1 Kings 20:2
And he sent representatives into the town to Ahab, king of Israel;
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1 Kings 20:2
And he sent representatives into the town to Ahab, king of Israel;
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1 Kings 16:29
In the thirty-eighth year that Asa was king of Judah, Ahab, the son of Omri, became king over Israel; and Ahab was king in Samaria for twenty-two years.
1 Kings 18:5
And Ahab said to Obadiah, Come, let us go through all the country, to all the fountains of water and all the rivers, and see if there is any grass to be had for the horses and the transport beasts, so that we may be able to keep some of the beasts from destruction.
1 Kings 19:1
Ahab gave Jezebel news of all Elijah had done, and how he had put all the prophets to death with the sword.
1 Kings 20:37
Then he came across another man, and said, Give me a wound. And the man gave him a blow wounding him.
1 Kings 21:25
(There was no one like Ahab, who gave himself up to do evil in the eyes of the Lord, moved to it by Jezebel his wife.
1 Kings 22:3
And the king of Israel said to his servants, Do you not see that Ramoth-gilead is ours? and we are doing nothing to get it back from the hands of the king of Aram.
2 Kings 10:10
You may be certain that nothing which the Lord has said about the family of Ahab will be without effect; for the Lord has done what he said by his servant Elijah.
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1 Kings 17:1
And Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, By the living Lord, the God of Israel, whose servant I am, there will be no dew or rain in these years, but only at my word.
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1 Kings 20:13
Then a prophet came up to Ahab, king of Israel, and said, The Lord says, Have you seen all this great army? See, I will give it into your hands today, and you will see that I am the Lord.
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1 Kings 20:18
And he said, If they have come out for peace, take them living, and if they have come out for war, take them living.
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2 Kings 5:2
Now the Aramaeans had gone out in bands, and taken prisoner from Israel a little girl, who became servant to Naaman's wife.
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2 Kings 6:24
Now after this, Ben-hadad, king of Aram, got together all his army and went up to make an attack on Samaria, shutting the town in on all sides with his forces.
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2 Kings 8:29
So King Joram went back to Jezreel to get well from the wounds which the bowmen had given him at Ramah, when he was fighting against Hazael, king of Aram. And Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, went down to see Joram, the son of Ahab, in Jezreel, because he was ill.
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2 Kings 10:1
Now there were in Samaria seventy of Ahab's sons. And Jehu sent letters to Samaria, to the rulers of the town, and to the responsible men, and to those who had the care of the sons of Ahab, saying,
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2 Kings 10:32
In those days the Lord was angry first with Israel; and Hazael made attacks on all the land of Israel,
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2 Kings 13:24
Then Hazael, king of Aram, came to his end; and Ben-hadad his son became king in his place.
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2 Kings 13:25
And Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz, took again from Ben-hadad, the son of Hazael, the towns which he had taken from Jehoahaz his father in war. Three times Jehoash overcame him and got back the towns of Israel.
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Psalms 108:13
With God we will do great things; for by him will our haters be crushed underfoot.
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Psalms 118:8
It is better to have faith in the Lord than to put one's hope in man.
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Psalms 118:9
It is better to have faith in the Lord than to put one's hope in rulers.
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Ecclesiastes 1:2
All is to no purpose, said the Preacher, all the ways of man are to no purpose.
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2 Kings 19:9
And when news came to him that Tirhakah, king of Ethiopia, had made an attack on him, he sent representatives to Hezekiah again, saying,
Isaiah 36:2
And the king of Assyria sent the Rab-shakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to King Hezekiah with a strong force, and he took up his position by the stream of the higher pool, by the highway of the washerman's
Isaiah 36:3
And there came out to him Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder.
Isaiah 36:4
And the Rab-shakeh said to them, Say now to Hezekiah, These are the words of the great king, the king of Assyria: In what are you placing your hope?
Isaiah 36:5
You say you have a design and strength for war, but these are only words: now to whom are you looking for support, that you have gone against my authority?
Isaiah 36:6
See, you are basing your hope on that broken rod of Egypt, which will go into a man's hand if he makes use of it for a support; for so is Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to all who put their faith in him.
Isaiah 36:7
And if you say to me, Our hope is in the Lord our God; is it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah has taken away, saying to Judah and Jerusalem that worship may only be given before this altar?
Isaiah 36:8
And now, take a chance with my master, the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able to put horsemen on them.
Isaiah 36:9
How then may you put to shame the least of my master's servants? and you have put your hope in Egypt for war-carriages and horsemen:
Isaiah 36:11
Then Eliakim and Shebna and Joah said to the Rab-shakeh, Please make use of the Aramaean language in talking to your servants, for we are used to it, and do not make use of the Jews' language in the hearing of the people on the wall.
Isaiah 36:22
Then Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothing parted as a sign of grief, and gave him an account of what the Rab-shakeh had said.
Isaiah 37:9
And when news came to him that Tirhakah, king of Ethiopia, had made an attack on him, ...And he sent representatives to Hezekiah, king of Judah, saying,
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Isaiah 36:10
And have I now come to send destruction on this land without the Lord's authority? It was the Lord himself who said to me, Go up against this land and make it waste.
Isaiah 36:12
But the Rab-shakeh said, Is it to your master or to you that my master has sent me to say these words? has he not sent me to the men seated on the wall? for they are the people who will be short of food with you when the town is shut in.
Isaiah 36:13
Then the Rab-shakeh got up and said with a loud voice in the Jews' language, Give ear to the words of the great king, the king of Assyria:
Isaiah 36:14
This is what the king says: Do not be tricked by Hezekiah, for there is no salvation for you in him.
Isaiah 36:15
And do not let Hezekiah make you put your faith in the Lord, saying, The Lord will certainly keep us safe, and this town will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.
Isaiah 36:16
Do not give ear to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says, Make peace with me, and come out to me; and everyone will be free to take the fruit of his vine and of his fig-tree, and the water of his spring;
Isaiah 36:17
Till I come and take you away to a land like yours, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vine-gardens.
Isaiah 36:18
Give no attention to Hezekiah when he says to you, The Lord will keep us safe. Has any one of the gods of the nations kept his land from falling into the hands of the king of Assyria?
Isaiah 36:19
Where are the gods of Hamath and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? where are the gods of Samaria? and have they kept Samaria out of my hand?
Isaiah 36:20
Who among all the gods of these countries have kept their country from falling into my hand, to give cause for the thought that the Lord will keep Jerusalem from falling into my hand?
Isaiah 36:21
But they kept quiet and gave him no answer: for the king's order was, Give him no answer.
Isaiah 37:10
This is what you are to say to Hezekiah, king of Judah: Let not your God, in whom is your faith, give you a false hope, saying, Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.
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