Then Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anointed him king in Gihon. They went up from there rejoicing, and the city is in an uproar. That is the sound you hear.

Then Solomon passed away and was buried in the city of his father David. His son Rehoboam replaced him as king.

Asa passed away and was buried with his ancestors in the city of his ancestor David. His son Jehoshaphat replaced him as king.

Say, ‘This is what the king says, “Put this man in prison. Give him only a little bread and water until I safely return.”’”

Jehoshaphat passed away and was buried with his ancestors in the city of his ancestor David. His son Jehoram replaced him as king.

Rehoboam traveled to Shechem, for all Israel had gathered in Shechem to make Rehoboam king.

He fashioned two bronze pillars; each pillar was 27 feet high and 18 feet in circumference.

Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As certainly as the Lord God of Israel lives (whom I serve), there will be no dew or rain in the years ahead unless I give the command.”

In the fourth year of King Ahab’s reign over Israel, Asa’s son Jehoshaphat became king over Judah.

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 sent messengers to King Ahab of Israel, who was in the city.

He ordered, “Whether they come in peace or to do battle, take them alive.”

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

Jeroboam built up Shechem in the Ephraimite hill country and lived there. From there he went out and built up Penuel.

When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and fasted. He slept in sackcloth and walked around dejected.

By royal order they supplied large valuable stones in order to build the temple’s foundation with chiseled stone.

If these people go up to offer sacrifices in the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem, their loyalty could shift to their former master, King Rehoboam of Judah. They might kill me and return to King Rehoboam of Judah.”

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.

So Bathsheba visited the king in his private quarters. (The king was very old, and Abishag the Shunammite was serving the king.)

Rehoboam passed away and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David. His mother was an Ammonite named Naamah. His son Abijah replaced him as king.