Baasha passed away<n id="1" /> and was buried in Tirzah. His son Elah replaced him as king.

Omri and all Israel went up from Gibbethon and besieged Tirzah.

Omri passed away<n id="1" /> and was buried in Samaria. His son Ahab replaced him as king.<n id="2" />p>

But Zadok the priest, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, and David&#8217;s elite warriors<n id="1" /> did not ally themselves<n id="2" /> with Adonijah.

May Joab and his descendants be perpetually guilty of their shed blood, but may the <sc>Lordsc> give perpetual peace to David, his descendants, his family,<n id="1" /> and his dynasty.&#8221;<n id="2" />

One of the women said, &#8220;My master, this woman and I live in the same house. I had a baby while she was with me in the house.

and set up in it a place for the ark containing the covenant the <sc>Lordsc> made with our ancestors<n id="1" /> when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> was angry with Solomon because he had shifted his allegiance<n id="1" /> away from the <sc>Lordsc>, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him on two occasions<n id="2" />

Pharaoh said to him, &#8220;What do you lack here that makes you want to go to your homeland?&#8221;<n id="1" /> Hadad replied,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Nothing, but please give me permission to leave.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

Jeroboam ruled for twenty-two years; then he passed away.<n id="1" /> His son Nadab replaced him as king.p>

He followed all the sinful practices of his father before him. He was not wholeheartedly devoted to the <sc>Lordsc> his God, as his ancestor David had been.<n id="1" />

Then he called out to the <sc>Lordsc>, &#8220;O <sc>Lordsc>, my God, are you also bringing disaster on this widow I am staying with by killing her son?&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">In the spring<n id="1" /> Ben Hadad mustered the Syrian army<n id="2" /> and marched to Aphek to fight Israel.<n id="3" />

Then Ahaziah son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, &#8220;Let my sailors join yours in the fleet,&#8221;<n id="1" /> but Jehoshaphat refused.p>

Solomon replied, &#8220;You demonstrated<n id="1" /> great loyalty to your servant, my father David, as he served<n id="2" /> you faithfully, properly, and sincerely.<n id="3" /> You have maintained this great loyalty to this day by allowing his son to sit on his throne.<n id="4" />

Adonijah sacrificed sheep, cattle, and fattened steers at the Stone of Zoheleth near En Rogel. He invited all his brothers, the king&#8217;s sons,<n id="1" /> as well as all the men of Judah, the king&#8217;s servants.

and he<n id="1" /> told them, &#8220;Take your master&#8217;s<n id="2" /> servants with you, put my son Solomon on my mule, and lead him down to Gihon.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Note well, you still have to contend with Shimei son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahurim,<n id="1" /> who tried to call down upon me a horrible judgment when I went to Mahanaim.<n id="2" /> He came down and met me at the Jordan, and I solemnly promised<n id="3" /> him by the <sc>Lordsc>, &#8216;I will not strike you down<n id="4" /> with the sword.&#8217;

So now order some cedars of Lebanon to be cut for me. My servants will work with your servants. I will pay your servants whatever you say is appropriate, for you know that we have no one among us who knows how to cut down trees like the Sidonians.&#8221;p>

There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets Moses had placed there in Horeb.<n id="1" /> It was there that<n id="2" /> the <sc>Lordsc> made an agreement with the Israelites after he brought them out of the land of Egypt.