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Now a wicked man, a Benjaminite named Sheba son of Bichri, happened to be there. He blew the ram’s horn and shouted:

We have no portion in David,
no inheritance in Jesse’s son.
Each man to his tent, Israel!

Verse ConceptsTentsTrumpetAudacityTrumpets For SignallingNot Sharing

The woman went to all the people with her wise counsel, and they cut off the head of Sheba son of Bichri and threw it to Joab. So he blew the ram’s horn, and they dispersed from the city, each to his own tent. Joab returned to the king in Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsTrumpetBeheadingTrumpets To Stop FightingGroups going home

At Gath there was still another battle. A huge man was there with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot—24 in all. He, too, was descended from the giant.

Verse ConceptsFingersGiantsDefectivenessToesSix ThingsFingers Of PeopleTwenty Some

Solomon had 12 deputies for all Israel. They provided food for the king and his household; each one made provision for one month out of the year.

Verse ConceptsThe Number TwelveGovernorsSolomon, Life OfStoringYearsDerisionOne MonthPeople ProvidingTwelve Beings

Throughout Solomon’s reign, Judah and Israel lived in safety from Dan to Beer-sheba, each man under his own vine and his own fig tree.

Verse ConceptsFig treeInvitationsSafetyVines

Each of those deputies for a month in turn provided food for King Solomon and for everyone who came to King Solomon’s table. They neglected nothing.

Verse ConceptsGovernorsTables

Each man brought the barley and the straw for the chariot teams and the other horses to the required place according to his assignment.

Verse ConceptsGrainFeeding Animals

He sent 10,000 to Lebanon each month in shifts; one month they were in Lebanon, two months they were at home. Adoniram was in charge of the forced labor.

Verse ConceptsTens Of ThousandsOne MonthTwo To Four MonthsForced Labour

He built the chambers along the entire temple, joined to the temple with cedar beams; each story was 7½ feet high.

Verse ConceptsHeightDecksDimensions Of ChambersCedar Woodstructure

There were three rows of window frames, facing each other in three tiers.

Verse ConceptsOpposite SidesWindows For The TempleThree Parts Of Constructions

All the doors and doorposts had rectangular frames, the openings facing each other in three tiers.

Verse ConceptsOpposite SidesCornersWindows For The TempleThree Parts Of Constructions

The capitals on the two pillars were also immediately above the rounded surface next to the grating, and 200 pomegranates were in rows encircling each capital.

Verse ConceptsPomegranatesThe Number Two Hundred

Then he made 10 bronze water carts. Each water cart was six feet long, six feet wide, and 4½ feet high.

Verse ConceptsTen ThingsDimensions Of Temple FurnitureBronze Items For The Tabernacle

Each cart had four bronze wheels with bronze axles. Underneath the four corners of the basin were cast supports, each next to a wreath.

Verse ConceptsBasinsWheelsFour SupportsBronze Items For The Tabernacle

There were four wheels under the frames, and the wheel axles were part of the water cart; each wheel was 27 inches tall.

Verse ConceptsFour SupportsDimensions Of Temple Furniture

Four supports were at the four corners of each water cart; each support was one piece with the water cart.

Verse ConceptsFour Supportsstructure

He engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees on the plates of its braces and on its frames, wherever each had space, with encircling wreaths.

Verse ConceptsTabletsCherubim Depicted

Then he made 10 bronze basinseach basin holding 220 gallons and each was six feet wide—one basin for each of the 10 water carts.

Verse ConceptsWashingWeights And Measures, LiquidTen ThingsDimensions Of Temple FurnitureMeans Of PurifyingBronze Items For The Tabernacle

the 400 pomegranates for the two gratings (two rows of pomegranates for each grating covering both capitals’ bowls on top of the pillars);

Verse ConceptsFour To Five HundredPomegranatesFour And Five Hundred

whatever prayer or petition
anyone from Your people Israel might have—
each man knowing his own afflictions
and spreading out his hands toward this temple

Verse ConceptsSelf Knowledgesupplication

May my words I have made my petition with before the Lord be near the Lord our God day and night, so that He may uphold His servant’s cause and the cause of His people Israel, as each day requires,

Verse ConceptsWorship Day And Night

King Solomon made 200 large shields of hammered gold; 15 pounds of gold went into each shield.

