(19:2) Joab was told, “The king is weeping and mourning over Absalom.”

Now Joab was the general in command of all the army of Israel. Benaiah the son of Jehoida was over the Kerethites and the Perethites.

Solomon sat on his father David’s throne, and his royal authority was firmly solidified.

Azariah son of Nathan was supervisor of the district governors. Zabud son of Nathan was a priest and adviser to the king.

The people of Judah and Israel were as innumerable as the sand on the seashore; they had plenty to eat and drink and were happy.

He carved cherubs, palm trees, and flowers in bloom and plated them with gold, leveled out over the carvings.

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

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.

The fifty members of the prophetic guild went and stood opposite them at a distance, while Elijah and Elisha stood by the Jordan.

He picked up Elijah’s cloak, which had fallen off him, and went back and stood on the shore of the Jordan.