All the people of Judah and Israel had security; everyone from Dan to Beer Sheba enjoyed the produce of their vines and fig trees throughout Solomon&#8217;s lifetime.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;God does not really live on the earth!<n id="1" /> Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built!

For six months Joab and the entire Israelite army<n id="1" /> stayed there until they had exterminated every male in Edom.<n id="2" />

He gathered some men and organized a raiding band.<n id="1" /> When David tried to kill them,<n id="2" /> they went to Damascus, where they settled down and gained control of the city.

<n id="1" /> When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard the news, he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon and had been living ever since.<n id="2" />

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">Jeroboam built up Shechem in the Ephraimite hill country and lived there. From there he went out and built up Penuel.

and took off after the prophet,<n id="1" /> whom he found sitting under an oak tree. He asked him, &#8220;Are you the prophet<n id="2" /> from Judah?&#8221; He answered, &#8220;Yes, I am.&#8221;

When he became king and occupied the throne, he killed Baasha&#8217;s entire family. He did not spare any male belonging to him; he killed his relatives and his friends.<n id="1" />

&#8220;Get up, go to Zarephath in Sidonian territory, and live there. I have already told<n id="1" /> a widow who lives there to provide for you.&#8221;

He said to her, &#8220;Hand me your son.&#8221; He took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him down on his bed.

<p class="bodytext">She wrote out orders,<n id="1" /> signed Ahab&#8217;s name to them,<n id="2" /> and sealed them with his seal. She then sent the orders<n id="3" /> to the leaders<n id="4" /> and to the nobles who lived in Naboth&#8217;s city.<n id="5" />

Also seat two villains opposite him and have them testify, &#8216;You cursed God and the king.&#8217; Then take him out and stone him to death.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">The men of the<n id="1" /> city, the leaders<n id="2" /> and the nobles who lived there,<n id="3" /> followed the written orders Jezebel had sent them.<n id="4" />

Micaiah<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;That being the case, hear the word of the <sc>Lordsc>. I saw the <sc>Lordsc> sitting on his throne, with all the heavenly assembly standing on his right and on his left.

Visit<n id="1" /> King David and say to him, &#8216;My master, O king, did you not solemnly promise<n id="2" /> your servant, &#8220;Surely your son Solomon will be king after me; he will sit on my throne&#8221;? So why has Adonijah become king?&#8217;

Has my master the king authorized this without informing your servants<n id="1" /> who should succeed my master the king on his throne?&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

I will keep<n id="1" /> today the oath I swore to you by the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel: &#8216;Surely Solomon your son will be king after me; he will sit in my place on my throne.&#8217;&#8221;

Now, as certainly as the <sc>Lordsc> lives (he who made me secure, allowed me to sit on my father David&#8217;s throne, and established a dynasty<n id="1" /> for me as he promised), Adonijah will be executed today!&#8221;

The palace where he lived was constructed in a similar way.<n id="1" /> He also constructed a palace like this hall for Pharaoh&#8217;s daughter, whom he had married.<n id="2" />

The <sc>Lordsc> has kept the promise he made.<n id="1" /> I have taken my father David&#8217;s place and have occupied the throne of Israel, as the <sc>Lordsc> promised. I have built this temple for the honor<n id="2" /> of the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel