abner went also to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that seemed good to Israel and to the whole house of Benjamin. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S23_20","011_3_20","2SA","3","20","20","So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. David made Abner and the men who were with him a feast. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S23_21","011_3_21","2SA","3","21","21","Abner said to David, “I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel to my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may reign over all that your soul desires.” David sent Abner away; and he went in peace. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S23_22","011_3_22","2SA","3","22","22","Behold, David’s servants and Joab came from a raid and brought in a great plunder with them; but Abner was not with David in Hebron, for he had sent him away, and he had gone in peace. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S23_23","011_3_23","2SA","3","23","23","When Joab and all the army who was with him had come, they told Joab, “Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he has sent him away, and he has gone in peace.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S23_24","011_3_24","2SA","3","24","24","Then Joab came to the king and said, “What have you done? Behold, Abner came to you. Why is it that you have sent him away, and he is already gone? ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S23_25","011_3_25","2SA","3","25","25","You know Abner the son of Ner. He came to deceive you, and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you do.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S23_26","011_3_26","2SA","3","26","26","When Joab had come out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the well of Sirah; but David didn’t know it. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S23_27","011_3_27","2SA","3","27","27","When Abner had returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died for the blood of Asahel his brother. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S23_28","011_3_28","2SA","3","28","28","Afterward, when David heard it, he said, “I and my kingdom are guiltless before the LORD forever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S23_29","011_3_29","2SA","3","29","29","Let it fall on the head of Joab and on all his father’s house. Let there not fail from the house of Joab one who has a discharge, or who is a leper, or who leans on a staff, or who falls by the sword, or who lacks bread.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S23_30","011_3_30","2SA","3","30","30","So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S23_31","011_3_31","2SA","3","31","31","David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes, and clothe yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn in front of Abner.” King David followed the bier. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S23_32","011_3_32","2SA","3","32","32","They buried Abner in Hebron; and the king lifted up his voice and wept at Abner’s grave; and all the people wept. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S23_33","011_3_33","2SA","3","33","33","The king lamented for Abner, and said, “Should Abner die as a fool dies? ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S23_34","011_3_34","2SA","3","34","34","Your hands weren’t bound, and your feet weren’t put into fetters. As a man falls before the children of iniquity, so you fell.” All the people wept again over him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S23_35","011_3_35","2SA","3","35","35","All the people came to urge David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David swore, saying, “God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread or anything else, until the sun goes down.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S23_36","011_3_36","2SA","3","36","36","All the people took notice of it, and it pleased them, as whatever the king did pleased all the people. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S23_37","011_3_37","2SA","3","37","37","So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to kill Abner the son of Ner. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S23_38","011_3_38","2SA","3","38","38","The king said to his servants, “Don’t you know that a prince and a great man has fallen today in Israel? ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S23_39","011_3_39","2SA","3","39","39","I am weak today, though anointed king. These men, the sons of Zeruiah are too hard for me. May the LORD reward the evildoer according to his wickedness.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S24_1","011_4_1","2SA","4","1","1","When Saul’s son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands became feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled. ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S24_3","011_4_3","2SA","4","3","3","and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have lived as foreigners there until today). ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S24_4","011_4_4","2SA","4","4","4","Now Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son who was lame in his feet. He was five years old when the news came about Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel; and his nurse picked him up and fled. As she hurried to flee, he fell and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S24_5","011_4_5","2SA","4","5","5","The sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went out and came at about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth as he took his rest at noon. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S24_6","011_4_6","2SA","4","6","6","They came there into the middle of the house as though they would have fetched wheat, and they struck him in the body; and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S24_7","011_4_7","2SA","4","7","7","Now when they came into the house as he lay on his bed in his bedroom, they struck him, killed him, beheaded him, and took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S24_8","011_4_8","2SA","4","8","8","They brought the head of Ishbosheth to David to Hebron, and said to the king, “Behold, the head of Ishbosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life! The LORD has avenged my lord the king today of Saul and of his offspring.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S24_9","011_4_9","2SA","4","9","9","David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, “As the LORD lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S24_10","011_4_10","2SA","4","10","10","when someone told me, ‘Behold, Saul is dead,’ thinking that he brought good news, I seized him and killed him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S24_11","011_4_11","2SA","4","11","11","How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed, should I not now require his blood from your hand, and rid the earth of you?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S24_12","011_4_12","2SA","4","12","12","David commanded his young men, and they killed them, cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth and buried it in Abner’s grave in Hebron. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S25_1","011_5_1","2SA","5","1","1","Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and spoke, saying, “Behold, we are your bone and your flesh. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S25_2","011_5_2","2SA","5","2","2","In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led Israel out and in. The LORD said to you, ‘You will be shepherd of my people Israel, and you will be prince over Israel.’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S25_3","011_5_3","2SA","5","3","3","So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron, and King David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the LORD; and they anointed David king over Israel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S25_4","011_5_4","2SA","5","4","4","David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S25_5","011_5_5","2SA","5","5","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. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S25_6","011_5_6","2SA","5","6","6","The king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who spoke to David, saying, “The blind and the lame will keep you out of here,” thinking, “David can’t come in here.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S25_7","011_5_7","2SA","5","7","7","Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion. This is David’s city. ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S25_9","011_5_9","2SA","5","9","9","David lived in the stronghold, and called it David’s city. David built around from Millo and inward. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S25_10","011_5_10","2SA","5","10","10","David grew greater and greater, for the LORD, the God of Armies, was with him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S25_11","011_5_11","2SA","5","11","11","Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, with cedar trees, carpenters, and masons; and they built David a house. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S25_12","011_5_12","2SA","5","12","12","David perceived that the LORD had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel’s sake. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S25_13","011_5_13","2SA","5","13","13","David took more concubines and wives for himself out of Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron; and more sons and daughters were born to David. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S25_14","011_5_14","2SA","5","14","14","These are the names of those who were born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S25_15","011_5_15","2SA","5","15","15","Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S25_16","011_5_16","2SA","5","16","16","Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S25_17","011_5_17","2SA","5","17","17","When the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David, but David heard about it and went down to the stronghold. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S25_18","011_5_18","2SA","5","18","18","Now the Philistines had come and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S25_19","011_5_19","2SA","5","19","19","David enquired of the LORD, saying, “Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hand?” The LORD said to David, “Go up; for I will certainly deliver the Philistines into your hand.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S25_20","011_5_20","2SA","5","20","20","David came to Baal Perazim, and David struck them there. Then he said, “The LORD has broken my enemies before me, like the breach of waters.” Therefore he called the name of that place Baal Perazim. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S25_21","011_5_21","2SA","5","21","21","They left their images there, and David and his men took them away. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S25_22","011_5_22","2SA","5","22","22","The Philistines came up yet again and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S25_23","011_5_23","2SA","5","23","23","When David enquired of the LORD, he said, “You shall not go up. Circle around behind them, and attack them in front of the mulberry trees. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S25_24","011_5_24","2SA","5","24","24","When you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, then stir yourself up; for then the LORD has gone out before you to strike the army of the Philistines.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S25_25","011_5_25","2SA","5","25","25","David did so, as the LORD commanded him, and struck the Philistines all the way from Geba to Gezer. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S26_1","011_6_1","2SA","6","1","1","David again gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S26_2","011_6_2","2SA","6","2","2","David arose and went with all the people who were with him from Baale Judah, to bring up from there God’s ark, which is called by the Name, even the name of the LORD of Armies who sits above the cherubim. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S26_3","011_6_3","2SA","6","3","3","They set God’s ark on a new cart, and brought it out of Abinadab’s house that was on the hill; and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S26_4","011_6_4","2SA","6","4","4","They brought it out of Abinadab’s house which was in the hill, with God’s ark; and Ahio went before the ark. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S26_5","011_6_5","2SA","6","5","5","David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD with all kinds of instruments made of cypress wood, with harps, with stringed instruments, with tambourines, with castanets, and with cymbals. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S26_6","011_6_6","2SA","6","6","6","When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached for God’s ark and took hold of it, for the cattle stumbled. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S26_7","011_6_7","2SA","6","7","7","The LORD’s anger burnt against Uzzah, and God struck him there for his error; and he died there by God’s ark. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S26_8","011_6_8","2SA","6","8","8","David was displeased because the LORD had broken out against Uzzah; and he called that place Perez Uzzah to this day. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S26_9","011_6_9","2SA","6","9","9","David was afraid of the LORD that day; and he said, “How could the LORD’s ark come to me?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S26_10","011_6_10","2SA","6","10","10","So David would not move the LORD’s ark to be with him in David’s city; but David carried it aside into Obed-Edom the Gittite’s house. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S26_11","011_6_11","2SA","6","11","11","The LORD’s ark remained in Obed-Edom the Gittite’s house three months; and the LORD blessed Obed-Edom and all his house. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S26_12","011_6_12","2SA","6","12","12","King David was told, “The LORD has blessed the house of Obed-Edom, and all that belongs to him, because of God’s ark.” So David went and brought up God’s ark from the house of Obed-Edom into David’s city with joy. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S26_13","011_6_13","2SA","6","13","13","When those who bore the LORD’s ark had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S26_14","011_6_14","2SA","6","14","14","David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was clothed in a linen ephod. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S26_15","011_6_15","2SA","6","15","15","So David and all the house of Israel brought up the LORD’s ark with shouting and with the sound of the trumpet. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S26_16","011_6_16","2SA","6","16","16","As the LORD’s ark came into David’s city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out through the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S26_17","011_6_17","2SA","6","17","17","They brought in the LORD’s ark, and set it in its place in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it; and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S26_18","011_6_18","2SA","6","18","18","When David had finished offering the burnt offering and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD of Armies. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S26_19","011_6_19","2SA","6","19","19","He gave to all the people, even amongst the whole multitude of Israel, both to men and women, to everyone a portion of bread, dates, and raisins. So all the people departed, each to his own house. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S26_20","011_6_20","2SA","6","20","20","Then David returned to bless his household. Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, “How glorious the king of Israel was today, who uncovered himself today in the eyes of his servants’ maids, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S26_21","011_6_21","2SA","6","21","21","David said to Michal, “It was before the LORD, who chose me above your father, and above all his house, to appoint me prince over the people of the LORD, over Israel. Therefore I will celebrate before the LORD. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S26_22","011_6_22","2SA","6","22","22","I will be yet more undignified than this, and will be worthless in my own sight. But the maids of whom you have spoken will honour me.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S26_23","011_6_23","2SA","6","23","23","Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S27_1","011_7_1","2SA","7","1","1","When the king lived in his house, and the LORD had given him rest from all his enemies all around, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S27_2","011_7_2","2SA","7","2","2","the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but God’s ark dwells within curtains.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S27_3","011_7_3","2SA","7","3","3","Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that is in your heart, for the LORD is with you.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S27_4","011_7_4","2SA","7","4","4","That same night, the LORD’s word came to Nathan, saying, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S27_5","011_7_5","2SA","7","5","5","“Go and tell my servant David, ‘The LORD says, “Should you build me a house for me to dwell in? ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S27_6","011_7_6","2SA","7","6","6","For I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought the children of Israel up out of Egypt, even to this day, but have moved around in a tent and in a tabernacle. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S27_7","011_7_7","2SA","7","7","7","In all places in which I have walked with all the children of Israel, did I say a word to anyone from the tribes of Israel whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people Israel, saying, ‘Why have you not built me a house of cedar?’”’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S27_8","011_7_8","2SA","7","8","8","Now therefore tell my servant David this: ‘The LORD of Armies says, “I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people, over Israel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S27_9","011_7_9","2SA","7","9","9","I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a great name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S27_10","011_7_10","2SA","7","10","10","I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place and be moved no more. The children of wickedness will not afflict them any more, as at the first, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S27_11","011_7_11","2SA","7","11","11","and as from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. I will cause you to rest from all your enemies. Moreover the LORD tells you that the LORD will make you a house. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S27_12","011_7_12","2SA","7","12","12","When your days are fulfilled and you sleep with your fathers, I will set up your offspring after you, who will proceed out of your body, and I will establish his kingdom. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S27_13","011_7_13","2SA","7","13","13","He will build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S27_14","011_7_14","2SA","7","14","14","I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the stripes of the children of men; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S27_15","011_7_15","2SA","7","15","15","but my loving kindness will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S27_16","011_7_16","2SA","7","16","16","Your house and your kingdom will be made sure forever before you. Your throne will be established forever.”’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S27_17","011_7_17","2SA","7","17","17","Nathan spoke to David all these words, and according to all this vision. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S27_18","011_7_18","2SA","7","18","18","Then David the king went in and sat before the LORD; and he said, “Who am I, Lord GOD, and what is my house, that you have brought me this far? ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S27_19","011_7_19","2SA","7","19","19","This was yet a small thing in your eyes, Lord GOD, but you have spoken also of your servant’s house for a great while to come; and this amongst men, Lord GOD! ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S27_20","011_7_20","2SA","7","20","20","What more can David say to you? For you know your servant, Lord GOD. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S27_21","011_7_21","2SA","7","21","21","For your word’s sake, and according to your own heart, you have worked all this greatness, to make your servant know it. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S27_22","011_7_22","2SA","7","22","22","Therefore you are great, LORD God. For there is no one like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S27_23","011_7_23","2SA","7","23","23","What one nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make himself a name, and to do great things for you, and awesome things for your land, before your people, whom you redeemed to yourself out of Egypt, from the nations and their gods? ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S27_24","011_7_24","2SA","7","24","24","You established for yourself your people Israel to be your people forever; and you, LORD, became their God. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S27_25","011_7_25","2SA","7","25","25","“Now, LORD God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, confirm it forever, and do as you have spoken. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S27_26","011_7_26","2SA","7","26","26","Let your name be magnified forever, saying, ‘The LORD of Armies is God over Israel; and the house of your servant David will be established before you.’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S27_27","011_7_27","2SA","7","27","27","For you, LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, have revealed to your servant, saying, ‘I will build you a house.’ Therefore your servant has found in his heart to pray this prayer to you. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S27_28","011_7_28","2SA","7","28","28","“Now, O Lord GOD, you are God, and your words are truth, and you have promised this good thing to your servant. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S27_29","011_7_29","2SA","7","29","29","Now therefore, let it please you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you; for you, Lord GOD, have spoken it. Let the house of your servant be blessed forever with your blessing.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S28_1","011_8_1","2SA","8","1","1","After this, David struck the Philistines and subdued them; and David took the bridle of the mother city out of the hand of the Philistines. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S28_2","011_8_2","2SA","8","2","2","He defeated Moab, and measured them with the line, making them to lie down on the ground; and he measured two lines to put to death, and one full line to keep alive. The Moabites became servants to David, and brought tribute. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S28_3","011_8_3","2SA","8","3","3","David also struck Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his dominion at the River. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S28_4","011_8_4","2SA","8","4","4","David took from him one thousand and seven hundred horsemen and twenty thousand footmen. David hamstrung the chariot horses, but reserved enough of them for one hundred chariots. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S28_5","011_8_5","2SA","8","5","5","When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck twenty two thousand men of the Syrians. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S28_6","011_8_6","2SA","8","6","6","Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought tribute. The LORD gave victory to David wherever he went. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S28_7","011_8_7","2SA","8","7","7","David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S28_8","011_8_8","2SA","8","8","8","From Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, King David took a great quantity of bronze. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S28_9","011_8_9","2SA","8","9","9","When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had struck all the army of Hadadezer, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S28_10","011_8_10","2SA","8","10","10","then Toi sent Joram his son to King David to greet him and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and struck him; for Hadadezer had wars with Toi. Joram brought with him vessels of silver, vessels of gold, and vessels of bronze. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S28_11","011_8_11","2SA","8","11","11","King David also dedicated these to the LORD, with the silver and gold that he dedicated of all the nations which he subdued— ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S28_12","011_8_12","2SA","8","12","12","of Syria, of Moab, of the children of Ammon, of the Philistines, of Amalek, and of the plunder of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S28_13","011_8_13","2SA","8","13","13","David earned a reputation when he returned from striking down eighteen thousand men of the Syrians in the Valley of Salt. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S28_14","011_8_14","2SA","8","14","14","He put garrisons in Edom. Throughout all Edom, he put garrisons, and all the Edomites became servants to David. The LORD gave victory to David wherever he went. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S28_15","011_8_15","2SA","8","15","15","David reigned over all Israel; and David executed justice and righteousness for all his people. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S28_16","011_8_16","2SA","8","16","16","Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army, Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S28_17","011_8_17","2SA","8","17","17","Zadok the son of Ahitub and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar were priests, Seraiah was scribe, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S28_18","011_8_18","2SA","8","18","18","Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David’s sons were chief ministers. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S29_1","011_9_1","2SA","9","1","1","David said, “Is there yet any who is left of Saul’s house, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan’s sake?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S29_2","011_9_2","2SA","9","2","2","There was of Saul’s house a servant whose name was Ziba, and they called him to David; and the king said to him, “Are you Ziba?” He said, “I am your servant.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S29_3","011_9_3","2SA","9","3","3","The king said, “Is there not yet any of Saul’s house, that I may show the kindness of God to him?” Ziba said to the king, “Jonathan still has a son, who is lame in his feet.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S29_4","011_9_4","2SA","9","4","4","The king said to him, “Where is he?” Ziba said to the king, “Behold, he is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, in Lo Debar.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S29_5","011_9_5","2SA","9","5","5","Then King David sent and brought him out of the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, from Lo Debar. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S29_6","011_9_6","2SA","9","6","6","Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, fell on his face, and showed respect. David said, “Mephibosheth?” He answered, “Behold, your servant!” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S29_7","011_9_7","2SA","9","7","7","David said to him, “Don’t be afraid, for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father’s sake, and will restore to you all the land of Saul your father. You will eat bread at my table continually.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S29_8","011_9_8","2SA","9","8","8","He bowed down, and said, “What is your servant, that you should look at such a dead dog as I am?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S29_9","011_9_9","2SA","9","9","9","Then the king called to Ziba, Saul’s servant, and said to him, “All that belonged to Saul and to all his house I have given to your master’s son. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S29_10","011_9_10","2SA","9","10","10","Till the land for him—you, your sons, and your servants. Bring in the harvest, that your master’s son may have bread to eat; but Mephibosheth your master’s son will always eat bread at my table.” Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S29_11","011_9_11","2SA","9","11","11","Then Ziba said to the king, “According to all that my lord the king commands his servant, so your servant will do.” So Mephibosheth ate at the king’s table like one of the king’s sons. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S29_12","011_9_12","2SA","9","12","12","Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Mica. All who lived in Ziba’s house were servants to Mephibosheth. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S29_13","011_9_13","2SA","9","13","13","So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, for he ate continually at the king’s table. He was lame in both his feet. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S210_1","011_10_1","2SA","10","1","1","After this, the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his place. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S210_2","011_10_2","2SA","10","2","2","David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent by his servants to comfort him concerning his father. David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S210_3","011_10_3","2SA","10","3","3","But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, “Do you think that David honours your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Hasn’t David sent his servants to you to search the city, to spy it out, and to overthrow it?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S210_4","011_10_4","2SA","10","4","4","So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved off one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S210_5","011_10_5","2SA","10","5","5","When they told David this, he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed. The king said, “Wait at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S210_6","011_10_6","2SA","10","6","6","When the children of Ammon saw that they had become odious to David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth Rehob and the Syrians of Zobah, twenty thousand footmen, and the king of Maacah with one thousand men, and the men of Tob twelve thousand men. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S210_7","011_10_7","2SA","10","7","7","When David heard of it, he sent Joab and all the army of the mighty men. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S210_8","011_10_8","2SA","10","8","8","The children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entrance of the gate. The Syrians of Zobah and of Rehob and the men of Tob and Maacah were by themselves in the field. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S210_9","011_10_9","2SA","10","9","9","Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel and put them in array against the Syrians. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S210_10","011_10_10","2SA","10","10","10","The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and he put them in array against the children of Ammon. ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S210_12","011_10_12","2SA","10","12","12","Be courageous, and let’s be strong for our people and for the cities of our God; and may the LORD do what seems good to him.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S210_13","011_10_13","2SA","10","13","13","So Joab and the people who were with him came near to the battle against the Syrians, and they fled before him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S210_14","011_10_14","2SA","10","14","14","When the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, they likewise fled before Abishai, and entered into the city. Then Joab returned from the children of Ammon and came to Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S210_15","011_10_15","2SA","10","15","15","When the Syrians saw that they were defeated by Israel, they gathered themselves together. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S210_16","011_10_16","2SA","10","16","16","Hadadezer sent and brought out the Syrians who were beyond the River; and they came to Helam, with Shobach the captain of the army of Hadadezer at their head. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S210_17","011_10_17","2SA","10","17","17","David was told that; and he gathered all Israel together, passed over the Jordan, and came to Helam. The Syrians set themselves in array against David and fought with him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S210_18","011_10_18","2SA","10","18","18","The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed seven hundred charioteers of the Syrians and forty thousand horsemen, and struck Shobach the captain of their army, so that he died there. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S210_19","011_10_19","2SA","10","19","19","When all the kings who were servants to Hadadezer saw that they were defeated before Israel, they made peace with Israel and served them. So the Syrians were afraid to help the children of Ammon any more. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S211_1","011_11_1","2SA","11","1","1","At the return of the year, at the time when kings go out, David sent Joab and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S211_2","011_11_2","2SA","11","2","2","At evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look at. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S211_3","011_11_3","2SA","11","3","3","David sent and enquired after the woman. One said, “Isn’t this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, Uriah the Hittite’s wife?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S211_4","011_11_4","2SA","11","4","4","David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her (for she was purified from her uncleanness); and she returned to her house. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S211_5","011_11_5","2SA","11","5","5","The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, “I am with child.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S211_6","011_11_6","2SA","11","6","6","David sent to Joab, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” Joab sent Uriah to David. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S211_7","011_11_7","2SA","11","7","7","When Uriah had come to him, David asked him how Joab did, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S211_8","011_11_8","2SA","11","8","8","David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” Uriah departed out of the king’s house, and a gift from the king was sent after him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S211_9","011_11_9","2SA","11","9","9","But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and didn’t go down to his house. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S211_10","011_11_10","2SA","11","10","10","When they had told David, saying, “Uriah didn’t go down to his house,” David said to Uriah, “Haven’t you come from a journey? Why didn’t you go down to your house?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S211_11","011_11_11","2SA","11","11","11","Uriah said to David, “The ark, Israel, and Judah, are staying in tents; and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are encamped in the open field. Shall I then go into my house to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing!” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S211_12","011_11_12","2SA","11","12","12","David said to Uriah, “Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will let you depart.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next day. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S211_13","011_11_13","2SA","11","13","13","When David had called him, he ate and drank before him; and he made him drunk. At evening, he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but didn’t go down to his house. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S211_14","011_11_14","2SA","11","14","14","In the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S211_15","011_11_15","2SA","11","15","15","He wrote in the letter, saying, “Send Uriah to the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck and die.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S211_16","011_11_16","2SA","11","16","16","When Joab kept watch on the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew that valiant men were. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S211_17","011_11_17","2SA","11","17","17","The men of the city went out and fought with Joab. Some of the people fell, even of David’s servants; and Uriah the Hittite died also. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S211_18","011_11_18","2SA","11","18","18","Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S211_19","011_11_19","2SA","11","19","19","and he commanded the messenger, saying, “When you have finished telling all the things concerning the war to the king, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S211_20","011_11_20","2SA","11","20","20","it shall be that, if the king’s wrath arise, and he asks you, ‘Why did you go so near to the city to fight? Didn’t you know that they would shoot from the wall? ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S211_21","011_11_21","2SA","11","21","21","Who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Didn’t a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?’ then you shall say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S211_22","011_11_22","2SA","11","22","22","So the messenger went, and came and showed David all that Joab had sent him for. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S211_23","011_11_23","2SA","11","23","23","The messenger said to David, “The men prevailed against us, and came out to us into the field; and we were on them even to the entrance of the gate. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S211_24","011_11_24","2SA","11","24","24","The shooters shot at your servants from off the wall; and some of the king’s servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S211_25","011_11_25","2SA","11","25","25","Then David said to the messenger, “Tell Joab, ‘Don’t let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Make your battle stronger against the city, and overthrow it.’ Encourage him.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S211_26","011_11_26","2SA","11","26","26","When Uriah’s wife heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S211_27","011_11_27","2SA","11","27","27","When the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S212_1","011_12_1","2SA","12","1","1","The LORD sent Nathan to David. He came to him, and said to him, “There were two men in one city: the one rich, and the other poor. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S212_2","011_12_2","2SA","12","2","2","The rich man had very many flocks and herds, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S212_3","011_12_3","2SA","12","3","3","but the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and raised. It grew up together with him and with his children. It ate of his own food, drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was like a daughter to him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S212_4","011_12_4","2SA","12","4","4","A traveller came to the rich man, and he didn’t want to take of his own flock and of his own herd to prepare for the wayfaring man who had come to him, but took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S212_5","011_12_5","2SA","12","5","5","David’s anger burnt hot against the man, and he said to Nathan, “As the LORD lives, the man who has done this deserves to die! ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S212_6","011_12_6","2SA","12","6","6","He must restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing and because he had no pity!” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S212_7","011_12_7","2SA","12","7","7","Nathan said to David, “You are the man! This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S212_8","011_12_8","2SA","12","8","8","I gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that would have been too little, I would have added to you many more such things. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S212_9","011_12_9","2SA","12","9","9","Why have you despised the LORD’s word, to do that which is evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword, have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S212_10","011_12_10","2SA","12","10","10","Now therefore the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken Uriah the Hittite’s wife to be your wife.’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S212_11","011_12_11","2SA","12","11","11","“This is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbour, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S212_12","011_12_12","2SA","12","12","12","For you did this secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S212_13","011_12_13","2SA","12","13","13","David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” Nathan said to David, “The LORD also has put away your sin. You will not die. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S212_14","011_12_14","2SA","12","14","14","However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to the LORD’s enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you will surely die.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S212_15","011_12_15","2SA","12","15","15","Then Nathan departed to his house. The LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife bore to David, and he was very sick. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S212_16","011_12_16","2SA","12","16","16","David therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went in and lay all night on the ground. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S212_17","011_12_17","2SA","12","17","17","The elders of his house arose beside him, to raise him up from the earth; but he would not, and he didn’t eat bread with them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S212_18","011_12_18","2SA","12","18","18","On the seventh day, the child died. David’s servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him and he didn’t listen to our voice. How will he then harm himself if we tell him that the child is dead?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S212_19","011_12_19","2SA","12","19","19","But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David perceived that the child was dead; and David said to his servants, “Is the child dead?” They said, “He is dead.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S212_20","011_12_20","2SA","12","20","20","Then David arose from the earth, and washed and anointed himself, and changed his clothing; and he came into the LORD’s house, and worshipped. Then he came to his own house; and when he requested, they set bread before him and he ate. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S212_21","011_12_21","2SA","12","21","21","Then his servants said to him, “What is this that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive, but when the child was dead, you rose up and ate bread.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S212_22","011_12_22","2SA","12","22","22","He said, “While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who knows whether the LORD will not be gracious to me, that the child may live?’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S212_23","011_12_23","2SA","12","23","23","But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S212_24","011_12_24","2SA","12","24","24","David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay with her. She bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. The LORD loved him; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S212_25","011_12_25","2SA","12","25","25","and he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and he named him Jedidiah, for the LORD’s sake. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S212_26","011_12_26","2SA","12","26","26","Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S212_27","011_12_27","2SA","12","27","27","Joab sent messengers to David, and said, “I have fought against Rabbah. Yes, I have taken the city of waters. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S212_28","011_12_28","2SA","12","28","28","Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city and take it; lest I take the city, and it be called by my name.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S212_29","011_12_29","2SA","12","29","29","David gathered all the people together and went to Rabbah, and fought against it and took it. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S212_30","011_12_30","2SA","12","30","30","He took the crown of their king from off his head; and its weight was a talent of gold, and in it were precious stones; and it was set on David’s head. He brought a great quantity of plunder out of the city. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S212_31","011_12_31","2SA","12","31","31","He brought out the people who were in it, and put them to work under saws, under iron picks, under axes of iron, and made them go to the brick kiln; and he did so to all the cities of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S213_1","011_13_1","2SA","13","1","1","After this, Absalom the son of David had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S213_2","011_13_2","2SA","13","2","2","Amnon was so troubled that he became sick because of his sister Tamar, for she was a virgin, and it seemed hard to Amnon to do anything to her. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S213_3","011_13_3","2SA","13","3","3","But Amnon had a friend whose name was Jonadab the son of Shimeah, David’s brother; and Jonadab was a very subtle man. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S213_4","011_13_4","2SA","13","4","4","He said to him, “Why, son of the king, are you so sad from day to day? Won’t you tell me?” Amnon said to him, “I love Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S213_5","011_13_5","2SA","13","5","5","Jonadab said to him, “Lay down on your bed and pretend to be sick. When your father comes to see you, tell him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me bread to eat, and prepare the food in my sight, that I may see it and eat it from her hand.’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S213_6","011_13_6","2SA","13","6","6","So Amnon lay down and faked being sick. When the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king, “Please let my sister Tamar come and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat from her hand.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S213_7","011_13_7","2SA","13","7","7","Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, “Go now to your brother Amnon’s house, and prepare food for him.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S213_8","011_13_8","2SA","13","8","8","So Tamar went to her brother Amnon’s house; and he was lying down. She took dough, kneaded it, made cakes in his sight, and baked the cakes. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S213_9","011_13_9","2SA","13","9","9","She took the pan and poured them out before him, but he refused to eat. Amnon said, “Have all men leave me.” Then every man went out from him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S213_10","011_13_10","2SA","13","10","10","Amnon said to Tamar, “Bring the food into the room, that I may eat from your hand.” Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and brought them into the room to Amnon her brother. ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S213_18","011_13_18","2SA","13","18","18","She had a garment of various colours on her, for the king’s daughters who were virgins dressed in such robes. Then his servant brought her out and bolted the door after her. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S213_19","011_13_19","2SA","13","19","19","Tamar put ashes on her head, and tore her garment of various colours that was on her; and she laid her hand on her head and went her way, crying aloud as she went. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S213_20","011_13_20","2SA","13","20","20","Absalom her brother said to her, “Has Amnon your brother been with you? But now hold your peace, my sister. He is your brother. Don’t take this thing to heart.” So Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absalom’s house. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S213_21","011_13_21","2SA","13","21","21","But when King David heard of all these things, he was very angry. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S213_22","011_13_22","2SA","13","22","22","Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad; for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S213_23","011_13_23","2SA","13","23","23","After two full years, Absalom had sheep shearers in Baal Hazor, which is beside Ephraim; and Absalom invited all the king’s sons. ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S213_25","011_13_25","2SA","13","25","25","The king said to Absalom, “No, my son, let’s not all go, lest we be burdensome to you.” He pressed him; however he would not go, but blessed him. ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S213_28","011_13_28","2SA","13","28","28","Absalom commanded his servants, saying, “Mark now, when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine; and when I tell you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Haven’t I commanded you? Be courageous, and be valiant!” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S213_29","011_13_29","2SA","13","29","29","The servants of Absalom did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king’s sons arose, and every man got up on his mule and fled. ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S213_32","011_13_32","2SA","13","32","32","Jonadab the son of Shimeah, David’s brother, answered, “Don’t let my lord suppose that they have killed all the young men, the king’s sons, for Amnon only is dead; for by the appointment of Absalom this has been determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S213_33","011_13_33","2SA","13","33","33","Now therefore don’t let my lord the king take the thing to his heart, to think that all the king’s sons are dead; for only Amnon is dead.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S213_34","011_13_34","2SA","13","34","34","But Absalom fled. The young man who kept the watch lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, many people were coming by way of the hillside behind him. ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S213_36","011_13_36","2SA","13","36","36","As soon as he had finished speaking, behold, the king’s sons came, and lifted up their voices and wept. The king also and all his servants wept bitterly. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S213_37","011_13_37","2SA","13","37","37","But Absalom fled and went to Talmai the son of Ammihur, king of Geshur. David mourned for his son every day. ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S213_39","011_13_39","2SA","13","39","39","King David longed to go out to Absalom, for he was comforted concerning Amnon, since he was dead. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S214_1","011_14_1","2SA","14","1","1","Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was towards Absalom. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S214_2","011_14_2","2SA","14","2","2","Joab sent to Tekoa and brought a wise woman from there, and said to her, “Please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, please, and don’t anoint yourself with oil; but be as a woman who has mourned a long time for the dead. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S214_3","011_14_3","2SA","14","3","3","Go in to the king and speak like this to him.” So Joab put the words in her mouth. ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S214_5","011_14_5","2SA","14","5","5","The king said to her, “What ails you?” She answered, “Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S214_6","011_14_6","2SA","14","6","6","Your servant had two sons; and they both fought together in the field, and there was no one to part them, but the one struck the other and killed him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S214_7","011_14_7","2SA","14","7","7","Behold, the whole family has risen against your servant, and they say, ‘Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also.’ Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and would leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S214_8","011_14_8","2SA","14","8","8","The king said to the woman, “Go to your house, and I will give a command concerning you.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S214_9","011_14_9","2SA","14","9","9","The woman of Tekoa said to the king, “My lord, O king, may the iniquity be on me, and on my father’s house; and may the king and his throne be guiltless.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S214_10","011_14_10","2SA","14","10","10","The king said, “Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he will not bother you any more.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S214_11","011_14_11","2SA","14","11","11","Then she said, “Please let the king remember the LORD your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son.” He said, “As the LORD lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the earth.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S214_12","011_14_12","2SA","14","12","12","Then the woman said, “Please let your servant speak a word to my lord the king.” He said, “Say on.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S214_13","011_14_13","2SA","14","13","13","The woman said, “Why then have you devised such a thing against the people of God? For in speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring home again his banished one. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S214_14","011_14_14","2SA","14","14","14","For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S214_15","011_14_15","2SA","14","15","15","Now therefore, seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid. Your servant said, ‘I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S214_16","011_14_16","2SA","14","16","16","For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S214_17","011_14_17","2SA","14","17","17","Then your servant said, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May the LORD, your God, be with you.’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S214_18","011_14_18","2SA","14","18","18","Then the king answered the woman, “Please don’t hide anything from me that I ask you.” The woman said, “Let my lord the king now speak.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S214_19","011_14_19","2SA","14","19","19","The king said, “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?” The woman answered, “As your soul lives, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab urged me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your servant. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S214_20","011_14_20","2SA","14","20","20","Your servant Joab has done this thing to change the face of the matter. My lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S214_21","011_14_21","2SA","14","21","21","The king said to Joab, “Behold now, I have granted this thing. Go therefore, and bring the young man Absalom back.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S214_22","011_14_22","2SA","14","22","22","Joab fell to the ground on his face, showed respect, and blessed the king. Joab said, “Today your servant knows that I have found favour in your sight, my lord, O king, in that the king has performed the request of his servant.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S214_23","011_14_23","2SA","14","23","23","So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S214_24","011_14_24","2SA","14","24","24","The king said, “Let him return to his own house, but let him not see my face.” So Absalom returned to his own house, and didn’t see the king’s face. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S214_25","011_14_25","2SA","14","25","25","Now in all Israel there was no one to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty. From the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no defect in him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S214_26","011_14_26","2SA","14","26","26","When he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year’s end that he cut it; because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut it), he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, after the king’s weight. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S214_27","011_14_27","2SA","14","27","27","Three sons were born to Absalom, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar. She was a woman with a beautiful face. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S214_28","011_14_28","2SA","14","28","28","Absalom lived two full years in Jerusalem, and he didn’t see the king’s face. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S214_29","011_14_29","2SA","14","29","29","Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king, but he would not come to him. Then he sent again a second time, but he would not come. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S214_30","011_14_30","2SA","14","30","30","Therefore he said to his servants, “Behold, Joab’s field is near mine, and he has barley there. Go and set it on fire.” So Absalom’s servants set the field on fire. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S214_31","011_14_31","2SA","14","31","31","Then Joab arose and came to Absalom to his house, and said to him, “Why have your servants set my field on fire?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S214_32","011_14_32","2SA","14","32","32","Absalom answered Joab, “Behold, I sent to you, saying, ‘Come here, that I may send you to the king, to say, “Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still. Now therefore, let me see the king’s face; and if there is iniquity in me, let him kill me.”’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S214_33","011_14_33","2SA","14","33","33","So Joab came to the king and told him; and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king; and the king kissed Absalom. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S215_1","011_15_1","2SA","15","1","1","After this, Absalom prepared a chariot and horses for himself, and fifty men to run before him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S215_2","011_15_2","2SA","15","2","2","Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate. When any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgement, then Absalom called to him, and said, “What city are you from?” He said, “Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S215_3","011_15_3","2SA","15","3","3","Absalom said to him, “Behold, your matters are good and right; but there is no man deputized by the king to hear you.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S215_4","011_15_4","2SA","15","4","4","Absalom said moreover, “Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who has any suit or cause might come to me, and I would do him justice!” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S215_5","011_15_5","2SA","15","5","5","It was so, that when any man came near to bow down to him, he stretched out his hand, took hold of him, and kissed him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S215_6","011_15_6","2SA","15","6","6","Absalom did this sort of thing to all Israel who came to the king for judgement. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S215_7","011_15_7","2SA","15","7","7","At the end of forty years, Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to the LORD, in Hebron. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S215_8","011_15_8","2SA","15","8","8","For your servant vowed a vow while I stayed at Geshur in Syria, saying, ‘If the LORD shall indeed bring me again to Jerusalem, then I will serve the LORD.’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S215_9","011_15_9","2SA","15","9","9","The king said to him, “Go in peace.” So he arose and went to Hebron. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S215_10","011_15_10","2SA","15","10","10","But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then you shall say, ‘Absalom is king in Hebron!’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S215_11","011_15_11","2SA","15","11","11","Two hundred men went with Absalom out of Jerusalem, who were invited, and went in their simplicity; and they didn’t know anything. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S215_12","011_15_12","2SA","15","12","12","Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counsellor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong, for the people increased continually with Absalom. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S215_13","011_15_13","2SA","15","13","13","A messenger came to David, saying, “The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S215_14","011_15_14","2SA","15","14","14","David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, “Arise! Let’s flee, or else none of us will escape from Absalom. Hurry to depart, lest he overtake us quickly and bring down evil on us, and strike the city with the edge of the sword.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S215_15","011_15_15","2SA","15","15","15","The king’s servants said to the king, “Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king chooses.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S215_16","011_15_16","2SA","15","16","16","The king went out, and all his household after him. The king left ten women, who were concubines, to keep the house. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S215_17","011_15_17","2SA","15","17","17","The king went out, and all the people after him; and they stayed in Beth Merhak. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S215_18","011_15_18","2SA","15","18","18","All his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men who came after him from Gath, passed on before the king. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S215_19","011_15_19","2SA","15","19","19","Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why do you also go with us? Return, and stay with the king; for you are a foreigner and also an exile. Return to your own place. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S215_20","011_15_20","2SA","15","20","20","Whereas you came but yesterday, should I today make you go up and down with us, since I go where I may? Return, and take back your brothers. Mercy and truth be with you.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S215_21","011_15_21","2SA","15","21","21","Ittai answered the king and said, “As the LORD lives, and as my lord the king lives, surely in what place my lord the king is, whether for death or for life, your servant will be there also.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S215_22","011_15_22","2SA","15","22","22","David said to Ittai, “Go and pass over.” Ittai the Gittite passed over, and all his men, and all the little ones who were with him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S215_23","011_15_23","2SA","15","23","23","All the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over. The king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over towards the way of the wilderness. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S215_24","011_15_24","2SA","15","24","24","Behold, Zadok also came, and all the Levites with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God; and they set down God’s ark; and Abiathar went up until all the people finished passing out of the city. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S215_25","011_15_25","2SA","15","25","25","The king said to Zadok, “Carry God’s ark back into the city. If I find favour in the LORD’s eyes, he will bring me again, and show me both it and his habitation; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S215_26","011_15_26","2SA","15","26","26","but if he says, ‘I have no delight in you,’ behold, here I am. Let him do to me as seems good to him.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S215_27","011_15_27","2SA","15","27","27","The king said also to Zadok the priest, “Aren’t you a seer? Return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz your son and Jonathan the son of Abiathar. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S215_28","011_15_28","2SA","15","28","28","Behold, I will stay at the fords of the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S215_29","011_15_29","2SA","15","29","29","Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried God’s ark to Jerusalem again; and they stayed there. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S215_30","011_15_30","2SA","15","30","30","David went up by the ascent of the Mount of Olives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head covered and went barefoot. All the people who were with him each covered his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S215_31","011_15_31","2SA","15","31","31","Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is amongst the conspirators with Absalom.” David said, “LORD, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S215_32","011_15_32","2SA","15","32","32","When David had come to the top, where God was worshipped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his tunic torn and earth on his head. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S215_33","011_15_33","2SA","15","33","33","David said to him, “If you pass on with me, then you will be a burden to me; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S215_34","011_15_34","2SA","15","34","34","but if you return to the city, and tell Absalom, ‘I will be your servant, O king. As I have been your father’s servant in time past, so I will now be your servant; then will you defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S215_35","011_15_35","2SA","15","35","35","Don’t you have Zadok and Abiathar the priests there with you? Therefore whatever you hear out of the king’s house, tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S215_36","011_15_36","2SA","15","36","36","Behold, they have there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz, Zadok’s son, and Jonathan, Abiathar’s son. Send to me everything that you shall hear by them.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S215_37","011_15_37","2SA","15","37","37","So Hushai, David’s friend, came into the city; and Absalom came into Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S216_1","011_16_1","2SA","16","1","1","When David was a little past the top, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him with a couple of donkeys saddled, and on them two hundred loaves of bread, and one hundred clusters of raisins, and one hundred summer fruits, and a container of wine. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S216_2","011_16_2","2SA","16","2","2","The king said to Ziba, “What do you mean by these?” Ziba said, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that those who are faint in the wilderness may drink.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S216_3","011_16_3","2SA","16","3","3","The king said, “Where is your master’s son?” Ziba said to the king, “Behold, he is staying in Jerusalem; for he said, ‘Today the house of Israel will restore me the kingdom of my father.’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S216_4","011_16_4","2SA","16","4","4","Then the king said to Ziba, “Behold, all that belongs to Mephibosheth is yours.” Ziba said, “I bow down. Let me find favour in your sight, my lord, O king.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S216_5","011_16_5","2SA","16","5","5","When King David came to Bahurim, behold, a man of the family of Saul’s house came out, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera. He came out and cursed as he came. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S216_6","011_16_6","2SA","16","6","6","He cast stones at David and at all the servants of King David, and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S216_7","011_16_7","2SA","16","7","7","Shimei said when he cursed, “Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, and wicked fellow! ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S216_8","011_16_8","2SA","16","8","8","The LORD has returned on you all the blood of Saul’s house, in whose place you have reigned! The LORD has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son! Behold, you are caught by your own mischief, because you are a man of blood!” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S216_9","011_16_9","2SA","16","9","9","Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Please let me go over and take off his head.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S216_10","011_16_10","2SA","16","10","10","The king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because the LORD has said to him, ‘Curse David,’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S216_11","011_16_11","2SA","16","11","11","David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, my son, who came out of my bowels, seeks my life. How much more this Benjamite, now? Leave him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD has invited him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S216_12","011_16_12","2SA","16","12","12","It may be that the LORD will look on the wrong done to me, and that the LORD will repay me good for the cursing of me today.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S216_13","011_16_13","2SA","16","13","13","So David and his men went by the way; and Shimei went along on the hillside opposite him and cursed as he went, threw stones at him, and threw dust. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S216_14","011_16_14","2SA","16","14","14","The king and all the people who were with him arrived weary; and he refreshed himself there. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S216_15","011_16_15","2SA","16","15","15","Absalom and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S216_16","011_16_16","2SA","16","16","16","When Hushai the Archite, David’s friend, had come to Absalom, Hushai said to Absalom, “Long live the king! Long live the king!” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S216_17","011_16_17","2SA","16","17","17","Absalom said to Hushai, “Is this your kindness to your friend? Why didn’t you go with your friend?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S216_18","011_16_18","2SA","16","18","18","Hushai said to Absalom, “No; but whomever the LORD and this people and all the men of Israel have chosen, I will be his, and I will stay with him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S216_19","011_16_19","2SA","16","19","19","Again, whom should I serve? Shouldn’t I serve in the presence of his son? As I have served in your father’s presence, so I will be in your presence.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S216_20","011_16_20","2SA","16","20","20","Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, “Give your counsel what we shall do.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S216_21","011_16_21","2SA","16","21","21","Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Go in to your father’s concubines that he has left to keep the house. Then all Israel will hear that you are abhorred by your father. Then the hands of all who are with you will be strong.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S216_22","011_16_22","2SA","16","22","22","So they spread a tent for Absalom on the top of the house, and Absalom went in to his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S216_23","011_16_23","2SA","16","23","23","The counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man enquired at the inner sanctuary of God. All the counsel of Ahithophel was like this both with David and with Absalom. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S217_1","011_17_1","2SA","17","1","1","Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S217_2","011_17_2","2SA","17","2","2","I will come on him while he is weary and exhausted, and will make him afraid. All the people who are with him will flee. I will strike the king only, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S217_3","011_17_3","2SA","17","3","3","and I will bring back all the people to you. The man whom you seek is as if all returned. All the people shall be in peace.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S217_4","011_17_4","2SA","17","4","4","The saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S217_5","011_17_5","2SA","17","5","5","Then Absalom said, “Now call Hushai the Archite also, and let’s hear likewise what he says.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S217_6","011_17_6","2SA","17","6","6","When Hushai had come to Absalom, Absalom spoke to him, saying, “Ahithophel has spoken like this. Shall we do what he says? If not, speak up.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S217_7","011_17_7","2SA","17","7","7","Hushai said to Absalom, “The counsel that Ahithophel has given this time is not good.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S217_8","011_17_8","2SA","17","8","8","Hushai said moreover, “You know your father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are fierce in their minds, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Your father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S217_9","011_17_9","2SA","17","9","9","Behold, he is now hidden in some pit, or in some other place. It will happen, when some of them have fallen at the first, that whoever hears it will say, ‘There is a slaughter amongst the people who follow Absalom!’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S217_10","011_17_10","2SA","17","10","10","Even he who is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, will utterly melt; for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and those who are with him are valiant men. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S217_11","011_17_11","2SA","17","11","11","But I counsel that all Israel be gathered together to you, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that you go to battle in your own person. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S217_12","011_17_12","2SA","17","12","12","So we will come on him in some place where he will be found, and we will light on him as the dew falls on the ground, then we will not leave so much as one of him and of all the men who are with him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S217_13","011_17_13","2SA","17","13","13","Moreover, if he has gone into a city, then all Israel will bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there isn’t one small stone found there.