The priests and Levites carried the ark of the Lord, the tent of meeting, and all the holy items in the tent.

When all your people Israel pray and ask for help, as they acknowledge their pain and spread out their hands toward this temple,

After Solomon finished building the Lord’s temple, the royal palace, and all the other construction projects he had planned,

There were twelve statues of lions on the six steps, one lion at each end of each step. There was nothing like it in any other kingdom.

The Lord was angry with Solomon because he had shifted his allegiance away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him on two occasions

He gathered some men and organized a raiding band. When David tried to kill them, they went to Damascus, where they settled down and gained control of the city.

When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard the news, he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon and had been living ever since.

He asked them, “How do you advise me to respond to these people who said to me, ‘Lessen the demands your father placed on us’?”

Their father asked them, “Which road did he take?” His sons showed him the road the prophet from Judah had taken.

Whenever the king visited the Lord’s temple, the royal guard carried them and then brought them back to the guardroom.

Nevertheless for David’s sake the Lord his God maintained his dynasty in Jerusalem by giving him a son to succeed him and by protecting Jerusalem.

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.

When Zimri saw that the city was captured, he went into the fortified area of the royal palace. He set the palace on fire and died in the flames.

The woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a prophet and that the Lord really does speak through you.”

With the stones he constructed an altar for the Lord. Around the altar he made a trench large enough to contain two seahs of seed.

Meanwhile the sky was covered with dark clouds, the wind blew, and there was a heavy rainstorm. Ahab rode toward Jezreel.

The king of Israel replied, “Tell him the one who puts on his battle gear should not boast like one who is taking it off.”

They marched out at noon, while Ben Hadad and the thirty-two kings allied with him were drinking heavily in their quarters.

Each one struck down an enemy soldier; the Syrians fled and Israel chased them. King Ben Hadad of Syria escaped on horseback with some horsemen.

(There had never been anyone like Ahab, who was firmly committed to doing evil in the sight of the Lord, urged on by his wife Jezebel.