Verse ConceptsThe Number Two HundredWeights Of Gold

He made 300 small shields of hammered gold; about four pounds of gold went into each shield. The king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.

Verse ConceptsForestsThree To Four HundredRoyal HousesThree Hundred And AboveWeights Of Gold

Twelve lions were standing there on the six steps, one at each end. Nothing like it had ever been made in any other kingdom.

Verse ConceptsThe Number TwelveLionsSix ThingsUnique ThingsTwelve Animals

‘This is what the Lord says: You are not to march up and fight against your brothers, the Israelites. Each of you must return home, for I have done this.’”

So they listened to what the Lord said and went back as He had told them.

Verse ConceptsWarfare, Nature OfLove Between RelativesPaying Attention To GodFighting One Another

Then Ben-hadad sent messengers to him and said, “May the gods punish me and do so severely if Samaria’s dust amounts to a handful for each of the people who follow me.”

Verse ConceptsBoastersNumerous As DustShortage Other Than Food

and each one struck down his opponent. So the Arameans fled and Israel pursued them, but Ben-hadad king of Aram escaped on a horse with the cavalry.

Verse ConceptsPeoples Who Fledsyria

Also do this: remove each king from his position and appoint captains in their place.

Verse ConceptsExchanging Of Leaders

They camped opposite each other for seven days. On the seventh day, the battle took place, and the Israelites struck down the Arameans—100,000 foot soldiers in one day.

Verse ConceptsWeeksOne Hundred Thousand And MoreThe Seventh Day Of The WeekSeven DaysDay 7Fighting EnemiesNumbers Of Foreigners Killedsyriacredibility

Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah, clothed in royal attire, were each sitting on his own throne. They were on the threshing floor at the entrance to Samaria’s gate, and all the prophets were prophesying in front of them.

Verse ConceptsGatesRobesSchool Of ProphetsThreshing FloorThroneSitting In The GatewayDistinctive Clothing

Then the cry rang out in the army as the sun set, declaring:

Each man to his own city,
and each man to his own land!

Verse ConceptsVoicesSunsets

“This is blood!” they exclaimed. “The kings have clashed swords and killed each other. So, to the spoil, Moab!”

Verse ConceptsPlunderingLifebloodKilling One Another

They destroyed the cities, and each of them threw stones to cover every good piece of land. They stopped up every spring of water and cut down every good tree. In the end, only the buildings of Kir-hareseth were left. Then men with slings surrounded the city and attacked it.

Verse ConceptsSlingsFelling TreesCities Under AttackThrowing StonesPeople Drying Things UpHarming Treescrusades

Please let us go to the Jordan where we can each get a log and can build ourselves a place to live there.”

“Go,” he said.

Four men with a skin disease were at the entrance to the gate. They said to each other, “Why just sit here until we die?

Verse ConceptsGatesLeprosyLonelinessQuarantineFour PeopleWaiting At GatesHow Death Is InevitableDyingWaiting Till Marriagesyria

for the Lord had caused the Aramean camp to hear the sound of chariots, horses, and a great army. The Arameans had said to each other, “The king of Israel must have hired the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Egypt to attack us.”

Verse ConceptsDeliverance, Means OfHiringHorsesWheelsAttacking With ChariotsSoundHearing ThingsEnemy Attackssyriafootstepsrumorsfootprintsreinforcementarmy

Then they said to each other, “We’re not doing what is right. Today is a day of good news. If we are silent and wait until morning light, our sin will catch up with us. Let’s go tell the king’s household.”

Verse Conceptsevangelists, identity ofevangelism, nature ofGood TidingsDaybreakGood NewsUntil DaybreakThose Who Did Not TellWe Have SinnedDoing The Right Thing

Each man quickly took his garment and put it under Jehu on the bare steps. They blew the ram’s horn and proclaimed, “Jehu is king!”