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S217_14","011_17_14","2SA","17","14","14","Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For the LORD had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil on Absalom. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S217_15","011_17_15","2SA","17","15","15","Then Hushai said to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, “Ahithophel counselled Absalom and the elders of Israel that way; and I have counselled this way. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S217_16","011_17_16","2SA","17","16","16","Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, ‘Don’t lodge tonight at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over, lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people who are with him.’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S217_17","011_17_17","2SA","17","17","17","Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying by En Rogel; and a female servant used to go and report to them, and they went and told King David; for they couldn’t risk being seen coming into the city. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S217_18","011_17_18","2SA","17","18","18","But a boy saw them, and told Absalom. Then they both went away quickly and came to the house of a man in Bahurim, who had a well in his court; and they went down there. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S217_19","011_17_19","2SA","17","19","19","The woman took and spread the covering over the well’s mouth, and spread out crushed grain on it; and nothing was known. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S217_20","011_17_20","2SA","17","20","20","Absalom’s servants came to the woman to the house; and they said, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” The woman said to them, “They have gone over the brook of water.” When they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S217_21","011_17_21","2SA","17","21","21","After they had departed, they came up out of the well and went and told King David; and they said to David, “Arise and pass quickly over the water; for thus has Ahithophel counselled against you.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S217_22","011_17_22","2SA","17","22","22","Then David arose, and all the people who were with him, and they passed over the Jordan. By the morning light there lacked not one of them who had not gone over the Jordan. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S217_23","011_17_23","2SA","17","23","23","When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went home to his city, set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S217_24","011_17_24","2SA","17","24","24","Then David came to Mahanaim. Absalom passed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S217_25","011_17_25","2SA","17","25","25","Absalom set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab’s mother. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S217_26","011_17_26","2SA","17","26","26","Israel and Absalom encamped in the land of Gilead. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S217_27","011_17_27","2SA","17","27","27","When David had come to Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S217_28","011_17_28","2SA","17","28","28","brought beds, basins, earthen vessels, wheat, barley, meal, parched grain, beans, lentils, roasted grain, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S217_29","011_17_29","2SA","17","29","29","honey, butter, sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David and for the people who were with him to eat; for they said, “The people are hungry, weary, and thirsty in the wilderness.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S218_1","011_18_1","2SA","18","1","1","David counted the people who were with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S218_2","011_18_2","2SA","18","2","2","David sent the people out, a third part under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. The king said to the people, “I will also surely go out with you myself.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S218_3","011_18_3","2SA","18","3","3","But the people said, “You shall not go out, for if we flee away, they will not care for us, neither if half of us die, will they care for us. But you are worth ten thousand of us. Therefore now it is better that you are ready to help us out of the city.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S218_4","011_18_4","2SA","18","4","4","The king said to them, “I will do what seems best to you.” The king stood beside the gate, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S218_5","011_18_5","2SA","18","5","5","The king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, “Deal gently for my sake with the young man Absalom.” All the people heard when the king commanded all the captains concerning Absalom. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S218_6","011_18_6","2SA","18","6","6","So the people went out into the field against Israel; and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S218_7","011_18_7","2SA","18","7","7","The people of Israel were struck there before David’s servants, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S218_8","011_18_8","2SA","18","8","8","For the battle was there spread over the surface of all the country, and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S218_9","011_18_9","2SA","18","9","9","Absalom happened to meet David’s servants. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak; and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was hanging between the sky and earth; and the mule that was under him went on. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S218_10","011_18_10","2SA","18","10","10","A certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, “Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S218_11","011_18_11","2SA","18","11","11","Joab said to the man who told him, “Behold, you saw it, and why didn’t you strike him there to the ground? I would have given you ten pieces of silver and a sash.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S218_12","011_18_12","2SA","18","12","12","The man said to Joab, “Though I should receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, I still wouldn’t stretch out my hand against the king’s son; for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, ‘Beware that no one touch the young man Absalom.’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S218_13","011_18_13","2SA","18","13","13","Otherwise, if I had dealt falsely against his life (and there is no matter hidden from the king), then you yourself would have set yourself against me.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S218_14","011_18_14","2SA","18","14","14","Then Joab said, “I’m not going to wait like this with you.” He took three darts in his hand and thrust them through Absalom’s heart while he was still alive in the middle of the oak. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S218_15","011_18_15","2SA","18","15","15","Ten young men who bore Joab’s armour surrounded and struck Absalom, and killed him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S218_16","011_18_16","2SA","18","16","16","Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab held the people back. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S218_17","011_18_17","2SA","18","17","17","They took Absalom and cast him into a great pit in the forest, and raised over him a very great heap of stones. Then all Israel fled, each to his own tent. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S218_18","011_18_18","2SA","18","18","18","Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar which is in the king’s valley, for he said, “I have no son to keep my name in memory.” He called the pillar after his own name. It is called Absalom’s monument, to this day. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S218_19","011_18_19","2SA","18","19","19","Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, “Let me now run and carry the king news, how the LORD has avenged him of his enemies.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S218_20","011_18_20","2SA","18","20","20","Joab said to him, “You must not be the bearer of news today, but you must carry news another day. But today you must carry no news, because the king’s son is dead.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S218_21","011_18_21","2SA","18","21","21","Then Joab said to the Cushite, “Go, tell the king what you have seen!” The Cushite bowed himself to Joab, and ran. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S218_22","011_18_22","2SA","18","22","22","Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said yet again to Joab, “But come what may, please let me also run after the Cushite.” Joab said, “Why do you want to run, my son, since you will have no reward for the news?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S218_23","011_18_23","2SA","18","23","23","“But come what may,” he said, “I will run.” He said to him, “Run!” Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the Plain, and outran the Cushite. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S218_24","011_18_24","2SA","18","24","24","Now David was sitting between the two gates; and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate to the wall, and lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, a man running alone. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S218_25","011_18_25","2SA","18","25","25","The watchman shouted and told the king. The king said, “If he is alone, there is news in his mouth.” He came closer and closer. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S218_26","011_18_26","2SA","18","26","26","The watchman saw another man running; and the watchman called to the gatekeeper and said, “Behold, a man running alone!” The king said, “He also brings news.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S218_27","011_18_27","2SA","18","27","27","The watchman said, “I think the running of the first one is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok.” The king said, “He is a good man, and comes with good news.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S218_28","011_18_28","2SA","18","28","28","Ahimaaz called, and said to the king, “All is well.” He bowed himself before the king with his face to the earth, and said, “Blessed is the LORD your God, who has delivered up the men who lifted up their hand against my lord the king!” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S218_29","011_18_29","2SA","18","29","29","The king said, “Is it well with the young man Absalom?” Ahimaaz answered, “When Joab sent the king’s servant, even me your servant, I saw a great tumult, but I don’t know what it was.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S218_30","011_18_30","2SA","18","30","30","The king said, “Come and stand here.” He came and stood still. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S218_31","011_18_31","2SA","18","31","31","Behold, the Cushite came. The Cushite said, “Good news for my lord the king, for the LORD has avenged you today of all those who rose up against you.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S218_32","011_18_32","2SA","18","32","32","The king said to the Cushite, “Is it well with the young man Absalom?” The Cushite answered, “May the enemies of my lord the king, and all who rise up against you to do you harm, be as that young man is.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S218_33","011_18_33","2SA","18","33","33","The king was much moved, and went up to the room over the gate and wept. As he went, he said, “My son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! I wish I had died instead of you, Absalom, my son, my son!” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S219_1","011_19_1","2SA","19","1","1","Joab was told, “Behold, the king weeps and mourns for Absalom.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S219_2","011_19_2","2SA","19","2","2","The victory that day was turned into mourning amongst all the people, for the people heard it said that day, “The king grieves for his son.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S219_3","011_19_3","2SA","19","3","3","The people sneaked into the city that day, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S219_4","011_19_4","2SA","19","4","4","The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, “My son Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son!” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S219_5","011_19_5","2SA","19","5","5","Joab came into the house to the king, and said, “Today you have shamed the faces of all your servants who today have saved your life, and the lives of your sons and of your daughters, and the lives of your wives, and the lives of your concubines; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S219_6","011_19_6","2SA","19","6","6","in that you love those who hate you and hate those who love you. For you have declared today that princes and servants are nothing to you. For today I perceive that if Absalom had lived and we had all died today, then it would have pleased you well. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S219_7","011_19_7","2SA","19","7","7","Now therefore arise, go out and speak to comfort your servants; for I swear by the LORD, if you don’t go out, not a man will stay with you this night. That would be worse to you than all the evil that has happened to you from your youth until now.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S219_8","011_19_8","2SA","19","8","8","Then the king arose and sat in the gate. The people were all told, “Behold, the king is sitting in the gate.” All the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his tent. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S219_9","011_19_9","2SA","19","9","9","All the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, and he saved us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he has fled out of the land from Absalom. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S219_10","011_19_10","2SA","19","10","10","Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why don’t you speak a word of bringing the king back?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S219_11","011_19_11","2SA","19","11","11","King David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, “Speak to the elders of Judah, saying, ‘Why are you the last to bring the king back to his house, since the speech of all Israel has come to the king, to return him to his house? ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S219_12","011_19_12","2SA","19","12","12","You are my brothers. You are my bone and my flesh. Why then are you the last to bring back the king?’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S219_13","011_19_13","2SA","19","13","13","Say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you aren’t captain of the army before me continually instead of Joab.’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S219_14","011_19_14","2SA","19","14","14","He bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as one man, so that they sent to the king, saying, “Return, you and all your servants.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S219_15","011_19_15","2SA","19","15","15","So the king returned, and came to the Jordan. Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to bring the king over the Jordan. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S219_16","011_19_16","2SA","19","16","16","Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, who was of Bahurim, hurried and came down with the men of Judah to meet King David. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S219_17","011_19_17","2SA","19","17","17","There were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of Saul’s house, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went through the Jordan in the presence of the king. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S219_18","011_19_18","2SA","19","18","18","A ferry boat went to bring over the king’s household, and to do what he thought good. Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king when he had come over the Jordan. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S219_19","011_19_19","2SA","19","19","19","He said to the king, “Don’t let my lord impute iniquity to me, or remember that which your servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S219_20","011_19_20","2SA","19","20","20","For your servant knows that I have sinned. Therefore behold, I have come today as the first of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S219_21","011_19_21","2SA","19","21","21","But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, “Shouldn’t Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD’s anointed?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S219_22","011_19_22","2SA","19","22","22","David said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should be adversaries to me today? Shall any man be put to death today in Israel? For don’t I know that I am king over Israel today?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S219_23","011_19_23","2SA","19","23","23","The king said to Shimei, “You will not die.” The king swore to him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S219_24","011_19_24","2SA","19","24","24","Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; and he had neither groomed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came home in peace. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S219_25","011_19_25","2SA","19","25","25","When he had come to Jerusalem to meet the king, the king said to him, “Why didn’t you go with me, Mephibosheth?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S219_26","011_19_26","2SA","19","26","26","He answered, “My lord, O king, my servant deceived me. For your servant said, ‘I will saddle a donkey for myself, that I may ride on it and go with the king,’ because your servant is lame. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S219_27","011_19_27","2SA","19","27","27","He has slandered your servant to my lord the king, but my lord the king is as an angel of God. Therefore do what is good in your eyes. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S219_28","011_19_28","2SA","19","28","28","For all my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king; yet you set your servant amongst those who ate at your own table. What right therefore have I yet that I should appeal any more to the king?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S219_29","011_19_29","2SA","19","29","29","The king said to him, “Why do you speak any more of your matters? I say, you and Ziba divide the land.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S219_30","011_19_30","2SA","19","30","30","Mephibosheth said to the king, “Yes, let him take all, because my lord the king has come in peace to his own house.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S219_31","011_19_31","2SA","19","31","31","Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim; and he went over the Jordan with the king to conduct him over the Jordan. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S219_32","011_19_32","2SA","19","32","32","Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old. He had provided the king with sustenance while he stayed at Mahanaim, for he was a very great man. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S219_33","011_19_33","2SA","19","33","33","The king said to Barzillai, “Come over with me, and I will sustain you with me in Jerusalem.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S219_34","011_19_34","2SA","19","34","34","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? ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S219_35","011_19_35","2SA","19","35","35","I am eighty years old, today. Can I discern between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear the voice of singing men and singing women any more? Why then should your servant be a burden to my lord the king? ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S219_36","011_19_36","2SA","19","36","36","Your servant will just go over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward? ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S219_37","011_19_37","2SA","19","37","37","Please let your servant turn back again, that I may die in my own city, by the grave of my father and my mother. But behold, your servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good to you.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S219_38","011_19_38","2SA","19","38","38","The king answered, “Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good to you. Whatever you request of me, that I will do for you.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S219_39","011_19_39","2SA","19","39","39","All the people went over the Jordan, and the king went over. Then the king kissed Barzillai and blessed him; and he returned to his own place. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S219_40","011_19_40","2SA","19","40","40","So the king went over to Gilgal, and Chimham went over with him. All the people of Judah brought the king over, and also half the people of Israel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S219_41","011_19_41","2SA","19","41","41","Behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to the king, “Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away, and brought the king and his household, over the Jordan, and all David’s men with him?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S219_42","011_19_42","2SA","19","42","42","All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, “Because the king is a close relative to us. Why then are you angry about this matter? Have we eaten at all at the king’s cost? Or has he given us any gift?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S219_43","011_19_43","2SA","19","43","43","The men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, “We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more claim to David than you. Why then did you despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king?” The words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S220_1","011_20_1","2SA","20","1","1","There happened to be there a wicked fellow, whose name was Sheba the son of Bichri, a Benjamite; and he blew the trumpet, and said, “We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man to his tents, Israel!” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S220_2","011_20_2","2SA","20","2","2","So all the men of Israel went up from following David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of Judah joined with their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S220_3","011_20_3","2SA","20","3","3","David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in custody and provided them with sustenance, but didn’t go in to them. So they were shut up to the day of their death, living in widowhood. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S220_4","011_20_4","2SA","20","4","4","Then the king said to Amasa, “Call me the men of Judah together within three days, and be here present.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S220_5","011_20_5","2SA","20","5","5","So Amasa went to call the men of Judah together, but he stayed longer than the set time which had been appointed to him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S220_6","011_20_6","2SA","20","6","6","David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom did. Take your lord’s servants and pursue after him, lest he get himself fortified cities, and escape out of our sight.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S220_7","011_20_7","2SA","20","7","7","Joab’s men went out after him with the Cherethites, the Pelethites, and all the mighty men; and they went out of Jerusalem to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S220_8","011_20_8","2SA","20","8","8","When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. Joab was clothed in his apparel of war that he had put on, and on it was a sash with a sword fastened on his waist in its sheath; and as he went along it fell out. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S220_9","011_20_9","2SA","20","9","9","Joab said to Amasa, “Is it well with you, my brother?” Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S220_10","011_20_10","2SA","20","10","10","But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab’s hand. So he struck him with it in the body and shed out his bowels to the ground, and didn’t strike him again; and he died. Joab and Abishai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S220_11","011_20_11","2SA","20","11","11","One of Joab’s young men stood by him, and said, “He who favours Joab, and he who is for David, let him follow Joab!” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S220_12","011_20_12","2SA","20","12","12","Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the middle of the highway. When the man saw that all the people stood still, he carried Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a garment over him when he saw that everyone who came by him stood still. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S220_13","011_20_13","2SA","20","13","13","When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S220_14","011_20_14","2SA","20","14","14","He went through all the tribes of Israel to Abel, to Beth Maacah, and all the Berites. They were gathered together, and went also after him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S220_15","011_20_15","2SA","20","15","15","They came and besieged him in Abel of Beth Maacah, and they cast up a mound against the city, and it stood against the rampart; and all the people who were with Joab battered the wall to throw it down. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S220_16","011_20_16","2SA","20","16","16","Then a wise woman cried out of the city, “Hear, hear! Please say to Joab, ‘Come near here, that I may speak with you.’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S220_17","011_20_17","2SA","20","17","17","He came near to her; and the woman said, “Are you Joab?” He answered, “I am.” Then she said to him, “Hear the words of your servant.” He answered, “I’m listening.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S220_18","011_20_18","2SA","20","18","18","Then she spoke, saying, “They used to say in old times, ‘They shall surely ask counsel at Abel,’ and so they settled a matter. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S220_19","011_20_19","2SA","20","19","19","I am amongst those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why will you swallow up the LORD’s inheritance?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S220_20","011_20_20","2SA","20","20","20","Joab answered, “Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S220_21","011_20_21","2SA","20","21","21","The matter is not so. But a man of the hill country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has lifted up his hand against the king, even against David. Just deliver him, and I will depart from the city.” The woman said to Joab, “Behold, his head will be thrown to you over the wall.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S220_22","011_20_22","2SA","20","22","22","Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. They cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. He blew the trumpet, and they were dispersed from the city, every man to his tent. Then Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S220_23","011_20_23","2SA","20","23","23","Now Joab was over all the army of Israel, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S220_24","011_20_24","2SA","20","24","24","Adoram was over the men subject to forced labour, Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S220_25","011_20_25","2SA","20","25","25","Sheva was scribe, Zadok and Abiathar were priests, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S220_26","011_20_26","2SA","20","26","26","and Ira the Jairite was chief minister to David. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S221_1","011_21_1","2SA","21","1","1","There was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the face of the LORD. The LORD said, “It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S221_2","011_21_2","2SA","21","2","2","The king called the Gibeonites and said to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites, and the children of Israel had sworn to them; and Saul sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah); ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S221_3","011_21_3","2SA","21","3","3","and David said to the Gibeonites, “What should I do for you? And with what should I make atonement, that you may bless the LORD’s inheritance?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S221_4","011_21_4","2SA","21","4","4","The Gibeonites said to him, “It is no matter of silver or gold between us and Saul or his house; neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel.” He said, “I will do for you whatever you say.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S221_5","011_21_5","2SA","21","5","5","They said to the king, “The man who consumed us and who plotted against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S221_6","011_21_6","2SA","21","6","6","let seven men of his sons be delivered to us, and we will hang them up to the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of the LORD.” The king said, “I will give them.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S221_7","011_21_7","2SA","21","7","7","But the king spared Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the LORD’s oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S221_8","011_21_8","2SA","21","8","8","But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Merab the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S221_9","011_21_9","2SA","21","9","9","He delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites; and they hanged them on the mountain before the LORD, and all seven of them fell together. They were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, at the beginning of barley harvest. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S221_10","011_21_10","2SA","21","10","10","Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water poured on them from the sky. She allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day, nor the animals of the field by night. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S221_11","011_21_11","2SA","21","11","11","David was told what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S221_12","011_21_12","2SA","21","12","12","So David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh Gilead, who had stolen them from the street of Beth Shan, where the Philistines had hanged them in the day that the Philistines killed Saul in Gilboa; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S221_13","011_21_13","2SA","21","13","13","and he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son. They also gathered the bones of those who were hanged. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S221_14","011_21_14","2SA","21","14","14","They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father; and they performed all that the king commanded. After that, God answered prayer for the land. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S221_15","011_21_15","2SA","21","15","15","The Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. David grew faint; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S221_16","011_21_16","2SA","21","16","16","and Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred shekels of bronze in weight, he being armed with a new sword, thought he would kill David. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S221_17","011_21_17","2SA","21","17","17","But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, “Don’t go out with us to battle any more, so that you don’t quench the lamp of Israel.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S221_18","011_21_18","2SA","21","18","18","After this, there was again war with the Philistines at Gob. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph, who was of the sons of the giant. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S221_19","011_21_19","2SA","21","19","19","There was again war with the Philistines at Gob, and Elhanan the son of Jaare-Oregim the Bethlehemite killed Goliath the Gittite’s brother, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S221_20","011_21_20","2SA","21","20","20","There was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on every hand and six toes on every foot, twenty-four in number, and he also was born to the giant. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S221_21","011_21_21","2SA","21","21","21","When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David’s brother, killed him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S221_22","011_21_22","2SA","21","22","22","These four were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_1","011_22_1","2SA","22","1","1","David spoke to the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_2","011_22_2","2SA","22","2","2","and he said: “The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer, even mine; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_3","011_22_3","2SA","22","3","3","God is my rock in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge. My saviour, you save me from violence. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_4","011_22_4","2SA","22","4","4","I call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised; So shall I be saved from my enemies. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_5","011_22_5","2SA","22","5","5","For the waves of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_6","011_22_6","2SA","22","6","6","The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death caught me. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_7","011_22_7","2SA","22","7","7","In my distress, I called on the LORD. Yes, I called to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry came into his ears. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_8","011_22_8","2SA","22","8","8","Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations of heaven quaked and were shaken, because he was angry. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_9","011_22_9","2SA","22","9","9","Smoke went up out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_10","011_22_10","2SA","22","10","10","He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_11","011_22_11","2SA","22","11","11","He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he was seen on the wings of the wind. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_12","011_22_12","2SA","22","12","12","He made darkness a shelter around himself, gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_13","011_22_13","2SA","22","13","13","At the brightness before him, coals of fire were kindled. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_14","011_22_14","2SA","22","14","14","The LORD thundered from heaven. The Most High uttered his voice. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_15","011_22_15","2SA","22","15","15","He sent out arrows and scattered them, lightning and confused them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_16","011_22_16","2SA","22","16","16","Then the channels of the sea appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare by the LORD’s rebuke, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_17","011_22_17","2SA","22","17","17","He sent from on high and he took me. He drew me out of many waters. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_18","011_22_18","2SA","22","18","18","He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_19","011_22_19","2SA","22","19","19","They came on me in the day of my calamity, but the LORD was my support. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_20","011_22_20","2SA","22","20","20","He also brought me out into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_21","011_22_21","2SA","22","21","21","The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness. He rewarded me according to the cleanness of my hands. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_22","011_22_22","2SA","22","22","22","For I have kept the LORD’s ways, and have not wickedly departed from my God. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_23","011_22_23","2SA","22","23","23","For all his ordinances were before me. As for his statutes, I didn’t depart from them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_24","011_22_24","2SA","22","24","24","I was also perfect towards him. I kept myself from my iniquity. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_25","011_22_25","2SA","22","25","25","Therefore the LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness, According to my cleanness in his eyesight. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_26","011_22_26","2SA","22","26","26","With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man you will show yourself perfect. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_27","011_22_27","2SA","22","27","27","With the pure you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_28","011_22_28","2SA","22","28","28","You will save the afflicted people, but your eyes are on the arrogant, that you may bring them down. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_29","011_22_29","2SA","22","29","29","For you are my lamp, LORD. The LORD will light up my darkness. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_30","011_22_30","2SA","22","30","30","For by you, I run against a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_31","011_22_31","2SA","22","31","31","As for God, his way is perfect. The LORD’s word is tested. