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

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

The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for it had the most prominent of the high places. Solomon would offer up a thousand burnt sacrifices on the altar there.

The king responded, “Give the first woman the living child; don’t kill him. She is the mother.”

Then Solomon convened in Jerusalem Israel’s elders, all the leaders of the Israelite tribes and families, so they could witness the transferal of the ark of the Lord’s covenant from the city of David (that is, Zion).

King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba everything she requested, besides what he had freely offered her. Then she left and returned to her homeland with her attendants.