Verse ConceptsCloaksStairwaysTrumpetTrumpets For CelebrationMaking Kings

“Harness!” Joram shouted, and they harnessed his chariot. Then Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah set out, each in his own chariot, and met Jehu at the plot of land of Naboth the Jezreelite.

Verse ConceptsAttacking With ChariotsPreparing To TravelList Of Kings Of Israel

So the commanders of hundreds did everything Jehoiada the priest commanded. They each brought their men—those coming on duty on the Sabbath and those going off duty—and went to Jehoiada the priest.

Verse ConceptsRank

each priest is to take from his assessor and repair whatever damage to the temple is found.”

Verse ConceptsRepairing

However, he did not put the children of the murderers to death, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses where the Lord commanded, “Fathers must not be put to death because of children, and children must not be put to death because of fathers; instead, each one will be put to death for his own sin.”

Verse ConceptsBook of the LawSins Of The FathersWritten In The LawDeath Of A Child

Judah was routed before Israel, and everyone fled to his own tent.

Verse ConceptsIsrael FleeingDefeat Of God's People

Then Menahem exacted 20 ounces of silver from each of the wealthy men of Israel to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria withdrew and did not stay there in the land.

Verse ConceptsTax To Be Paid

Then King Ahaz cut off the frames of the water carts and removed the bronze basin from each of them. He took the reservoir from the bronze oxen that were under it and put it on a stone pavement.

Verse ConceptsBasinsSeaMeans Of Purifying

But the people of each nation were still making their own gods in the cities where they lived and putting them in the shrines of the high places that the people of Samaria had made.

Verse ConceptsSacrificing On The High Placesgroups

So Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh, but at Pharaoh’s command he taxed the land to give the money. He exacted the silver and the gold from the common people, each man according to his assessment, to give it to Pharaoh Neco.

Verse ConceptsTaxationTributesTaxValuation Of PeopleTax To Be Paid

As for his allowance, a regular allowance was given to him by the king, a portion for each day, for the rest of his life.

Verse ConceptsOnce A DayDividing Food

Then he distributed to each and every Israelite, both men and women, a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake.

Verse ConceptsFruitFoodCakes

There was still another battle at Gath where there was a man of extraordinary stature with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot—24 in all. He, too, was descended from the giant.

Verse ConceptsFingersToesSix ThingsGiantsFingers Of People

They cast lots for each gate according to their ancestral houses, young and old alike.

There were six Levites each day on the east, four each day on the north, four each day on the south, and two pair at the storehouses.

Verse ConceptsFour PeopleSix PeopleStores Of Food

This is the list of the Israelites, the heads of families, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, and their officers who served the king in every matter to do with the divisions that were on rotated military duty each month throughout the year. There were 24,000 in each division:

Verse ConceptsRankCalendarsTwenty Thousand And UpFamily Conflict

the weight of the gold lampstands and their gold lamps, including the weight of each lampstand and its lamps; the weight of each silver lampstand and its lamps, according to the service of each lampstand;

Verse ConceptsLamps

the weight of gold for each table for the rows of the bread of the Presence and the silver for the silver tables;

Verse ConceptsTables

the pure gold for the forks, sprinkling basins, and pitchers; the weight of each gold dish; the weight of each silver bowl;

Verse ConceptsForksBowls

In front of the temple he made two pillars, each 27 feet high. The capital on top of each was 7½ feet high.

Verse ConceptsTwo Parts Of Constructions

the 400 pomegranates for the two gratings (two rows of pomegranates for each grating covering both capitals’ bowls on top of the pillars).

Verse ConceptsFour To Five HundredPomegranatesFour And Five Hundred

whatever prayer or petition
anyone from your people Israel might have—
each man knowing his own affliction and suffering,
and spreading out his hands toward this temple—

Verse ConceptsStretching Out

According to the ordinances of his father David, he appointed the divisions of the priests over their service, of the Levites over their responsibilities to offer praise and to minister before the priests following the daily requirement, and of the gatekeepers by their divisions with respect to each gate, for this had been the command of David, the man of God.

Verse ConceptsGatekeepersOrdinancesDaily Duty

King Solomon made 200 large shields of hammered gold; 15 pounds of hammered gold went into each shield.

