I will select you; you will rule over all you desire to have and you will be king over Israel.

Solomon ruled over all Israel from Jerusalem for forty years.

In King Rehoboam’s fifth year, King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.

In the eighteenth year of the reign of Jeroboam son of Nebat, Abijah became king over Judah.

Jehu son of Hanani received from the Lord this message predicting Baasha’s downfall:

Omri and all Israel went up from Gibbethon and besieged Tirzah.

“Leave here and travel eastward. Hide out in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan.

So he did as the Lord told him; he went and lived in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan.

The Lord answered Elijah’s prayer; the boy’s breath returned to him and he lived.

The king of Israel went home to Samaria bitter and angry.

In the fourth year of King Ahab’s reign over Israel, Asa’s son Jehoshaphat became king over Judah.

So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites, and the Pelethites went down, put Solomon on King David’s mule, and led him to Gihon.

So Bathsheba visited King Solomon to speak to him on Adonijah’s behalf. The king got up to greet her, bowed to her, and then sat on his throne. He ordered a throne to be brought for the king’s mother, and she sat at his right hand.

Solomon had twelve district governors appointed throughout Israel who acquired supplies for the king and his palace. Each was responsible for one month in the year.

He produced manuals on botany, describing every kind of plant, from the cedars of Lebanon to the hyssop that grows on walls. He also produced manuals on biology, describing animals, birds, insects, and fish.

He named it “The Palace of the Lebanon Forest”; it was 150 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high. It had four rows of cedar pillars and cedar beams above the pillars.

When he made the pillars, there were two rows of pomegranate-shaped ornaments around the latticework covering the top of each pillar.

He put five basins on the south side of the temple and five on the north side. He put “The Sea” on the south side, in the southeast corner.

He made the two pillars, the two bowl-shaped tops of the pillars, the latticework for the bowl-shaped tops of the two pillars,

Then I will allow your dynasty to rule over Israel permanently, just as I promised your father David, ‘You will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’