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But Hannah went not up, for she said unto her husband, "I will tarry until the lad be weaned, and then I will bring him, that he may appear before the LORD and there abide forever."

Verse ConceptsGodly AncestryLeaving Parents For Spouse

And Elkanah her husband said to her, "Do what seemeth thee best: tarry until thou hast weaned him, only the LORD make good his saying." And so the woman abode and gave her son suck, until she weaned him.

Verse ConceptsBreasts, Nursing Mothers

And then she took him with her, when she had weaned him, with three bullocks and an ephah of flour and a bottle of wine, and brought him into the house of the LORD in Shiloh, how be it the child was yet young.

Verse ConceptsInfantsBottle, UsesWineWineskinChildren, Should Be TreatedLimitations Of YouthQuantities Of WineAnimals At Specific AgesEphah [Ten Omers]The House Of God At Shiloh

and then she said, "Oh my lord, as truly as thy soul liveth my lord, I am the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the LORD.

Verse ConceptsPrayer, Practicalities OfStandingThis Is Me

They that were full, have hired out themselves for bread, and they that were hungry cease so to be: insomuch that the barren hath borne seven, and she that had many children is waxed feeble.

Verse ConceptsHiringSeven ChildrenPlenty For The Poor

Moreover, his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from feast to feast when she came up with her husband to offer the offering of the said feast.

Verse ConceptsGesturesFaithfulness, In Human RelationshipsMaternal LoveChildren, needs ofLove, And The WorldRobesDressPeople Giving ClothesEvery Yearmoms

And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, "The LORD give thee seed of this woman, for that she hath lent the LORD." And they went unto their own home.

Verse ConceptsBenedictionsIndividuals going homeExchange Of IndividualsPeople Who Blessed Otherslent

And the LORD visited Hannah for that she conceived and bare three sons and two daughters. But the boy Samuel grew, dwelling still with the LORD.

Verse ConceptsGrace, In OtGrowing UpThree ChildrenConceptionGod Visiting

And his daughter-in-law, Phinehas' wife, was with child and nigh the birth. And when she heard the tidings of the taking of the ark of God, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and travailed, for her pains came upon her.

Verse ConceptsPregnancyDaughters In LawOther Wives

And about the time of her death, the women that stood about her, said unto her, "Fear not for thou hast borne a son." But she answered not, nor regarded it.

Verse ConceptsResponseOthers Not AnsweringDeath Of A ChildDeath Of A MotherDespairHaving A Babychildbearing

And she named the child Ichabod saying, "Honour is departed from Israel" - Because the ark of God was taken, and her father-in-law and her husband were dead.

Verse ConceptsPeople With Apt NamesTragedy

And therefore she said, "Honour is gone from Israel," because the ark of God was taken.

And then Samuel took a stone and pitched it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name thereof the stone of help, saying, "Thus far hath the LORD helped us."

Verse ConceptsCeremoniesStonesMonumentsGod Helpshelphelping

Howbeit, when the time was come that Merab, Saul's daughter, should have been given to David she was given unto Adriel, a Meholathite, to wife.

And he said, "I will give him her that she may be a snare to him, to bring the hand of the Philistines upon him." And Saul said to David, "Thou shalt this day be my son-in-law again."

Verse ConceptsMarriage, Customs ConcerningSons In LawMan Trapping

And then she took an image and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow stuffed with goat's hair under the head of it, and covered it with a cloth.

Verse ConceptsHairsHairclothThose Who Deceived

And when Saul sent messengers to fetch David, she said that he was sick.

Verse ConceptsLying, Examples OfSick Individuals

The name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife was Abigail: and she was a woman of good wisdom and beautiful. But the man was churlish and of shrewd conditions and was a Calebite.

