the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time, in the same way he had appeared to him at Gibeon.

The poles were so long their ends were visible from the holy place in front of the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from beyond that point. They have remained there to this very day.

So Elijah went to make an appearance before Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria.

When the queen of Sheba saw for herself Solomon’s extensive wisdom, the palace he had built,

But Elijah said, “As certainly as the Lord who rules over all lives (whom I serve), I will make an appearance before him today.”

When Ahab saw Elijah, he said to him, “Is it really you, the one who brings disaster on Israel?”

Micaiah replied, “Look, you will see in the day when you go into an inner room to hide.”

When the chariot commanders realized he was not the king of Israel, they turned away from him.

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.’”

One night in Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream. God said, “Tell me what I should give you.”

The inside of the temple was all cedar and was adorned with carvings of round ornaments and of flowers in bloom. Everything was cedar; no stones were visible.

When Hiram went out from Tyre to inspect the cities Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them.

The Lord was angry with Solomon because he had shifted his allegiance away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him on two occasions

Jeroboam was a talented man; when Solomon saw that the young man was an accomplished worker, he made him the leader of the work crew from the tribe of Joseph.

Their father asked them, “Which road did he take?” His sons showed him the road the prophet from Judah had taken.

Jeroboam’s wife did as she was told. She went to Shiloh and visited Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see; he had lost his eyesight in his old age.

When Zimri saw that the city was captured, he went into the fortified area of the royal palace. He set the palace on fire and died in the flames.

Elijah took the boy, brought him down from the upper room to the house, and handed him to his mother. Elijah then said, “See, your son is alive!”

When all the people saw this, they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground and said, “The Lord is the true God! The Lord is the true God!”

Elijah was afraid, so he got up and fled for his life to Beer Sheba in Judah. He left his servant there,