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highlighted 1 Kings 1:27 NLT
Has my lord the king really done this without letting any of his officials know who should be the next king?”
Aug 10
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highlighted 1 Kings 1:23-26 NLT
The king’s officials told him, “Nathan the prophet is here to see you.” Nathan went in and bowed before the king with his face to the ground. Nathan asked, “My lord the king, have you decided that Adonijah will be the next king and that he will sit on your throne? Today he has sacrificed many cattle, fattened calves, and sheep, and he has invited all the king’s sons to attend the celebration. He also invited the commanders of the army and Abiathar the priest. They are feasting and drinking with him and shouting, ‘Long live King Adonijah!’ But he did not invite me or Zadok the priest or Benaiah or your servant Solomon.
Aug 10
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highlighted 1 Kings 1:21 NLT
If you do not act, my son Solomon and I will be treated as criminals as soon as my lord the king has died.”
Aug 10
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highlighted 1 Kings 1:19-20 NLT
He has sacrificed many cattle, fattened calves, and sheep, and he has invited all the king’s sons to attend the celebration. He also invited Abiathar the priest and Joab, the commander of the army. But he did not invite your servant Solomon. And now, my lord the king, all Israel is waiting for you to announce who will become king after you.
Aug 10
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highlighted 1 Kings 1:16-18 NLT
Bathsheba bowed down before the king. “What can I do for you?” he asked her. She replied, “My lord, you made a vow before the LORD your God when you said to me, ‘Your son Solomon will surely be the next king and will sit on my throne.’ But instead, Adonijah has made himself king, and my lord the king does not even know about it.
Aug 10
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highlighted 1 Kings 1:14 NLT
And while you are still talking with him, I will come and confirm everything you have said.”
Aug 10
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highlighted 1 Kings 1:11-13 NLT
Then Nathan went to Bathsheba, Solomon’s mother, and asked her, “Haven’t you heard that Haggith’s son, Adonijah, has made himself king, and our lord David doesn’t even know about it? If you want to save your own life and the life of your son Solomon, follow my advice. Go at once to King David and say to him, ‘My lord the king, didn’t you make a vow and say to me, “Your son Solomon will surely be the next king and will sit on my throne”? Why then has Adonijah become king?’
Aug 10
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highlighted 1 Kings 1:10 NLT
But he did not invite Nathan the prophet or Benaiah or the king’s bodyguard or his brother Solomon.
Aug 9
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highlighted 1 Kings 1:9 NLT
Adonijah went to the Stone of Zoheleth near the spring of En-rogel, where he sacrificed sheep, cattle, and fattened calves. He invited all his brothers—the other sons of King David—and all the royal officials of Judah.
Aug 9
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highlighted 1 Kings 1:7-8 NLT
Adonijah took Joab son of Zeruiah and Abiathar the priest into his confidence, and they agreed to help him become king. But Zadok the priest, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, and David’s personal bodyguard refused to support Adonijah.
Aug 9
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highlighted 1 Kings 1:5-6 NLT
About that time David’s son Adonijah, whose mother was Haggith, began boasting, “I will make myself king.” So he provided himself with chariots and charioteers and recruited fifty men to run in front of him. Now his father, King David, had never disciplined him at any time, even by asking, “Why are you doing that?” Adonijah had been born next after Absalom, and he was very handsome.
Aug 9
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highlighted 1 Kings 1:1-2 NLT
King David was now very old, and no matter how many blankets covered him, he could not keep warm. So his advisers told him, “Let us find a young virgin to wait on you and look after you, my lord. She will lie in your arms and keep you warm.”
Aug 9
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highlighted 1 Kings 1:4 NLT
The girl was very beautiful, and she looked after the king and took care of him. But the king had no sexual relations with her.
Aug 9
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highlighted Psalms 123:3-4 NASB
aBe gracious to us, O Lord, be gracious to us,
Aug 8
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highlighted 1 Timothy 6:20-21 NASB
O aTimothy, guard bwhat has been entrusted to you, avoiding cworldly and empty chatter and the opposing arguments of what is falsely called "knowledge"--which some have professed and thus agone astray from bthe faith.
Aug 8
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highlighted 1 Timothy 6:18-19 NASB
Instruct them to do good, to be rich in agood works, bto be generous and ready to share,astoring up for themselves the treasure of a good foundation for the future, so that they may btake hold of that which is life indeed.
Aug 8
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highlighted 1 Timothy 6:17 NASB
Instruct those who are rich in athis present world bnot to be conceited or to cfix their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, dwho richly supplies us with all things to enjoy.
Aug 8
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highlighted 1 Timothy 6:13-15 NASB
aI charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of bChrist Jesus, who testified the cgood confession dbefore Pontius Pilate,that you keep the commandment without stain or reproach until the aappearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,which He will bring about at athe proper time--He who is bthe blessed and conly Sovereign, dthe King of kings and eLord of lords,
Aug 8
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highlighted 1 Timothy 6:11-12 NASB
But aflee from these things, you bman of God, and pursue righteousness, godliness, cfaith, dlove, perseverance and gentleness.aFight the good fight of bfaith; ctake hold of the eternal life dto which you were called, and you made the good econfession in the presence of fmany witnesses.
Aug 8
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highlighted 1 Timothy 6:10 NASB
For athe love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have bwandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
Aug 8