The porch in front of the main hall of the temple was 30 feet<n id="1" /> long, corresponding to the width of the temple. It was 15 feet<n id="2" /> wide, extending out from the front of the temple.

This sin caused Jeroboam&#8217;s dynasty<n id="1" /> to come to an end and to be destroyed from the face of the earth.p>

&#8220;Leave here and travel eastward. Hide out in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan.

So he did<n id="1" /> as the <sc>Lordsc> told him; he went and lived in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan.

then I will remove Israel from the land<n id="1" /> I have given them, I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence,<n id="2" /> and Israel will be mocked and ridiculed<n id="3" /> among all the nations.

The king pled with<n id="1" /> the prophet,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Seek the favor of<n id="3" /> the <sc>Lordsc> your God and pray for me, so that my hand may be restored.&#8221; So the prophet sought the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s favor<n id="4" /> and the king&#8217;s hand was restored to its former condition.<n id="5" />

Now I&#8217;d like to ask you for just one thing. Please don&#8217;t refuse me.&#8221;<n id="1" /> She said, &#8220;Go ahead and ask.&#8221;<n id="2" />

The poles were so long their ends were visible from the holy place in front of the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from beyond that point.<n id="1" /> They have remained there to this very day.

Then they will obey<n id="1" /> you throughout their lifetimes as<n id="2" /> they live on the land you gave to our ancestors.p>

Everyone<n id="1" /> in the world wanted to visit Solomon to see him display his God-given wisdom.<n id="2" />

Furthermore,<n id="1" /> on the hill east of Jerusalem<n id="2" /> Solomon built a high place<n id="3" /> for the detestable Moabite god Chemosh<n id="4" /> and for the detestable Ammonite god Milcom.<n id="5" />

She said, &#8220;I would like to ask you for just one small favor.<n id="1" /> Please don&#8217;t refuse me.&#8221;<n id="2" /> He said,<n id="3" /> &#8220;Go ahead and ask, my mother, for I would not refuse you.&#8221;

the four hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments for the latticework of the two pillars (each latticework had two rows of these ornaments at the bowl-shaped top of the pillar),

<p class="bodytext">King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served<n id="1" /> his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them,<n id="2" /> &#8220;How do you advise me to answer these people?&#8221;

For this is what the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel says, &#8216;The jar of flour will not be empty and the jug of oil will not run out until the day the <sc>Lordsc> makes it rain on the surface of the ground.&#8217;&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">Some time later, in the third year of the famine, the <sc>Lordsc> told Elijah,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Go, make an appearance before Ahab, so I may send rain on the surface of the ground.&#8221;