Verse ConceptsBehaviourIntelligenceOutward AppearanceSelfishness, Examples OfGood Wives ExamplesBeauty, In WomenDiscourtesyWomen's BeautyBeauty Of NatureA Good WomanInner BeautyBeauty And Self WorthA Good HusbandBeautiful Women

And as she rode on her ass and was coming down in a slade of the hill, David and his men came down against her, and she met them.

Verse ConceptsRiding Donkeys

When Abigail saw David, she hasted and lighted off her ass and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground,

Verse ConceptsBowingProstrationSalutationsDismountingBowing Before David

And now my lord as sure as the LORD liveth and as thy soul liveth, the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood and from avenging thyself with thine own hand. Furthermore, I pray God that thine enemies and they that intend to do my lord evil, may be as Nabal.

Verse ConceptsSheddingRestraints From KillingNot Avenging

And blessed be thy behaviour, and blessed be thou which hath kept me this day from coming to shed blood and from avenging myself with mine own hand.

Verse ConceptsRestraints From KillingNot Avenging

And so David received of her hand that she brought him, and said to her, "Go in peace to thine house. And see, I have obeyed thy voice and have received thee to grace."

Verse ConceptsAcceptance, Of Gifts

And when Abigail came to Nabal, behold, he held a feast in his house like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, and he was drunk a good. Wherefore she told him nought, neither little nor more, until the morrow day.

Verse ConceptsDawnGluttonyFeastingExcessdrinking, abstention fromBanquets, ActivitiesDrunkenness, Examples OfMerrinessRevelryDrunk IndividualsThose Who Did Not Tell

And she arose and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said, "Behold thy handmaid, to be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord."

Verse ConceptsFoot washingFeetGuestsReadinessFeet WashingClean Feet

When the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice and spake to Saul, saying, "Why hast thou mocked me? For thou art Saul."

Verse ConceptsVoicesThose Who Deceived

The woman had a fat calf in the house, and that she hasted and killed it, and took flour and kneaded it and did bake him sweet cakes,

Verse ConceptsFlourFoodCooking, MethodsBakingKilling Domesticated AnimalsEating CattleBaking BreadKneading Dough

And Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son that was lame on his feet: five years old was he when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel. And his nurse took him up and fled away. And as she made haste to flee and was amazed, the child fell and became halt and was called Mephibosheth.

Verse ConceptsCripplesAccidentsFeetdisabilitiesLamenessNursesSuffering, Causes OfPeople TumblingHurt And Betrayalsaul

And it was answered again, that she was Bathsheba the daughter of Eliam and wife to Uriah the Hittite.

Verse ConceptsInfatuationNamed Wives

And David sent messengers and fetched her, and she came unto him, and he lay with her. And she was straightway purified of her uncleanness, and returned unto her house.

Verse ConceptsMessengers Sent OutAdulteress ExamplesImmorality, Examples Of SexualMinistry, Qualifications ForSleep, PhysicalExtra Marital Sex ExamplesPurifying OneselfIndividuals going home

And when the woman had perceived that she had conceived, she sent and told David, and said, "I am with child."

Verse ConceptsHaving A Baby

And when the wife of Uriah heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him. And as soon as the mourning was ended, David sent and fetched her to his house,

Verse ConceptsMourning The Death Of Others

and she was his wife and bare him a son. But the deed that David had committed displeased the LORD.

Verse ConceptsSexual Sin, Nature OfSin, And God's CharacterDavid's Wives

And David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in unto her and lay with her, and she bare a son whose name was called Solomon, and the LORD loved him.

Verse ConceptsOne FleshComfort, Of FriendsMarital SexMarital Sex BetweenThe Promise Of A Baby

And this Amnon was so vexed that he fell sick for the love of his sister Tamar: for he thought it hard to come by his purpose of her, seeing she was yet a virgin.

