One of the women said, “My master, this woman and I live in the same house. I had a baby while she was with me in the house.

He had 700 royal wives and 300 concubines; his wives had a powerful influence over him.

Pharaoh liked Hadad so well he gave him his sister-in-law (Queen Tahpenes’ sister) as a wife.

She said, “Allow Abishag the Shunammite to be given to your brother Adonijah as a wife.”

This woman’s child suffocated during the night when she rolled on top of him.

He built high places for all his foreign wives so they could burn incense and make sacrifices to their gods.

Then two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.

Ben-Abinadab was in charge of Naphath Dor. (He was married to Solomon’s daughter Taphath.)

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

So Jeroboam’s wife got up and went back to Tirzah. As she crossed the threshold of the house, the boy died.

He said to him, “This is what Ben Hadad says, ‘Your silver and your gold are mine, as well as the best of your wives and sons.’”

Jeroboam told his wife, “Disguise yourself so that people cannot recognize you are Jeroboam’s wife. Then go to Shiloh; Ahijah the prophet, who told me I would rule over this nation, lives there.

He said, “Please ask King Solomon if he would give me Abishag the Shunammite as a wife, for he won’t refuse you.”

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.

King Solomon fell in love with many foreign women (besides Pharaoh’s daughter), including Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites.

Jeroboam son of Nebat, one of Solomon’s servants, rebelled against the king. He was an Ephraimite from Zeredah whose mother was a widow named Zeruah.

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.

“Get up, go to Zarephath in Sidonian territory, and live there. I have already told a widow who lives there to provide for you.”

The woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a prophet and that the Lord really does speak through you.”

The messengers came again and said, “This is what Ben Hadad says, ‘I sent this message to you, “You must give me your silver, gold, wives, and sons.”