1 Kings 14:17

Who is she who looks out as the morning, beautiful as the moon, clear as the sun, and awesome as an army with banners?

Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha struck him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel were besieging Gibbethon.

In the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha the son of Ahijah began to reign over all Israel in Tirzah for twenty-four years.

Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah; and Elah his son reigned in his place.

Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, came to Samaria, struck Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, killed him, and reigned in his place.

Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the north sides, the city of the great King.

When Baasha heard of it, he stopped building Ramah, and lived in Tirzah.

In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned seven days in Tirzah. Now the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.

In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri began to reign over Israel for twelve years. He reigned six years in Tirzah.

They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges. All their kings have fallen. There is no one among them who calls to me.

Eltekeh, Gibbethon, Baalath,

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines out.

My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places of the mountainside, let me see your face. let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet and your face is lovely.

You are all beautiful, my love. There is no spot in you.

You are beautiful, my love, as Tirzah, lovely as Jerusalem, awesome as an army with banners.

All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth’?”

I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.

Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes; and the Spirit of God came on him.

He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name perish from under the sky. No one will be able to stand before you until you have destroyed them.

the king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty-one.

Out of the tribe of Dan, Elteke with its pasture lands, Gibbethon with its pasture lands,

Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in his father David’s city; and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.

The days which Jeroboam reigned were twenty two years, then he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place.

Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah; and he reigned over Israel two years.

Yahweh’s word came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,

In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah the son of Baasha began to reign over Israel in Tirzah for two years.

Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.

In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, Ahab the son of Omri began to reign over Israel. Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years.

As Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, “Do you come in peace, Zimri, you murderer of your master?”

They made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and killed him there.

Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and struck him before the people, and killed him, and reigned in his place.

Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah, and he reigned for a month in Samaria.

There was no more war to the thirty-fifth year of Asa’s reign.

When Baasha heard of it, he stopped building Ramah, and let his work cease.

Ahaziah was forty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.

that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?

I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

So the king will desire your beauty, honor him, for he is your lord.

he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.

I am dark, but lovely, you daughters of Jerusalem, like Kedar’s tents, like Solomon’s curtains.

I have compared you, my love, to a steed in Pharaoh’s chariots.

Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are like doves.

He brought me to the banquet hall. His banner over me is love.

I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night.”

Where has your beloved gone, you fairest among women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you?

It will happen in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples. All who burden themselves with it will be severely wounded, and all the nations of the earth will be gathered together against it.

for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,

that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.