USURPATION

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• Genesis 47:13

  There was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.

• Genesis 47:14

  Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.

• Genesis 47:15

  When the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, “Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence? For our money fails.”

• Genesis 47:16

  Joseph said, “Give me your livestock; and I will give you food for your livestock, if your money is gone.”

• Genesis 47:17

  They brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the donkeys: and he fed them with bread in exchange for all their livestock for that year.

• Genesis 47:18

  When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of livestock are my lord’s. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.

• Genesis 47:19

  Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won’t be desolate.”

• Genesis 47:20

  So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for every man of the Egyptians sold his field, because the famine was severe on them, and the land became Pharaoh’s.

• Genesis 47:21

  As for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it.

• Genesis 47:22

  Only he didn’t buy the land of the priests, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them. That is why they didn’t sell their land.

• Genesis 47:23

  Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.

• Genesis 47:24

  It will happen at the harvests, that you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will be your own, for seed of the field, for your food, for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.”

• Genesis 47:25

  They said, “You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.”

• Genesis 47:26

  Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. Only the land of the priests alone didn’t become Pharaoh’s.

• Exodus 1:9

  He said to his people, “Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.

• Exodus 1:10

  Come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies, and fight against us, and escape out of the land.”

• Exodus 1:11

  Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.

• Exodus 1:12

  But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They were grieved because of the children of Israel.

• Exodus 1:13

  The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve,

• Exodus 1:14

  and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.

• Exodus 1:15

  The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah,

• Exodus 1:16

  and he said, “When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool; if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.”

• Exodus 1:17

  But the midwives feared God, and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.

• Exodus 1:18

  The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, “Why have you done this thing, and have saved the boys alive?”

• Exodus 1:19

  The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women aren’t like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous, and give birth before the midwife comes to them.”

• Exodus 1:20

  God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.

• Exodus 1:21

  Because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.

• Exodus 1:22

  Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”

• Numbers 16:3

  They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, “You take too much on yourself, since all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and Yahweh is among them! Why do you lift yourselves up above Yahweh’s assembly?”

• 1 Samuel 13:8

  He stayed seven days, according to the time set by Samuel; but Samuel didn’t come to Gilgal, and the people were scattering from him.

• 1 Samuel 13:9

  Saul said, “Bring the burnt offering to me here, and the peace offerings.” He offered the burnt offering.

• 1 Samuel 13:10

  It came to pass that as soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might greet him.

• 1 Samuel 13:11

  Samuel said, “What have you done?” Saul said, “Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you didn’t come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines assembled themselves together at Michmash;

• 1 Samuel 13:12

  therefore I said, ‘Now the Philistines will come down on me to Gilgal, and I haven’t entreated the favor of Yahweh.’ I forced myself therefore, and offered the burnt offering.”

• 1 Samuel 13:13

  Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you; for now Yahweh would have established your kingdom on Israel forever.

• 1 Samuel 13:14

  But now your kingdom will not continue. Yahweh has sought for himself a man after his own heart, and Yahweh has appointed him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept that which Yahweh commanded you.”

• 2 Samuel 15:1

  After this, Absalom prepared a chariot and horses for himself, and fifty men to run before him.

• 2 Samuel 15:2

  Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate. When any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said, “What city are you from?” He said, “Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.”

• 2 Samuel 15:3

  Absalom said to him, “Behold, your matters are good and right; but there is no man deputized by the king to hear you.”

• 2 Samuel 15:4

  Absalom said moreover, “Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who has any suit or cause might come to me, and I would do him justice!”

• 2 Samuel 15:5

  It was so, that when any man came near to do him obeisance, he stretched out his hand, and took hold of him, and kissed him.

• 2 Samuel 15:6

  Absalom did this sort of thing to all Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.

• 2 Samuel 15:7

  At the end of forty years, Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to Yahweh, in Hebron.

• 2 Samuel 15:8

  For your servant vowed a vow while I stayed at Geshur in Syria, saying, ‘If Yahweh shall indeed bring me again to Jerusalem, then I will serve Yahweh.’”

• 2 Samuel 15:9

  The king said to him, “Go in peace.” So he arose, and went to Hebron.

• 2 Samuel 15:10

  But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then you shall say, ‘Absalom is king in Hebron!’”

• 2 Samuel 15:11

  Two hundred men went with Absalom out of Jerusalem, who were invited, and went in their simplicity; and they didn’t know anything.

• 2 Samuel 15:12

  Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.

• 1 Kings 1:5

  Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, “I will be king.” Then he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.

• 1 Kings 1:6

  His father had not displeased him at any time in saying, “Why have you done so?” and he was also a very handsome man; and he was born after Absalom.

• 1 Kings 1:7

  He conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest; and they followed Adonijah and helped him.

