TBESH · H9009
/ה · ha · [the]
Prefix hé article: "the" for a subject, not object
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/ה (ha) means “[the]” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: ha STEP transliteration; pronunciation varies by reading tradition.
/ה · ha · [the]
Prefix hé article: "the" for a subject, not object
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Page 142 of 222. 11071 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
She said to the king, “The report I heard in my own country about your words and wisdom is true.
Read word by wordBut I did not believe the reports until I came and saw with my own eyes. Indeed, not half of the greatness of your wisdom was told to me. You have far exceeded the report I heard.
Read word by wordHow blessed are your men! How blessed are these servants of yours who stand continually before you and hear your wisdom!
Read word by wordThen she gave the king 120 talents of gold, a great quantity of spices, and precious stones. There had never been such spices as those the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.
Read word by wordThe king made the algum wood into steps for the house of the LORD and for the king’s palace, and into lyres and harps for the singers. Never before had anything like them been seen in the land of Judah.)
Read word by wordKing Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all she desired—whatever she asked—far more than she had brought the king. Then she left and returned to her own country, along with her servants.
Read word by wordThe weight of gold that came to Solomon each year was 666 talents,
Read word by wordnot including the revenue from the merchants and traders. And all the Arabian kings and governors of the land also brought gold and silver to Solomon.
Read word by wordKing Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred shekels of hammered gold went into each shield.
Read word by wordHe also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold; three hundred shekels of gold went into each shield. And the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.
Read word by wordAdditionally, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with pure gold.
Read word by wordThe throne had six steps, and a footstool of gold was attached to it. There were armrests on both sides of the seat, with a lion standing beside each armrest.
Read word by wordTwelve lions stood on the six steps, one at either end of each step. Nothing like this had ever been made for any kingdom.
Read word by wordAll King Solomon’s drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, because it was accounted as nothing in the days of Solomon.
Read word by wordSo King Solomon surpassed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
Read word by wordAll the kings of the earth sought an audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom that God had put in his heart.
Read word by wordSolomon had 4,000 stalls for horses and chariots, and 12,000 horses, which he stationed in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.
Read word by wordHe reigned over all the kings from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt.
Read word by wordThe king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
Read word by wordSolomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and from all the lands.
Read word by wordAs for the rest of the acts of Solomon, from beginning to end, are they not written in the Records of Nathan the Prophet, in the Prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the Visions of Iddo the Seer concerning Jeroboam son of Nebat?
Read word by wordWhen Jeroboam son of Nebat heard about this, he returned from Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon.
Read word by word“Your father put a heavy yoke on us. But now you must lighten the burden of your father’s service and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”
Read word by wordRehoboam answered, “Come back to me in three days.” So the people departed.
Read word by wordThen King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How do you advise me to respond to these people?” he asked.
Read word by wordThey replied, “If you will be kind to these people and please them by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”
Read word by wordBut Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders; instead, he consulted the young men who had grown up with him and served him.
Read word by wordHe asked them, “What message do you advise that we send back to these people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’?”
Read word by wordThe young men who had grown up with him replied, “This is how you should answer these people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you must make it lighter.’ This is what you should tell them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist!
Read word by wordAfter three days, Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, since the king had said, “Come back to me on the third day.”
Read word by wordAnd the king answered them harshly. King Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders
Read word by wordand spoke to them as the young men had advised, saying, “Whereas my father made your yoke heavy, I will add to your yoke. Whereas my father scourged you with whips, I will scourge you with scorpions.”
Read word by wordSo the king did not listen to the people, and indeed this turn of events was from God, in order that the LORD might fulfill the word that He had spoken through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.
Read word by wordWhen all Israel saw that the king had refused to listen to them, they answered the king: “What portion do we have in David, and what inheritance in the son of Jesse? To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, O David!” So all the Israelites went home,
Read word by wordbut Rehoboam still reigned over the Israelites living in the cities of Judah.
Read word by wordThen King Rehoboam sent out Hadoram, who was in charge of the forced labor, but the Israelites stoned him to death. And King Rehoboam mounted his chariot in haste and escaped to Jerusalem.
Read word by wordSo to this day Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David.
Read word by wordWhen Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mobilized the house of Judah and Benjamin—180,000 chosen warriors—to fight against Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam.
Read word by wordBut the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of God:
Read word by wordthat this is what the LORD says: ‘You are not to go up and fight against your brothers. Each of you must return home, for this is My doing.’” So they listened to the words of the LORD and turned back from going against Jeroboam.
Read word by wordHe strengthened their fortifications and put officers in them, with supplies of food, oil, and wine.
Read word by wordMoreover, the priests and Levites from all their districts throughout Israel stood with Rehoboam.
Read word by wordFor the Levites left their pasturelands and their possessions and went to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them as priests of the LORD.
Read word by wordThose from every tribe of Israel who had set their hearts to seek the LORD their God followed the Levites to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the LORD, the God of their fathers.
Read word by wordRehoboam also acted wisely by dispersing some of his sons throughout the districts of Judah and Benjamin, and to all the fortified cities. He gave them abundant provisions and sought many wives for them.
Read word by wordIn the fifth year of Rehoboam’s reign, because they had been unfaithful to the LORD, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem
Read word by wordHe captured the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.
Read word by wordThen Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the leaders of Judah who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and he said to them, “This is what the LORD says: ‘You have forsaken Me; therefore, I have forsaken you into the hand of Shishak.’”
Read word by wordSo the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The LORD is righteous.”
Read word by wordNevertheless, they will become his servants, so that they may learn the difference between serving Me and serving the kings of other lands.”
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