not believing and believing in God etc.

not believing and believing in God etc.

1 Kings 10:1-9 (Also in 2 Chronicles 9 too.)

1 Now when the Queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the Name of The LORD,

she came to test him with hard questions. 

2 She came to Jerusalem with a very great retinue,

with camels that bore spices, very much gold, and precious stones;

and when she came to Solomon, she spoke with him about all that was in her heart. 

3 So Solomon answered all her questions; there was nothing so difficult for the King that he could not explain it to her. 

4 And when the Queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built, 

5 the food on his table, the seating of his servants,

the service of his waiters and their apparel, his cupbearers,

and his entryway by which he went up to the House of The LORD, there was no more spirit in her. 

6 Then she said to the King:

"It was a true report which I heard in my own land about your words and your wisdom. 

7 However I did not believe the words until I came and saw with my own eyes;

and indeed the half was not told me.

Your wisdom and prosperity exceed the fame of which I heard.

8 Happy are your men and happy are these your servants,

who stand continually before you and hear your wisdom! 

9 Blessed be The LORD your God, who delighted in you, setting you on the Throne of Israel!

Because The LORD has loved Israel forever,

therefore He made you King, to do justice and righteousness." 

2 Kings 17:13-19

13 Yet The LORD testified against Israel and against Judah, by all of His Prophets,

every seer, saying, "Turn from your evil ways, and keep My commandments and My statutes,

according to all the Law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by My servants the Prophets." 

14 Nevertheless they would not hear, but stiffened their necks,

like the necks of their fathers, who did not believe in The LORD their God.

15 And they rejected His statutes and His Covenant that He had made with their fathers,

and His testimonies which He had testified against them;

they followed idols, became idolaters, and went after the nations who were all around them,

concerning whom The LORD had charged them that they should not do like them. 

16 So they left all the commandments of The LORD their God,

made for themselves a molded image and two calves, made a wooden image

and worshiped all the host of heaven,

and served Baal. 

17 And they caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire,

practiced witchcraft and soothsaying,

and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of The LORD, to provoke Him to anger. 

18 Therefore The LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them from His sight;

there was none left but the Tribe of Judah alone. 

19 Also Judah did not keep the commandments of The LORD their God,

but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made. 

2 Chronicles 32:10-23

10 "Thus says Sennacherib, King of Assyria: 'In what do you trust, that you remain under siege in Jerusalem? 

11 Does not Hezekiah persuade you to give yourselves over to die by famine and by thirst,

saying, "The LORD our God will deliver us from the hand of the King of Assyria"? 

12 Has not the same Hezekiah taken away His high places and His altars,

and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, "You shall worship before one altar and burn incense on it"? 

13 Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of other lands?

Were the gods of the nations of those lands in any way able to deliver their lands out of my hand? 

14 Who was there among all the gods of those nations that my fathers utterly destroyed that could deliver his people from my hand,

that your God should be able to deliver you from my hand? 

15 Now therefore, do not let Hezekiah deceive you or persuade you like this,

and do not believe him; for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people from my hand or the hand of my fathers.

How much less will your God deliver you from my hand?'"

16 Furthermore, his servants spoke against The LORD God and against His servant Hezekiah. 

17 He also wrote letters to revile The LORD God of Israel, and to speak against Him,

saying, "As the gods of the nations of other lands have not delivered their people from my hand,

so the God of Hezekiah will not deliver His people from my hand." 

18 Then they called out with a loud voice in Hebrew to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall,

to frighten them and trouble them, that they might take the city. 

19 And they spoke against The God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people of the Earth—

the work of men's hands. 

20 Now because of this King Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah, the son of Amoz, prayed and cried out to Heaven. 

21 Then The LORD sent an angel who cut down every mighty man of valor, leader, and captain in the camp of the King of Assyria.

So he returned shamefaced to his own land.

And when he had gone into the temple of his god, some of his own offspring struck him down with the sword there. 

22 Thus The LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem

from the hand of Sennacherib the King of Assyria,

and from the hand of all others, and guided them on every side. 

23 And many brought gifts to The LORD at Jerusalem,

and presents to Hezekiah, King of Judah, so that he was exalted in the sight of all nations thereafter. 


2 Chronicles 20:14-23

14 Then The Spirit of The LORD came upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel,

the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, in the midst of the assembly. 

15 And he said,

"Listen, all you of Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem, and you, King Jehoshaphat!

Thus says The LORD to you:

'Do not be afraid nor dismayed because of this great multitude, for the battle is not yours, but God's. 

16 Tomorrow go down against them.

They will surely come up by the Ascent of Ziz, and you will find them at the end of the brook before the Wilderness of Jeruel. 

17 You will not need to fight in this battle.

Position yourselves, stand still and see the salvation of The LORD, Eho is with you, O Judah and Jerusalem!'

Do not fear or be dismayed;

tomorrow go out against them, for The LORD is with you." 

18 And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground,

and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem bowed before The LORD, worshiping The LORD. 

19 Then the Levites of the children of the Kohathites and of the children of the Korahites

stood up to praise The LORD God of Israel with voices loud and high. 

20 So they rose early in the morning and went out into the Wilderness of Tekoa; and as they went out,

Jehoshaphat stood and said,

"Hear me, O Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem:

believe in The LORD your God, and you shall be established;

believe His Prophets, and you shall prosper."

21 And when he had consulted with the people,

he appointed those who should sing to The LORD, and who should praise the beauty of holiness,

as they went out before the army and were saying:

"Praise The LORD, for His mercy endures forever." 

22 Now when they began to sing and to praise, The LORD set ambushes against

the people of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah;

and they were defeated. 

23 For the people of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir

to utterly kill and destroy them.

And when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir,

they helped to destroy one another. 


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