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_32","011_22_32","2SA","22","32","32","For who is God, besides the LORD? Who is a rock, besides our God? ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_33","011_22_33","2SA","22","33","33","God is my strong fortress. He makes my way perfect. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_34","011_22_34","2SA","22","34","34","He makes his feet like hinds’ feet, and sets me on my high places. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_35","011_22_35","2SA","22","35","35","He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of bronze. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_36","011_22_36","2SA","22","36","36","You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your gentleness has made me great. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_37","011_22_37","2SA","22","37","37","You have enlarged my steps under me. My feet have not slipped. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_38","011_22_38","2SA","22","38","38","I have pursued my enemies and destroyed them. I didn’t turn again until they were consumed. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_39","011_22_39","2SA","22","39","39","I have consumed them, and struck them through, so that they can’t arise. Yes, they have fallen under my feet. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_40","011_22_40","2SA","22","40","40","For you have armed me with strength for the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_41","011_22_41","2SA","22","41","41","You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_42","011_22_42","2SA","22","42","42","They looked, but there was no one to save; even to the LORD, but he didn’t answer them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_43","011_22_43","2SA","22","43","43","Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth. I crushed them as the mire of the streets, and spread them abroad. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_44","011_22_44","2SA","22","44","44","You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people. You have kept me to be the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known will serve me. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_45","011_22_45","2SA","22","45","45","The foreigners will submit themselves to me. As soon as they hear of me, they will obey me. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_46","011_22_46","2SA","22","46","46","The foreigners will fade away, and will come trembling out of their close places. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_47","011_22_47","2SA","22","47","47","The LORD lives! Blessed be my rock! Exalted be God, the rock of my salvation, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_48","011_22_48","2SA","22","48","48","even the God who executes vengeance for me, who brings down peoples under me, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_49","011_22_49","2SA","22","49","49","who brings me away from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_50","011_22_50","2SA","22","50","50","Therefore I will give thanks to you, LORD, amongst the nations, and will sing praises to your name. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S222_51","011_22_51","2SA","22","51","51","He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his offspring, forever more.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S223_1","011_23_1","2SA","23","1","1","Now these are the last words of David. David the son of Jesse says, the man who was raised on high says, the anointed of the God of Jacob, the sweet psalmist of Israel: ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S223_2","011_23_2","2SA","23","2","2","“The LORD’s Spirit spoke by me. His word was on my tongue. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S223_3","011_23_3","2SA","23","3","3","The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, ‘One who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S223_4","011_23_4","2SA","23","4","4","shall be as the light of the morning when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S223_5","011_23_5","2SA","23","5","5","Isn’t my house so with God? Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation and all my desire. Won’t he make it grow? ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S223_6","011_23_6","2SA","23","6","6","But all the ungodly will be as thorns to be thrust away, because they can’t be taken with the hand. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S223_7","011_23_7","2SA","23","7","7","The man who touches them must be armed with iron and the staff of a spear. They will be utterly burnt with fire in their place.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S223_8","011_23_8","2SA","23","8","8","These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb Basshebeth a Tahchemonite, chief of the captains; he was called Adino the Eznite, who killed eight hundred at one time. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S223_9","011_23_9","2SA","23","9","9","After him was Eleazar the son of Dodai the son of an Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David when they defied the Philistines who were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel had gone away. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S223_10","011_23_10","2SA","23","10","10","He arose and struck the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand froze to the sword; and the LORD worked a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to take plunder. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S223_11","011_23_11","2SA","23","11","11","After him was Shammah the son of Agee a Hararite. The Philistines had gathered together into a troop where there was a plot of ground full of lentils; and the people fled from the Philistines. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S223_12","011_23_12","2SA","23","12","12","But he stood in the middle of the plot and defended it, and killed the Philistines; and the LORD worked a great victory. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S223_13","011_23_13","2SA","23","13","13","Three of the thirty chief men went down, and came to David in the harvest time to the cave of Adullam; and the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S223_14","011_23_14","2SA","23","14","14","David was then in the stronghold; and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S223_15","011_23_15","2SA","23","15","15","David said longingly, “Oh that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S223_16","011_23_16","2SA","23","16","16","The three mighty men broke through the army of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate and took it and brought it to David; but he would not drink of it, but poured it out to the LORD. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S223_17","011_23_17","2SA","23","17","17","He said, “Be it far from me, LORD, that I should do this! Isn’t this the blood of the men who risked their lives to go?” Therefore he would not drink it. The three mighty men did these things. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S223_18","011_23_18","2SA","23","18","18","Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the three. He lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name amongst the three. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S223_19","011_23_19","2SA","23","19","19","Wasn’t he most honourable of the three? Therefore he was made their captain. However he wasn’t included as one of the three. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S223_20","011_23_20","2SA","23","20","20","Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, killed the two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in the middle of a pit in a time of snow. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S223_21","011_23_21","2SA","23","21","21","He killed a huge Egyptian, and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and killed him with his own spear. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S223_22","011_23_22","2SA","23","22","22","Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did these things, and had a name amongst the three mighty men. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S223_23","011_23_23","2SA","23","23","23","He was more honourable than the thirty, but he didn’t attain to the three. David set him over his guard. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S223_24","011_23_24","2SA","23","24","24","Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty: Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S223_25","011_23_25","2SA","23","25","25","Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S223_26","011_23_26","2SA","23","26","26","Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S223_27","011_23_27","2SA","23","27","27","Abiezer the Anathothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S223_28","011_23_28","2SA","23","28","28","Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S223_29","011_23_29","2SA","23","29","29","Heleb the son of Baanah the Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S223_30","011_23_30","2SA","23","30","30","Benaiah a Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S223_31","011_23_31","2SA","23","31","31","Abialbon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S223_32","011_23_32","2SA","23","32","32","Eliahba the Shaalbonite, the sons of Jashen, Jonathan, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S223_33","011_23_33","2SA","23","33","33","Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Ararite, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S223_34","011_23_34","2SA","23","34","34","Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maacathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S223_35","011_23_35","2SA","23","35","35","Hezro the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S223_36","011_23_36","2SA","23","36","36","Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S223_37","011_23_37","2SA","23","37","37","Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, armour bearers to Joab the son of Zeruiah, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S223_38","011_23_38","2SA","23","38","38","Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S223_39","011_23_39","2SA","23","39","39","and Uriah the Hittite: thirty-seven in all. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S224_1","011_24_1","2SA","24","1","1","Again the LORD’s anger burnt against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, “Go, count Israel and Judah.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S224_2","011_24_2","2SA","24","2","2","The king said to Joab the captain of the army, who was with him, “Now go back and forth through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and count the people, that I may know the sum of the people.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S224_3","011_24_3","2SA","24","3","3","Joab said to the king, “Now may the LORD your God add to the people, however many they may be, one hundred times; and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king delight in this thing?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S224_4","011_24_4","2SA","24","4","4","Notwithstanding, the king’s word prevailed against Joab and against the captains of the army. Joab and the captains of the army went out from the presence of the king to count the people of Israel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S224_5","011_24_5","2SA","24","5","5","They passed over the Jordan and encamped in Aroer, on the right side of the city that is in the middle of the valley of Gad, and to Jazer; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S224_6","011_24_6","2SA","24","6","6","then they came to Gilead and to the land of Tahtim Hodshi; and they came to Dan Jaan and around to Sidon, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S224_7","011_24_7","2SA","24","7","7","and came to the stronghold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites and of the Canaanites; and they went out to the south of Judah, at Beersheba. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S224_8","011_24_8","2SA","24","8","8","So when they had gone back and forth through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S224_9","011_24_9","2SA","24","9","9","Joab gave up the sum of the counting of the people to the king; and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword, and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S224_10","011_24_10","2SA","24","10","10","David’s heart struck him after he had counted the people. David said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in that which I have done. But now, the LORD, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S224_11","011_24_11","2SA","24","11","11","When David rose up in the morning, the LORD’s word came to the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S224_12","011_24_12","2SA","24","12","12","“Go and speak to David, ‘The LORD says, “I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.”’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S224_13","011_24_13","2SA","24","13","13","So Gad came to David, and told him, saying, “Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ pestilence in your land? Now answer, and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S224_14","011_24_14","2SA","24","14","14","David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let us fall now into the LORD’s hand, for his mercies are great. Let me not fall into man’s hand.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S224_15","011_24_15","2SA","24","15","15","So the LORD sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning even to the appointed time; and seventy thousand men died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S224_16","011_24_16","2SA","24","16","16","When the angel stretched out his hand towards Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” The LORD’s angel was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S224_17","011_24_17","2SA","24","17","17","David spoke to the LORD when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said, “Behold, I have sinned, and I have done perversely; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me, and against my father’s house.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S224_18","011_24_18","2SA","24","18","18","Gad came that day to David and said to him, “Go up, build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S224_19","011_24_19","2SA","24","19","19","David went up according to the saying of Gad, as the LORD commanded. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S224_20","011_24_20","2SA","24","20","20","Araunah looked out, and saw the king and his servants coming on towards him. Then Araunah went out and bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S224_21","011_24_21","2SA","24","21","21","Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” David said, “To buy your threshing floor, to build an altar to the LORD, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S224_22","011_24_22","2SA","24","22","22","Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him. Behold, the cattle for the burnt offering, and the threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S224_23","011_24_23","2SA","24","23","23","All this, O king, does Araunah give to the king.” Araunah said to the king, “May the LORD your God accept you.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S224_24","011_24_24","2SA","24","24","24","The king said to Araunah, “No, but I will most certainly buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to the LORD my God which cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("S224_25","011_24_25","2SA","24","25","25","David built an altar to the LORD there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was entreated for the land, and the plague was removed from Israel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_1","012_1_1","1KI","1","1","1","Now King David was old and advanced in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he couldn’t keep warm. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_2","012_1_2","1KI","1","2","2","Therefore his servants said to him, “Let a young virgin be sought for my lord the king. Let her stand before the king, and cherish him; and let her lie in your bosom, that my lord the king may keep warm.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_3","012_1_3","1KI","1","3","3","So they sought for a beautiful young lady throughout all the borders of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_4","012_1_4","1KI","1","4","4","The young lady was very beautiful; and she cherished the king, and served him; but the king didn’t know her intimately. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_5","012_1_5","1KI","1","5","5","Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, “I will be king.” Then he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_6","012_1_6","1KI","1","6","6","His father had not displeased him at any time in saying, “Why have you done so?” and he was also a very handsome man; and he was born after Absalom. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_7","012_1_7","1KI","1","7","7","He conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest; and they followed Adonijah and helped him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_8","012_1_8","1KI","1","8","8","But Zadok the priest, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, and the mighty men who belonged to David, were not with Adonijah. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_9","012_1_9","1KI","1","9","9","Adonijah killed sheep, cattle, and fatlings by the stone of Zoheleth, which is beside En Rogel; and he called all his brothers, the king’s sons, and all the men of Judah, the king’s servants; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_10","012_1_10","1KI","1","10","10","but he didn’t call Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_11","012_1_11","1KI","1","11","11","Then Nathan spoke to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, “Haven’t you heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith reigns, and David our lord doesn’t know it? ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_12","012_1_12","1KI","1","12","12","Now therefore come, please let me give you counsel, that you may save your own life and your son Solomon’s life. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_13","012_1_13","1KI","1","13","13","Go in to King David, and tell him, ‘Didn’t you, my lord the king, swear to your servant, saying, “Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne?” Why then does Adonijah reign?’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_14","012_1_14","1KI","1","14","14","Behold, while you are still talking there with the king, I will also come in after you and confirm your words.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_15","012_1_15","1KI","1","15","15","Bathsheba went in to the king in his room. The king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite was serving the king. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_16","012_1_16","1KI","1","16","16","Bathsheba bowed and showed respect to the king. The king said, “What would you like?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_17","012_1_17","1KI","1","17","17","She said to him, “My lord, you swore by the LORD your God to your servant, ‘Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne.’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_18","012_1_18","1KI","1","18","18","Now, behold, Adonijah reigns; and you, my lord the king, don’t know it. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_19","012_1_19","1KI","1","19","19","He has slain cattle and fatlings and sheep in abundance, and has called all the sons of the king, Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the army; but he hasn’t called Solomon your servant. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_20","012_1_20","1KI","1","20","20","You, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, that you should tell them who will sit on the throne of my lord the king after him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_21","012_1_21","1KI","1","21","21","Otherwise it will happen, when my lord the king sleeps with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be considered criminals.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_22","012_1_22","1KI","1","22","22","Behold, while she was still talking with the king, Nathan the prophet came in. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_23","012_1_23","1KI","1","23","23","They told the king, saying, “Behold, Nathan the prophet!” When he had come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_24","012_1_24","1KI","1","24","24","Nathan said, “My lord, King, have you said, ‘Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne?’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_25","012_1_25","1KI","1","25","25","For he has gone down today, and has slain cattle, fatlings, and sheep in abundance, and has called all the king’s sons, the captains of the army, and Abiathar the priest. Behold, they are eating and drinking before him, and saying, ‘Long live King Adonijah!’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_26","012_1_26","1KI","1","26","26","But he hasn’t called me, even me your servant, Zadok the priest, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_27","012_1_27","1KI","1","27","27","Was this thing done by my lord the king, and you haven’t shown to your servants who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_28","012_1_28","1KI","1","28","28","Then King David answered, “Call Bathsheba in to me.” She came into the king’s presence and stood before the king. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_29","012_1_29","1KI","1","29","29","The king vowed and said, “As the LORD lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_30","012_1_30","1KI","1","30","30","most certainly as I swore to you by the LORD, the God of Israel, saying, ‘Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne in my place;’ I will most certainly do this today.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_31","012_1_31","1KI","1","31","31","Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth and showed respect to the king, and said, “Let my lord King David live forever!” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_32","012_1_32","1KI","1","32","32","King David said, “Call to me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada.” They came before the king. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_33","012_1_33","1KI","1","33","33","The king said to them, “Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_34","012_1_34","1KI","1","34","34","Let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel. Blow the trumpet, and say, ‘Long live King Solomon!’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_35","012_1_35","1KI","1","35","35","Then come up after him, and he shall come and sit on my throne; for he shall be king in my place. I have appointed him to be prince over Israel and over Judah.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_36","012_1_36","1KI","1","36","36","Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, “Amen. May the LORD, the God of my lord the king, say so. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_37","012_1_37","1KI","1","37","37","As the LORD has been with my lord the king, even so may he be with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord King David.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_38","012_1_38","1KI","1","38","38","So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites went down and had Solomon ride on King David’s mule, and brought him to Gihon. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_39","012_1_39","1KI","1","39","39","Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the Tent, and anointed Solomon. They blew the trumpet; and all the people said, “Long live King Solomon!” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_40","012_1_40","1KI","1","40","40","All the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth shook with their sound. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_41","012_1_41","1KI","1","41","41","Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they had finished eating. When Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, “Why is this noise of the city being in an uproar?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_42","012_1_42","1KI","1","42","42","While he yet spoke, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came; and Adonijah said, “Come in; for you are a worthy man, and bring good news.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_43","012_1_43","1KI","1","43","43","Jonathan answered Adonijah, “Most certainly our lord King David has made Solomon king. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_44","012_1_44","1KI","1","44","44","The king has sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and they have caused him to ride on the king’s mule. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_45","012_1_45","1KI","1","45","45","Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon. They have come up from there rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This is the noise that you have heard. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_46","012_1_46","1KI","1","46","46","Also, Solomon sits on the throne of the kingdom. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_47","012_1_47","1KI","1","47","47","Moreover the king’s servants came to bless our lord King David, saying, ‘May your God make the name of Solomon better than your name, and make his throne greater than your throne;’ and the king bowed himself on the bed. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_48","012_1_48","1KI","1","48","48","Also thus said the king, ‘Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who has given one to sit on my throne today, my eyes even seeing it.’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_49","012_1_49","1KI","1","49","49","All the guests of Adonijah were afraid, and rose up, and each man went his way. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_50","012_1_50","1KI","1","50","50","Adonijah was afraid because of Solomon; and he arose, and went, and hung onto the horns of the altar. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_51","012_1_51","1KI","1","51","51","Solomon was told, “Behold, Adonijah fears King Solomon; for, behold, he is hanging onto the horns of the altar, saying, ‘Let King Solomon swear to me first that he will not kill his servant with the sword.’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_52","012_1_52","1KI","1","52","52","Solomon said, “If he shows himself a worthy man, not a hair of his shall fall to the earth; but if wickedness is found in him, he shall die.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K11_53","012_1_53","1KI","1","53","53","So King Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. He came and bowed down to King Solomon; and Solomon said to him, “Go to your house.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K12_1","012_2_1","1KI","2","1","1","Now the days of David came near that he should die; and he commanded Solomon his son, saying, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K12_2","012_2_2","1KI","2","2","2","“I am going the way of all the earth. You be strong therefore, and show yourself a man; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K12_3","012_2_3","1KI","2","3","3","and keep the instruction of the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, his commandments, his ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn yourself. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K12_4","012_2_4","1KI","2","4","4","Then the LORD may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your children are careful of their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you,’ he said, ‘a man on the throne of Israel.’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K12_5","012_2_5","1KI","2","5","5","“Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his sash that was around his waist and in his sandals that were on his feet. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K12_6","012_2_6","1KI","2","6","6","Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don’t let his grey head go down to Sheol in peace. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K12_7","012_2_7","1KI","2","7","7","But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be amongst those who eat at your table; for so they came to me when I fled from Absalom your brother. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K12_8","012_2_8","1KI","2","8","8","“Behold, there is with you Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite of Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim; but he came down to meet me at the Jordan, and I swore to him by the LORD, saying, ‘I will not put you to death with the sword.’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K12_9","012_2_9","1KI","2","9","9","Now therefore don’t hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his grey head down to Sheol with blood.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K12_10","012_2_10","1KI","2","10","10","David slept with his fathers, and was buried in David’s city. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K12_11","012_2_11","1KI","2","11","11","The days that David reigned over Israel were forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron, and he reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K12_12","012_2_12","1KI","2","12","12","Solomon sat on David his father’s throne; and his kingdom was firmly established. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K12_13","012_2_13","1KI","2","13","13","Then Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. She said, “Do you come peaceably?” He said, “Peaceably. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K12_14","012_2_14","1KI","2","14","14","He said moreover, I have something to tell you.” She said, “Say on.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K12_15","012_2_15","1KI","2","15","15","He said, “You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign. However, the kingdom is turned around, and has become my brother’s; for it was his from the LORD. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K12_16","012_2_16","1KI","2","16","16","Now I ask one petition of you. Don’t deny me.” She said to him, “Say on.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K12_17","012_2_17","1KI","2","17","17","He said, “Please speak to Solomon the king (for he will not tell you ‘no’), that he give me Abishag the Shunammite as wife.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K12_18","012_2_18","1KI","2","18","18","Bathsheba said, “All right. I will speak for you to the king.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K12_19","012_2_19","1KI","2","19","19","Bathsheba therefore went to King Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. The king rose up to meet her and bowed himself to her, and sat down on his throne and caused a throne to be set for the king’s mother; and she sat on his right hand. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K12_20","012_2_20","1KI","2","20","20","Then she said, “I ask one small petition of you; don’t deny me.” The king said to her, “Ask on, my mother, for I will not deny you.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K12_21","012_2_21","1KI","2","21","21","She said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as wife.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K12_22","012_2_22","1KI","2","22","22","King Solomon answered his mother, “Why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom also, for he is my elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K12_23","012_2_23","1KI","2","23","23","Then King Solomon swore by the LORD, saying, “God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K12_24","012_2_24","1KI","2","24","24","Now therefore as the LORD lives, who has established me and set me on my father David’s throne, and who has made me a house as he promised, surely Adonijah shall be put to death today.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K12_25","012_2_25","1KI","2","25","25","King Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell on him, so that he died. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K12_26","012_2_26","1KI","2","26","26","To Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go to Anathoth, to your own fields, for you are worthy of death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you bore the Lord GOD’s ark before David my father, and because you were afflicted in all in which my father was afflicted.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K12_27","012_2_27","1KI","2","27","27","So Solomon thrust Abiathar out from being priest to the LORD, that he might fulfil the LORD’s word which he spoke concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K12_28","012_2_28","1KI","2","28","28","This news came to Joab; for Joab had followed Adonijah, although he didn’t follow Absalom. Joab fled to the LORD’s Tent, and held onto the horns of the altar. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K12_29","012_2_29","1KI","2","29","29","King Solomon was told, “Joab has fled to the LORD’s Tent; and behold, he is by the altar.” Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go, fall on him.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K12_30","012_2_30","1KI","2","30","30","Benaiah came to the LORD’s Tent, and said to him, “The king says, ‘Come out!’” He said, “No; but I will die here.” Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, “This is what Joab said, and this is how he answered me.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K12_31","012_2_31","1KI","2","31","31","The king said to him, “Do as he has said, and fall on him, and bury him, that you may take away the blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father’s house. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K12_32","012_2_32","1KI","2","32","32","The LORD will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn’t know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K12_33","012_2_33","1KI","2","33","33","So their blood will return on the head of Joab and on the head of his offspring forever. But for David, for his offspring, for his house, and for his throne, there will be peace forever from the LORD.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K12_34","012_2_34","1KI","2","34","34","Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and fell on him, and killed him; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K12_35","012_2_35","1KI","2","35","35","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. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K12_36","012_2_36","1KI","2","36","36","The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, “Build yourself a house in Jerusalem, and live there, and don’t go anywhere else. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K12_37","012_2_37","1KI","2","37","37","For on the day you go out and pass over the brook Kidron, know for certain that you will surely die. Your blood will be on your own head.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K12_38","012_2_38","1KI","2","38","38","Shimei said to the king, “What you say is good. As my lord the king has said, so will your servant do.” Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K12_39","012_2_39","1KI","2","39","39","At the end of three years, two of Shimei’s slaves ran away to Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath. They told Shimei, saying, “Behold, your slaves are in Gath.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K12_40","012_2_40","1KI","2","40","40","Shimei arose, saddled his donkey, and went to Gath to Achish to seek his slaves; and Shimei went and brought his slaves from Gath. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K12_41","012_2_41","1KI","2","41","41","Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and had come again. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K12_42","012_2_42","1KI","2","42","42","The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, “Didn’t I adjure you by the LORD and warn you, saying, ‘Know for certain that on the day you go out and walk anywhere else, you shall surely die?’ You said to me, ‘The saying that I have heard is good.’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K12_43","012_2_43","1KI","2","43","43","Why then have you not kept the oath of the LORD and the commandment that I have instructed you with?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K12_44","012_2_44","1KI","2","44","44","The king said moreover to Shimei, “You know in your heart all the wickedness that you did to David my father. Therefore the LORD will return your wickedness on your own head. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K12_45","012_2_45","1KI","2","45","45","But King Solomon will be blessed, and David’s throne will be established before the LORD forever.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K12_46","012_2_46","1KI","2","46","46","So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell on him, so that he died. The kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K13_1","012_3_1","1KI","3","1","1","Solomon made a marriage alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt. He took Pharaoh’s daughter and brought her into David’s city until he had finished building his own house, the LORD’s house, and the wall around Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K13_2","012_3_2","1KI","3","2","2","However, the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was not yet a house built for the LORD’s name. