“Leave here and travel eastward. Hide out in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan.

O Lord, truly I have built a lofty temple for you, a place where you can live permanently.”

He then said to him, “Come home with me and eat something.”

He replied, “Yes, go and say to your master, ‘Elijah is back.’”

Now you say, ‘Go and say to your master, “Elijah is back.”’

God said to him, “Because you asked for the ability to make wise judicial decisions, and not for long life, or riches, or vengeance on your enemies,

Bathsheba bowed down on the floor before the king. The king said, “What do you want?”

I will take the kingdom from the hand of his son and give ten tribes to you.

The king then said to the prophet, “Come home with me and have something to eat. I’d like to give a present.”

Now you say, ‘Go and say to your master, “Elijah is back,”’ but he will kill me.”

The king of Israel replied, “It is just as you say, my master, O king. I and all I own belong to you.”

But Naboth replied to Ahab, “The Lord forbid that I should sell you my ancestral inheritance.”

Then he told Jeroboam, “Take ten pieces, for this is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘Look, I am about to tear the kingdom from Solomon’s hand and I will give ten tribes to you.

“I want to make a treaty with you, like the one our fathers made. See, I have sent you silver and gold as a present. Break your treaty with King Baasha of Israel, so he will retreat from my land.”

He left the oxen, ran after Elijah, and said, “Please let me kiss my father and mother goodbye, then I will follow you.” Elijah said to him, “Go back! Indeed, what have I done to you?”

He answered her, “While I was talking to Naboth the Jezreelite, I said to him, ‘Sell me your vineyard for silver, or if you prefer, I will give you another vineyard in its place.’ But he said, ‘I will not sell you my vineyard.’”

King Solomon sent men to bring him down from the altar. He came and bowed down to King Solomon, and Solomon told him, “Go home.”

Next the king summoned Shimei and told him, “Build yourself a house in Jerusalem and live there – but you may not leave there to go anywhere!

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

I grant your request, and give you a wise and discerning mind superior to that of anyone who has preceded or will succeed you.