Asa passed away<n id="1" /> and was buried with his ancestors in the city of his ancestor David. His son Jehoshaphat replaced him as king.p>

When Zimri saw that the city was captured, he went into the fortified area of the royal palace. He set the palace on fire and died in the flames.<n id="1" />

He sent messengers to King Ahab of Israel, who was in the city.<n id="1" />

When Ben Hadad received this reply,<n id="1" /> he and the other kings were drinking in their quarters.<n id="2" /> He ordered his servants, &#8220;Get ready to attack!&#8221; So they got ready to attack the city.p>

<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" />

Then the king of Israel said, &#8220;Take Micaiah and return him to Amon the city official and Joash the king&#8217;s son.

<p class="bodytext">Jehoshaphat passed away<n id="1" /> and was buried with his ancestors in the city of his ancestor<n id="2" /> David. His son Jehoram replaced him as king.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Solomon made an alliance by marriage with Pharaoh, king of Egypt; he married Pharaoh&#8217;s daughter. He brought her to the City of David<n id="1" /> until he could finish building his residence and the temple of the <sc>Lordsc> and the wall around Jerusalem.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">Ben-Geber was in charge of Ramoth Gilead; he controlled the tent villages of Jair son of Manasseh in Gilead, as well as the region of Argob in Bashan, including sixty large walled cities with bronze bars locking their gates.p>

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">Then Solomon convened in Jerusalem<n id="2" /> Israel&#8217;s elders, all the leaders of the Israelite tribes and families, so they could witness the transferal of the ark of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s covenant from the city of David (that is, Zion).<n id="3" />

He told David,<n id="1" /> &#8216;Since the day I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from all the tribes of Israel to build a temple in which to live.<n id="2" /> But I have chosen David to lead my people Israel.&#8217;

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;When you direct your people to march out and fight their enemies,<n id="1" /> and they direct their prayers to the <sc>Lordsc><n id="2" /> toward his chosen city and this temple I built for your honor,<n id="3" />

When they return to you with all their heart and being<n id="1" /> in the land where they are held prisoner,<n id="2" /> and direct their prayers to you toward the land you gave to their ancestors, your chosen city, and the temple I built for your honor,<n id="3" />

King Solomon gave King Hiram of Tyre<n id="1" /> twenty cities in the region of Galilee, because Hiram had supplied Solomon with cedars, evergreens, and all the gold he wanted.

(Pharaoh, king of Egypt, had attacked and captured Gezer. He burned it and killed the Canaanites who lived in the city. He gave it as a wedding present to his daughter, who had married Solomon.)

<p class="bodytext">Solomon accumulated<n id="1" /> chariots and horses. He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses. He kept them in assigned cities and in Jerusalem.<n id="2" />

I will leave<n id="1" /> his son one tribe so my servant David&#8217;s dynasty may continue to serve me<n id="2" /> in Jerusalem, the city I have chosen as my home.<n id="3" />

Some men came by<n id="1" /> and saw the corpse lying in the road with the lion standing beside it.<n id="2" /> They went and reported what they had seen<n id="3" /> in the city where the old prophet lived.

for the prophecy he announced with the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s authority<n id="1" /> against the altar in Bethel<n id="2" /> and against all the temples on the high places in the cities of the north<n id="3" /> will certainly be fulfilled.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">The rest of the events of Asa&#8217;s reign, including all his successes and accomplishments, as well as a record of the cities he built, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah.<n id="1" /> Yet when he was very old he developed a foot disease.<n id="2" />