So Shimei got up, saddled his donkey, and went to Achish at Gath to find his servants; Shimei went and brought back his servants from Gath.

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

But he replied, “I can’t go back with you or eat and drink with you in this place.

Elijah was afraid, so he got up and fled for his life to Beer Sheba in Judah. He left his servant there,

Also seat two villains opposite him and have them testify, ‘You cursed God and the king.’ Then take him out and stone him to death.”

They burned incense on all the high places just like the nations whom the Lord had driven away from before them. Their evil practices made the Lord angry.

They also lived in all the settlements that surrounded these towns as far as Baal. These were their settlements; they kept genealogical records.

He had sexual relations with his wife; she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. Ephraim named him Beriah because tragedy had come to his family.

while David and all Israel were energetically celebrating before God, singing and playing various stringed instruments, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.

The first time you did not carry it; that is why the Lord God attacked us, because we did not ask him about the proper way to carry it.”

The people were delighted with their donations, for they contributed to the Lord with a willing attitude; King David was also very happy.

For we are resident foreigners and nomads in your presence, like all our ancestors; our days are like a shadow on the earth, without security.

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

He made ten gold lampstands according to specifications and put them in the temple, five on the right and five on the left.

He asked them, “How do you advise me to respond to these people who said to me, ‘Lessen the demands your father placed on us’?”

So Amaziah dismissed the troops that had come to him from Ephraim and sent them home. They were very angry at Judah and returned home incensed.

Shaphan brought the scroll to the king and reported, “Your servants are doing everything assigned to them.

So we rebuilt the wall, and the entire wall was joined together up to half its height. The people were enthusiastic in their work.

I gave myself to the work on this wall, without even purchasing a field. All my associates were gathered there for the work.

There were 150 Jews and officials who dined with me routinely, in addition to those who came to us from the nations all around us.