Lexicon :: Strong's H5971 - ʿam

“LORD God, let your promise to my father David now come true. For you have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.

Then King Hiram of Tyre wrote a letter[fn] and sent it to Solomon:

Because the LORD loves his people, he set you over them as king.

Solomon made 70,000 of them porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors to make the people work.

“Since the day I brought my people Israel

out of the land of Egypt,

I have not chosen a city to build a temple in

among any of the tribes of Israel,

so that my name would be there,

and I have not chosen a man

to be ruler over my people Israel.

Hear the petitions of your servant

and your people Israel,

which they pray toward this place.

May you hear in your dwelling place in heaven.

May you hear and forgive.

If your people Israel are defeated before an enemy,

because they have sinned against you,

and they return to you and praise your name,

and they pray and plead for mercy

before you in this temple,

may you hear in heaven

and forgive the sin of your servants

and your people Israel,

so that you may teach them the good way

they should walk in.

May you send rain on your land

that you gave your people for an inheritance.

every prayer or petition

that any person or that all your people Israel may have —

they each know their own affliction[fn] and suffering —

as they spread out their hands toward this temple,

Even for the foreigner who is not of your people Israel

but has come from a distant land

because of your great name

and your strong hand and outstretched arm:

when he comes and prays toward this temple,

may you hear their prayer and petitions in heaven,

your dwelling place,

and uphold their cause.[fn]

May you forgive your people

who sinned against you.

The king and all the people were offering sacrifices in the LORD’s presence.

On the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people home,[fn] rejoicing and with happy hearts for the goodness the LORD had done for David, for Solomon, and for his people Israel.

If I shut the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the grasshopper to consume the land, or if I send pestilence on my people,

then I will uproot Israel from the soil that I gave them, and this temple that I have sanctified for my name I will banish from my presence; I will make it an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.

As for all the peoples who remained of the Hethites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who were not from Israel ​— ​

These were King Solomon’s deputies: 250 who supervised the people.

Rehoboam replied, “Return to me in three days.” So the people left.

He asked them, “What message do you advise we send back to this people who said to me, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’? ”

So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, just as the king had ordered, saying, “Return to me on the third day.”

The king did not listen to the people because the turn of events came from God, in order that the LORD might carry out his word that he had spoken through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.

with 1,200 chariots, 60,000 cavalrymen, and countless people who came with him from Egypt ​— ​Libyans, Sukkiim, and Cushites.

“Didn’t you banish the priests of the LORD, the descendants of Aaron and the Levites, and make your own priests like the peoples of other lands do? Whoever comes to ordain himself with a young bull and seven rams may become a priest of what are not gods.

Then Abijah and his people struck them with a mighty blow, and five hundred thousand fit young men of Israel were killed.

Then Asa and the people who were with him pursued them as far as Gerar. The Cushites fell until they had no survivors, for they were crushed before the LORD and his army. So the people of Judah carried off a great supply of loot.

Asa was enraged with the seer and put him in prison[fn] because of his anger over this. And Asa mistreated some of the people at that time.

They taught throughout Judah, having the book of the LORD’s instruction with them. They went throughout the towns of Judah and taught the people.

Then after some years, he went down to visit Ahab in Samaria. Ahab slaughtered many sheep, goats, and cattle for him and for the people who were with him, and he persuaded him to attack Ramoth-gilead,

But Micaiah said, “If you ever return safely, the LORD has not spoken through me.” Then he said, “Listen, all you people! ”

Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem, and once again he went out among the people from Beer-sheba to the hill country of Ephraim and brought them back to the LORD, the God of their ancestors.

Are you not our God who drove out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and who gave it forever to the descendants of Abraham your friend?

Then he consulted with the people and appointed some to sing for the LORD and some to praise the splendor of his holiness. When they went out in front of the armed forces, they kept singing:[fn]

Give thanks to the LORD,

for his faithful love endures forever.

Then Jehoshaphat and his people went to gather the plunder. They found among them[fn] an abundance of goods on the bodies[fn] and valuable items. So they stripped them until nobody could carry any more. They were gathering the plunder for three days because there was so much.

However, the high places were not taken away; the people had not yet set their hearts on the God of their ancestors.

“the LORD is now about to strike your people, your sons, your wives, and all your possessions with a horrible affliction.

This continued day after day until two full years passed. Then his intestines came out because of his disease, and he died from severe[fn] illnesses. But his people did not hold a fire in his honor like the fire in honor of his predecessors.

“A third are to be at the king’s palace, and a third are to be at the Foundation Gate, and all the troops will be in the courtyards of the LORD’s temple.