Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, including a detailed account of how he killed all the prophets with the sword.

He plated the entire inside of the temple with gold, as well as the altar inside the inner sanctuary.

They even built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

“I am about to die. Be strong and become a man!

King Solomon ruled over all Israel.

When all Israel’s elders had arrived, the priests lifted the ark.

Rehoboam and Jeroboam were continually at war with each other.

All of Adonijah’s guests panicked; they jumped up and rushed off their separate ways.

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

Solomon was wiser than all the men of the east and all the sages of Egypt.

So Hiram supplied the cedars and evergreens Solomon needed,

Solomon took thirteen years to build his palace.

Solomon left all these items unweighed; there were so many of them they did not weigh the bronze.

Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in front of the entire assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward the sky.

When he stood up, he pronounced a blessing over the entire assembly of Israel, saying in a loud voice:

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

When the queen of Sheba saw for herself Solomon’s extensive wisdom, the palace he had built,

I will humiliate David’s descendants because of this, but not forever.”

Solomon ruled over all Israel from Jerusalem for forty years.

Rehoboam traveled to Shechem, for all Israel had gathered in Shechem to make Rehoboam king.