• 1 Kings 1:8

  But Zadok the priest, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, and the mighty men who belonged to David, were not with Adonijah.

• 1 Kings 1:9

  Adonijah killed sheep, cattle, and fatlings by the stone of Zoheleth, which is beside En Rogel; and he called all his brothers, the king’s sons, and all the men of Judah, the king’s servants;

• 1 Kings 2:26

  To Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go to Anathoth, to your own fields; for you are worthy of death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you bore the Lord Yahweh’s ark before David my father, and because you were afflicted in all in which my father was afflicted.”

• 1 Kings 2:27

  So Solomon thrust Abiathar out from being priest to Yahweh, that he might fulfill Yahweh’s word, which he spoke concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.

• 1 Kings 15:27

  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.

• 1 Kings 15:28

  Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha killed him, and reigned in his place.

• 1 Kings 16:9

  His servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him. Now he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah;

• 1 Kings 16:10

  and Zimri went in and struck him, and killed him, in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his place.

• 1 Kings 21:7

  Jezebel his wife said to him, “Do you now govern the kingdom of Israel? Arise, and eat bread, and let your heart be merry. I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”

• 1 Kings 21:8

  So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles who were in his city, who lived with Naboth.

• 1 Kings 21:9

  She wrote in the letters, saying, “Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.

• 1 Kings 21:10

  Set two men, base fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, ‘You cursed God and the king!’ Then carry him out, and stone him to death.”

• 1 Kings 21:11

  The men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had instructed them in the letters which she had written and sent to them.

• 1 Kings 21:12

  They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.

• 1 Kings 21:13

  The two men, the base fellows, came in and sat before him. The base fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king!” Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him to death with stones.

• 1 Kings 21:14

  Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, “Naboth has been stoned, and is dead.”

• 1 Kings 21:15

  When Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned, and was dead, Jezebel said to Ahab, “Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money; for Naboth is not alive, but dead.”

• 1 Kings 21:16

  When Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.

• 1 Kings 21:17

  Yahweh’s word came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

• 1 Kings 21:18

  “Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who dwells in Samaria. Behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, where he has gone down to take possession of it.

• 1 Kings 21:19

  You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “Have you killed and also taken possession?”’ You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs will lick your blood, even yours.”’”

• 2 Kings 9:11

  When Jehu came out to the servants of his lord, and one said to him, “Is all well? Why did this mad fellow come to you?” He said to them, “You know the man and how he talks.”

• 2 Kings 9:12

  They said, “That is a lie. Tell us now.” He said, “He said to me, ‘Yahweh says, I have anointed you king over Israel.’”

• 2 Kings 9:13

  Then they hurried, and each man took his cloak, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew the trumpet, saying, “Jehu is king.”

• 2 Kings 9:14

  So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. (Now Joram was keeping Ramoth Gilead, he and all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria;

• 2 Kings 9:15

  but king Joram had returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) Jehu said, “If this is your thinking, then let no one escape and go out of the city, to go to tell it in Jezreel.”

• 2 Kings 9:16

  So Jehu rode in a chariot and went to Jezreel, for Joram lay there. Ahaziah king of Judah had come down to see Joram.

• 2 Kings 9:17

  Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, “I see a company.” Joram said, “Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, ‘Is it peace?’”

• 2 Kings 9:18

  So one went on horseback to meet him, and said, “Thus says the king, ‘Is it peace?’” Jehu said, “What do you have to do with peace? Fall in behind me!” The watchman said, “The messenger came to them, but he isn’t coming back.”

• 2 Kings 9:19

  Then he sent out a second on horseback, who came to them, and said, “Thus says the king, ‘Is it peace?’” Jehu answered, “What do you have to do with peace? Fall in behind me!”

• 2 Kings 9:20

  The watchman said, “He came to them, and isn’t coming back. The driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi, for he drives furiously.”

• 2 Kings 9:21

  Joram said, “Get ready!” They got his chariot ready. Then Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out to meet Jehu, and found him on Naboth the Jezreelite’s land.

• 2 Kings 9:22

  When Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” He answered, “What peace, so long as the prostitution of your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft abound?”

• 2 Kings 9:23

  Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, “This is treason, Ahaziah!”

• 2 Kings 9:24

  Jehu drew his bow with his full strength, and struck Joram between his arms; and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot.

• 2 Kings 9:25

  Then Jehu said to Bidkar his captain, “Pick him up, and throw him in the plot of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember how, when you and I rode together after Ahab his father, Yahweh laid this burden on him:

• 2 Kings 9:26

  ‘Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons,’ says Yahweh; ‘and I will repay you in this plot of ground,’ says Yahweh. Now therefore take and cast him onto the plot of ground, according to Yahweh’s word.”

