Your servant stands among your chosen people; they are a great nation that is too numerous to count or number.

The king then said, “Cut the living child in two, and give half to one and half to the other!”

Then Solomon said, “The Lord has said that he lives in thick darkness.

Then they will obey you throughout their lifetimes as they live on the land you gave to our ancestors.

She said to the king, “The report I heard in my own country about your wise sayings and insight was true!

and had warned him about this very thing, so that he would not follow other gods. But he did not obey the Lord’s command.

Jeroboam and all the people reported to Rehoboam on the third day, just as the king had ordered when he said, “Return to me on the third day.”

They did not audit the treasurers who disbursed the funds to the foremen, for they were honest.

Jabez was more respected than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez, for she said, “I experienced pain when I gave birth to him.”

These who are named above were the leaders of their clans. Their extended families increased greatly in numbers.

Within the territory of the tribe of Naphtali: Kedesh in Galilee and its pasturelands, Hammon and its pasturelands, and Kiriathaim and its pasturelands.

Gad went to David and told him, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Pick one of these:

So David went up as Gad instructed him to do in the name of the Lord.

At that time, when David saw that the Lord responded to him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed there.

Then Solomon said, “The Lord has said that he lives in thick darkness.

O Lord God, do not reject your chosen ones! Remember the faithful promises you made to your servant David!”

They did not neglect any detail of the king’s orders pertaining to the priests, Levites, and treasuries.

She said to the king, “The report I heard in my own country about your wise sayings and insight was true!

Jeroboam and all the people reported to Rehoboam on the third day, just as the king had ordered when he said, “Return to me on the third day.”

Then there were those who said, “We have borrowed money to pay our taxes to the king on our fields and our vineyards.