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K13_3","012_3_3","1KI","3","3","3","Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father, except that he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K13_4","012_3_4","1KI","3","4","4","The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K13_5","012_3_5","1KI","3","5","5","In Gibeon, the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, “Ask for what I should give you.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K13_6","012_3_6","1KI","3","6","6","Solomon said, “You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, because he walked before you in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you. You have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is today. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K13_7","012_3_7","1KI","3","7","7","Now, LORD my God, you have made your servant king instead of David my father. I am just a little child. I don’t know how to go out or come in. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K13_8","012_3_8","1KI","3","8","8","Your servant is amongst your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can’t be numbered or counted for multitude. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K13_9","012_3_9","1KI","3","9","9","Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K13_10","012_3_10","1KI","3","10","10","This request pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K13_11","012_3_11","1KI","3","11","11","God said to him, “Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself long life, nor have you asked for riches for yourself, nor have you asked for the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K13_12","012_3_12","1KI","3","12","12","behold, I have done according to your word. Behold, I have given you a wise and understanding heart, so that there has been no one like you before you, and after you none will arise like you. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K13_13","012_3_13","1KI","3","13","13","I have also given you that which you have not asked, both riches and honour, so that there will not be any amongst the kings like you for all your days. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K13_14","012_3_14","1KI","3","14","14","If you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K13_15","012_3_15","1KI","3","15","15","Solomon awoke; and behold, it was a dream. Then he came to Jerusalem and stood before the ark of the LORD’s covenant, and offered up burnt offerings, offered peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K13_16","012_3_16","1KI","3","16","16","Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king, and stood before him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K13_17","012_3_17","1KI","3","17","17","The one woman said, “Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house. I delivered a child with her in the house. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K13_18","012_3_18","1KI","3","18","18","The third day after I delivered, this woman delivered also. We were together. There was no stranger with us in the house, just us two in the house. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K13_19","012_3_19","1KI","3","19","19","This woman’s child died in the night, because she lay on it. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K13_20","012_3_20","1KI","3","20","20","She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me while your servant slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K13_21","012_3_21","1KI","3","21","21","When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, he was dead; but when I had looked at him in the morning, behold, it was not my son whom I bore.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K13_22","012_3_22","1KI","3","22","22","The other woman said, “No! But the living one is my son, and the dead one is your son.” The first one said, “No! But the dead one is your son, and the living one is my son.” They argued like this before the king. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K13_23","012_3_23","1KI","3","23","23","Then the king said, “One says, ‘This is my son who lives, and your son is the dead;’ and the other says, ‘No! But your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one.’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K13_24","012_3_24","1KI","3","24","24","The king said, “Get me a sword.” So they brought a sword before the king. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K13_25","012_3_25","1KI","3","25","25","The king said, “Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K13_26","012_3_26","1KI","3","26","26","Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill him!” But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide him.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K13_27","012_3_27","1KI","3","27","27","Then the king answered, “Give the first woman the living child, and definitely do not kill him. She is his mother.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K13_28","012_3_28","1KI","3","28","28","All Israel heard of the judgement which the king had judged; and they feared the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to do justice. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K14_1","012_4_1","1KI","4","1","1","King Solomon was king over all Israel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K14_2","012_4_2","1KI","4","2","2","These were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K14_3","012_4_3","1KI","4","3","3","Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K14_4","012_4_4","1KI","4","4","4","Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army; Zadok and Abiathar were priests; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K14_5","012_4_5","1KI","4","5","5","Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; Zabud the son of Nathan was chief minister, the king’s friend; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K14_6","012_4_6","1KI","4","6","6","Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to forced labour. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K14_7","012_4_7","1KI","4","7","7","Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household. Each man had to make provision for a month in the year. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K14_8","012_4_8","1KI","4","8","8","These are their names: Ben Hur, in the hill country of Ephraim; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K14_9","012_4_9","1KI","4","9","9","Ben Deker, in Makaz, in Shaalbim, Beth Shemesh, and Elon Beth Hanan; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K14_10","012_4_10","1KI","4","10","10","Ben Hesed, in Arubboth (Socoh and all the land of Hepher belonged to him); ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K14_11","012_4_11","1KI","4","11","11","Ben Abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath, Solomon’s daughter, as wife); ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K14_12","012_4_12","1KI","4","12","12","Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth Shean which is beside Zarethan, beneath Jezreel, from Beth Shean to Abel Meholah, as far as beyond Jokmeam; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K14_13","012_4_13","1KI","4","13","13","Ben Geber, in Ramoth Gilead (the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, belonged to him; and the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars, belonged to him); ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K14_14","012_4_14","1KI","4","14","14","Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K14_15","012_4_15","1KI","4","15","15","Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon as wife); ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K14_16","012_4_16","1KI","4","16","16","Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K14_17","012_4_17","1KI","4","17","17","Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K14_18","012_4_18","1KI","4","18","18","Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K14_19","012_4_19","1KI","4","19","19","Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only officer who was in the land. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K14_20","012_4_20","1KI","4","20","20","Judah and Israel were numerous as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K14_21","012_4_21","1KI","4","21","21","Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt. They brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K14_22","012_4_22","1KI","4","22","22","Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty cors of fine flour, sixty measures of meal, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K14_23","012_4_23","1KI","4","23","23","ten head of fat cattle, twenty head of cattle out of the pastures, and one hundred sheep, in addition to deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K14_24","012_4_24","1KI","4","24","24","For he had dominion over all on this side the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side the River; and he had peace on all sides around him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K14_25","012_4_25","1KI","4","25","25","Judah and Israel lived safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K14_26","012_4_26","1KI","4","26","26","Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K14_27","012_4_27","1KI","4","27","27","Those officers provided food for King Solomon, and for all who came to King Solomon’s table, every man in his month. They let nothing be lacking. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K14_28","012_4_28","1KI","4","28","28","They also brought barley and straw for the horses and swift steeds to the place where the officers were, each man according to his duty. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K14_29","012_4_29","1KI","4","29","29","God gave Solomon abundant wisdom, understanding, and breadth of mind like the sand that is on the seashore. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K14_30","012_4_30","1KI","4","30","30","Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K14_31","012_4_31","1KI","4","31","31","For he was wiser than all men—wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his fame was in all the nations all around. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K14_32","012_4_32","1KI","4","32","32","He spoke three thousand proverbs, and his songs numbered one thousand and five. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K14_33","012_4_33","1KI","4","33","33","He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that grows out of the wall; he also spoke of animals, of birds, of creeping things, and of fish. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K14_34","012_4_34","1KI","4","34","34","People of all nations came to hear the wisdom of Solomon, sent by all kings of the earth who had heard of his wisdom. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K15_1","012_5_1","1KI","5","1","1","Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon, for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the place of his father, and Hiram had always loved David. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K15_2","012_5_2","1KI","5","2","2","Solomon sent to Hiram, saying, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K15_3","012_5_3","1KI","5","3","3","“You know that David my father could not build a house for the name of the LORD his God because of the wars which were around him on every side, until the LORD put his enemies under the soles of his feet. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K15_4","012_5_4","1KI","5","4","4","But now the LORD my God has given me rest on every side. There is no enemy and no evil occurrence. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K15_5","012_5_5","1KI","5","5","5","Behold, I intend to build a house for the name of the LORD my God, as the LORD spoke to David my father, saying, ‘Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place shall build the house for my name.’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K15_6","012_5_6","1KI","5","6","6","Now therefore command that cedar trees be cut for me out of Lebanon. My servants will be with your servants; and I will give you wages for your servants according to all that you say. For you know that there is nobody amongst us who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K15_7","012_5_7","1KI","5","7","7","When Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced greatly, and said, “Blessed is the LORD today, who has given to David a wise son to rule over this great people.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K15_8","012_5_8","1KI","5","8","8","Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, “I have heard the message which you have sent to me. I will do all your desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning cypress timber. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K15_9","012_5_9","1KI","5","9","9","My servants will bring them down from Lebanon to the sea. I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place that you specify to me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and you will receive them. You will accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K15_10","012_5_10","1KI","5","10","10","So Hiram gave Solomon cedar timber and cypress timber according to all his desire. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K15_11","012_5_11","1KI","5","11","11","Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand cors of wheat for food to his household, and twenty cors of pure oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K15_12","012_5_12","1KI","5","12","12","The LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him. There was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty together. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K15_13","012_5_13","1KI","5","13","13","King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K15_14","012_5_14","1KI","5","14","14","He sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses: for a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home; and Adoniram was over the men subject to forced labour. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K15_15","012_5_15","1KI","5","15","15","Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K15_16","012_5_16","1KI","5","16","16","besides Solomon’s chief officers who were over the work: three thousand and three hundred who ruled over the people who laboured in the work. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K15_17","012_5_17","1KI","5","17","17","The king commanded, and they cut out large stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K15_18","012_5_18","1KI","5","18","18","Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders and the Gebalites cut them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K16_1","012_6_1","1KI","6","1","1","In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the LORD’s house. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K16_2","012_6_2","1KI","6","2","2","The house which King Solomon built for the LORD had a length of sixty cubits, and its width twenty, and its height thirty cubits. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K16_3","012_6_3","1KI","6","3","3","The porch in front of the temple of the house had a length of twenty cubits, which was along the width of the house. Ten cubits was its width in front of the house. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K16_4","012_6_4","1KI","6","4","4","He made windows of fixed lattice work for the house. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K16_5","012_6_5","1KI","6","5","5","Against the wall of the house, he built floors all around, against the walls of the house all around, both of the temple and of the inner sanctuary; and he made side rooms all around. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K16_6","012_6_6","1KI","6","6","6","The lowest floor was five cubits wide, and the middle was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide; for on the outside he made offsets in the wall of the house all around, that the beams should not be inserted into the walls of the house. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K16_7","012_6_7","1KI","6","7","7","The house, when it was under construction, was built of stone prepared at the quarry; and no hammer or axe or any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was under construction. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K16_8","012_6_8","1KI","6","8","8","The door for the middle side rooms was in the right side of the house. They went up by winding stairs into the middle floor, and out of the middle into the third. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K16_9","012_6_9","1KI","6","9","9","So he built the house and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K16_10","012_6_10","1KI","6","10","10","He built the floors all along the house, each five cubits high; and they rested on the house with timbers of cedar. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K16_11","012_6_11","1KI","6","11","11","The LORD’s word came to Solomon, saying, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K16_12","012_6_12","1KI","6","12","12","“Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes, and execute my ordinances, and keep all my commandments to walk in them, then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K16_13","012_6_13","1KI","6","13","13","I will dwell amongst the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K16_14","012_6_14","1KI","6","14","14","So Solomon built the house and finished it. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K16_15","012_6_15","1KI","6","15","15","He built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar; from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood. He covered the floor of the house with cypress boards. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K16_16","012_6_16","1KI","6","16","16","He built twenty cubits of the back part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the ceiling. He built this within, for an inner sanctuary, even for the most holy place. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K16_17","012_6_17","1KI","6","17","17","In front of the temple sanctuary was forty cubits long. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K16_18","012_6_18","1KI","6","18","18","There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open flowers. All was cedar. No stone was visible. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K16_19","012_6_19","1KI","6","19","19","He prepared an inner sanctuary in the middle of the house within, to set the ark of the LORD’s covenant there. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K16_20","012_6_20","1KI","6","20","20","Within the inner sanctuary was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in width, and twenty cubits in its height. He overlaid it with pure gold. He covered the altar with cedar. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K16_21","012_6_21","1KI","6","21","21","So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold. He drew chains of gold across before the inner sanctuary, and he overlaid it with gold. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K16_22","012_6_22","1KI","6","22","22","He overlaid the whole house with gold, until all the house was finished. He also overlaid the whole altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary with gold. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K16_23","012_6_23","1KI","6","23","23","In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olive wood, each ten cubits high. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K16_24","012_6_24","1KI","6","24","24","Five cubits was the length of one wing of the cherub, and five cubits was the length of the other wing of the cherub. From the tip of one wing to the tip of the other was ten cubits. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K16_25","012_6_25","1KI","6","25","25","The other cherub was ten cubits. Both the cherubim were of one measure and one form. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K16_26","012_6_26","1KI","6","26","26","One cherub was ten cubits high, and so was the other cherub. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K16_27","012_6_27","1KI","6","27","27","He set the cherubim within the inner house. The wings of the cherubim were stretched out, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the middle of the house. ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K16_29","012_6_29","1KI","6","29","29","He carved all the walls of the house around with carved figures of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, inside and outside. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K16_30","012_6_30","1KI","6","30","30","He overlaid the floor of the house with gold, inside and outside. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K16_31","012_6_31","1KI","6","31","31","For the entrance of the inner sanctuary, he made doors of olive wood. The lintel and door posts were a fifth part of the wall. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K16_32","012_6_32","1KI","6","32","32","So he made two doors of olive wood; and he carved on them carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold. He spread the gold on the cherubim and on the palm trees. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K16_33","012_6_33","1KI","6","33","33","He also made the entrance of the temple door posts of olive wood, out of a fourth part of the wall, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K16_34","012_6_34","1KI","6","34","34","and two doors of cypress wood. The two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K16_35","012_6_35","1KI","6","35","35","He carved cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted on the engraved work. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K16_36","012_6_36","1KI","6","36","36","He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone and a course of cedar beams. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K16_37","012_6_37","1KI","6","37","37","The foundation of the LORD’s house was laid in the fourth year, in the month Ziv. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K16_38","012_6_38","1KI","6","38","38","In the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished throughout all its parts and according to all its specifications. So he spent seven years building it. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_1","012_7_1","1KI","7","1","1","Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_2","012_7_2","1KI","7","2","2","For he built the House of the Forest of Lebanon. Its length was one hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_3","012_7_3","1KI","7","3","3","It was covered with cedar above over the forty-five beams that were on the pillars, fifteen in a row. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_4","012_7_4","1KI","7","4","4","There were beams in three rows, and window was facing window in three ranks. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_5","012_7_5","1KI","7","5","5","All the doors and posts were made square with beams; and window was facing window in three ranks. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_6","012_7_6","1KI","7","6","6","He made the hall of pillars. Its length was fifty cubits and its width thirty cubits, with a porch before them, and pillars and a threshold before them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_7","012_7_7","1KI","7","7","7","He made the porch of the throne where he was to judge, even the porch of judgement; and it was covered with cedar from floor to floor. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_8","012_7_8","1KI","7","8","8","His house where he was to dwell, the other court within the porch, was of the same construction. He made also a house for Pharaoh’s daughter (whom Solomon had taken as wife), like this porch. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_9","012_7_9","1KI","7","9","9","All these were of costly stones, even of stone cut according to measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside, even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside to the great court. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_10","012_7_10","1KI","7","10","10","The foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_11","012_7_11","1KI","7","11","11","Above were costly stones, even cut stone, according to measure, and cedar wood. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_12","012_7_12","1KI","7","12","12","The great court around had three courses of cut stone with a course of cedar beams, like the inner court of the LORD’s house and the porch of the house. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_13","012_7_13","1KI","7","13","13","King Solomon sent and brought Hiram out of Tyre. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_14","012_7_14","1KI","7","14","14","He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze; and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill to work all works in bronze. He came to King Solomon and performed all his work. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_15","012_7_15","1KI","7","15","15","For he fashioned the two pillars of bronze, eighteen cubits high apiece; and a line of twelve cubits encircled either of them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_16","012_7_16","1KI","7","16","16","He made two capitals of molten bronze to set on the tops of the pillars. The height of the one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_17","012_7_17","1KI","7","17","17","There were nets of checker work and wreaths of chain work for the capitals which were on the top of the pillars: seven for the one capital, and seven for the other capital. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_18","012_7_18","1KI","7","18","18","So he made the pillars; and there were two rows of pomegranates around the one network, to cover the capitals that were on the top of the pillars; and he did so for the other capital. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_19","012_7_19","1KI","7","19","19","The capitals that were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily work, four cubits. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_20","012_7_20","1KI","7","20","20","There were capitals above also on the two pillars, close by the belly which was beside the network. There were two hundred pomegranates in rows around the other capital. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_21","012_7_21","1KI","7","21","21","He set up the pillars at the porch of the temple. He set up the right pillar and called its name Jachin; and he set up the left pillar and called its name Boaz. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_22","012_7_22","1KI","7","22","22","On the tops of the pillars was lily work. So the work of the pillars was finished. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_23","012_7_23","1KI","7","23","23","He made the molten sea ten cubits from brim to brim, round in shape. Its height was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits encircled it. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_24","012_7_24","1KI","7","24","24","Under its brim around there were buds which encircled it for ten cubits, encircling the sea. The buds were in two rows, cast when it was cast. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_25","012_7_25","1KI","7","25","25","It stood on twelve oxen, three looking towards the north, and three looking towards the west, and three looking towards the south, and three looking towards the east; and the sea was set on them above, and all their hindquarters were inward. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_26","012_7_26","1KI","7","26","26","It was a hand width thick. Its brim was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held two thousand baths. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_27","012_7_27","1KI","7","27","27","He made the ten bases of bronze. The length of one base was four cubits, four cubits its width, and three cubits its height. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_28","012_7_28","1KI","7","28","28","The work of the bases was like this: they had panels; and there were panels between the ledges; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_29","012_7_29","1KI","7","29","29","and on the panels that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and on the ledges there was a pedestal above; and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_30","012_7_30","1KI","7","30","30","Every base had four bronze wheels and axles of bronze; and its four feet had supports. The supports were cast beneath the basin, with wreaths at the side of each. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_31","012_7_31","1KI","7","31","31","Its opening within the capital and above was a cubit. Its opening was round like the work of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also on its opening were engravings, and their panels were square, not round. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_32","012_7_32","1KI","7","32","32","The four wheels were underneath the panels; and the axles of the wheels were in the base. The height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_33","012_7_33","1KI","7","33","33","The work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel. Their axles, their rims, their spokes, and their hubs were all of cast metal. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_34","012_7_34","1KI","7","34","34","There were four supports at the four corners of each base. Its supports were of the base itself. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_35","012_7_35","1KI","7","35","35","In the top of the base there was a round band half a cubit high; and on the top of the base its supports and its panels were the same. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_36","012_7_36","1KI","7","36","36","On the plates of its supports and on its panels, he engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, each in its space, with wreaths all around. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_37","012_7_37","1KI","7","37","37","He made the ten bases in this way: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one form. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_38","012_7_38","1KI","7","38","38","He made ten basins of bronze. One basin contained forty baths. Every basin measured four cubits. One basin was on every one of the ten bases. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_39","012_7_39","1KI","7","39","39","He set the bases, five on the right side of the house and five on the left side of the house. He set the sea on the right side of the house eastward and towards the south. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_40","012_7_40","1KI","7","40","40","Hiram made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram finished doing all the work that he worked for King Solomon in the LORD’s house: ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_41","012_7_41","1KI","7","41","41","the two pillars; the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars; the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_42","012_7_42","1KI","7","42","42","the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks; two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_43","012_7_43","1KI","7","43","43","the ten bases; the ten basins on the bases; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_44","012_7_44","1KI","7","44","44","the one sea; the twelve oxen under the sea; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_45","012_7_45","1KI","7","45","45","the pots; the shovels; and the basins. All of these vessels, which Hiram made for King Solomon in the LORD’s house, were of burnished bronze. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_46","012_7_46","1KI","7","46","46","The king cast them in the plain of the Jordan, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_47","012_7_47","1KI","7","47","47","Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because there were so many of them. The weight of the bronze could not be determined. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_48","012_7_48","1KI","7","48","48","Solomon made all the vessels that were in the LORD’s house: the golden altar and the table that the show bread was on, of gold; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_49","012_7_49","1KI","7","49","49","and the lamp stands, five on the right side and five on the left, in front of the inner sanctuary, of pure gold; and the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs, of gold; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_50","012_7_50","1KI","7","50","50","the cups, the snuffers, the basins, the spoons, and the fire pans, of pure gold; and the hinges, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, of the temple, of gold. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K17_51","012_7_51","1KI","7","51","51","Thus all the work that King Solomon did in the LORD’s house was finished. Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated—the silver, the gold, and the vessels—and put them in the treasuries of the LORD’s house. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_1","012_8_1","1KI","8","1","1","Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel with all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel, to King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the LORD’s covenant out of David’s city, which is Zion. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_2","012_8_2","1KI","8","2","2","All the men of Israel assembled themselves to King Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_3","012_8_3","1KI","8","3","3","All the elders of Israel came, and the priests picked up the ark. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_4","012_8_4","1KI","8","4","4","They brought up the LORD’s ark, the Tent of Meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent. The priests and the Levites brought these up. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_5","012_8_5","1KI","8","5","5","King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who were assembled to him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle that could not be counted or numbered for multitude. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_6","012_8_6","1KI","8","6","6","The priests brought in the ark of the LORD’s covenant to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the most holy place, even under the cherubim’s wings. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_7","012_8_7","1KI","8","7","7","For the cherubim spread their wings out over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles above. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_8","012_8_8","1KI","8","8","8","The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the holy place before the inner sanctuary, but they were not seen outside. They are there to this day. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_9","012_8_9","1KI","8","9","9","There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_10","012_8_10","1KI","8","10","10","It came to pass, when the priests had come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the LORD’s house, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_11","012_8_11","1KI","8","11","11","so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for the LORD’s glory filled the LORD’s house. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_12","012_8_12","1KI","8","12","12","Then Solomon said, “The LORD has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_13","012_8_13","1KI","8","13","13","I have surely built you a house of habitation, a place for you to dwell in forever.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_14","012_8_14","1KI","8","14","14","The king turned his face around and blessed all the assembly of Israel; and all the assembly of Israel stood. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_15","012_8_15","1KI","8","15","15","He said, “Blessed is the LORD, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David your father, and has with his hand fulfilled it, saying, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_16","012_8_16","1KI","8","16","16","‘Since the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name might be there; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_17","012_8_17","1KI","8","17","17","“Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_18","012_8_18","1KI","8","18","18","But the LORD said to David my father, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_19","012_8_19","1KI","8","19","19","Nevertheless, you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come out of your body, he shall build the house for my name.’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_20","012_8_20","1KI","8","20","20","The LORD has established his word that he spoke; for I have risen up in the place of David my father, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built the house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_21","012_8_21","1KI","8","21","21","There I have set a place for the ark, in which is the LORD’s covenant, which he made with our fathers when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_22","012_8_22","1KI","8","22","22","Solomon stood before the LORD’s altar in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands towards heaven; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_23","012_8_23","1KI","8","23","23","and he said, “LORD, the God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above, or on earth beneath; who keeps covenant and loving kindness with your servants who walk before you with all their heart; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_24","012_8_24","1KI","8","24","24","who has kept with your servant David my father that which you promised him. Yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is today. