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1 Kings

22 chapters

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1 Kings 1

And king David was old [and] advanced in age; and they covered him with clothes, but he obtained no warmth.

1 Kings 2

And the days of David were at hand that he should die; and he enjoined Solomon his son saying,

And Solomon allied himself by marriage with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had ended building his own house, and the house of Jehovah, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.

1 Kings 4

And king Solomon was king over all Israel.

1 Kings 5

And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the place of his father; for Hiram always loved David.

1 Kings 6

And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of Jehovah.

1 Kings 7

And Solomon was thirteen years building his own house; and he finished all his house.

1 Kings 8

Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Jehovah out of the city of David, which is Zion.

1 Kings 9

And it came to pass when Solomon had completed the building of the house of Jehovah, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,

1 Kings 10

And the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon in connection with the name of Jehovah, and came to prove him with enigmas.

1 Kings 11

But king Solomon loved many foreign women, besides the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, Hittites;

1 Kings 12

And Rehoboam went to Shechem; for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.

1 Kings 13

And behold, there came a man of God from Judah, by the word of Jehovah, to Bethel; and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.

1 Kings 14

At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam was sick.

1 Kings 15

And in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat began Abijam to reign over Judah.

1 Kings 16

And the word of Jehovah came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,

1 Kings 17

And Elijah the Tishbite, of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, As Jehovah the God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, except by my word.

1 Kings 18

And it came to pass after many days, that the word of Jehovah came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself to Ahab; and I will send rain upon the face of the earth.

1 Kings 19

And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and in detail how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.

1 Kings 20

And Ben-Hadad king of Syria assembled all his host; and there were thirty-two kings with him, and horses and chariots; and he went up and besieged Samaria, and fought against it.

1 Kings 21

And it came to pass after these things, [that] Naboth the Jizreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jizreel, by the side of the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.

1 Kings 22

And they continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.