1 Kings 6:1
The Building of the Temple
6:1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites left Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, during the month Ziv (the second month), he began building the Lord’s temple.
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 8:20
8:20 The
Lord has kept the promise he made.
I have taken my father David’s place and have occupied the throne of Israel, as the
Lord promised. I have built this temple for the honor
of the
Lord God of Israel
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 9:7
9:7 then I will remove Israel from the land
I have given them, I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence,
and Israel will be mocked and ridiculed
among all the nations.
1 Kings 10:9
10:9 May the
Lord your God be praised because he favored
you by placing you on the throne of Israel! Because of the
Lord’s eternal love for Israel, he made you king so you could make just and right decisions.”
1 Kings 12:20
12:20 When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they summoned him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. No one except the tribe of Judah remained loyal to the Davidic dynasty.
1 Kings 14:13
14:13 All Israel will mourn him and bury him. He is the only one in Jeroboam’s family
who will receive a decent burial, for he is the only one in whom the
Lord God of Israel found anything good.
1 Kings 14:15
14:15 The
Lord will attack Israel, making it like a reed that sways in the water.
He will remove Israel from this good land he gave to their ancestors
and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River,
because they angered the
Lord by making Asherah poles.
1 Kings 16:2
16:2 “I raised you up
from the dust and made you ruler over my people Israel. Yet you followed in Jeroboam’s footsteps
and encouraged my people Israel to sin; their sins have made me angry.
1 Kings 16:13
16:13 This happened because of all the sins which Baasha and his son Elah committed and which they made Israel commit. They angered the
Lord God of Israel with their worthless idols.
1 Kings 16:16
16:16 While deployed there, the army received this report:
“Zimri has conspired against the king and assassinated him.”
So all Israel made Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel that very day in the camp.
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 20:31
20:31 His advisers
said to him, “Look, we have heard that the kings of the Israelite dynasty are kind.
Allow us to put sackcloth around our waists and ropes on our heads
and surrender
to the king of Israel. Maybe he will spare our lives.”