1 Kings 11:37

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And you I will take, and you will be king over Israel, ruling over whatever is the desire of your soul.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Sam 3:21 : 21 And Abner said to David, Now I will go, and make all Israel come to my lord the king, so that they may make an agreement with you, and your kingdom may be as wide as your heart's desire. Then David sent Abner away and he went in peace.
  • 1 Kgs 11:26 : 26 And there was Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite from Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother was Zeruah, a widow; and his hand was lifted up against the king.
  • Deut 14:26 : 26 And with the money get whatever you have a desire for, oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your soul's desire may be: and make a feast there before the Lord your God, and be glad, you and all your house;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Kgs 11:38-39
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    85%

    38And if you give attention to the orders I give you, walking in my ways and doing what is right in my eyes and keeping my laws and my orders as David my servant did; then I will be with you, building up for you a safe house, as I did for David, and I will give Israel to you.

    39(So that I may send trouble for this on the seed of David, but not for ever.)

  • 1 Chr 17:7
    81%

    7So now, say to my servant David, The Lord of armies says, I took you from the fields, from keeping sheep, so that you might be a ruler over my people Israel;

  • 1 Kgs 1:35
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    35Then come up after him and he will come in and take his place on the seat of my kingdom; for he is to be king in my place, and I have given orders that he is to be ruler over Israel and over Judah.

  • 2 Chr 7:17-18
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    80%

    17And as for you, if you will go on your way before me as David your father did, doing whatever I have given you orders to do and keeping my laws and my decisions:

    18Then I will make strong the seat of your kingdom, as I gave my word to David your father, saying, You will never be without a man to be ruler in Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 9:5
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    5Then I will make the seat of your rule over Israel certain for ever, as I gave my word to David your father, saying, You will never be without a man to be king in Israel.

  • 1 Chr 17:10-13
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    10From the time when I put judges over my people Israel; and I will overcome all those who are against you; and I will make you great and the head of a line of kings.

    11And when the time comes for you to go to your fathers, I will put in your place your seed after you, one of your sons, and I will make his kingdom strong.

    12He will be the builder of my house, and I will make the seat of his authority certain for ever.

    13I will be to him a father and he will be to me a son; and I will not take my mercy away from him as I took it from him who was before you;

  • 2 Sam 7:8-9
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    79%

    8Then say these words to my servant David, The Lord of armies says, I took you from the fields, from keeping the sheep, so that you might be a ruler over my people, over my people Israel:

    9And I have been with you wherever you went, cutting off before you all those who were against you; and I will make your name great, like the name of the greatest ones of the earth.

  • 1 Chr 11:2-3
    2 verses
    79%

    2In the past, when Saul was king, it was you who went at the head of Israel when they went out or came in; and the Lord your God said to you, You are to be the keeper of my people Israel, and their ruler.

    3So all the responsible men of Israel came to the king at Hebron; and David made an agreement with them in Hebron before the Lord; and they put the holy oil on David and made him king over Israel, as the Lord had said by Samuel.

  • 1 Kgs 11:34-36
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    78%

    34But I will not take the kingdom from him; I will let him be king all the days of his life, because of David my servant, in whom I took delight because he kept my orders and my laws.

    35But I will take the kingdom from his son, and give it to you.

    36And one tribe I will give to his son, so that David my servant may have a light for ever burning before me in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine to put my name there.

  • 2 Sam 7:11-12
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    11From the time when I put judges over my people Israel; and I will give you peace from all who are against you. And the Lord says to you that he will make you the head of a line of kings.

    12And when the time comes for you to go to rest with your fathers, I will put in your place your seed after you, the offspring of your body, and I will make his kingdom strong.

  • 1 Chr 28:4-5
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    4Though the Lord, the God of Israel, took me out of all my father's family, to be king over Israel for ever, marking out Judah to be chief, and, of the people of Judah, my father's family; and among the sons of my father he was pleased to make me king over all Israel;

    5And of all my sons (for the Lord has given me a great number of sons) he has made selection of Solomon to take his place on the seat of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 2:4
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    4So that the Lord may give effect to what he said of me, If your children give attention to their ways, living uprightly before me with all their heart and their soul, you will never be without a man to be king in Israel.

  • 1 Sam 25:30
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    30And when the Lord has done for my lord all those good things which he has said he will do for you, and has made you a ruler over Israel;

  • Hos 13:10
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    10Where is your king, that he may be your saviour? and all your rulers, that they may take up your cause? of whom you said, Give me a king and rulers.

