H3588A–כִּי–ki

Now in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem, because of their sin against the Lord,

כִּ֥י ki “for”

And the Lord, seeing that they had made themselves low, said to Shemaiah, They have made themselves low: I will not send destruction on them, but in a short time I will give them salvation, and will not let loose my wrath on Jerusalem by the hand of Shis

כִּ֣י ki “that”

But still they will become his servants, so that they may see how different my yoke is from the yoke of the kingdoms of the lands.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

So King Rehoboam made himself strong in Jerusalem and was ruling there. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he was ruling for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the town which the Lord had made his out of all the tribes of Israel, to put

כִּ֣י ki “for”

And he did evil because his heart was not true to the Lord.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

Is it not clear to you that the Lord, the God of Israel, gave the rule over Israel to David and to his sons for ever, by an agreement made with salt?

כִּ֞י ki “that”

By whom burned offerings and perfumes are sent up in smoke before the Lord every morning and every evening; and they put out the holy bread on its table and the gold support for the lights with its lights burning every evening; for we keep the orders giv

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

And now God is with us at our head, and his priests with their loud horns sounding against you. O children of Israel, do not make war on the Lord, the God of your fathers, for it will not go well for you.

כִּי־ ki- “for”

So at that time the children of Israel were overcome, and the children of Judah got the better of them, because they put their faith in the Lord, the God of their fathers.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

He made walled towns in Judah, for the land was quiet and there were no wars in those years, because the Lord had given him rest.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

He said to Judah, Let us make these towns, building walls round them with towers and doors and locks. The land is still ours, because we have been true to the Lord our God; we have been true to him and he has given us rest on every side. So they went on

כִּ֤י ki “for”

And Asa made prayer to the Lord his God and said, Lord, you only are able to give help against the strong to him who has no strength; come to our help, O Lord our God, for our hope is in you, and in your name we have come out against this great army. O L

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

And Asa and the people who were with him went after them as far as Gerar; and so great was the destruction among the Ethiopians that they were not able to get their army together again, for they were broken before the Lord and before his army; and they t

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

And they overcame all the towns round Gerar, because the Lord sent fear on them; and they took away their goods from the towns, for there were stores of wealth in them.

כִּי־ ki- “for”כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

In those times there was no peace for him who went out or for him who came in, but great trouble was on all the people of the lands.

כִּ֚י ki “for”

And they were broken by divisions, nation against nation and town against town, because God sent all sorts of trouble on them.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

But be you strong and let not your hands be feeble, for your work will be rewarded.

כִּ֛י ki “for”

And he got together all Judah and Benjamin and those of Ephraim and Manasseh and Simeon who were living with them; for numbers of them came to him out of Israel when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”כִּֽי־ ki- “that”

And all Judah was glad because of the oath, for they had taken it with all their heart, turning to the Lord with all their desire; and he was with them and gave them rest on every side.

כִּ֤י ki “for”

For the eyes of the Lord go this way and that, through all the earth, letting it be seen that he is the strong support of those whose hearts are true to him. In this you have done foolishly, for from now you will have wars.

כִּ֣י ki “for”כִּ֣י ki “for”

Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in prison, burning with wrath against him because of this thing. And at the same time Asa was cruel to some of the people.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

In the thirty-ninth year of his rule, Asa had a very bad disease of the feet; but he did not go to the Lord for help in his disease, but to medical men.

כִּ֖י ki “for”

And the Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he went in the early ways of his father, not turning to the Baals,

כִּ֣י ki “for”

But turning to the God of his father and keeping his laws, and not doing as Israel did.

כִּ֠י ki “for”

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is still one man by whom we may get directions from the Lord, but I have no love for him, because he has never been a prophet of good to me, but only of evil: he is Micaiah, the son of Imla. And Jehoshaph

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”כִּ֣י ki “for”