Then the king went to his palace and passed the night fasting, neither were instruments of music brought before him, and his sleep went from him. ... Then the king arose very early in the morning and went in haste unto the den of lions. ... Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live for ever. ... My God has sent his angel and has shut the lions’ mouths, that they have not hurt me, forasmuch as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, have I done no hurt. ... Then was the king exceedingly glad for him, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den.
And Esther spoke yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and implored him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite and his device that he had devised against the Jews. ... Then the king held out the golden scepter toward Esther. ... So Esther arose and stood before the king, and said, If it please the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the king’s provinces.
I will be your king. ... Where is any other that may save you in all your cities, and your judges of whom you said, Give me a king and princes? ... I gave you a king in my anger, and took him away in my wrath.
And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days. ... And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and built Ramah, that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah. ... Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king’s house and delivered them into the hand of his servants. ... And king Asa sent them to Benhadad the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelled at Damascus, saying, There is a league between me and you, and between my father and your father. ... Behold, I have sent unto you a present of silver and gold; come and break your league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.
Your servants, the men on this side of the river: And at such a time, be it known unto the king that the Jews who came up from you to us have come unto Jerusalem, building the rebellious and the bad city, and have set up the walls thereof and joined the foundations. ... Be it known now unto the king that if this city is built and the walls set up again, then will they not pay toll, tribute, and custom, and so you shall damage the revenue of the kings. ... Now because we have maintenance from the king’s palace, and it was not meet for us to see the king’s dishonor, therefore have we sent and certified to the king that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers; so shall you find in the book of the records and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful unto kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time, for which cause was this city destroyed. ... We certify to the king that if this city is built again and the walls thereof set up, by this means you shall have no portion on this side of the river.
Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let your gifts be to yourself and give your rewards to another; yet I will read the writing unto the king and make known to him the interpretation.
The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar. ... For then the king of Babylon’s army besieged Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison which was in the king of Judah’s house. ... For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Why do you prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord: Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon and he shall take it, and Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes.
(Old Covenants) Jeremiah 15:12
Then Zedekiah the king sent and took him out. ... And the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from the Lord? ... And Jeremiah said, There is; for, said he, you shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon. ... Where are now your prophets who prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land? ... Therefore, hear now, I pray you, O my lord the king.
THE SECOND BOOK OF THE KINGS COMMONLY CALLED THE FOURTH BOOK OF THE KINGS
THE FIRST BOOK OF THE KINGS COMMONLY CALLED THE THIRD BOOK OF THE KINGS
Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave and bring out those five kings unto me, out of the cave. ... And they did so, and brought forth those five kings unto him out of the cave: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon. ... And it came to pass, when they brought out those kings unto Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said unto the captains of the men of war who went with him, Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings.
So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared. ... And the king said unto Esther at the banquet of wine, What is your petition? ... Then answered Esther and said, My petition and my request is: if I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do tomorrow as the king has said.
Then took I the cup at the Lord’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the Lord had sent me: Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day; Pharaoh king of Egypt and his servants, and his princes, and all his people; and all the mingled people; and all the kings of the land of Uz; and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod; Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon; and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon; and the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea; Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost corners; and all the kings of Arabia; and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert; and all the kings of Zimri; and all the kings of Elam; and all the kings
And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening grain offering, and the king’s burnt sacrifice, and his grain offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their grain offering, and their drink offerings, and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice. ... Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded. ... And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the basin from off them, and took down the sea from off the brazen oxen that were under it, and put it upon a pavement of stones. ... And the cover for the Sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king’s entry outside, turned he from the house of the Lord for the king of Assyria. ... Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
Then were the king’s scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and there was written according to all that Haman had commanded unto the king’s lieutenants, and to the governors that were over every province, and to the rulers of every people of every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the king’s ring. ... And the letters were sent by messengers into all the king’s provinces to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey. ... The messengers went out, being hastened by the king’s commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. ... And the king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city Shushan was perplexed.
Then they came near and spoke before the king concerning the king’s decree, Have you not signed a decree that every man that shall ask a petition of any god or man within thirty days, save of you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? ... The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which alters not. ... Then they answered and said before the king, That Daniel who is of the children of the captivity of Judah regards not you, O king, nor the decree that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day. ... Then the king, when he heard these words, was severely displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him; and he labored until the going down of the sun to deliver him.
Then Hazael king of Syria went up and fought against Gath, and took it; and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem. ... And Joash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah — his fathers, kings of Judah — had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the Lord and in the king’s house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria, and he went away from Jerusalem.
And it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison. ... And he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon, and changed his prison garments, and he did eat bread continually before him all the days of his life. ... And his food allowance was a continual allowance given him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.
And Jehoiada made a covenant between the Lord and the king and the people, that they should be the Lord’s people; between the king also and the people. ... And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains, and the guard, and all the people of the land, and they brought down the king from the house of the Lord, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king’s house. ... And he sat on the throne of the kings. ... And they slew Athaliah with the sword beside the king’s house.
And these things were done in the borders of the land that they might not come to the knowledge of the king. ... But behold, it came to pass that the king, having discovered a movement among the people, sent his servants to watch them. ... Therefore on the day that they were assembling themselves together to hear the word of the Lord, they were discovered unto the king. ... And now the king said that Alma was a stirring up the people to a rebellion against him; therefore he sent his army to destroy them. ... And it came to pass that Alma and the people of the Lord were apprised of the coming of the king’s army; therefore they took their tents and their families and departed into the wilderness.
And the king said unto Barzillai, Come over with me and I will feed you with me in Jerusalem. ... And Barzillai said unto the king, How long have I to live, that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem? ... Why then should your servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king? ... Your servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king. ... And why should the king recompense it unto me with such a reward?
Now the queen, by reason of the words of the king and his lords, came into the banquet house. ... And the queen spoke and said, O king, live for ever; let not your thoughts trouble you, nor let your countenance be changed. ... And in the days of your father, light and understanding and wisdom like the wisdom of the gods was found in him, whom the king, Nebuchadnezzar your father — the king, I say, your father — made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and fortune-tellers. ... Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and showing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts were found in the same Daniel — whom the king named Belteshazzar — now let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation.
(Old Covenants) 2 Chronicles 18:7
And Shaphan carried the book to the king and brought the word of the king back again, saying, All that was committed to your servants, they do. ... Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest has given me a book. ... And Shaphan read it before the king.
And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war against Hazael king of Syria in Ramoth-Gilead, and the Syrians wounded Joram. ... And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. ... And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel because he was sick.
Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them. ... And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem, unto king Hezekiah, with a great army.