World English Bible (Classic)

1 Kings

22 chapters

Chapters

1 Kings 1

Now King David was old and advanced in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he couldn’t keep warm.

1 Kings 2

Now the days of David came near that he should die; and he commanded Solomon his son, saying,

Solomon made a marriage alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt. He took Pharaoh’s daughter and brought her into David’s city until he had finished building his own house, Yahweh’s house, and the wall around Jerusalem.

1 Kings 4

King Solomon was king over all Israel.

1 Kings 5

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, and Hiram had always loved David.

1 Kings 6

In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build Yahweh’s house.

1 Kings 7

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

1 Kings 8

Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel with all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel, to King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of Yahweh’s covenant out of David’s city, which is Zion.

1 Kings 9

When Solomon had finished the building of Yahweh’s house, the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do,

1 Kings 10

When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning Yahweh’s name, she came to test him with hard questions.

1 Kings 11

Now King Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites,

1 Kings 12

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

1 Kings 13

Behold, a man of God came out of Judah by Yahweh’s word to Bethel; and Jeroboam was standing by the altar to burn incense.

1 Kings 14

At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam became sick.

1 Kings 15

Now in the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam the son of Nebat, Abijam began to reign over Judah.

1 Kings 16

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

1 Kings 17

Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”

1 Kings 18

After many days, Yahweh’s word came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain on the earth.”

1 Kings 19

Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.

1 Kings 20

Ben Hadad the king of Syria gathered all his army together; and there were thirty-two kings with him, with horses and chariots. He went up and besieged Samaria, and fought against it.

1 Kings 21

After these things, Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard which was in Jezreel, next to the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.

1 Kings 22

They continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.