Books of Kings

"Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat.So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of Israel, and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the king.And the damsel was very fair, and cherished the king, and ministered to him: but the king knew her not."

"Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people."

"And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon’s wisdom, and the house that he had built,And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the ; there was no more spirit in her."

"Behold, the half was not told me."

"Once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks."

"But king Solomon loved many strange women."

"My little finger shall be thicker than my father’s loins."

"My father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions."

"To your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David."

"He slept with his fathers."

"He went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook."

"An handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse."

"How long halt ye between two opinions?"

"He is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked."

"There is a sound of abundance of rain."

"There ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man’s hand."

"He girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab."

"He himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree."

"But the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake:And after the earthquake a fire: but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice."

"Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him."

"Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off."

"Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab King of Samaria.And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my house."

"Hast thou found me, O mine enemy?"

"But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the , whom Jezebel his wife stirred up."

"I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, as sheep that have not a shepherd."

"Feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.And Micaiah said, If thou return at all in peace, the Lord hath not spoken by me."

"And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness."

"Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof."

"The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha."

"And as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the . And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them."

"Is it well with the child? And she answered, It is well."

"There is death in the pot."

"He shall know that there is a prophet in Israel."

"Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel?"

"I bow myself in the house of Rimmon."

"Whence comest thou, Gehazi?"

"Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?"

"Is it peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me."

"The driving is like the driving of Jehu, the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously."

"What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?"

"She painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window."

"Had Zimri peace, who slew his master?"

"Who is on my side? who?"

"They found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands."

"In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel:And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel; so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel."

"Thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it."