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_25","012_8_25","1KI","8","25","25","Now therefore, may LORD, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_26","012_8_26","1KI","8","26","26","“Now therefore, God of Israel, please let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David my father. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_27","012_8_27","1KI","8","27","27","But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house that I have built! ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_28","012_8_28","1KI","8","28","28","Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant and for his supplication, LORD my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you today; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_29","012_8_29","1KI","8","29","29","that your eyes may be open towards this house night and day, even towards the place of which you have said, ‘My name shall be there;’ to listen to the prayer which your servant prays towards this place. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_30","012_8_30","1KI","8","30","30","Listen to the supplication of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they pray towards this place. Yes, hear in heaven, your dwelling place; and when you hear, forgive. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_31","012_8_31","1KI","8","31","31","“If a man sins against his neighbour, and an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swears before your altar in this house, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_32","012_8_32","1KI","8","32","32","then hear in heaven, and act, and judge your servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his own head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_33","012_8_33","1KI","8","33","33","“When your people Israel are struck down before the enemy because they have sinned against you, if they turn again to you and confess your name, and pray and make supplication to you in this house, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_34","012_8_34","1KI","8","34","34","then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to their fathers. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_35","012_8_35","1KI","8","35","35","“When the sky is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, if they pray towards this place and confess your name, and turn from their sin when you afflict them, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_36","012_8_36","1KI","8","36","36","then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land which you have given to your people for an inheritance. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_37","012_8_37","1KI","8","37","37","“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight, mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_38","012_8_38","1KI","8","38","38","whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread out his hands towards this house, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_39","012_8_39","1KI","8","39","39","then hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and give to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men); ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_40","012_8_40","1KI","8","40","40","that they may fear you all the days that they live in the land which you gave to our fathers. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_41","012_8_41","1KI","8","41","41","“Moreover, concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he comes out of a far country for your name’s sake ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_42","012_8_42","1KI","8","42","42","(for they shall hear of your great name and of your mighty hand and of your outstretched arm), when he comes and prays towards this house, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_43","012_8_43","1KI","8","43","43","hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, to fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_44","012_8_44","1KI","8","44","44","“If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to the LORD towards the city which you have chosen, and towards the house which I have built for your name, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_45","012_8_45","1KI","8","45","45","then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_46","012_8_46","1KI","8","46","46","If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_47","012_8_47","1KI","8","47","47","yet if they repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned and have done perversely; we have dealt wickedly,’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_48","012_8_48","1KI","8","48","48","if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who carried them captive, and pray to you towards their land which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen and the house which I have built for your name, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_49","012_8_49","1KI","8","49","49","then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven, your dwelling place, and maintain their cause; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_50","012_8_50","1KI","8","50","50","and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against you; and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_51","012_8_51","1KI","8","51","51","(for they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron furnace); ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_52","012_8_52","1KI","8","52","52","that your eyes may be open to the supplication of your servant and to the supplication of your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they cry to you. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_53","012_8_53","1KI","8","53","53","For you separated them from amongst all the peoples of the earth to be your inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord GOD.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_54","012_8_54","1KI","8","54","54","It was so, that when Solomon had finished praying all this prayer and supplication to the LORD, he arose from before the LORD’s altar, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread out towards heaven. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_55","012_8_55","1KI","8","55","55","He stood and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_56","012_8_56","1KI","8","56","56","“Blessed be the LORD, who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. There has not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by Moses his servant. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_57","012_8_57","1KI","8","57","57","May the LORD our God be with us as he was with our fathers. Let him not leave us or forsake us, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_58","012_8_58","1KI","8","58","58","that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_59","012_8_59","1KI","8","59","59","Let these my words, with which I have made supplication before the LORD, be near to the LORD our God day and night, that he may maintain the cause of his servant and the cause of his people Israel, as every day requires; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_60","012_8_60","1KI","8","60","60","that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD himself is God. There is no one else. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_61","012_8_61","1KI","8","61","61","“Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as it is today.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_62","012_8_62","1KI","8","62","62","The king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the LORD. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_63","012_8_63","1KI","8","63","63","Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to the LORD, twenty two thousand head of cattle and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the LORD’s house. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_64","012_8_64","1KI","8","64","64","The same day the king made the middle of the court holy that was before the LORD’s house; for there he offered the burnt offering, the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before the LORD was too little to receive the burnt offering, the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_65","012_8_65","1KI","8","65","65","So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven days and seven more days, even fourteen days. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K18_66","012_8_66","1KI","8","66","66","On the eighth day he sent the people away; and they blessed the king, and went to their tents joyful and glad in their hearts for all the goodness that the LORD had shown to David his servant, and to Israel his people. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K19_1","012_9_1","1KI","9","1","1","When Solomon had finished the building of the LORD’s house, the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K19_2","012_9_2","1KI","9","2","2","The LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K19_3","012_9_3","1KI","9","3","3","The LORD said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K19_4","012_9_4","1KI","9","4","4","As for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K19_5","012_9_5","1KI","9","5","5","then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised to David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man on the throne of Israel.’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K19_6","012_9_6","1KI","9","6","6","But if you turn away from following me, you or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K19_7","012_9_7","1KI","9","7","7","then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and I will cast this house, which I have made holy for my name, out of my sight; and Israel will be a proverb and a byword amongst all peoples. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K19_8","012_9_8","1KI","9","8","8","Though this house is so high, yet everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss; and they will say, ‘Why has the LORD done this to this land and to this house?’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K19_9","012_9_9","1KI","9","9","9","and they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned the LORD their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and embraced other gods, and worshipped them, and served them. Therefore the LORD has brought all this evil on them.’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K19_10","012_9_10","1KI","9","10","10","At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the LORD’s house and the king’s house ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K19_11","012_9_11","1KI","9","11","11","(now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and cypress trees, and with gold, according to all his desire), King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K19_12","012_9_12","1KI","9","12","12","Hiram came out of Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they didn’t please him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K19_13","012_9_13","1KI","9","13","13","He said, “What cities are these which you have given me, my brother?” He called them the land of Cabul to this day. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K19_14","012_9_14","1KI","9","14","14","Hiram sent to the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K19_15","012_9_15","1KI","9","15","15","This is the reason of the forced labour which King Solomon conscripted: to build the LORD’s house, his own house, Millo, Jerusalem’s wall, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K19_16","012_9_16","1KI","9","16","16","Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, taken Gezer, burnt it with fire, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it for a wedding gift to his daughter, Solomon’s wife. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K19_17","012_9_17","1KI","9","17","17","Solomon built in the land Gezer, Beth Horon the lower, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K19_18","012_9_18","1KI","9","18","18","Baalath, Tamar in the wilderness, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K19_19","012_9_19","1KI","9","19","19","all the storage cities that Solomon had, the cities for his chariots, the cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K19_20","012_9_20","1KI","9","20","20","As for all the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel— ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K19_21","012_9_21","1KI","9","21","21","their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy—of them Solomon raised a levy of bondservants to this day. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K19_22","012_9_22","1KI","9","22","22","But of the children of Israel Solomon made no bondservants; but they were the men of war, his servants, his princes, his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K19_23","012_9_23","1KI","9","23","23","These were the five hundred and fifty chief officers who were over Solomon’s work, who ruled over the people who laboured in the work. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K19_24","012_9_24","1KI","9","24","24","But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of David’s city to her house which Solomon had built for her. Then he built Millo. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K19_25","012_9_25","1KI","9","25","25","Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he built to the LORD three times per year, burning incense with them on the altar that was before the LORD. So he finished the house. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K19_26","012_9_26","1KI","9","26","26","King Solomon made a fleet of ships in Ezion Geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K19_27","012_9_27","1KI","9","27","27","Hiram sent in the fleet his servants, sailors who had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K19_28","012_9_28","1KI","9","28","28","They came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to King Solomon. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K110_1","012_10_1","1KI","10","1","1","When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the LORD’s name, she came to test him with hard questions. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K110_2","012_10_2","1KI","10","2","2","She came to Jerusalem with a very great caravan, with camels that bore spices, very much gold, and precious stones; and when she had come to Solomon, she talked with him about all that was in her heart. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K110_3","012_10_3","1KI","10","3","3","Solomon answered all her questions. There wasn’t anything hidden from the king which he didn’t tell her. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K110_4","012_10_4","1KI","10","4","4","When the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K110_5","012_10_5","1KI","10","5","5","the food of his table, the sitting of his servants, the attendance of his officials, their clothing, his cup bearers, and his ascent by which he went up to the LORD’s house, there was no more spirit in her. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K110_6","012_10_6","1KI","10","6","6","She said to the king, “It was a true report that I heard in my own land of your acts and of your wisdom. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K110_7","012_10_7","1KI","10","7","7","However, I didn’t believe the words until I came and my eyes had seen it. Behold, not even half was told me! Your wisdom and prosperity exceed the fame which I heard. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K110_8","012_10_8","1KI","10","8","8","Happy are your men, happy are these your servants who stand continually before you, who hear your wisdom. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K110_9","012_10_9","1KI","10","9","9","Blessed is the LORD your God, who delighted in you, to set you on the throne of Israel. Because the LORD loved Israel forever, therefore he made you king, to do justice and righteousness.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K110_10","012_10_10","1KI","10","10","10","She gave the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold, and a very great quantity of spices, and precious stones. Never again was there such an abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K110_11","012_10_11","1KI","10","11","11","The fleet of Hiram that brought gold from Ophir also brought in from Ophir great quantities of almug trees and precious stones. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K110_12","012_10_12","1KI","10","12","12","The king made of the almug trees pillars for the LORD’s house and for the king’s house, harps also and stringed instruments for the singers; no such almug trees came or were seen to this day. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K110_13","012_10_13","1KI","10","13","13","King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she asked, in addition to that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own land, she and her servants. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K110_14","012_10_14","1KI","10","14","14","Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K110_15","012_10_15","1KI","10","15","15","in addition to that which the traders brought, and the traffic of the merchants, and of all the kings of the mixed people, and of the governors of the country. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K110_16","012_10_16","1KI","10","16","16","King Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; six hundred shekels of gold went to one buckler. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K110_17","012_10_17","1KI","10","17","17","He made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three minas of gold went to one shield; and the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K110_18","012_10_18","1KI","10","18","18","Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the finest gold. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K110_19","012_10_19","1KI","10","19","19","There were six steps to the throne, and the top of the throne was round behind; and there were armrests on either side by the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the armrests. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K110_20","012_10_20","1KI","10","20","20","Twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other on the six steps. Nothing like it was made in any kingdom. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K110_21","012_10_21","1KI","10","21","21","All King Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. None were of silver, because it was considered of little value in the days of Solomon. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K110_22","012_10_22","1KI","10","22","22","For the king had a fleet of ships of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet. Once every three years the fleet of Tarshish came bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K110_23","012_10_23","1KI","10","23","23","So King Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K110_24","012_10_24","1KI","10","24","24","All the earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom which God had put in his heart. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K110_25","012_10_25","1KI","10","25","25","Year after year, every man brought his tribute, vessels of silver, vessels of gold, clothing, armour, spices, horses, and mules. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K110_26","012_10_26","1KI","10","26","26","Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen. He had one thousand and four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen. He kept them in the chariot cities and with the king at Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K110_27","012_10_27","1KI","10","27","27","The king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem, and cedars as common as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K110_28","012_10_28","1KI","10","28","28","The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt. The king’s merchants received them in droves, each drove at a price. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K110_29","012_10_29","1KI","10","29","29","A chariot was imported from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for one hundred and fifty shekels; and so they exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Syria. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K111_1","012_11_1","1KI","11","1","1","Now King Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K111_2","012_11_2","1KI","11","2","2","of the nations concerning which the LORD said to the children of Israel, “You shall not go amongst them, neither shall they come amongst you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon joined to these in love. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K111_3","012_11_3","1KI","11","3","3","He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. His wives turned his heart away. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K111_4","012_11_4","1KI","11","4","4","When Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father was. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K111_5","012_11_5","1KI","11","5","5","For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K111_6","012_11_6","1KI","11","6","6","Solomon did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, and didn’t go fully after the LORD, as David his father did. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K111_7","012_11_7","1KI","11","7","7","Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the mountain that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K111_8","012_11_8","1KI","11","8","8","So he did for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed to their gods. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K111_9","012_11_9","1KI","11","9","9","The LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K111_10","012_11_10","1KI","11","10","10","and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods; but he didn’t keep that which the LORD commanded. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K111_11","012_11_11","1KI","11","11","11","Therefore the LORD said to Solomon, “Because this is done by you, and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K111_12","012_11_12","1KI","11","12","12","Nevertheless, I will not do it in your days, for David your father’s sake; but I will tear it out of your son’s hand. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K111_13","012_11_13","1KI","11","13","13","However, I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake which I have chosen.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K111_14","012_11_14","1KI","11","14","14","The LORD raised up an adversary to Solomon: Hadad the Edomite. He was one of the king’s offspring in Edom. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K111_15","012_11_15","1KI","11","15","15","For when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the army had gone up to bury the slain, and had struck every male in Edom ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K111_16","012_11_16","1KI","11","16","16","(for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom), ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K111_17","012_11_17","1KI","11","17","17","Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father’s servants with him, to go into Egypt, when Hadad was still a little child. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K111_18","012_11_18","1KI","11","18","18","They arose out of Midian and came to Paran; and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house, and appointed him food, and gave him land. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K111_19","012_11_19","1KI","11","19","19","Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him as wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K111_20","012_11_20","1KI","11","20","20","The sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh’s house; and Genubath was in Pharaoh’s house amongst the sons of Pharaoh. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K111_21","012_11_21","1KI","11","21","21","When Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the army was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, “Let me depart, that I may go to my own country.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K111_22","012_11_22","1KI","11","22","22","Then Pharaoh said to him, “But what have you lacked with me, that behold, you seek to go to your own country?” He answered, “Nothing, however only let me depart.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K111_23","012_11_23","1KI","11","23","23","God raised up an adversary to him, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his lord, Hadadezer king of Zobah. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K111_24","012_11_24","1KI","11","24","24","He gathered men to himself, and became captain over a troop, when David killed them of Zobah. They went to Damascus and lived there, and reigned in Damascus. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K111_25","012_11_25","1KI","11","25","25","He was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, in addition to the mischief of Hadad. He abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K111_26","012_11_26","1KI","11","26","26","Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother’s name was Zeruah, a widow, also lifted up his hand against the king. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K111_27","012_11_27","1KI","11","27","27","This was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breach of his father David’s city. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K111_28","012_11_28","1KI","11","28","28","The man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour; and Solomon saw the young man that he was industrious, and he put him in charge of all the labour of the house of Joseph. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K111_29","012_11_29","1KI","11","29","29","At that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him on the way. Now Ahijah had clad himself with a new garment; and the two of them were alone in the field. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K111_30","012_11_30","1KI","11","30","30","Ahijah took the new garment that was on him, and tore it in twelve pieces. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K111_31","012_11_31","1KI","11","31","31","He said to Jeroboam, “Take ten pieces; for the LORD, the God of Israel, says, ‘Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon and will give ten tribes to you ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K111_32","012_11_32","1KI","11","32","32","(but he shall have one tribe, for my servant David’s sake and for Jerusalem’s sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel), ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K111_33","012_11_33","1KI","11","33","33","because they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon. They have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in my eyes, and to keep my statutes and my ordinances, as David his father did. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K111_34","012_11_34","1KI","11","34","34","“‘However, I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand, but I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant’s sake whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K111_35","012_11_35","1KI","11","35","35","but I will take the kingdom out of his son’s hand and will give it to you, even ten tribes. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K111_36","012_11_36","1KI","11","36","36","I will give one tribe to his son, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K111_37","012_11_37","1KI","11","37","37","I will take you, and you shall reign according to all that your soul desires, and shall be king over Israel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K111_38","012_11_38","1KI","11","38","38","It shall be, if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do that which is right in my eyes, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did, that I will be with you, and will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to you. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K111_39","012_11_39","1KI","11","39","39","I will afflict the offspring of David for this, but not forever.’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K111_40","012_11_40","1KI","11","40","40","Therefore Solomon sought to kill Jeroboam, but Jeroboam arose and fled into Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K111_41","012_11_41","1KI","11","41","41","Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, aren’t they written in the book of the acts of Solomon? ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K111_42","012_11_42","1KI","11","42","42","The time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K111_43","012_11_43","1KI","11","43","43","Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in his father David’s city; and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K112_1","012_12_1","1KI","12","1","1","Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K112_2","012_12_2","1KI","12","2","2","When Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was yet in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of King Solomon, and Jeroboam lived in Egypt; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K112_3","012_12_3","1KI","12","3","3","and they sent and called him), Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel came, and spoke to Rehoboam, saying, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K112_4","012_12_4","1KI","12","4","4","“Your father made our yoke difficult. Now therefore make the hard service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K112_5","012_12_5","1KI","12","5","5","He said to them, “Depart for three days, then come back to me.” So the people departed. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K112_6","012_12_6","1KI","12","6","6","King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, “What counsel do you give me to answer these people?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K112_7","012_12_7","1KI","12","7","7","They replied, “If you will be a servant to this people today, and will serve them, and answer them with good words, then they will be your servants forever.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K112_8","012_12_8","1KI","12","8","8","But he abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K112_9","012_12_9","1KI","12","9","9","He said to them, “What counsel do you give, that we may answer these people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Make the yoke that your father put on us lighter?’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K112_10","012_12_10","1KI","12","10","10","The young men who had grown up with him said to him, “Tell these people who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter to us’— tell them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K112_11","012_12_11","1KI","12","11","11","Now my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K112_12","012_12_12","1KI","12","12","12","So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king asked, saying, “Come to me again the third day.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K112_13","012_12_13","1KI","12","13","13","The king answered the people roughly, and abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K112_14","012_12_14","1KI","12","14","14","and spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K112_15","012_12_15","1KI","12","15","15","So the king didn’t listen to the people; for it was a thing brought about from the LORD, that he might establish his word, which the LORD spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K112_16","012_12_16","1KI","12","16","16","When all Israel saw that the king didn’t listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, “What portion have we in David? We don’t have an inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David.” So Israel departed to their tents. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K112_17","012_12_17","1KI","12","17","17","But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K112_18","012_12_18","1KI","12","18","18","Then King Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the men subject to forced labour; and all Israel stoned him to death with stones. King Rehoboam hurried to get himself up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K112_19","012_12_19","1KI","12","19","19","So Israel rebelled against David’s house to this day. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K112_20","012_12_20","1KI","12","20","20","When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the congregation, and made him king over all Israel. There was no one who followed David’s house, except for the tribe of Judah only. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K112_21","012_12_21","1KI","12","21","21","When Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen men who were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K112_22","012_12_22","1KI","12","22","22","But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K112_23","012_12_23","1KI","12","23","23","“Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people, saying, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K112_24","012_12_24","1KI","12","24","24","‘The LORD says, “You shall not go up or fight against your brothers, the children of Israel. Everyone return to his house; for this thing is from me.”’” So they listened to the LORD’s word, and returned and went their way, according to the LORD’s word. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K112_25","012_12_25","1KI","12","25","25","Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and lived in it; and he went out from there and built Penuel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K112_26","012_12_26","1KI","12","26","26","Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom will return to David’s house. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K112_27","012_12_27","1KI","12","27","27","If this people goes up to offer sacrifices in the LORD’s house at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will turn again to their lord, even to Rehoboam king of Judah; and they will kill me, and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K112_28","012_12_28","1KI","12","28","28","So the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said to them, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look and behold your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt!” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K112_29","012_12_29","1KI","12","29","29","He set the one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K112_30","012_12_30","1KI","12","30","30","This thing became a sin, for the people went even as far as Dan to worship before the one there. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K112_31","012_12_31","1KI","12","31","31","He made houses of high places, and made priests from amongst all the people, who were not of the sons of Levi. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K112_32","012_12_32","1KI","12","32","32","Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he went up to the altar. He did so in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made, and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K112_33","012_12_33","1KI","12","33","33","He went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and he ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and went up to the altar to burn incense. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K113_1","012_13_1","1KI","13","1","1","Behold, a man of God came out of Judah by the LORD’s word to Bethel; and Jeroboam was standing by the altar to burn incense. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K113_2","012_13_2","1KI","13","2","2","He cried against the altar by the LORD’s word, and said, “Altar! Altar! the LORD says: ‘Behold, a son will be born to David’s house, Josiah by name. On you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and they will burn men’s bones on you.’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K113_3","012_13_3","1KI","13","3","3","He gave a sign the same day, saying, “This is the sign which the LORD has spoken: Behold, the altar will be split apart, and the ashes that are on it will be poured out.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K113_4","012_13_4","1KI","13","4","4","When the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam put out his hand from the altar, saying, “Seize him!” His hand, which he put out against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back again to himself. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K113_5","012_13_5","1KI","13","5","5","The altar was also split apart, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the LORD’s word. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K113_6","012_13_6","1KI","13","6","6","The king answered the man of God, “Now intercede for the favour of the LORD your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again.” The man of God interceded with the LORD, and the king’s hand was restored to him again, and became as it was before. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K113_7","012_13_7","1KI","13","7","7","The king said to the man of God, “Come home with me and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K113_8","012_13_8","1KI","13","8","8","The man of God said to the king, “Even if you gave me half of your house, I would not go in with you, neither would I eat bread nor drink water in this place; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K113_9","012_13_9","1KI","13","9","9","for so was it commanded me by the LORD’s word, saying, ‘You shall eat no bread, drink no water, and don’t return by the way that you came.’