• 2 Kings 9:27

  But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. Jehu followed after him, and said, “Strike him also in the chariot!” They struck him at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. He fled to Megiddo, and died there.

• 2 Kings 9:28

  His servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his tomb with his fathers in David’s city.

• 2 Kings 9:29

  In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab, Ahaziah began to reign over Judah.

• 2 Kings 9:30

  When Jehu had come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and adorned her head, and looked out at the window.

• 2 Kings 9:31

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

• 2 Kings 9:32

  He lifted up his face to the window, and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” Two or three eunuchs looked out at him.

• 2 Kings 9:33

  He said, “Throw her down!” So they threw her down; and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses. Then he trampled her under foot.

• 2 Kings 9:34

  When he had come in, he ate and drank. Then he said, “See now to this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king’s daughter.”

• 2 Kings 9:35

  They went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull, the feet, and the palms of her hands.

• 2 Kings 9:36

  Therefore they came back, and told him. He said, “This is Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ‘The dogs will eat the flesh of Jezebel on the plot of Jezreel,

• 2 Kings 9:37

  and the body of Jezebel will be as dung on the face of the field on Jezreel’s land, so that they won’t say, “This is Jezebel.”’”

• 2 Kings 11:1

  Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal offspring.

• 2 Kings 11:2

  But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king’s sons who were slain, even him and his nurse, and put them in the bedroom; and they hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.

• 2 Kings 11:3

  He was with her hidden in Yahweh’s house six years while Athaliah reigned over the land.

• 2 Kings 11:4

  In the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the captains over hundreds of the Carites and of the guard, and brought them to him into Yahweh’s house; and he made a covenant with them, and made a covenant with them in Yahweh’s house, and showed them the king’s son.

• 2 Kings 11:5

  He commanded them, saying, “This is what you must do: a third of you, who come in on the Sabbath, shall be keepers of the watch of the king’s house;

• 2 Kings 11:6

  a third of you shall be at the gate Sur; and a third of you at the gate behind the guard. So you shall keep the watch of the house, and be a barrier.

• 2 Kings 11:7

  The two companies of you, even all who go out on the Sabbath, shall keep the watch of Yahweh’s house around the king.

• 2 Kings 11:8

  You shall surround the king, every man with his weapons in his hand; and he who comes within the ranks, let him be slain. Be with the king when he goes out, and when he comes in.”

• 2 Kings 11:9

  The captains over hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded; and they each took his men, those who were to come in on the Sabbath, with those who were to go out on the Sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.

• 2 Kings 11:10

  The priest delivered to the captains over hundreds the spears and shields that had been king David’s, which were in Yahweh’s house.

• 2 Kings 11:11

  The guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, along by the altar and the house, around the king.

• 2 Kings 11:12

  Then he brought out the king’s son, and put the crown on him, and gave him the covenant; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, “Long live the king!”

• 2 Kings 11:13

  When Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people into Yahweh’s house:

• 2 Kings 11:14

  and she looked, and behold, the king stood by the pillar, as the tradition was, with the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and cried, “Treason! Treason!”

• 2 Kings 11:15

  Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were set over the army, and said to them, “Bring her out between the ranks. Kill anyone who follows her with the sword.” For the priest said, “Don’t let her be slain in Yahweh’s house.”

• 2 Kings 11:16

  So they made way for her; and she went by the way of the horses’ entry to the king’s house, and she was slain there.

• 2 Kings 15:10

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

• 2 Kings 16:12

  When the king had come from Damascus, the king saw the altar; and the king came near to the altar, and offered on it.

• 2 Kings 16:13

  He burned his burnt offering and his meal offering, poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings on the altar.

• 2 Chronicles 26:16

  But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that he did corruptly, and he trespassed against Yahweh his God; for he went into Yahweh’s temple to burn incense on the altar of incense.

• 2 Chronicles 26:17

  Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him eighty priests of Yahweh, who were valiant men.

• 2 Chronicles 26:18

  They resisted Uzziah the king, and said to him, “It isn’t for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to Yahweh, but for the priests the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary, for you have trespassed. It will not be for your honor from Yahweh God.”

• 2 Chronicles 26:19

  Then Uzziah was angry. He had a censer in his hand to burn incense, and while he was angry with the priests, the leprosy broke out on his forehead before the priests in Yahweh’s house, beside the altar of incense.

• 2 Chronicles 26:20

  Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked at him, and behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out quickly from there. Yes, he himself also hurried to go out, because Yahweh had struck him.

• 2 Chronicles 26:21

  Uzziah the king was a leper to the day of his death, and lived in a separate house, being a leper; for he was cut off from Yahweh’s house. Jotham his son was over the king’s house, judging the people of the land.