When Baasha heard the news, he stopped fortifying Ramah and settled down in Tirzah.

He did evil in the sight of the Lord. He followed in his father’s footsteps and encouraged Israel to sin.

He did evil in the sight of the Lord; he followed in Jeroboam’s footsteps and encouraged Israel to sin.

Obadiah said, “What sin have I committed that you are ready to hand your servant over to Ahab for execution?

When Ahab saw Elijah, he said to him, “Is it really you, the one who brings disaster on Israel?”

Ahab sent messengers to all the Israelites and had the prophets assemble at Mount Carmel.

The water flowed down all sides of the altar and filled the trench.

Then the king of Israel marched out and struck down the horses and chariots; he thoroughly defeated Syria.

But Naboth replied to Ahab, “The Lord forbid that I should sell you my ancestral inheritance.”

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

The Lord says this about Jezebel, ‘Dogs will devour Jezebel by the outer wall of Jezreel.’

Then Jehoshaphat added, “First seek an oracle from the Lord.”

But Micaiah said, “As certainly as the Lord lives, I will say what the Lord tells me to say.”

and he told them, “Take your master’s servants with you, put my son Solomon on my mule, and lead him down to Gihon.

Zadok the priest took a horn filled with olive oil from the tent and poured it on Solomon; the trumpet was blown and all the people declared, “Long live King Solomon!”

Solomon was told, “Look, Adonijah fears you; see, he has taken hold of the horns of the altar, saying, ‘May King Solomon solemnly promise me today that he will not kill his servant with the sword.’”

Do the job the Lord your God has assigned you by following his instructions and obeying his rules, commandments, regulations, and laws as written in the law of Moses. Then you will succeed in all you do and seek to accomplish,

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.’

She said, “I would like to ask you for just one small favor. Please don’t refuse me.” He said, “Go ahead and ask, my mother, for I would not refuse you.”

Then the king said to Shimei, “You are well aware of the way you mistreated my father David. The Lord will punish you for what you did.