Verse ConceptsInfatuationSick IndividualsHard Tasks

When Tamar came to her brother Amnon's house, he lay. And she took flour and made paste and made fritters in his sight and did bake them,

Verse ConceptsDoughBaking BreadKneading Dough

Then said Amnon unto Tamar, "Bring the meat into the chamber that I may eat it of thine hand." And Tamar took the fritters which she had made, and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother,

Verse ConceptsBedroomsPrivate Rooms

And she answered him, "Nay, my brother, do not force me, for it ought not to be so in Israel. Do not this folly.

Verse ConceptsFoolish People

Then she said unto him, "This great cruelness, that thou puttest me away, passeth the other that thou didst unto me." Nevertheless he would not hear her,

And she had a kirtle of divers colors upon her: for with such were the king's daughters that were virgins appareled; made strait unto them. Then his servant brought her out at the doors and locked the doors after her.

Verse ConceptsClothingClothing, Kinds OfRobesDressFine ClothesShutting DoorsMulti ColouredLocks And Barsvirginity

And Tamar put ashes on her head and rent her gay kirtle that was on her and put her hand on her head and so went, and as she went cried.

Verse ConceptsTearing Of ClothesClothing, Tearing OfAshesWeepingFine ClothesThose Who Tore ClothesAshes Of Humiliation

And go to the king and speak of thus manner unto him." And so Joab taught her what she should say.

Verse ConceptsSpokesmen

And when the wife of Tekoa was come to speak with the king, she fell on her face to the ground and did obeisance and said, "Help me, O king."

Verse ConceptsBeggarsProstrationBowing Before David

And the king said unto her, "What aileth thee?" And she answered, "I am a widow, and mine husband is dead.

Verse ConceptsActual Widows

Then said she, "Let the king remember his LORD God, that the next of the blood gather not on heaps together to destroy, and that they slay not my son." And he said, "As sure as the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son's head fall to the earth."

Verse ConceptsAvenger of bloodHairsHairs ProtectedMan Avenging

And Amasa took no heed to the knife that was in Joab's hand, with which Joab smote him in the short ribs, and shed out his bowels to the ground and smote him but one stroke, and he died. And then Joab and Abishai his brother followed after Sheba the son of Bichri.

Verse ConceptsAssassinations, CompletedBetrayalStomachsBowelsAnatomyIntestinesKilling Named Individuals

When Joab was come the woman said, "Art thou Joab?" And Joab answered, "That am I." And she said to him, "Hear the words of thy handmaid." And he said, "I am ready to hear."

Verse ConceptsIs It Really?

And she said, "It hath been a common saying in the old time: 'Men must ask of Abel, and then go and finish the work.'

Verse ConceptsOld SayingsMan's Counsel

But he took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah which she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Miphiyboseth, and the five sons of Merab the daughter of Saul which she bare to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite,

And she answered and said, "My lord, thou hast sworn by the LORD thy God unto thine handmaid, 'Solomon thy son shall reign after me and he shall sit upon my seat.'

And behold, while she yet talked with the king, Nathan the prophet was come.

Verse ConceptsWhile Still Speaking

Then king David answered, and said, "Call me Bathsheba." And she came in and stood before him.

Verse ConceptsKings Summoning

Moreover thou knowest how Joab the son of Zeruiah hath served me, and what he hath done to the two captains of the hosts of Israel - unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether - how he slew them and shed the blood of war in time of peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins and in his shoes that were on his feet.

Verse ConceptsBeltsSandalsShedding

After that, Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. And she said, "Betokeneth thy coming peace?"

Verse ConceptsMothers Of Kings

And he said, "It betokeneth peace." Then said he, "I have a matter to show thee." And she said, "Say on."

And she said unto him, "Tell what it is."

And thereupon Bathsheba went unto king Solomon to speak unto him for Adonijah. And the king rose up against her and bowed himself unto her, and sat him down on his seat. And there was a seat set for the king's mother, and she sat on his right side.

Verse ConceptsQueensRespect, For Human BeingsThroneRight Sides

Then she said, "I must desire a little petition of thee: say me not nay." And the king said unto her, "Ask on my mother: for I will not say thee nay."

