Baalath, Tadmor in the wilderness,

He put one in Bethel and the other in Dan.

Jehoshaphat son of Paruah was in charge of Issachar.

Shimei son of Ela was in charge of Benjamin.

All of the entrances were rectangular in shape and they were arranged in sets of three.

Ahinadab son of Iddo was in charge of Mahanaim.

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

David reigned over Israel forty years; he reigned in Hebron seven years, and in Jerusalem thirty-three years.

He set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal he had built in Samaria.

Baana son of Hushai was in charge of Asher and Aloth.

He made the ten stands in this way. All of them were cast in one mold and were identical in measurements and shape.

Zimri came in and struck him dead. (This happened in the twenty-seventh year of Asa’s reign over Judah.) Zimri replaced Elah as king.

He did evil in the sight of the Lord. He followed in his father’s footsteps and encouraged Israel to sin.

He did evil in the sight of the Lord; he followed in Jeroboam’s footsteps and encouraged Israel to sin.

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.

In the thirty-first year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Omri became king over Israel. He ruled for twelve years, six of them in Tirzah.

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

One of the women said, “My master, this woman and I live in the same house. I had a baby while she was with me in the house.

Solomon accumulated chariots and horses. He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses. He kept them in assigned cities and in Jerusalem.

The king made silver as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones; cedar was as plentiful as sycamore fig trees are in the lowlands.