Discovery Box| (0.33335767132867) | 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" /> |
| (0.33335767132867) | 1Ki 9:5 |
| Then I will allow your dynasty to rule over Israel permanently,<n id="1" /> just as I promised your father David, ‘You will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’<n id="2" />p> |
| (0.33335767132867) | 1Ki 9:7 |
| then I will remove Israel from the land<n id="1" /> I have given them, I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence,<n id="2" /> and Israel will be mocked and ridiculed<n id="3" /> among all the nations. |
| (0.33335767132867) | 1Ki 9:11 |
| King Solomon gave King Hiram of Tyre<n id="1" /> twenty cities in the region of Galilee, because Hiram had supplied Solomon with cedars, evergreens, and all the gold he wanted. |
| (0.33335767132867) | 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. |
| (0.33335767132867) | 1Ki 9:16 |
| (Pharaoh, king of Egypt, had attacked and captured Gezer. He burned it and killed the Canaanites who lived in the city. He gave it as a wedding present to his daughter, who had married Solomon.) |
| (0.33335767132867) | 1Ki 9:25 |
| <p class="bodytext">Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings<n id="1" /> on the altar he had built for the <sc>Lordsc>, burning incense along with them before the <sc>Lordsc>. He made the temple his official worship place.<n id="2" />p> |
| (0.33335767132867) | 1Ki 10:2 |
| She arrived in Jerusalem<n id="1" /> with a great display of pomp,<n id="2" /> bringing with her camels carrying spices,<n id="3" /> a very large quantity of gold, and precious gems. She visited Solomon and discussed with him everything that was on her mind. |
| (0.33335767132867) | 1Ki 10:9 |
| May the <sc>Lordsc> your God be praised because he favored<n id="1" /> you by placing you on the throne of Israel! Because of the <sc>Lordsc>’s eternal love for Israel, he made you king so you could make just and right decisions.”<n id="2" /> |
| (0.33335767132867) | 1Ki 10:12 |
| With the timber the king made supports<n id="1" /> for the <sc>Lordsc>’s temple and for the royal palace and stringed instruments<n id="2" /> for the musicians. No one has seen so much of this fine timber to this very day.<n id="3" />) |
| (0.33335767132867) | 1Ki 10:13 |
| King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba everything she requested, besides what he had freely offered her.<n id="1" /> Then she left and returned<n id="2" /> to her homeland with her attendants.p> |
| (0.33335767132867) | 1Ki 11:2 |
| They came from nations about which the <sc>Lordsc> had warned the Israelites, “You must not establish friendly relations with them!<n id="1" /> If you do, they will surely shift your allegiance to their gods.”<n id="2" /> But Solomon was irresistibly attracted to them.<n id="3" />p> |
| (0.33335767132867) | 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" /> |
| (0.33335767132867) | 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. |
| (0.33335767132867) | 1Ki 11:20 |
| Tahpenes’ sister gave birth to his son,<n id="1" /> named Genubath. Tahpenes raised<n id="2" /> him in Pharaoh’s palace; Genubath grew up in Pharaoh’s palace among Pharaoh’s sons. |
| (0.33335767132867) | 1Ki 11:34 |
| I will not take the whole kingdom from his hand. I will allow him to be ruler for the rest of his life for the sake of my chosen servant David who kept my commandments and rules. |
| (0.33335767132867) | 1Ki 12:9 |
| He asked them, “How do you advise me<n id="1" /> to respond to these people who said to me, ‘Lessen the demands your father placed on us’?”<n id="2" /> |
| (0.33335767132867) | 1Ki 12:10 |
| The young advisers with whom Rehoboam<n id="1" /> had grown up said to him, “Say this to these people who have said to you, ‘Your father made us work hard, but now lighten our burden.’<n id="2" /> Say this to them: ‘I am a lot harsher than my father!<n id="3" /> |
| (0.33335767132867) | 1Ki 12:14 |
| and followed<n id="1" /> the advice of the younger ones. He said, “My father imposed heavy demands on you; I will make them even heavier.<n id="2" /> My father punished you with ordinary whips; I will punish you with whips that really sting your flesh.”<n id="3" /> |
| (0.33335767132867) | 1Ki 12:15 |
| The king refused to listen to the people, because the <sc>Lordsc> was instigating this turn of events<n id="1" /> so that he might bring to pass the prophetic announcement he had made<n id="2" /> through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.p> |
