Furthermore, I am giving you what you did not request – riches and honor so that you will be the greatest king of your generation.

Furthermore, Solomon has assumed the royal throne.

Ahimaaz was in charge of Naphtali. (He married Solomon’s daughter Basemath.)

The water flowed down all sides of the altar and filled the trench.

The Lord says this about Jezebel, ‘Dogs will devour Jezebel by the outer wall of Jezreel.’

Say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: “Haven’t you committed murder and taken possession of the property of the deceased?”’ Then say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: “In the spot where dogs licked up Naboth’s blood they will also lick up your blood – yes, yours!”’”

(Now his father had never corrected him by saying, “Why do you do such things?” He was also very handsome and had been born right after Absalom.)

and said this: ‘The Lord God of Israel is worthy of praise because today he has placed a successor on my throne and allowed me to see it.’”

Then three days after I had my baby, this woman also had a baby. We were alone; there was no one else in the house except the two of us.

On the top of each pillar, right above the bulge beside the latticework, there were two hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments arranged in rows all the way around.

“Foreigners, who do not belong to your people Israel, will come from a distant land because of your reputation.

(Hiram’s fleet, which carried gold from Ophir, also brought from Ophir a very large quantity of fine timber and precious gems.

The Lord will raise up a king over Israel who will cut off Jeroboam’s dynasty. It is ready to happen!

They even built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

There were also male cultic prostitutes in the land. They committed the same horrible sins as the nations that the Lord had driven out from before the Israelites.

He also removed Maacah his grandmother from her position as queen because she had made a loathsome Asherah pole. Asa cut down her Asherah pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

Then he called out to the Lord, “O Lord, my God, are you also bringing disaster on this widow I am staying with by killing her son?”

The real mother spoke up to the king, for her motherly instincts were aroused. She said, “My master, give her the living child! Whatever you do, don’t kill him!” But the other woman said, “Neither one of us will have him! Let them cut him in two!”

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

Inside the stand was a round opening that was a foot-and-a-half deep; it had a support that was two and one-quarter feet long. On the edge of the opening were carvings in square frames.