The tops of the two pillars in the porch were shaped like lilies and were six feet high.

and he grabbed the robe and tore it into twelve pieces.

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.

He then told his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” When they had saddled the donkey for him, he mounted it

This sin caused Jeroboam’s dynasty to come to an end and to be destroyed from the face of the earth.

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.

So they yelled louder and, in accordance with their prescribed ritual, mutilated themselves with swords and spears until their bodies were covered with blood.

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.

and the Lord will fulfill his promise to me, ‘If your descendants watch their step and live faithfully in my presence with all their heart and being, then,’ he promised, ‘you will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’

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.

The king told him, “Do as he said! Strike him down and bury him. Take away from me and from my father’s family the guilt of Joab’s murderous, bloody deeds.