He did evil in the sight of the Lord and followed in the footsteps of his father and mother; like Jeroboam son of Nebat, he encouraged Israel to sin.

Ben-Hesed was in charge of Arubboth; he controlled Socoh and all the territory of Hepher.

All of the entrances were rectangular in shape and they were arranged in sets of three.

He prepared the inner sanctuary inside the temple so that the ark of the covenant of the Lord could be placed there.

In the month Ziv of the fourth year of Solomon’s reign the foundation was laid for the Lord’s temple.

This happened because of the sins which Jeroboam committed and which he made Israel commit. These sins angered the Lord God of Israel.

The priests brought the ark of the Lord’s covenant to its assigned place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, in the most holy place, under the wings of the cherubs.

When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he summoned 180,000 skilled warriors from all of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin to attack Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam son of Solomon.

Then Solomon convened in Jerusalem Israel’s elders, all the leaders of the Israelite tribes and families, so they could witness the transferal of the ark of the Lord’s covenant from the city of David (that is, Zion).

In the second year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Jeroboam’s son Nadab became the king of Israel; he ruled Israel for two years.

They marched out of the city with the servants of the district governors in the lead and the army behind them.

This is what she wrote: “Observe a time of fasting and seat Naboth in front of the people.

You must anoint Jehu son of Nimshi king over Israel, and Elisha son of Shaphat from Abel Meholah to take your place as prophet.

One of the members of the prophetic guild, speaking with divine authority, ordered his companion, “Wound me!” But the man refused to wound him.

the four hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments for the latticework of the two pillars (each latticework had two rows of these ornaments at the bowl-shaped top of the pillar),

When the queen of Sheba heard about Solomon, she came to challenge him with difficult questions.

May the Lord punish him for the blood he shed; behind my father David’s back he struck down and murdered with the sword two men who were more innocent and morally upright than he – Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army.

Benaiah son of Jehoiada responded to the king: “So be it! May the Lord God of my master the king confirm it!

After all, they are your people and your special possession whom you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron-smelting furnace.

God also brought against Solomon another enemy, Rezon son of Eliada who had run away from his master, King Hadadezer of Zobah.