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K113_10","012_13_10","1KI","13","10","10","So he went another way, and didn’t return by the way that he came to Bethel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K113_11","012_13_11","1KI","13","11","11","Now an old prophet lived in Bethel, and one of his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. They also told their father the words which he had spoken to the king. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K113_12","012_13_12","1KI","13","12","12","Their father said to them, “Which way did he go?” Now his sons had seen which way the man of God went, who came from Judah. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K113_13","012_13_13","1KI","13","13","13","He said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” So they saddled the donkey for him; and he rode on it. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K113_14","012_13_14","1KI","13","14","14","He went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak. He said to him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” He said, “I am.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K113_15","012_13_15","1KI","13","15","15","Then he said to him, “Come home with me and eat bread.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K113_16","012_13_16","1KI","13","16","16","He said, “I may not return with you, nor go in with you. I will not eat bread or drink water with you in this place. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K113_17","012_13_17","1KI","13","17","17","For it was said to me by the LORD’s word, ‘You shall eat no bread or drink water there, and don’t turn again to go by the way that you came.’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K113_18","012_13_18","1KI","13","18","18","He said to him, “I also am a prophet as you are; and an angel spoke to me by the LORD’s word, saying, ‘Bring him back with you into your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.’” He lied to him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K113_19","012_13_19","1KI","13","19","19","So he went back with him, ate bread in his house, and drank water. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K113_20","012_13_20","1KI","13","20","20","As they sat at the table, the LORD’s word came to the prophet who brought him back; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K113_21","012_13_21","1KI","13","21","21","and he cried out to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, “The LORD says, ‘Because you have been disobedient to the LORD’s word, and have not kept the commandment which the LORD your God commanded you, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K113_22","012_13_22","1KI","13","22","22","but came back, and have eaten bread and drank water in the place of which he said to you, “Eat no bread, and drink no water,” your body will not come to the tomb of your fathers.’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K113_23","012_13_23","1KI","13","23","23","After he had eaten bread and after he drank, he saddled the donkey for the prophet whom he had brought back. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K113_24","012_13_24","1KI","13","24","24","When he had gone, a lion met him by the way and killed him. His body was thrown on the path, and the donkey stood by it. The lion also stood by the body. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K113_25","012_13_25","1KI","13","25","25","Behold, men passed by and saw the body thrown on the path, and the lion standing by the body; and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet lived. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K113_26","012_13_26","1KI","13","26","26","When the prophet who brought him back from the way heard of it, he said, “It is the man of God who was disobedient to the LORD’s word. Therefore the LORD has delivered him to the lion, which has mauled him and slain him, according to the LORD’s word which he spoke to him.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K113_27","012_13_27","1KI","13","27","27","He said to his sons, saying, “Saddle the donkey for me,” and they saddled it. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K113_28","012_13_28","1KI","13","28","28","He went and found his body thrown on the path, and the donkey and the lion standing by the body. The lion had not eaten the body nor mauled the donkey. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K113_29","012_13_29","1KI","13","29","29","The prophet took up the body of the man of God, and laid it on the donkey, and brought it back. He came to the city of the old prophet to mourn, and to bury him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K113_30","012_13_30","1KI","13","30","30","He laid his body in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, “Alas, my brother!” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K113_31","012_13_31","1KI","13","31","31","After he had buried him, he spoke to his sons, saying, “When I am dead, bury me in the tomb in which the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K113_32","012_13_32","1KI","13","32","32","For the saying which he cried by the LORD’s word against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, will surely happen.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K113_33","012_13_33","1KI","13","33","33","After this thing, Jeroboam didn’t turn from his evil way, but again made priests of the high places from amongst all the people. Whoever wanted to, he consecrated him, that there might be priests of the high places. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K113_34","012_13_34","1KI","13","34","34","This thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off and to destroy it from off the surface of the earth. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K114_1","012_14_1","1KI","14","1","1","At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam became sick. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K114_2","012_14_2","1KI","14","2","2","Jeroboam said to his wife, “Please get up and disguise yourself, so that you won’t be recognised as Jeroboam’s wife. Go to Shiloh. Behold, Ahijah the prophet is there, who said that I would be king over this people. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K114_3","012_14_3","1KI","14","3","3","Take with you ten loaves of bread, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will become of the child.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K114_4","012_14_4","1KI","14","4","4","Jeroboam’s wife did so, and arose and went to Shiloh, and came to Ahijah’s house. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were set by reason of his age. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K114_5","012_14_5","1KI","14","5","5","The LORD said to Ahijah, “Behold, Jeroboam’s wife is coming to enquire of you concerning her son, for he is sick. Tell her such and such; for it will be, when she comes in, that she will pretend to be another woman.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K114_6","012_14_6","1KI","14","6","6","So when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she came in at the door, he said, “Come in, Jeroboam’s wife! Why do you pretend to be another? For I am sent to you with heavy news. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K114_7","012_14_7","1KI","14","7","7","Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘The LORD, the God of Israel, says: “Because I exalted you from amongst the people, and made you prince over my people Israel, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K114_8","012_14_8","1KI","14","8","8","and tore the kingdom away from David’s house, and gave it you; and yet you have not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in my eyes, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K114_9","012_14_9","1KI","14","9","9","but have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone and made for yourself other gods, molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind your back, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K114_10","012_14_10","1KI","14","10","10","therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam everyone who urinates on a wall, he who is shut up and he who is left at large in Israel, and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweeps away dung until it is all gone. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K114_11","012_14_11","1KI","14","11","11","The dogs will eat he who belongs to Jeroboam who dies in the city; and the birds of the sky will eat he who dies in the field, for the LORD has spoken it.”’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K114_12","012_14_12","1KI","14","12","12","Arise therefore, and go to your house. When your feet enter into the city, the child will die. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K114_13","012_14_13","1KI","14","13","13","All Israel will mourn for him and bury him; for he only of Jeroboam will come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing towards the LORD, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K114_14","012_14_14","1KI","14","14","14","Moreover the LORD will raise up a king for himself over Israel who will cut off the house of Jeroboam. This is the day! What? Even now. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K114_15","012_14_15","1KI","14","15","15","For the LORD will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking the LORD to anger. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K114_16","012_14_16","1KI","14","16","16","He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he has sinned, and with which he has made Israel to sin.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K114_17","012_14_17","1KI","14","17","17","Jeroboam’s wife arose and departed, and came to Tirzah. As she came to the threshold of the house, the child died. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K114_18","012_14_18","1KI","14","18","18","All Israel buried him and mourned for him, according to the LORD’s word, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K114_19","012_14_19","1KI","14","19","19","The rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he fought and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K114_20","012_14_20","1KI","14","20","20","The days which Jeroboam reigned were twenty two years; then he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K114_21","012_14_21","1KI","14","21","21","Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K114_22","012_14_22","1KI","14","22","22","Judah did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K114_23","012_14_23","1KI","14","23","23","For they also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K114_24","012_14_24","1KI","14","24","24","There were also sodomites in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD drove out before the children of Israel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K114_25","012_14_25","1KI","14","25","25","In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K114_26","012_14_26","1KI","14","26","26","and he took away the treasures of the LORD’s house and the treasures of the king’s house. He even took away all of it, including all the gold shields which Solomon had made. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K114_27","012_14_27","1KI","14","27","27","King Rehoboam made shields of bronze in their place, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the king’s house. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K114_28","012_14_28","1KI","14","28","28","It was so, that as often as the king went into the LORD’s house, the guard bore them, and brought them back into the guard room. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K114_29","012_14_29","1KI","14","29","29","Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K114_30","012_14_30","1KI","14","30","30","There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K114_31","012_14_31","1KI","14","31","31","Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in David’s city. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess. Abijam his son reigned in his place. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K115_1","012_15_1","1KI","15","1","1","Now in the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam the son of Nebat, Abijam began to reign over Judah. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K115_2","012_15_2","1KI","15","2","2","He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K115_3","012_15_3","1KI","15","3","3","He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K115_4","012_15_4","1KI","15","4","4","Nevertheless for David’s sake, the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him and to establish Jerusalem; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K115_5","012_15_5","1KI","15","5","5","because David did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes, and didn’t turn away from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K115_6","012_15_6","1KI","15","6","6","Now there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K115_7","012_15_7","1KI","15","7","7","The rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? There was war between Abijam and Jeroboam. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K115_8","012_15_8","1KI","15","8","8","Abijam slept with his fathers, and they buried him in David’s city; and Asa his son reigned in his place. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K115_9","012_15_9","1KI","15","9","9","In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa began to reign over Judah. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K115_10","012_15_10","1KI","15","10","10","He reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K115_11","012_15_11","1KI","15","11","11","Asa did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes, as David his father did. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K115_12","012_15_12","1KI","15","12","12","He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K115_13","012_15_13","1KI","15","13","13","He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah. Asa cut down her image and burnt it at the brook Kidron. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K115_14","012_15_14","1KI","15","14","14","But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with the LORD all his days. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K115_15","012_15_15","1KI","15","15","15","He brought into the LORD’s house the things that his father had dedicated, and the things that he himself had dedicated: silver, gold, and utensils. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K115_16","012_15_16","1KI","15","16","16","There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K115_17","012_15_17","1KI","15","17","17","Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K115_18","012_15_18","1KI","15","18","18","Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that was left in the treasures of the LORD’s house, and the treasures of the king’s house, and delivered it into the hand of his servants. Then King Asa sent them to Ben Hadad, the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who lived at Damascus, saying, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K115_19","012_15_19","1KI","15","19","19","“Let there be a treaty between me and you, like that between my father and your father. Behold, I have sent to you a present of silver and gold. Go, break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K115_20","012_15_20","1KI","15","20","20","Ben Hadad listened to King Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel, and struck Ijon, and Dan, and Abel Beth Maacah, and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K115_21","012_15_21","1KI","15","21","21","When Baasha heard of it, he stopped building Ramah, and lived in Tirzah. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K115_22","012_15_22","1KI","15","22","22","Then King Asa made a proclamation to all Judah. No one was exempted. They carried away the stones of Ramah, and its timber, with which Baasha had built; and King Asa used it to build Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K115_23","012_15_23","1KI","15","23","23","Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? But in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K115_24","012_15_24","1KI","15","24","24","Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in his father David’s city; and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K115_25","012_15_25","1KI","15","25","25","Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah; and he reigned over Israel two years. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K115_26","012_15_26","1KI","15","26","26","He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K115_27","012_15_27","1KI","15","27","27","Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha struck him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel were besieging Gibbethon. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K115_28","012_15_28","1KI","15","28","28","Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha killed him and reigned in his place. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K115_29","012_15_29","1KI","15","29","29","As soon as he was king, he struck all the house of Jeroboam. He didn’t leave to Jeroboam any who breathed, until he had destroyed him, according to the saying of the LORD, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K115_30","012_15_30","1KI","15","30","30","for the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and with which he made Israel to sin, because of his provocation with which he provoked the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K115_31","012_15_31","1KI","15","31","31","Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K115_32","012_15_32","1KI","15","32","32","There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K115_33","012_15_33","1KI","15","33","33","In the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha the son of Ahijah began to reign over all Israel in Tirzah for twenty-four years. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K115_34","012_15_34","1KI","15","34","34","He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K116_1","012_16_1","1KI","16","1","1","The LORD’s word came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K116_2","012_16_2","1KI","16","2","2","“Because I exalted you out of the dust and made you prince over my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K116_3","012_16_3","1KI","16","3","3","behold, I will utterly sweep away Baasha and his house; and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K116_4","012_16_4","1KI","16","4","4","The dogs will eat Baasha’s descendants who die in the city; and he who dies of his in the field, the birds of the sky will eat.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K116_5","012_16_5","1KI","16","5","5","Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K116_6","012_16_6","1KI","16","6","6","Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah; and Elah his son reigned in his place. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K116_7","012_16_7","1KI","16","7","7","Moreover the LORD’s word came by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha and against his house, both because of all the evil that he did in the LORD’s sight, to provoke him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and because he struck him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K116_8","012_16_8","1KI","16","8","8","In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah the son of Baasha began to reign over Israel in Tirzah for two years. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K116_9","012_16_9","1KI","16","9","9","His servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him. Now he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K116_10","012_16_10","1KI","16","10","10","and Zimri went in and struck him and killed him in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his place. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K116_11","012_16_11","1KI","16","11","11","When he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, he attacked all the house of Baasha. He didn’t leave him a single one who urinates on a wall amongst his relatives or his friends. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K116_12","012_16_12","1KI","16","12","12","Thus Zimri destroyed all the house of Baasha, according to the LORD’s word which he spoke against Baasha by Jehu the prophet, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K116_13","012_16_13","1KI","16","13","13","for all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned and with which they made Israel to sin, to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K116_14","012_16_14","1KI","16","14","14","Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K116_15","012_16_15","1KI","16","15","15","In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned seven days in Tirzah. Now the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K116_16","012_16_16","1KI","16","16","16","The people who were encamped heard that Zimri had conspired, and had also killed the king. Therefore all Israel made Omri, the captain of the army, king over Israel that day in the camp. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K116_17","012_16_17","1KI","16","17","17","Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K116_18","012_16_18","1KI","16","18","18","When Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went into the fortified part of the king’s house and burnt the king’s house over him with fire, and died, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K116_19","012_16_19","1KI","16","19","19","for his sins which he sinned in doing that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did to make Israel to sin. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K116_20","012_16_20","1KI","16","20","20","Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he committed, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K116_21","012_16_21","1KI","16","21","21","Then the people of Israel were divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king, and half followed Omri. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K116_22","012_16_22","1KI","16","22","22","But the people who followed Omri prevailed against the people who followed Tibni the son of Ginath; so Tibni died, and Omri reigned. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K116_23","012_16_23","1KI","16","23","23","In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri began to reign over Israel for twelve years. He reigned six years in Tirzah. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K116_24","012_16_24","1KI","16","24","24","He bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver; and he built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, Samaria, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K116_25","012_16_25","1KI","16","25","25","Omri did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, and dealt wickedly above all who were before him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K116_26","012_16_26","1KI","16","26","26","For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sins with which he made Israel to sin, to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K116_27","012_16_27","1KI","16","27","27","Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his might that he showed, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K116_28","012_16_28","1KI","16","28","28","So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria; and Ahab his son reigned in his place. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K116_29","012_16_29","1KI","16","29","29","In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, Ahab the son of Omri began to reign over Israel. Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K116_30","012_16_30","1KI","16","30","30","Ahab the son of Omri did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight above all that were before him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K116_31","012_16_31","1KI","16","31","31","As if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal and worshipped him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K116_32","012_16_32","1KI","16","32","32","He raised up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K116_33","012_16_33","1KI","16","33","33","Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did more yet to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K116_34","012_16_34","1KI","16","34","34","In his days Hiel the Bethelite built Jericho. He laid its foundation with the loss of Abiram his firstborn, and set up its gates with the loss of his youngest son Segub, according to the LORD’s word, which he spoke by Joshua the son of Nun. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K117_1","012_17_1","1KI","17","1","1","Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K117_2","012_17_2","1KI","17","2","2","Then the LORD’s word came to him, saying, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K117_3","012_17_3","1KI","17","3","3","“Go away from here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K117_4","012_17_4","1KI","17","4","4","You shall drink from the brook. I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K117_5","012_17_5","1KI","17","5","5","So he went and did according to the LORD’s word, for he went and lived by the brook Cherith that is before the Jordan. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K117_6","012_17_6","1KI","17","6","6","The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening; and he drank from the brook. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K117_7","012_17_7","1KI","17","7","7","After a while, the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K117_8","012_17_8","1KI","17","8","8","The LORD’s word came to him, saying, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K117_9","012_17_9","1KI","17","9","9","“Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K117_10","012_17_10","1KI","17","10","10","So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her and said, “Please get me a little water in a jar, that I may drink.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K117_11","012_17_11","1KI","17","11","11","As she was going to get it, he called to her and said, “Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K117_12","012_17_12","1KI","17","12","12","She said, “As the LORD your God lives, I don’t have anything baked, but only a handful of meal in a jar and a little oil in a jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K117_13","012_17_13","1KI","17","13","13","Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go and do as you have said; but make me a little cake from it first, and bring it out to me, and afterward make some for you and for your son. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K117_14","012_17_14","1KI","17","14","14","For the LORD, the God of Israel, says, ‘The jar of meal will not run out, and the jar of oil will not fail, until the day that the LORD sends rain on the earth.’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K117_15","012_17_15","1KI","17","15","15","She went and did according to the saying of Elijah; and she, he, and her household ate many days. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K117_16","012_17_16","1KI","17","16","16","The jar of meal didn’t run out and the jar of oil didn’t fail, according to the LORD’s word, which he spoke by Elijah. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K117_17","012_17_17","1KI","17","17","17","After these things, the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his sickness was so severe that there was no breath left in him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K117_18","012_17_18","1KI","17","18","18","She said to Elijah, “What have I to do with you, you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K117_19","012_17_19","1KI","17","19","19","He said to her, “Give me your son.” He took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the room where he stayed, and laid him on his own bed. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K117_20","012_17_20","1KI","17","20","20","He cried to the LORD and said, “LORD my God, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I am staying, by killing her son?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K117_21","012_17_21","1KI","17","21","21","He stretched himself on the child three times, and cried to the LORD and said, “LORD my God, please let this child’s soul come into him again.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K117_22","012_17_22","1KI","17","22","22","The LORD listened to the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K117_23","012_17_23","1KI","17","23","23","Elijah took the child and brought him down out of the room into the house, and delivered him to his mother; and Elijah said, “Behold, your son lives.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K117_24","012_17_24","1KI","17","24","24","The woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the LORD’s word in your mouth is truth.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K118_1","012_18_1","1KI","18","1","1","After many days, the LORD’s word came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain on the earth.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K118_2","012_18_2","1KI","18","2","2","Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K118_3","012_18_3","1KI","18","3","3","Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K118_4","012_18_4","1KI","18","4","4","for when Jezebel cut off the LORD’s prophets, Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water.) ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K118_5","012_18_5","1KI","18","5","5","Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the brooks. Perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the animals.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K118_6","012_18_6","1KI","18","6","6","So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it. Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K118_7","012_18_7","1KI","18","7","7","As Obadiah was on the way, behold, Elijah met him. He recognised him, and fell on his face, and said, “Is it you, my lord Elijah?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K118_8","012_18_8","1KI","18","8","8","He answered him, “It is I. Go, tell your lord, ‘Behold, Elijah is here!’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K118_9","012_18_9","1KI","18","9","9","He said, “How have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me? ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K118_10","012_18_10","1KI","18","10","10","As the LORD your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. When they said, ‘He is not here,’ he took an oath of the kingdom and nation that they didn’t find you. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K118_11","012_18_11","1KI","18","11","11","Now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah is here.”’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K118_12","012_18_12","1KI","18","12","12","It will happen, as soon as I leave you, that the LORD’s Spirit will carry you I don’t know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can’t find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared the LORD from my youth. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K118_13","012_18_13","1KI","18","13","13","Wasn’t it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the LORD’s prophets, how I hid one hundred men of the LORD’s prophets with fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water? ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K118_14","012_18_14","1KI","18","14","14","Now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah is here”.’ He will kill me.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K118_15","012_18_15","1KI","18","15","15","Elijah said, “As the LORD of Armies lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K118_16","012_18_16","1KI","18","16","16","So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab went to meet Elijah. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K118_17","012_18_17","1KI","18","17","17","When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is that you, you troubler of Israel?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K118_18","012_18_18","1KI","18","18","18","He answered, “I have not troubled Israel, but you and your father’s house, in that you have forsaken the LORD’s commandments and you have followed the Baals. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K118_19","012_18_19","1KI","18","19","19","Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel to Mount Carmel, and four hundred and fifty of the prophets of Baal, and four hundred of the prophets of the Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K118_20","012_18_20","1KI","18","20","20","So Ahab sent to all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together to Mount Carmel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K118_21","012_18_21","1KI","18","21","21","Elijah came near to all the people, and said, “How long will you waver between the two sides? If the LORD is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” The people didn’t say a word. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K118_22","012_18_22","1KI","18","22","22","Then Elijah said to the people, “I, even I only, am left as a prophet of the LORD; but Baal’s prophets are four hundred and fifty men. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K118_23","012_18_23","1KI","18","23","23","Let them therefore give us two bulls; and let them choose one bull for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under; and I will dress the other bull, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under it. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K118_24","012_18_24","1KI","18","24","24","You call on the name of your god, and I will call on the LORD’s name. The God who answers by fire, let him be God.” All the people answered, “What you say is good.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K118_25","012_18_25","1KI","18","25","25","Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose one bull for yourselves, and dress it first, for you are many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under it.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K118_26","012_18_26","1KI","18","26","26","They took the bull which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, “Baal, hear us!” But there was no voice, and nobody answered. They leapt about the altar which was made. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K118_27","012_18_27","1KI","18","27","27","At noon, Elijah mocked them, and said, “Cry aloud, for he is a god. Either he is deep in thought, or he has gone somewhere, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he sleeps and must be awakened.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K118_28","012_18_28","1KI","18","28","28","They cried aloud, and cut themselves in their way with knives and lances until the blood gushed out on them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K118_29","012_18_29","1KI","18","29","29","When midday was past, they prophesied until the time of the evening offering; but there was no voice, no answer, and nobody paid attention. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K118_30","012_18_30","1KI","18","30","30","Elijah said to all the people, “Come near to me!”; and all the people came near to him. He repaired the LORD’s altar that had been thrown down. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K118_31","012_18_31","1KI","18","31","31","Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the LORD’s word came, saying, “Israel shall be your name.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K118_32","012_18_32","1KI","18","32","32","With the stones he built an altar in the LORD’s name. He made a trench around the altar large enough to contain two seahs of seed. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K118_33","012_18_33","1KI","18","33","33","He put the wood in order, and cut the bull in pieces and laid it on the wood. He said, “Fill four jars with water, and pour it on the burnt offering and on the wood.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K118_34","012_18_34","1KI","18","34","34","He said, “Do it a second time;” and they did it the second time. He said, “Do it a third time;” and they did it the third time. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K118_35","012_18_35","1KI","18","35","35","The water ran around the altar; and he also filled the trench with water. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K118_36","012_18_36","1KI","18","36","36","At the time of the evening offering, Elijah the prophet came near and said, “LORD, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K118_37","012_18_37","1KI","18","37","37","Hear me, LORD, hear me, that this people may know that you, LORD, are God, and that you have turned their heart back again.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K118_38","012_18_38","1KI","18","38","38","Then the LORD’s fire fell and consumed the burnt offering, the wood, the stones, and the dust; and it licked up the water that was in the trench. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K118_39","012_18_39","1KI","18","39","39","When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces. They said, “The LORD, he is God! the LORD, he is God!” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K118_40","012_18_40","1KI","18","40","40","Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Don’t let one of them escape!” They seized them; and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K118_41","012_18_41","1KI","18","41","41","Elijah said to Ahab, “Get up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K118_42","012_18_42","1KI","18","42","42","So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he bowed himself down on the earth, and put his face between his knees. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K118_43","012_18_43","1KI","18","43","43","He said to his servant, “Go up now and look towards the sea.” He went up and looked, then said, “There is nothing.” He said, “Go again” seven times. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K118_44","012_18_44","1KI","18","44","44","On the seventh time, he said, “Behold, a small cloud, like a man’s hand, is rising out of the sea.” He said, “Go up, tell Ahab, ‘Get ready and go down, so that the rain doesn’t stop you.’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K118_45","012_18_45","1KI","18","45","45","In a little while, the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K118_46","012_18_46","1KI","18","46","46","The LORD’s hand was on Elijah; and he tucked his cloak into his belt and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K119_1","012_19_1","1KI","19","1","1","Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K119_2","012_19_2","1KI","19","2","2","Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don’t make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K119_3","012_19_3","1KI","19","3","3","When he saw that, he arose and ran for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K119_4","012_19_4","1KI","19","4","4","But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K119_5","012_19_5","1KI","19","5","5","He lay down and slept under a juniper tree; and behold, an angel touched him, and said to him, “Arise and eat!” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K119_6","012_19_6","1KI","19","6","6","He looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked on the coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drank, and lay down again. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K119_7","012_19_7","1KI","19","7","7","The LORD’s angel came again the second time, and touched him, and said, “Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K119_8","012_19_8","1KI","19","8","8","He arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, God’s Mountain. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K119_9","012_19_9","1KI","19","9","9","He came to a cave there, and camped there; and behold, the LORD’s word came to him, and he said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K119_10","012_19_10","1KI","19","10","10","He said, “I have been very jealous for the LORD, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K119_11","012_19_11","1KI","19","11","11","He said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before the LORD.” Behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains and broke in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K119_12","012_19_12","1KI","19","12","12","After the earthquake a fire passed; but the LORD was not in the fire. After the fire, there was a still small voice. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K119_13","012_19_13","1KI","19","13","13","When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle, went out, and stood in the entrance of the cave. Behold, a voice came to him, and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K119_14","012_19_14","1KI","19","14","14","He said, “I have been very jealous for the LORD, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K119_15","012_19_15","1KI","19","15","15","The LORD said to him, “Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. When you arrive, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K119_16","012_19_16","1KI","19","16","16","Anoint Jehu the son of Nimshi to be king over Israel; and anoint Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel Meholah to be prophet in your place. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K119_17","012_19_17","1KI","19","17","17","He who escapes from the sword of Hazael, Jehu will kill; and he who escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha will kill. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K119_18","012_19_18","1KI","19","18","18","Yet I reserved seven thousand in Israel, all the knees of which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth which has not kissed him.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K119_19","012_19_19","1KI","19","19","19","So he departed from there and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was ploughing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth. Elijah went over to him and put his mantle on him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K119_20","012_19_20","1KI","19","20","20","Elisha left the oxen and ran after Elijah, and said, “Let me please kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you.” He said to him, “Go back again; for what have I done to you?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K119_21","012_19_21","1KI","19","21","21","He returned from following him, and took the yoke of oxen, killed them, and boiled their meat with the oxen’s equipment, and gave to the people; and they ate. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and served him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K120_1","012_20_1","1KI","20","1","1","Ben Hadad the king of Syria gathered all his army together; and there were thirty-two kings with him, with horses and chariots. He went up and besieged Samaria, and fought against it. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K120_2","012_20_2","1KI","20","2","2","He sent messengers into the city to Ahab king of Israel and said to him, “Ben Hadad says, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K120_3","012_20_3","1KI","20","3","3","‘Your silver and your gold are mine. Your wives also and your children, even the best, are mine.’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K120_4","012_20_4","1KI","20","4","4","The king of Israel answered, “It is according to your saying, my lord, O king. I am yours, and all that I have.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K120_5","012_20_5","1KI","20","5","5","The messengers came again and said, “Ben Hadad says, ‘I sent indeed to you, saying, “You shall deliver me your silver, your gold, your wives, and your children; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K120_6","012_20_6","1KI","20","6","6","but I will send my servants to you tomorrow about this time, and they will search your house and the houses of your servants. Whatever is pleasant in your eyes, they will put it in their hand, and take it away.”’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K120_7","012_20_7","1KI","20","7","7","Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, “Please notice how this man seeks mischief; for he sent to me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I didn’t deny him.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K120_8","012_20_8","1KI","20","8","8","All the elders and all the people said to him, “Don’t listen, and don’t consent.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K120_9","012_20_9","1KI","20","9","9","Therefore he said to the messengers of Ben Hadad, “Tell my lord the king, ‘All that you sent for to your servant at the first I will do, but this thing I cannot do.’” The messengers departed and brought him back the message. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K120_10","012_20_10","1KI","20","10","10","Ben Hadad sent to him, and said, “The gods do so to me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria will be enough for handfuls for all the people who follow me.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K120_11","012_20_11","1KI","20","11","11","The king of Israel answered, “Tell him, ‘Don’t let him who puts on his armour brag like he who takes it off.’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K120_12","012_20_12","1KI","20","12","12","When Ben Hadad heard this message as he was drinking, he and the kings in the pavilions, he said to his servants, “Prepare to attack!” So they prepared to attack the city. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K120_13","012_20_13","1KI","20","13","13","Behold, a prophet came near to Ahab king of Israel, and said, “The LORD says, ‘Have you seen all this great multitude? Behold, I will deliver it into your hand today. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K120_14","012_20_14","1KI","20","14","14","Ahab said, “By whom?” He said, “The LORD says, ‘By the young men of the princes of the provinces.’” Then he said, “Who shall begin the battle?” He answered, “You.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K120_15","012_20_15","1KI","20","15","15","Then he mustered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty-two. After them, he mustered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K120_16","012_20_16","1KI","20","16","16","They went out at noon. But Ben Hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings who helped him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K120_17","012_20_17","1KI","20","17","17","The young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Ben Hadad sent out, and they told him, saying, “Men are coming out from Samaria.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K120_18","012_20_18","1KI","20","18","18","He said, “If they have come out for peace, take them alive; or if they have come out for war, take them alive.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K120_19","012_20_19","1KI","20","19","19","So these went out of the city, the young men of the princes of the provinces, and the army which followed them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K120_20","012_20_20","1KI","20","20","20","They each killed his man. The Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them. Ben Hadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with horsemen. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K120_21","012_20_21","1KI","20","21","21","The king of Israel went out and struck the horses and chariots, and killed the Syrians with a great slaughter. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K120_22","012_20_22","1KI","20","22","22","The prophet came near to the king of Israel and said to him, “Go, strengthen yourself, and plan what you must do, for at the return of the year, the king of Syria will come up against you.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K120_23","012_20_23","1KI","20","23","23","The servants of the king of Syria said to him, “Their god is a god of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we. But let’s fight against them in the plain, and surely we will be stronger than they. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K120_24","012_20_24","1KI","20","24","24","Do this thing: take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put captains in their place. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K120_25","012_20_25","1KI","20","25","25","Muster an army like the army that you have lost, horse for horse and chariot for chariot. We will fight against them in the plain, and surely we will be stronger than they are.” He listened to their voice and did so. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K120_26","012_20_26","1KI","20","26","26","At the return of the year, Ben Hadad mustered the Syrians and went up to Aphek to fight against Israel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K120_27","012_20_27","1KI","20","27","27","The children of Israel were mustered and given provisions, and went against them. The children of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of young goats, but the Syrians filled the country. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K120_28","012_20_28","1KI","20","28","28","A man of God came near and spoke to the king of Israel, and said, “The LORD says, ‘Because the Syrians have said, “The LORD is a god of the hills, but he is not a god of the valleys,” therefore I will deliver all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am the LORD.’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K120_29","012_20_29","1KI","20","29","29","They encamped opposite each other for seven days. Then on the seventh day the battle was joined; and the children of Israel killed one hundred thousand footmen of the Syrians in one day. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K120_30","012_20_30","1KI","20","30","30","But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men who were left. Ben Hadad fled and came into the city, into an inner room. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K120_31","012_20_31","1KI","20","31","31","His servants said to him, “See now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Please let us put sackcloth on our bodies and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel. Maybe he will save your life.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K120_32","012_20_32","1KI","20","32","32","So they put sackcloth on their bodies and ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, “Your servant Ben Hadad says, ‘Please let me live.’” He said, “Is he still alive? He is my brother.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K120_33","012_20_33","1KI","20","33","33","Now the men observed diligently and hurried to take this phrase; and they said, “Your brother Ben Hadad.” Then he said, “Go, bring him.” Then Ben Hadad came out to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K120_34","012_20_34","1KI","20","34","34","Ben Hadad said to him, “The cities which my father took from your father I will restore. You shall make streets for yourself in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria.” “I”, said Ahab, “will let you go with this covenant.” So he made a covenant with him and let him go. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K120_35","012_20_35","1KI","20","35","35","A certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his fellow by the LORD’s word, “Please strike me!” The man refused to strike him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K120_36","012_20_36","1KI","20","36","36","Then he said to him, “Because you have not obeyed the LORD’s voice, behold, as soon as you have departed from me, a lion will kill you.” As soon as he had departed from him, a lion found him and killed him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K120_37","012_20_37","1KI","20","37","37","Then he found another man, and said, “Please strike me.” The man struck him and wounded him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K120_38","012_20_38","1KI","20","38","38","So the prophet departed and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with his headband over his eyes. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K120_39","012_20_39","1KI","20","39","39","As the king passed by, he cried to the king, and he said, “Your servant went out into the middle of the battle; and behold, a man came over and brought a man to me, and said, ‘Guard this man! If by any means he is missing, then your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K120_40","012_20_40","1KI","20","40","40","As your servant was busy here and there, he was gone.” The king of Israel said to him, “So shall your judgement be. You yourself have decided it.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K120_41","012_20_41","1KI","20","41","41","He hurried, and took the headband away from his eyes; and the king of Israel recognised that he was one of the prophets. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K120_42","012_20_42","1KI","20","42","42","He said to him, “The LORD says, ‘Because you have let go out of your hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore your life will take the place of his life, and your people take the place of his people.’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K120_43","012_20_43","1KI","20","43","43","The king of Israel went to his house sullen and angry, and came to Samaria. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K121_1","012_21_1","1KI","21","1","1","After these things, Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard which was in Jezreel, next to the palace of Ahab king of Samaria. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K121_2","012_21_2","1KI","21","2","2","Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, “Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near my house; and I will give you for it a better vineyard than it. Or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its worth in money.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K121_3","012_21_3","1KI","21","3","3","Naboth said to Ahab, “May the LORD forbid me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you!” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K121_4","012_21_4","1KI","21","4","4","Ahab came into his house sullen and angry because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him, for he had said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” He laid himself down on his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K121_5","012_21_5","1KI","21","5","5","But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said to him, “Why is your spirit so sad that you eat no bread?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K121_6","012_21_6","1KI","21","6","6","He said to her, “Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite, and said to him, ‘Give me your vineyard for money; or else, if it pleases you, I will give you another vineyard for it.’ He answered, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K121_7","012_21_7","1KI","21","7","7","Jezebel his wife said to him, “Do you now govern the kingdom of Israel? Arise, and eat bread, and let your heart be merry. I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K121_8","012_21_8","1KI","21","8","8","So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles who were in his city, who lived with Naboth. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K121_9","012_21_9","1KI","21","9","9","She wrote in the letters, saying, “Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high amongst the people. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K121_10","012_21_10","1KI","21","10","10","Set two men, wicked fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, ‘You cursed God and the king!’ Then carry him out, and stone him to death.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K121_11","012_21_11","1KI","21","11","11","The men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had instructed them in the letters which she had written and sent to them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K121_12","012_21_12","1KI","21","12","12","They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high amongst the people. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K121_13","012_21_13","1KI","21","13","13","The two men, the wicked fellows, came in and sat before him. The wicked fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king!” Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him to death with stones. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K121_14","012_21_14","1KI","21","14","14","Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, “Naboth has been stoned and is dead.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K121_15","012_21_15","1KI","21","15","15","When Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned and was dead, Jezebel said to Ahab, “Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money; for Naboth is not alive, but dead.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K121_16","012_21_16","1KI","21","16","16","When Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K121_17","012_21_17","1KI","21","17","17","The LORD’s word came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K121_18","012_21_18","1KI","21","18","18","“Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who dwells in Samaria. Behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, where he has gone down to take possession of it. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K121_19","012_21_19","1KI","21","19","19","You shall speak to him, saying, ‘The LORD says, “Have you killed and also taken possession?”’ You shall speak to him, saying, ‘The LORD says, “In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs will lick your blood, even yours.”’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K121_20","012_21_20","1KI","21","20","20","Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in the LORD’s sight. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K121_21","012_21_21","1KI","21","21","21","Behold, I will bring evil on you, and will utterly sweep you away and will cut off from Ahab everyone who urinates against a wall, and him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Israel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K121_22","012_21_22","1KI","21","22","22","I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation with which you have provoked me to anger, and have made Israel to sin.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K121_23","012_21_23","1KI","21","23","23","The LORD also spoke of Jezebel, saying, “The dogs will eat Jezebel by the rampart of Jezreel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K121_24","012_21_24","1KI","21","24","24","The dogs will eat he who dies of Ahab in the city; and the birds of the sky will eat he who dies in the field.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K121_25","012_21_25","1KI","21","25","25","But there was no one like Ahab, who sold himself to do that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K121_26","012_21_26","1KI","21","26","26","He did very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites did, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K121_27","012_21_27","1KI","21","27","27","When Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes, put sackcloth on his body, fasted, lay in sackcloth, and went about despondently. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K121_28","012_21_28","1KI","21","28","28","The LORD’s word came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K121_29","012_21_29","1KI","21","29","29","“See how Ahab humbles himself before me? Because he humbles himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but I will bring the evil on his house in his son’s day.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_1","012_22_1","1KI","22","1","1","They continued three years without war between Syria and Israel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_2","012_22_2","1KI","22","2","2","In the third year, Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_3","012_22_3","1KI","22","3","3","The king of Israel said to his servants, “You know that Ramoth Gilead is ours, and we do nothing, and don’t take it out of the hand of the king of Syria?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_4","012_22_4","1KI","22","4","4","He said to Jehoshaphat, “Will you go with me to battle to Ramoth Gilead?” Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_5","012_22_5","1KI","22","5","5","Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “Please enquire first for the LORD’s word.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_6","012_22_6","1KI","22","6","6","Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, “Should I go against Ramoth Gilead to battle, or should I refrain?” They said, “Go up; for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_7","012_22_7","1KI","22","7","7","But Jehoshaphat said, “Isn’t there here a prophet of the LORD, that we may enquire of him?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_8","012_22_8","1KI","22","8","8","The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may enquire of the LORD, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.” Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_9","012_22_9","1KI","22","9","9","Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, “Quickly get Micaiah the son of Imlah.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_10","012_22_10","1KI","22","10","10","Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_11","012_22_11","1KI","22","11","11","Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made himself horns of iron, and said, “The LORD says, ‘With these you will push the Syrians, until they are consumed.’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_12","012_22_12","1KI","22","12","12","All the prophets prophesied so, saying, “Go up to Ramoth Gilead and prosper; for the LORD will deliver it into the hand of the king.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_13","012_22_13","1KI","22","13","13","The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, “See now, the prophets declare good to the king with one mouth. Please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak good.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_14","012_22_14","1KI","22","14","14","Micaiah said, “As the LORD lives, what the LORD says to me, that I will speak.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_15","012_22_15","1KI","22","15","15","When he had come to the king, the king said to him, “Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall we forbear?” He answered him, “Go up and prosper; and the LORD will deliver it into the hand of the king.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_16","012_22_16","1KI","22","16","16","The king said to him, “How many times do I have to adjure you that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the LORD’s name?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_17","012_22_17","1KI","22","17","17","He said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. The LORD said, ‘These have no master. Let them each return to his house in peace.’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_18","012_22_18","1KI","22","18","18","The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Didn’t I tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_19","012_22_19","1KI","22","19","19","Micaiah said, “Therefore hear the LORD’s word. I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_20","012_22_20","1KI","22","20","20","The LORD said, ‘Who will entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead?’ One said one thing, and another said another. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_21","012_22_21","1KI","22","21","21","A spirit came out and stood before the LORD, and said, ‘I will entice him.’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_22","012_22_22","1KI","22","22","22","The LORD said to him, ‘How?’ He said, ‘I will go out and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ He said, ‘You will entice him, and will also prevail. Go out and do so.’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_23","012_22_23","1KI","22","23","23","Now therefore, behold, the LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and the LORD has spoken evil concerning you.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_24","012_22_24","1KI","22","24","24","Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, “Which way did the LORD’s Spirit go from me to speak to you?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_25","012_22_25","1KI","22","25","25","Micaiah said, “Behold, you will see on that day when you go into an inner room to hide yourself.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_26","012_22_26","1KI","22","26","26","The king of Israel said, “Take Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city and to Joash the king’s son. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_27","012_22_27","1KI","22","27","27","Say, ‘The king says, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.”’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_28","012_22_28","1KI","22","28","28","Micaiah said, “If you return at all in peace, the LORD has not spoken by me.” He said, “Listen, all you people!” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_29","012_22_29","1KI","22","29","29","So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth Gilead. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_30","012_22_30","1KI","22","30","30","The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself and go into the battle, but you put on your robes.” The king of Israel disguised himself and went into the battle. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_31","012_22_31","1KI","22","31","31","Now the king of Syria had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, saying, “Don’t fight with small nor great, except only with the king of Israel.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_32","012_22_32","1KI","22","32","32","When the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “Surely that is the king of Israel!” and they came over to fight against him. Jehoshaphat cried out. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_33","012_22_33","1KI","22","33","33","When the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_34","012_22_34","1KI","22","34","34","A certain man drew his bow at random, and struck the king of Israel between the joints of the armour. Therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, “Turn around, and carry me out of the battle, for I am severely wounded.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_35","012_22_35","1KI","22","35","35","The battle increased that day. The king was propped up in his chariot facing the Syrians, and died at evening. The blood ran out of the wound into the bottom of the chariot. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_36","012_22_36","1KI","22","36","36","A cry went throughout the army about the going down of the sun, saying, “Every man to his city, and every man to his country!” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_37","012_22_37","1KI","22","37","37","So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_38","012_22_38","1KI","22","38","38","They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood where the prostitutes washed themselves, according to the LORD’s word which he spoke. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_39","012_22_39","1KI","22","39","39","Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he built, and all the cities that he built, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_40","012_22_40","1KI","22","40","40","So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_41","012_22_41","1KI","22","41","41","Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_42","012_22_42","1KI","22","42","42","Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_43","012_22_43","1KI","22","43","43","He walked in all the way of Asa his father. He didn’t turn away from it, doing that which was right in the LORD’s eyes. However, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_44","012_22_44","1KI","22","44","44","Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_45","012_22_45","1KI","22","45","45","Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he showed, and how he fought, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_46","012_22_46","1KI","22","46","46","The remnant of the sodomites, that remained in the days of his father Asa, he put away out of the land. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_47","012_22_47","1KI","22","47","47","There was no king in Edom. A deputy ruled. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_48","012_22_48","1KI","22","48","48","Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they didn’t go, for the ships wrecked at Ezion Geber. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_49","012_22_49","1KI","22","49","49","Then Ahaziah the son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, “Let my servants go with your servants in the ships.” But Jehoshaphat would not. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_50","012_22_50","1KI","22","50","50","Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in his father David’s city. Jehoram his son reigned in his place. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_51","012_22_51","1KI","22","51","51","Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned two years over Israel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_52","012_22_52","1KI","22","52","52","He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, in which he made Israel to sin. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K122_53","012_22_53","1KI","22","53","53","He served Baal and worshipped him, and provoked the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger in all the ways that his father had done so. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K21_1","013_1_1","2KI","1","1","1","Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K21_2","013_1_2","2KI","1","2","2","Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper room that was in Samaria, and was sick. So he sent messengers, and said to them, “Go, enquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover of this sickness.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K21_3","013_1_3","2KI","1","3","3","But the LORD’s angel said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and tell them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you go to enquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron? ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K21_4","013_1_4","2KI","1","4","4","Now therefore the LORD says, “You will not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but you will surely die.”’” Then Elijah departed. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K21_5","013_1_5","2KI","1","5","5","The messengers returned to him, and he said to them, “Why is it that you have returned?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K21_6","013_1_6","2KI","1","6","6","They said to him, “A man came up to meet us, and said to us, ‘Go, return to the king who sent you, and tell him, “The LORD says, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you send to enquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but you will surely die.’”’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K21_7","013_1_7","2KI","1","7","7","He said to them, “What kind of man was he who came up to meet you and told you these words?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K21_8","013_1_8","2KI","1","8","8","They answered him, “He was a hairy man, and wearing a leather belt around his waist.” He said, “It’s Elijah the Tishbite.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K21_9","013_1_9","2KI","1","9","9","Then the king sent a captain of fifty with his fifty to him. He went up to him; and behold, he was sitting on the top of the hill. He said to him, “Man of God, the king has said, ‘Come down!’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K21_10","013_1_10","2KI","1","10","10","Elijah answered to the captain of fifty, “If I am a man of God, then let fire come down from the sky and consume you and your fifty!” Then fire came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K21_11","013_1_11","2KI","1","11","11","Again he sent to him another captain of fifty with his fifty. He answered him, “Man of God, the king has said, ‘Come down quickly!’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K21_12","013_1_12","2KI","1","12","12","Elijah answered them, “If I am a man of God, then let fire come down from the sky and consume you and your fifty!” Then God’s fire came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K21_13","013_1_13","2KI","1","13","13","Again he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. The third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and begged him, and said to him, “Man of God, please let my life and the life of these fifty of your servants be precious in your sight. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K21_14","013_1_14","2KI","1","14","14","Behold, fire came down from the sky and consumed the last two captains of fifty with their fifties. But now let my life be precious in your sight.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K21_15","013_1_15","2KI","1","15","15","The LORD’s angel said to Elijah, “Go down with him. Don’t be afraid of him.” Then he arose and went down with him to the king. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K21_16","013_1_16","2KI","1","16","16","He said to him, “The LORD says, ‘Because you have sent messengers to enquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, is it because there is no God in Israel to enquire of his word? Therefore you will not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but you will surely die.’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K21_17","013_1_17","2KI","1","17","17","So he died according to the LORD’s word which Elijah had spoken. Jehoram began to reign in his place in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, because he had no son. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K21_18","013_1_18","2KI","1","18","18","Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K22_1","013_2_1","2KI","2","1","1","When the LORD was about to take Elijah up by a whirlwind into heaven, Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K22_2","013_2_2","2KI","2","2","2","Elijah said to Elisha, “Please wait here, for the LORD has sent me as far as Bethel.” Elisha said, “As the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_British,Protestant__vpl VALUES ("K22_3","013_2_3","2KI","2","3","3","The sons of the prophets who were at Bethel came out to Elisha, and said to him, “Do you know that the LORD will take away your master from over you today?” He said, “Yes, I know it. Hold your peace.” ");
