The king responded to the people harshly. He rejected the advice of the older men

These were the ones who served the king, besides those whom the king placed in the fortified cities throughout Judah.

King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned them to the officers of the royal guard who protected the entrance to the royal palace.

The Levites must surround the king. Each of you must hold his weapon in his hand. Whoever tries to enter the temple must be killed. You must accompany the king wherever he goes.”

Jehoiada and his sons led out the king’s son and placed on him the crown and the royal insignia. They proclaimed him king and poured olive oil on his head. They declared, “Long live the king!”

Zikri, an Ephraimite warrior, killed the king’s son Maaseiah, Azrikam, the supervisor of the palace, and Elkanah, the king’s second-in-command.

The king made a large throne decorated with ivory and overlaid it with pure gold.

King Solomon was wealthier and wiser than any of the kings of the earth.

When the sacrifices were completed, the king and all who were with him bowed down and worshiped.

The proposal seemed appropriate to the king and the entire assembly.

The king summoned all the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem.

He summoned the officers of the units of hundreds, the nobles, the rulers of the people, and all the people of land, and he then led the king down from the Lord’s temple. They entered the royal palace through the Upper Gate and seated the king on the royal throne.

So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram, took Ahaziah’s son Joash and sneaked him away from the rest of the royal descendants who were to be executed. She hid him and his nurse in the room where the bed covers were stored. So Jehoshabeath the daughter of King Jehoram, wife of Jehoiada the priest and sister of Ahaziah, hid him from Athaliah so she could not execute him.

Solomon acquired his horses from Egypt and from Que; the king’s traders purchased them from Que.

The king had them cast in earthen foundries in the region of the Jordan between Succoth and Zarethan.

All the men of Israel assembled before the king during the festival in the seventh month.

They did not neglect any detail of the king’s orders pertaining to the priests, Levites, and treasuries.

She said to the king, “The report I heard in my own country about your wise sayings and insight was true!

Another third of you will be stationed at the royal palace and still another third at the Foundation Gate. All the others will stand in the courtyards of the Lord’s temple.

They seized her and took her into the precincts of the royal palace through the horses’ entrance. There they executed her.