1 Kings 1:47
1:47 The king’s servants have even come to congratulate
our master
King David, saying, ‘May your God
make Solomon more famous than you and make him an even greater king than you!’
Then the king leaned
on the bed
1 Kings 2:22
2:22 King Solomon answered his mother, “Why just request Abishag the Shunammite for him?
Since he is my older brother, you should also request the kingdom for him, for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab son of Zeruiah!”
1 Kings 3:1
The Lord Gives Solomon Wisdom
3:1 Solomon made an alliance by marriage with Pharaoh, king of Egypt; he married Pharaoh’s daughter. He brought her to the City of David until he could finish building his residence and the temple of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem.
1 Kings 8:1
Solomon Moves the Ark into the Temple
8:1 Then Solomon convened in Jerusalem Israel’s elders, all the leaders of the Israelite tribes and families, so they could witness the transferal of the ark of the Lord’s covenant from the city of David (that is, Zion).
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 12:6
12:6 King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, “How do you advise me to answer these people?”
1 Kings 13:28
13:28 He went and found the corpse lying in the road with the donkey and the lion standing beside it;
the lion had neither eaten the corpse nor attacked the donkey.
1 Kings 15:22
15:22 King Asa ordered all the men of Judah (no exemptions were granted) to carry away the stones and wood that Baasha had used to build Ramah.
King Asa used the materials to build up
Geba (in Benjamin) and Mizpah.
1 Kings 16:24
16:24 He purchased the hill of Samaria
from Shemer for two talents
of silver. He launched a construction project there
and named the city he built after Shemer, the former owner of the hill of Samaria.
1 Kings 22:31
22:31 Now the king of Syria had ordered his thirty-two chariot commanders, “Do not fight common soldiers or high-ranking officers;
fight only the king of Israel.”