He built the inner courtyard with three rows of chiseled stones and a row of cedar beams.

She gave the king 120 talents of gold, a very large quantity of spices, and precious gems. The quantity of spices the queen of Sheba gave King Solomon has never been matched.

He purchased the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver. He launched a construction project there and named the city he built after Shemer, the former owner of the hill of Samaria.

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 porch in front of the main hall of the temple was 30 feet long, corresponding to the width of the temple. It was 15 feet wide, extending out from the front of the temple.

(22:45) Jehoshaphat was also at peace with the king of Israel.

Each day Solomon’s royal court consumed thirty cors of finely milled flour, sixty cors of cereal,

King Baasha of Israel attacked Judah and established Ramah as a military outpost to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the land of King Asa of Judah.

King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; 600 measures of gold were used for each shield.

In the twentieth year of Jeroboam’s reign over Israel, Asa became the king of Judah.

Ahab son of Omri did more evil in the sight of the Lord than all who were before him.

The tops of the pillars were shaped like lilies. So the construction of the pillars was completed.

King Solomon sent for Hiram of Tyre.

Solomon received 666 talents of gold per year,

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.

There were three rows of windows arranged in sets of three.

Asa took all the silver and gold that was left in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and of the royal palace and handed it to his servants. He then told them to deliver it to Ben Hadad son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, ruler in Damascus, along with this message:

He will retain one tribe, for my servant David’s sake and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.

The inside of the temple was all cedar and was adorned with carvings of round ornaments and of flowers in bloom. Everything was cedar; no stones were visible.

The rest of the events of Asa’s reign, including all his successes and accomplishments, as well as a record of the cities he built, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah. Yet when he was very old he developed a foot disease.