So Elijah went to make an appearance before Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria.

Jehu reigned over Israel for twenty-eight years in Samaria.

He did evil in the sight of the Lord, just like his father Manasseh had done.

Amon’s servants conspired against him and killed the king in his palace.

He did evil in the sight of the Lord as his ancestors had done.

He did evil in the sight of the Lord as his ancestors had done.

The descendants of Gad lived near them in the land of Bashan, as far as Salecah.

Shaharaim fathered sons in Moab after he divorced his wives Hushim and Baara.

Mikloth was the father of Shimeah. They also lived near their relatives in Jerusalem.

Some from the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and Ephraim and Manasseh settled in Jerusalem.

Abishai son of Zeruiah killed 18,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

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

In the most holy place he made two images of cherubim and plated them with gold.

Now I will be attentive and responsive to the prayers offered in this place.

(Rehoboam continued to rule over the Israelites who lived in the cities of Judah.)

Asa passed away in the forty-first year of his reign.

Hezekiah ordered that storerooms be prepared in the Lord’s temple. When this was done,

He who removes mountains suddenly, who overturns them in his anger;

For you have said, ‘My teaching is flawless, and I am pure in your sight.’

They grope about in darkness without light; he makes them stagger like drunkards.