While you are still there speaking to the king, I will arrive and verify your report.”

Once the priests left the holy place, a cloud filled the Lord’s temple.

Solomon did evil in the Lord’s sight; he did not remain loyal to the Lord, like his father David had.

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

Solomon dismissed Abiathar from his position as priest of the Lord, fulfilling the decree of judgment the Lord made in Shiloh against the family of Eli.

The priests could not carry out their duties because of the cloud; the Lord’s glory filled his temple.

He said, “The Lord God of Israel is worthy of praise because he has fulfilled what he promised my father David.

You have kept your word to your servant, my father David; this very day you have fulfilled what you promised.

When the Israelites had mustered and had received their supplies, they marched out to face them in battle. When the Israelites deployed opposite them, they were like two small flocks of goats, but the Syrians filled the land.

He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a craftsman in bronze from Tyre. He had the skill and knowledge to make all kinds of works of bronze. He reported to King Solomon and did all the work he was assigned.

After this happened, Jeroboam still did not change his evil ways; he continued to appoint common people as priests at the high places. Anyone who wanted the job he consecrated as a priest.

He arranged the wood, cut up the bull, and placed it on the wood.