<p class="bodytext">When Hadad died, Samlah from Masrekah succeeded him.p>

<p class="bodytext">When Bela died, Jobab son of Zerah from Bozrah, succeeded him.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">When Jobab died, Husham from the land of the Temanites succeeded him.p>

<p class="bodytext">When Samlah died, Shaul from Rehoboth on the river<n id="1" /> succeeded him.p>

<p class="bodytext">When Shaul died, Baal-Hanan son of Achbor succeeded him.p>

Because God fought for them,<n id="1" /> they killed many of the enemy.<n id="2" /> They dispossessed the Hagrites and lived in their land until the exile.<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Later King Nahash of the Ammonites died and his son succeeded him.

He died at a good old age, having enjoyed long life, wealth, and honor.<n id="1" /> His son Solomon succeeded him.

<p class="bodytext">When Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad succeeded him. He struck down the Midianites in the plains of Moab; the name of his city was Avith.p>

<p class="bodytext">When Baal-Hanan died, Hadad succeeded him; the name of his city was Pai.<n id="1" /> His wife was Mehetabel, daughter of Matred, daughter of Me-Zahab.p>

I will establish a place for my people Israel and settle<n id="1" /> them there; they will live there and not be disturbed<n id="2" /> anymore. Violent men will not oppress them again, as they did in the beginning<n id="3" />

Solomon sat on the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s throne as king in place of his father David; he was successful and all Israel was loyal to him.<n id="1" />

All the officers and warriors, as well as all of King David&#8217;s sons, pledged their allegiance to King Solomon.<n id="1" />

The men whose names are listed came during the time of King Hezekiah of Judah and attacked the Hamites&#8217; settlements,<n id="1" /> as well as the Meunites they discovered there, and they wiped them out to this very day. They dispossessed them,<n id="2" /> for they found pasture for their sheep there.

all the warriors went and recovered the bodies of Saul and his sons<n id="1" /> and brought them to Jabesh. They buried their remains<n id="2" /> under the oak tree in Jabesh and fasted for seven days.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">When David had settled into his palace,<n id="1" /> he<n id="2" /> said to Nathan the prophet, &#8220;Look, I am living in a palace<n id="3" /> made from cedar, while the ark of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s covenant is under a tent.&#8221;<n id="4" />