Verse ConceptsThe Number Two Hundred

He made 300 small shields of hammered gold; about eight pounds of gold went into each shield. The king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.

Verse ConceptsForestsThree Hundred And Above

Twelve lions were standing there on the six steps, one at each end. Nothing like it had ever been made in any other kingdom.

Verse ConceptsTwelve Animals

Each of them would bring his own gift—items of silver and gold, clothing, weapons, spices, and horses and mules—as an annual tribute.

Verse ConceptsGiftsHerbs And SpicesMules

When all Israel saw that the king had not listened to them, the people answered the king:

What portion do we have in David?
We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse.
Israel, each man to your tent;
David, look after your own house now!


So all Israel went to their tents.

‘This is what the Lord says: You are not to march up and fight against your brothers. Each of you must return home, for this incident has come from Me.’”

So they listened to what the Lord said and turned back from going against Jeroboam.

He also put large shields and spears in each and every city to make them very strong. So Judah and Benjamin were his.

Verse ConceptsArmourShieldsSpearsArmor ProtectionArmory

Now the king of Israel and King Jehoshaphat of Judah, clothed in royal attire, were each sitting on his own throne. They were sitting on the threshing floor at the entrance to Samaria’s gate, and all the prophets were prophesying in front of them.

Verse ConceptsRobesSchool Of ProphetsThreshing FloorThrone

So Micaiah said:

I saw all Israel scattered on the hills
like sheep without a shepherd.
And the Lord said,
“They have no master;
let each return home in peace.”

Verse ConceptsWatchfulness, DivineScattered Like Sheep

The Ammonites and Moabites turned against the inhabitants of Mount Seir and completely annihilated them. When they had finished with the inhabitants of Seir, they helped destroy each other.

Verse ConceptsFighting One Another

So the commanders of hundreds did everything Jehoiada the priest commanded. They each brought their men—those coming on duty on the Sabbath and those going off duty on the Sabbath—for Jehoiada the priest did not release the divisions.

However, he did not put their children to death, because—as it is written in the Law, in the book of Moses, where the Lord commanded—“Fathers must not die because of children, and children must not die because of fathers, but each one will die for his own sin.”

Verse ConceptsBook of the Law

Judah was routed before Israel, and each fled to his own tent.

Verse ConceptsTwelve Beings

When all this was completed, all Israel who had attended went out to the cities of Judah and broke up the sacred pillars, chopped down the Asherah poles, and tore down the high places and altars throughout Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, to the last one. Then all the Israelites returned to their cities, each to his own possession.

Verse ConceptsAbolitionHigh PlacesLeaders, PoliticalReformationSacrifice, In OtStonesAnnihilationDestruction Of Satan's WorksObelisks

Hezekiah reestablished the divisions of the priests and Levites for the burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, for ministry, for giving thanks, and for praise in the gates of the camp of the Lord, each division corresponding to his service among the priests and Levites.

Verse ConceptsFellowship OfferingGatesWorship, Elements OforganizationPraising God In Public Worship

and to the descendants of Aaron, the priests, in the common fields of their cities, in each and every city. There were men who were registered by name to distribute a portion to every male among the priests and to every Levite recorded by genealogy.

The singers, the descendants of Asaph, were at their stations according to the command of David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer. Also, the gatekeepers were at each gate. None of them left their tasks because their Levite brothers had made preparations for them.

Verse ConceptsGatekeepersMusicMusiciansSingersSeersSingingPorters

These now are the people of the province who came from those captive exiles King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had deported to Babylon. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town.

Verse ConceptsReturn From BabylonJudaismProvincesExile Of Judah To BabylonThose who returned from exile

They celebrated the Festival of Booths as prescribed, and offered burnt offerings each day, based on the number specified by ordinance for each festival day.

Verse ConceptsFeastingFeast Of TabernaclesDaily Duty

After that, they offered the regular burnt offering and the offerings for the beginning of each month and for all the Lord’s appointed holy occasions, as well as the freewill offerings brought to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsConsecrationFestivals ObservedFree Will

For the dedication of God’s house they offered 100 bulls, 200 rams, and 400 lambs, as well as 12 male goats as a sin offering for all Israel—one for each Israelite tribe.

