Discovery Box| (0.33335767132867) | 1Ki 3:11 |
| God said to him, “Because you asked for the ability to make wise judicial decisions, and not for long life, or riches, or vengeance on your enemies,<n id="1" /> |
| (0.33335767132867) | 1Ki 3:28 |
| When all Israel heard about the judicial decision which the king had rendered, they respected<n id="1" /> the king, for they realized<n id="2" /> that he possessed supernatural wisdom<n id="3" /> to make judicial decisions.p> |
| (0.33335767132867) | 1Ki 4:7 |
| <p class="bodytext">Solomon had twelve district governors appointed throughout Israel who acquired supplies for the king and his palace. Each was responsible for one month in the year. |
| (0.33335767132867) | 1Ki 4:21 |
| <v id="(5:1)" /><n id="1" /> Solomon ruled all the kingdoms from the Euphrates River<n id="2" /> to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. These kingdoms paid tribute as Solomon’s subjects throughout his lifetime.<n id="3" /> |
| (0.33335767132867) | 1Ki 4:27 |
| The district governors acquired supplies for King Solomon and all who ate in his royal palace.<n id="1" /> Each was responsible for one month in the year; they made sure nothing was lacking. |
| (0.33335767132867) | 1Ki 5:1 |
| <t /><p class="bodytext"><v id="(5:15)" /><n id="1" /> King Hiram of Tyre<n id="2" /> sent messengers<n id="3" /> to Solomon when he heard that he had been anointed king in his father’s place. (Hiram had always been an ally of David.) |
| (0.33335767132867) | 1Ki 5:3 |
| “You know that my father David was unable to build a temple to honor the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> his God, for he was busy fighting battles on all fronts while the <sc>Lordsc> subdued his enemies.<n id="2" /> |
| (0.33335767132867) | 1Ki 5:7 |
| <p class="bodytext">When Hiram heard Solomon’s message, he was very happy. He said, “The <sc>Lordsc> is worthy of praise today because he<n id="1" /> has given David a wise son to rule over this great nation.” |
| (0.33335767132867) | 1Ki 5:9 |
| My servants will bring the timber down from Lebanon to the sea. I will send it by sea in raft-like bundles to the place you designate.<n id="1" /> There I will separate the logs<n id="2" /> and you can carry them away. In exchange you will supply the food I need for my royal court.”<n id="3" />p> |
| (0.33335767132867) | 1Ki 6:32 |
| On the two doors made of olive wood he carved<n id="1" /> cherubs, palm trees, and flowers in bloom, and he plated them with gold.<n id="2" /> He plated the cherubs and the palm trees with hammered gold.<n id="3" /> |
| (0.33335767132867) | 1Ki 7:2 |
| He named<n id="1" /> it “The Palace of the Lebanon Forest”;<n id="2" /> it was 150 feet<n id="3" /> long, 75 feet<n id="4" /> wide, and 45 feet<n id="5" /> high. It had four rows of cedar pillars and cedar beams above the pillars. |
| (0.33335767132867) | 1Ki 7:23 |
| <p class="bodytext">He also made the large bronze basin called “The Sea.”<n id="1" /> It measured 15 feet<n id="2" /> from rim to rim, was circular in shape, and stood seven-and-a-half feet<n id="3" /> high. Its circumference was 45 feet.<n id="4" /> |
| (0.33335767132867) | 1Ki 7:39 |
| He put five basins on the south side of the temple and five on the north side. He put “The Sea” on the south side, in the southeast corner.p> |
| (0.33335767132867) | 1Ki 7:41 |
| He made<n id="1" /> the two pillars, the two bowl-shaped tops of the pillars, the latticework for the bowl-shaped tops of the two pillars, |
| (0.33335767132867) | 1Ki 7:42 |
| the four hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments for the latticework of the two pillars (each latticework had two rows of these ornaments at the bowl-shaped top of the pillar), |
| (0.33335767132867) | 1Ki 8:20 |
| The <sc>Lordsc> has kept the promise he made.<n id="1" /> I have taken my father David’s place and have occupied the throne of Israel, as the <sc>Lordsc> promised. I have built this temple for the honor<n id="2" /> of the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel |
| (0.33335767132867) | 1Ki 8:35 |
| <p class="bodytext">“The time will come when<n id="1" /> the skies are shut up tightly and no rain falls because your people<n id="2" /> sinned against you. When they direct their prayers toward this place, renew their allegiance to you,<n id="3" /> and turn away from their sin because you punish<n id="4" /> them, |
| (0.33335767132867) | 1Ki 8:36 |
| then listen from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Certainly<n id="1" /> you will then teach them the right way to live<n id="2" /> and send rain on your land that you have given your people to possess.<n id="3" />p> |
| (0.33335767132867) | 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> |
| (0.33335767132867) | 1Ki 8:54 |
| <p class="bodytext">When Solomon finished presenting all these prayers and requests to the <sc>Lordsc>, he got up from before the altar of the <sc>Lordsc> where he had kneeled and spread out his hands toward the sky.<n id="1" /> |
