1 Kings 1:38
1:38 So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites, and the Pelethites went down, put Solomon on King David’s mule, and led him to Gihon.
1 Kings 2:19
2:19 So Bathsheba visited King Solomon to speak to him on Adonijah’s behalf. The king got up to greet her, bowed to her, and then sat on his throne. He ordered a throne to be brought for the king’s mother, and she sat at his right hand.
1 Kings 4:7
4:7 Solomon had twelve district governors appointed throughout Israel who acquired supplies for the king and his palace. Each was responsible for one month in the year.
1 Kings 4:33
4:33 He produced manuals on botany, describing every kind of plant,
from the cedars of Lebanon to the hyssop that grows on walls. He also produced manuals on biology, describing
animals, birds, insects, and fish.
1 Kings 7:2
7:2 He named
it “The Palace of the Lebanon Forest”;
it was 150 feet
long, 75 feet
wide, and 45 feet
high. It had four rows of cedar pillars and cedar beams above the pillars.
1 Kings 7:18
7:18 When he made the pillars, there were two rows of pomegranate-shaped ornaments around the latticework covering the top of each pillar.
1 Kings 7:39
7:39 He put five basins on the south side of the temple and five on the north side. He put “The Sea” on the south side, in the southeast corner.
1 Kings 7:41
7:41 He made
the two pillars, the two bowl-shaped tops of the pillars, the latticework for the bowl-shaped tops of the two pillars,
1 Kings 9:5
9:5 Then I will allow your dynasty to rule over Israel permanently,
just as I promised your father David, ‘You will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’
1 Kings 9:9
9:9 Others will then answer,
‘Because they abandoned the
Lord their God, who led their ancestors
out of Egypt. They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served.
That is why the
Lord has brought all this disaster down on them.’”
1 Kings 12:33
A Prophet from Judah Visits Bethel
12:33 On the fifteenth day of the eighth month (a date he had arbitrarily chosen) Jeroboam offered sacrifices on the altar he had made in Bethel. He inaugurated a festival for the Israelites and went up to the altar to offer sacrifices.
1 Kings 16:29
Ahab Promotes Idolatry
16:29 In the thirty-eighth year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Omri’s son Ahab became king over Israel. Ahab son of Omri ruled over Israel for twenty-two years in Samaria.
1 Kings 18:23
18:23 Let them bring us two bulls. Let them choose one of the bulls for themselves, cut it up into pieces, and place it on the wood. But they must not set it on fire. I will do the same to the other bull and place it on the wood. But I will not set it on fire.
1 Kings 18:33
18:33 He arranged the wood, cut up the bull, and placed it on the wood.
1 Kings 21:4
21:4 So Ahab went into his palace, bitter and angry that Naboth the Jezreelite had said, “I will not sell to you my ancestral inheritance.” He lay down on his bed, pouted, and would not eat.