Verse ConceptsGoatsExpiationSacrifice, In OtSin OfferingOne HundredThe Number Two HundredFour To Five HundredTwelve TribesTwelve AnimalsFour And Five HundredSheep And GoatsDedication

Let our leaders represent the entire assembly. Then let all those in our towns who have married foreign women come at appointed times, together with the elders and judges of each town, in order to avert the fierce anger of our God concerning this matter.”

Verse ConceptsJudgesTownGod Will No More Be Angry

Each of the priests made repairs above the Horse Gate, each opposite his own house.

Verse ConceptsNamed Gates

Each of the builders had his sword strapped around his waist while he was building, and the trumpeter was beside me.

Verse ConceptsInstrumentalistsFamily Conflictvulnerabilityrebuilding

And I, my brothers, my men, and the guards with me never took off our clothes. Each carried his weapon, even when washing.

Verse ConceptsWeaponsPeople Stripping Off

After seriously considering the matter, I accused the nobles and officials, saying to them, “Each of you is charging his countrymen interest.” So I called a large assembly against them

Verse ConceptsMind, The HumanCovetousness, Example Of

Each day, one ox, six choice sheep, and some fowl were prepared for me. An abundance of all kinds of wine was provided every 10 days. But I didn’t demand the food allotted to the governor, because the burden on the people was so heavy.

Verse ConceptsSix Things

These are the people of the province who went up among the captive exiles deported by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. Each of them returned to Jerusalem and Judah, to his own town.

Verse ConceptsempiresExile Of Judah To Babylon

The people went out, brought back branches, and made booths for themselves on each of their rooftops, and courtyards, the court of the house of God, the square by the Water Gate, and the square by the Gate of Ephraim.

Verse ConceptsCourtyardHousesRoofHousetopsNamed Gates

We have cast lots among the priests, Levites, and people for the donation of wood by our ancestral houses at the appointed times each year. They are to bring the wood to our God’s house to burn on the altar of the Lord our God, as it is written in the law.

Verse ConceptsCasting LotsWoodThe Altar Of The LordFirewood

These are the heads of the province who stayed in Jerusalem (but in the villages of Judah each lived on his own property in their towns—the Israelites, priests, Levites, temple servants, and descendants of Solomon’s servants

Verse ConceptsCities In IsraelTemple Assistants

The rest of Israel, the priests, and the Levites were in all the villages of Judah, each on his own inherited property.

Verse ConceptsCities In Israel

I also found out that because the portions for the Levites had not been given, each of the Levites and the singers performing the service had gone back to his own field.

Verse ConceptsNeglectChoirsTithesAgricultureTithes And OfferingFarming

So I purified them from everything foreign and assigned specific duties to each of the priests and Levites.

Verse ConceptsAvoiding ForeignersAssignment

Beverages were served in an array of gold goblets, each with a different design. Royal wine flowed freely, according to the king’s bounty

Verse ConceptsPlenty Of Wine

and no restraint was placed on the drinking. The king had ordered every wine steward in his household to serve as much as each person wanted.

Verse ConceptsAbstinenceAlcohol ConsumptionUnlimitednessNo Compulsion

He sent letters to all the royal provinces, to each province in its own script and to each ethnic group in its own language, that every man should be master of his own house and speak in the language of his own people.

Verse ConceptsLanguages ConfusedAuthority Of PeopleAlphabet

Let the king appoint commissioners in each province of his kingdom, so that they may assemble all the beautiful young women to the harem at the fortress of Susa. Put them under the care of Hegai, the king’s eunuch, who is in charge of the women, and give them the required beauty treatments.

Verse ConceptsWeak Women

During the year before each young woman’s turn to go to King Ahasuerus, the harem regulation required her to receive beauty treatments with oil of myrrh for six months and then with perfumes and cosmetics for another six months.

Verse ConceptsMyrrhMarital SexFive Months And MoreOne YearMarital Sex BetweenYoung LadiesEtiquetteMonthsWomen's BeautyWomen's Rolesmakeupprocess