Discovery Box| (0.35306897122302) | 1Ki 8:23 |
| He prayed:<n id="1" /> “O <sc>Lord,sc> God of Israel, there is no god like you in heaven above or on earth below! You maintain covenantal loyalty<n id="2" /> to your servants who obey you with sincerity.<n id="3" /> |
| (0.35306897122302) | 1Ki 8:44 |
| <p class="bodytext">“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" /> |
| (0.35306897122302) | 1Ki 8:53 |
| After all,<n id="1" /> you picked them out of all the nations of the earth to be your special possession,<n id="2" /> just as you, O sovereign <sc>Lordsc>, announced through your servant Moses when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt.”p> |
| (0.35306897122302) | 1Ki 8:56 |
| “The <sc>Lordsc> is worthy of praise because he has made Israel his people secure<n id="1" /> just as he promised! Not one of all the faithful promises he made through his servant Moses is left unfulfilled!<n id="2" /> |
| (0.35306897122302) | 1Ki 8:65 |
| At that time Solomon and all Israel with him celebrated a festival before the <sc>Lordsc> our God for two entire weeks. This great assembly included people from all over the land, from Lebo Hamath in the north to the Brook of Egypt<n id="1" /> in the south.<n id="2" /> |
| (0.35306897122302) | 1Ki 8:66 |
| On the fifteenth day after the festival started,<n id="1" /> he dismissed the people. They asked God to empower the king<n id="2" /> and then went to their homes, happy and content<n id="3" /> because of all the good the <sc>Lordsc> had done for his servant David and his people Israel.p> |
| (0.35306897122302) | 1Ki 9:3 |
| The <sc>Lordsc> said to him, “I have answered<n id="1" /> your prayer and your request for help that you made to me. I have consecrated this temple you built by making it my permanent home;<n id="2" /> I will be constantly present there.<n id="3" /> |
| (0.35306897122302) | 1Ki 9:8 |
| This temple will become a heap of ruins;<n id="1" /> everyone who passes by it will be shocked and will hiss out their scorn,<n id="2" /> saying, ‘Why did the <sc>Lordsc> do this to this land and this temple?’ |
| (0.35306897122302) | 1Ki 9:15 |
| <p class="bodytext">Here are the details concerning the work crews<n id="1" /> King Solomon conscripted<n id="2" /> to build the <sc>Lordsc>’s temple, his palace, the terrace, the wall of Jerusalem,<n id="3" /> and the cities of<n id="4" /> Hazor,<n id="5" /> Megiddo,<n id="6" /> and Gezer. |
| (0.35306897122302) | 1Ki 11:4 |
| When Solomon became old, his wives shifted his allegiance to<n id="1" /> other gods; he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the <sc>Lordsc> his God, as his father David had been.<n id="2" /> |
| (0.35306897122302) | 1Ki 11:11 |
| So the <sc>Lordsc> said to Solomon, “Because you insist on doing these things and have not kept the covenantal rules I gave you,<n id="1" /> I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant. |
| (0.35306897122302) | 1Ki 11:31 |
| Then he told Jeroboam, “Take ten pieces, for this is what the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel says: ‘Look, I am about to tear the kingdom from Solomon’s hand and I will give ten tribes to you. |
| (0.35306897122302) | 1Ki 12:27 |
| If these people go up to offer sacrifices in the <sc>Lordsc>’s temple in Jerusalem,<n id="1" /> their loyalty could shift to their former master,<n id="2" /> King Rehoboam of Judah. They might kill me and return to King Rehoboam of Judah.” |
| (0.35306897122302) | 1Ki 13:18 |
| The old prophet then said,<n id="1" /> “I too am a prophet like you. An angel told me with the <sc>Lordsc>’s authority,<n id="2" /> ‘Bring him back with you to your house so he can eat and drink.’”<n id="3" /> But he was lying to him.<n id="4" /> |
| (0.35306897122302) | 1Ki 13:32 |
| for the prophecy he announced with the <sc>Lordsc>’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.”p> |
| (0.35306897122302) | 1Ki 14:5 |
| But the <sc>Lordsc> had told Ahijah, “Look, Jeroboam’s wife is coming to find out from you what will happen to her son, for he is sick. Tell her so-and-so.<n id="1" /> When she comes, she will be in a disguise.” |
| (0.35306897122302) | 1Ki 14:13 |
| All Israel will mourn him and bury him. He is the only one in Jeroboam’s family<n id="1" /> who will receive a decent burial, for he is the only one in whom the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel found anything good. |
| (0.35306897122302) | 1Ki 14:26 |
| He took away the treasures of the <sc>Lordsc>’s temple and of the royal palace; he took everything, including all the golden shields that Solomon had made. |
| (0.35306897122302) | 1Ki 15:5 |
| He did this<n id="1" /> because David had done what he approved<n id="2" /> and had not disregarded any of his commandments<n id="3" /> his entire lifetime, except for the incident involving Uriah the Hittite. |
| (0.35306897122302) | 1Ki 15:29 |
| When he became king, he executed Jeroboam’s entire family. He wiped out everyone who breathed,<n id="1" /> just as the <sc>Lordsc> had predicted<n id="2" /> through his servant Ahijah the Shilonite. |