  • 2 Sam 5:2
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    2In the past when Saul was king over us, it was you who went at the head of Israel when they went out or came in: and the Lord said to you, You are to be the keeper of my people Israel and their ruler.

  • 1 Sam 24:20
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    20If a man comes across his hater, will he let him get away safe? so may you be rewarded by the Lord for what you have done for me today.

  • 2 Sam 12:7-8
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    7And Nathan said to David, You are that man. The Lord God of Israel says, I made you king over Israel, putting holy oil on you, and I kept you safe from the hands of Saul;

    8I gave you your master's daughter and your master's wives for yourself, and I gave you the daughters of Israel and Judah; and if that had not been enough, I would have given you such and such things.

  • 1 Kgs 10:9
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    9May the Lord your God be praised, whose pleasure it was to put you on the seat of the kingdom of Israel; because the Lord's love for Israel is eternal, he has made you king, to be their judge in righteousness.

  • 1 Chr 22:10-11
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    10He will be the builder of a house for my name; he will be to me a son, and I will be to him a father; and I will make the seat of his rule over Israel certain for ever.

    11Now, my son, may the Lord be with you; and may you do well, and put up the house of the Lord your God, as he has said of you.

  • Deut 17:14
    75%

    14When you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and have taken it for a heritage and are living in it, if it is your desire to have a king over you, like the other nations round about you;

  • 1 Sam 12:13
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    13Here, then, is the king marked out by you: the Lord has put a king over you.

  • 2 Chr 1:9
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    9Now, O Lord God, let your word to David my father come true; for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in number.

  • 1 Kgs 1:20
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    20And now, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, waiting for you to say who is to take the place of my lord the king after him.

  • 2 Chr 6:16
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    16So now, O Lord, the God of Israel, let your word to your servant David, my father, come true, when you said, You will never be without a man to take his place before me on the seat of the kingdom of Israel; if only your children give attention to their ways, walking in my law, as you have done before me.

  • 1 Chr 28:7
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    7I will keep his kingdom in its place for ever, if he is strong at all times to do my orders and keep my rules, as at this day.

  • 2 Sam 7:16
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    16And your family and your kingdom will keep their place before me for ever: the seat of your authority will never be overturned.

  • 1 Kgs 14:8
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    8And took the kingdom away by force from the seed of David and gave it to you, you have not been like my servant David, who kept my orders, and was true to me with all his heart, doing only what was right in my eyes.

  • 1 Kgs 8:25
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    25So now, O Lord, the God of Israel, let your word to your servant David, my father, come true, when you said, You will never be without a man to take his place on the seat of the kingdom of Israel before me, if only your children give attention to their ways, walking before me as you have done.

  • 1 Sam 28:17
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    17And the Lord himself has done what I said: the Lord has taken the kingdom out of your hand and given it to your neighbour David;

  • 2 Sam 3:10
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    10And if I do not take away the kingdom from the family of Saul and make David ruler over Israel and Judah from Dan as far as Beer-sheba!

  • 1 Kgs 11:13
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    13Still I will not take all the kingdom from him; but I will give one tribe to your son, because of my servant David, and because of Jerusalem, the town of my selection.

  • 2 Chr 9:8
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    8Praise be to the Lord your God whose pleasure it was to put you on the seat of his kingdom to be king for the Lord your God: because, in his love for Israel, it was the purpose of your God to make them strong for ever, he made you king over them, to be their judge in righteousness.

  • Ezek 37:24
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    24And my servant David will be king over them; and they will all have one keeper: and they will be guided by my orders and will keep my rules and do them.

  • 1 Sam 23:17
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    17And said to him, Have no fear, for Saul my father will not get you into his power; and you will be king of Israel, and I will be by your side, and my father Saul is certain of this.

  • 2 Sam 17:11
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    11But my suggestion is that all Israel, from Dan as far as Beer-sheba, comes together to you, a great army like the sands of the sea in number; and that you yourself go out among them.

  • 1 Sam 13:14
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    14But now, your authority will not go on: the Lord, searching for a man who is pleasing to him in every way, has given him the place of ruler over his people, because you have not done what the Lord gave you orders to do.

  • 1 Kgs 3:14
    73%

    14And if you go on in my ways, keeping my laws and my orders as your father David did, I will give you a long life.