Verse ConceptsSmallness

And she said, "Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife."

And the king said, "Do even as he hath said: smite him and bury him, and take away the blood which Joab shed, causeless, from me and from the house of my father.

Verse ConceptsInnocent BloodSheddingKilling Named Individuals

And the third day after that I was delivered, she was delivered also: we two being together and no stranger with us in the house save we two alone.

Verse ConceptsThe Third Day Of The Week

And then she arose at midnight and took my son from my side, while thine handmaid slept and laid it in her bosom, and put her dead child in my bosom.

Verse ConceptsBreasts, Nursing MothersMidnightCorpses Of Other People

And the other woman said, "It is not so: But the living is my son, and the dead thine." And she said again, "Thou sayest untrue, for the dead is thy son, and the living mine." And thus they pleaded before the king.

Verse ConceptsContradictingDeath Of A Child

Then the king answered and said, "Give her the living child and slay it not, for she is the mother thereof."

Verse ConceptsMothers Love For Her ChildrenDeath Of A Mother

And she came to Jerusalem with a mighty great multitude of Camels that bare sweet odours and gold exceeding much, and precious stones. And when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.

Verse ConceptsJewelsPrecious StonesJewellery

and the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the standing of his servitors and their apparel, and his butlers and his sacrifice that he offered in the house of the LORD, she was astonished.

Verse ConceptsStepsorganizationoverwhelmed

Then she said to the king, "The word I heard in mine own land of thy deeds and wisdom, is true.

Verse Conceptsaccomplishments

And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of sweet odours exceeding much, and precious stones. There came never after such abundance of sweet odors as the Queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.

Verse ConceptsTalentsCoinageGoldHerbs And SpicesPresentsJewelleryPeople Giving Other ThingsWeights Of GoldGifts And Talents

And king Solomon gave unto the Queen of Sheba all her desire that she asked of him: besides that he gave her with his own hand. And so she returned unto her own country with her servants.

Verse ConceptsGenerosity, HumanQueensSolomon, Character OfPresentsIndividuals going homePeople Giving Other Things

And Jeroboam's wife did so: she arose and went to Shiloh and came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were waxen dim for age.

Verse ConceptsVisionLimitations Of Old People

And the LORD said unto Ahijah, "Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh, to question with thee about her son which is sick. This wise and this wise answer her." And when she came, she feigned herself to be another woman.

Verse ConceptsPretendingTelling Of Movements

But when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she came to the door, he said, "Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam: why feignest thou thyself to be another? I am sent to thee a cruel messenger.

Verse ConceptsSoundHearing ThingsPretendingFeet In Action

And Jeroboam's wife arose and departed and went to Tirzah, and by that she was come to the threshold of the door, the lad was dead.

Verse ConceptsEntering HousesOther Wives

And thereto he put down Maacah his mother from bearing rule, because she had made an idol in a grove. And Asa destroyed her idol and burnt it by the brook Kidron.

Verse ConceptsFalse GodsGrandparentsQueensDestruction Of Satan's WorksBurning Idolatrous ThingsDeposingServing AsherahGrandmothersgrandmas

And as she went to fetch it, he cried to her and said, "Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand."

Verse ConceptsRequesting Food

And she answered, "As surely as the LORD thy God liveth, I have no bread, but even a handful of meal in a pitcher, and a little oil in a cruse. And see, I have gathered a few sticks for to go and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it and then die."

Verse ConceptsFlourLonelinessOlive OilSmall Things God UsesBarrelsResigned To DeathFirewoodDyingcooking

And she went and did as Elijah bade. And she and he and her house did eat a good space,

Verse ConceptsSacrificial GivingAction For A Long Time

Then said she unto Elijah, "What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? Art thou come unto me, that my sin should be thought on and my son slain?"

