Absalom said to Hushai, “Do you call this loyalty to your friend? Why didn’t you go with your friend?”

So the king returned and came to the Jordan River. Now the people of Judah had come to Gilgal to meet the king and to help him cross the Jordan.

Now when Barzillai the Gileadite had come down from Rogelim, he crossed the Jordan with the king so he could send him on his way from there.

I will cross the Jordan with the king and go a short distance. Why should the king reward me in this way?

David brought the bones of Saul and of Jonathan his son from there; they also gathered up the bones of those who had been executed.

Another battle was fought between the Philistines and Israel. So David went down with his soldiers and fought the Philistines. David became exhausted.

The Lord’s anger again raged against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, “Go count Israel and Judah.”

But now don’t treat him as if he were innocent. You are a wise man and you know how to handle him; make sure he has a bloody death.”

He said, “Please ask King Solomon if he would give me Abishag the Shunammite as a wife, for he won’t refuse you.”

Solomon dismissed Abiathar from his position as priest of the Lord, fulfilling the decree of judgment the Lord made in Shiloh against the family of Eli.

The king then said, “Cut the living child in two, and give half to one and half to the other!”

People from all nations came to hear Solomon’s display of wisdom; they came from all the kings of the earth who heard about his wisdom.

He built an extension all around the temple; it was seven and a half feet high and it was attached to the temple by cedar beams.

Solomon also made all these items for the Lord’s temple: the gold altar, the gold table on which was kept the Bread of the Presence,

Then the king turned around and pronounced a blessing over the whole Israelite assembly as they stood there.

After twenty years, during which Solomon built the Lord’s temple and the royal palace,

Everyone in the world wanted to visit Solomon to see him display his God-given wisdom.

During David’s campaign against Edom, Joab, the commander of the army, while on a mission to bury the dead, killed every male in Edom.

This is what prompted him to rebel against the king: Solomon built a terrace and he closed up a gap in the wall of the city of his father David.

But Rehoboam rejected their advice and consulted the young advisers who served him, with whom he had grown up.