Solomon then woke up and realized it was a dream.<n id="1" /> He went to Jerusalem, stood before the ark of the Lord&#8217;s covenant, offered up burnt sacrifices, presented peace offerings,<n id="2" /> and held a feast for all his servants.p>

&#8220;The Sea&#8221; stood on top of twelve bulls. Three faced northward, three westward, three southward, and three eastward. &#8220;The Sea&#8221; was placed on top of them, and they all faced outward.<n id="1" />

<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;

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.

He went and found the corpse lying in the road with the donkey and the lion standing beside it;<n id="1" /> the lion had neither eaten the corpse nor attacked the donkey.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, &#8220;As certainly as the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel lives (whom I serve),<n id="1" /> there will be no dew or rain in the years ahead unless I give the command.&#8221;<n id="2" />

The <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> said, &#8220;Go out and stand on the mountain before the <sc>Lordsc>. Look, the <sc>Lordsc> is ready to pass by.&#8221;p> <p class="bodytext">A very powerful wind went before the <sc>Lordsc>, digging into the mountain and causing landslides,<n id="2" /> but the <sc>Lordsc> was not in the wind. After the windstorm there was an earthquake, but the <sc>Lordsc> was not in the earthquake.

Jeroboam inaugurated a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month,<n id="1" /> like the festival celebrated in Judah.<n id="2" /> On the altar in Bethel he offered sacrifices to the calves he had made.<n id="3" /> In Bethel he also appointed priests for the high places he had made.p>