Verse ConceptsLove, And The WorldGod Remembering SinWhat Have We In Common?Attempting To Kill Specific PeopleMan Of Godremembrance

And she wrote a letter in Ahab's name and sealed it with his seal, and sent it unto the elders and chief men of his city that dwelt where Naboth dwelt.

Verse ConceptsLettersNoblesSealsjezebel

And she wrote in the letter, saying, "Proclaim fasting and set Naboth on high among the people,

Verse ConceptsFasting, Nature OfFastingFasting And Prayerjezebel

And the elders and nobles of his city, which dwelt in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, and as it was written in the letter which she had sent unto them.

Verse Conceptsjezebel

And when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned to death, she said to Ahab, "Up, and take possession of the vineyard of Naboth, the Jezreelite, which he denied to give thee for silver, for Naboth is not alive, but dead."

Verse ConceptsSuffering, Of Jesus Christjezebel

And Elisha said to her, "What shall I do for thee? Tell me, what hast thou in thine house?" And she said, thy handmaid hath nothing at all in her house, save a pitcher with oil.

Verse ConceptsWhat Is This?Debthelppothelping

And she went from him, and shut the door to her and her sons. And they brought to her, and she poured out.

And when the vessels were full, she said to her son, "Bring yet a vessel." And he said, "There is no more." And then the oil ceased.

Verse ConceptsDivine SuppliesCessationThings StoppingDebtpot

Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, "Go and sell the oil and pay thy creditor. And live, thou and thy children, off the rest."

Verse ConceptsTradeDebtMoney ManagementSaving Money

And she said unto her husband, "See, I perceive that the man of God is perfect, and cometh always by us.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual DiscernmentSpiritual PerceptionSpecific Holy IndividualsMan Of GodGodly WomanGodly Man

Then he said to Gehazi his servant, "Call this Shunammite." And he called her, and she came before him.

Verse ConceptsOthers Summoning

And Elisha said to him, "Say to her I pray thee, 'See, thou hast made all this provision for us, what shall we do for thee? Wouldest thou be spoken for to the king or to the captain of the Host?" And she said, "I dwell among mine own people."

Verse ConceptsGratitudeRelativesDoing One's Work

Then he said, "What is to be done for her?" And Gehazi said, "Verily she hath no child, and her husband is old."

Verse ConceptsOld Age, DisabilitiesOld Age, Attainment OfDoing One's Work

And he said, "Call her." And he called her. And she came and stood at the door.

Verse ConceptsOthers Summoning

Then he said, "By such a time, as soon as the fruit can live, thou shalt embrace a son." And she said, "Oh nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto the handmaid."

Verse ConceptsElisha, Prophecies OfBirths ForetoldLyingTime Of Year

And she carried him up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door to him, and went out,

Verse ConceptsMan Of God

And he said, "Wherefore wilt thou go to him today, while it is neither new moon nor Sabbath day?" And she said, "Be content."

Verse ConceptsNew Moon FestivalSabbath, In Ot

Then she saddled an ass and said to the lad, "Lead away, and make me not cease riding, until I bid thee."

Verse ConceptsSpeedPreparing To TravelSaddling Donkeys

And so she went and came unto the man of God, to mount Carmel. And when the man of God saw her a far, he said to Gehazi his servant, "See, where our servant cometh.

Verse ConceptsSeeing At A DistanceMan Of God

Now run against her, and ask her, whether it be all well with her, and with her husband and with the lad." And she said, "All is well."

Verse ConceptsDeath Of A Child

Then she went to the man of God up to the hill and caught him by the feet. And Gehazi went to her, to thrust her away. But the man of God said, "Let her alone, for her soul is vexed, and the LORD hath hid it from me and hath not told it me."

Verse ConceptsGraspingLeave Them AloneGod's Things ConcealedMan Of God

Then she said, "Did I desire a son of my lord? Did I not say, that thou shouldest not bring me in a Fool's Paradise?"

Verse ConceptsHope, Nature OfLying