<p class="bodytext">Then Samson&#8217;s father accompanied him to Timnah for the marriage.<n id="1" /> Samson hosted a party<n id="2" /> there, for this was customary for bridegrooms<n id="3" /> to do.

Jeroboam did not regain power during the reign of Abijah.<n id="1" /> The <sc>Lordsc> struck him down and he died.

<p class="bodytext">Hosah, one of the descendants of Merari, had sons:p> <p class="bodytext">The firstborn Shimri (he was not actually the firstborn, but his father gave him that status),

Abijah&#8217;s power grew; he had<n id="1" /> fourteen wives and fathered twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.p>

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s spirit empowered him. He went down to Ashkelon and murdered thirty men. He took their clothes<n id="1" /> and gave them<n id="2" /> to the men who had solved the riddle. He was furious as he went back home.<n id="3" />

His brothers and all his family<n id="1" /> went down and brought him back.<n id="2" /> They buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had led<n id="3" /> Israel for twenty years.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext"><v id="(5:15)" /><n id="1" /> King Hiram of Tyre<n id="2" /> sent messengers<n id="3" /> to Solomon when he heard that he had been anointed king in his father&#8217;s place. (Hiram had always been an ally of David.)

<t /><p class="bodytext">Solomon began building the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple in Jerusalem<n id="1" /> on Mount Moriah, where the <sc>Lordsc> had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David prepared at the threshing floor of Ornan<n id="2" /> the Jebusite.

Then, if anyone prophesies in spite of this, his father and mother to whom he was born will say to him, &#8216;You cannot live, for you lie in the name of the <sc>Lordsc>.&#8217; Then his father and mother to whom he was born will run him through with a sword when he prophesies.<n id="1" />p>