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" />

The other woman said, &#8220;No! My son is alive; your son is dead!&#8221; But the first woman replied, &#8220;No, your son is dead; my son is alive.&#8221; Each presented her case before the king.<n id="1" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites left Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon&#8217;s reign over Israel, during the month Ziv<n id="1" /> (the second month), he began building the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple.

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.

then listen from your heavenly dwelling place, forgive their sin,<n id="1" /> and act favorably toward each one based on your evaluation of his motives.<n id="2" /> (Indeed you are the only one who can correctly evaluate the motives of all people.)<n id="3" />

Solomon offered as peace offerings<n id="1" /> to the <sc>Lordsc> 22,000 cattle and 120,000 sheep. Then the king and all the Israelites dedicated the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple.

They came from nations about which the <sc>Lordsc> had warned the Israelites, &#8220;You must not establish friendly relations with them!<n id="1" /> If you do, they will surely shift your allegiance to their gods.&#8221;<n id="2" /> But Solomon was irresistibly attracted to them.<n id="3" />p>

Tahpenes&#8217; sister gave birth to his son,<n id="1" /> named Genubath. Tahpenes raised<n id="2" /> him in Pharaoh&#8217;s palace; Genubath grew up in Pharaoh&#8217;s palace among Pharaoh&#8217;s sons.

I am taking the kingdom from him<n id="1" /> because they have<n id="2" /> abandoned me and worshiped the Sidonian goddess Astarte, the Moabite god Chemosh, and the Ammonite god Milcom. They have not followed my instructions<n id="3" /> by doing what I approve and obeying my rules and regulations, like Solomon&#8217;s father David did.<n id="4" />

&#8216;The <sc>Lordsc> says this: &#8220;Do not attack and make war with your brothers, the Israelites. Each of you go home, for I have caused this to happen.&#8221;&#8217;&#8221;<n id="1" /> They obeyed the <sc>Lordsc> and went home as the <sc>Lordsc> had ordered them to do.<n id="2" />p>

He answered, &#8220;I have been absolutely loyal<n id="1" /> to the <sc>Lordsc>, the sovereign God,<n id="2" /> even though the Israelites have abandoned the agreement they made with you,<n id="3" /> torn down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left and now they want to take my life.&#8221;<n id="4" />

He answered, &#8220;I have been absolutely loyal<n id="1" /> to the <sc>Lordsc>, the sovereign God,<n id="2" /> even though the Israelites have abandoned the agreement they made with you,<n id="3" /> torn down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left and now they want to take my life.&#8221;<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">So Ahab<n id="1" /> assembled the 232 servants of the district governors. After that he assembled all the Israelite army, numbering 7,000.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">The armies were deployed opposite each other for seven days. On the seventh day the battle began, and the Israelites killed 100,000 Syrian foot soldiers in one day.

The two villains arrived and sat opposite him. Then the villains testified against Naboth right before the people, saying, &#8220;Naboth cursed God and the king.&#8221; So they dragged him<n id="1" /> outside the city and stoned him to death.<n id="2" />