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!”

The main hall in front of the inner sanctuary was 60 feet long.

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

Then all the nations of the earth will recognize that the Lord is the only genuine God.

The Lord brought against Solomon an enemy, Hadad the Edomite, a descendant of the Edomite king.

She went and did as Elijah told her; there was always enough food for Elijah and for her and her family.

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.’”

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

At noon Elijah mocked them, “Yell louder! After all, he is a god; he may be deep in thought, or perhaps he stepped out for a moment or has taken a trip. Perhaps he is sleeping and needs to be awakened.”

(Now his father had never corrected him by saying, “Why do you do such things?” He was also very handsome and had been born right after Absalom.)

Then Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anointed him king in Gihon. They went up from there rejoicing, and the city is in an uproar. That is the sound you hear.

Solomon demonstrated his loyalty to the Lord by following the practices of his father David, except that he offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places.

In the eleventh year, in the month Bul (the eighth month) the temple was completed in accordance with all its specifications and blueprints. It took seven years to build.

All the men of Israel assembled before King Solomon during the festival in the month Ethanim (the seventh month).

But you will not build the temple; your very own son will build the temple for my honor.’

“Foreigners, who do not belong to your people Israel, will come from a distant land because of your reputation.

Hadad, who was only a small boy at the time, escaped with some of his father’s Edomite servants and headed for Egypt.

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.

Take ten loaves of bread, some small cakes, and a container of honey and visit him. He will tell you what will happen to the boy.”

He said to her, “Hand me your son.” He took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him down on his bed.