Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah with this warning, “May the gods judge me severely if by this time tomorrow I do not take your life as you did theirs!”

Elijah went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve pairs of oxen; he was near the twelfth pair. Elijah passed by him and threw his robe over him.

King David responded, “Summon Bathsheba!” She came and stood before the king.

In the same way he made doorposts of olive wood for the entrance to the main hall, only with four-sided pillars.

Omri passed away and was buried in Samaria. His son Ahab replaced him as king.

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

The prophet then went and stood by the road, waiting for the king. He also disguised himself by putting a bandage down over his eyes.

Then David passed away and was buried in the city of David.

She said, “Allow Abishag the Shunammite to be given to your brother Adonijah as a wife.”

The king of Israel went home to Samaria bitter and angry.

Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar he had built for the Lord, burning incense along with them before the Lord. He made the temple his official worship place.

She wrote out orders, signed Ahab’s name to them, and sealed them with his seal. She then sent the orders to the leaders and to the nobles who lived in Naboth’s city.

Now let me give you some advice as to how you can save your life and your son Solomon’s life.

Then all the nations of the earth will recognize that the Lord is the only genuine God.

Year after year visitors brought their gifts, which included items of silver, items of gold, clothes, perfume, spices, horses, and mules.

Zimri destroyed Baasha’s entire family, just as the Lord had predicted to Baasha through Jehu the prophet.

Omri and all Israel went up from Gibbethon and besieged Tirzah.

(Now his father had never corrected him by saying, “Why do you do such things?” He was also very handsome and had been born right after Absalom.)

I will keep today the oath I swore to you by the Lord God of Israel: ‘Surely Solomon your son will be king after me; he will sit in my place on my throne.’”

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.