<t /><p class="bodytext">After twenty years, during which Solomon built the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple and the royal palace,<n id="1" />

Solomon answered all her questions; there was no question too complex for the king.<n id="1" />

the food in his banquet hall,<n id="1" /> his servants and attendants,<n id="2" /> their robes, his cupbearers, and his burnt offerings which he presented in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple, she was amazed.<n id="3" />

She said to the king, &#8220;The report I heard in my own country about your wise sayings and insight<n id="1" /> was true!

<t /><p class="bodytext">Solomon received 666 talents<n id="1" /> of gold per year,<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">He had 700 royal wives<n id="1" /> and 300 concubines;<n id="2" /> his wives had a powerful influence over him.<n id="3" />

He gathered some men and organized a raiding band.<n id="1" /> When David tried to kill them,<n id="2" /> they went to Damascus, where they settled down and gained control of the city.

He was Israel&#8217;s enemy throughout Solomon&#8217;s reign and, like Hadad, caused trouble. He loathed<n id="1" /> Israel and ruled over Syria.p>

He will retain one tribe, for my servant David&#8217;s sake and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.

Solomon tried to kill Jeroboam, but Jeroboam escaped to Egypt and found refuge with King Shishak of Egypt.<n id="1" /> He stayed in Egypt until Solomon died.p>

<n id="1" /> When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard the news, he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon and had been living ever since.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">He built temples<n id="1" /> on the high places and appointed as priests people who were not Levites.

As the prophet from Judah was traveling, a lion attacked him on the road and killed him.<n id="1" /> His corpse was lying on the road, and the donkey and the lion just stood there beside it.<n id="2" />

Take<n id="1" /> ten loaves of bread, some small cakes, and a container of honey and visit him. He will tell you what will happen to the boy.&#8221;p>

You have sinned more than all who came before you. You went and angered me by making other gods, formed out of metal; you have completely disregarded me.<n id="1" />

There were also male cultic prostitutes<n id="1" /> in the land. They committed the same horrible sins as the nations<n id="2" /> that the <sc>Lordsc> had driven out from before the Israelites.p>

He followed all the sinful practices of his father before him. He was not wholeheartedly devoted to the <sc>Lordsc> his God, as his ancestor David had been.<n id="1" />

When he became king and occupied the throne, he killed Baasha&#8217;s entire family. He did not spare any male belonging to him; he killed his relatives and his friends.<n id="1" />

When Zimri saw that the city was captured, he went into the fortified area of the royal palace. He set the palace on fire and died in the flames.<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">At that time the people of Israel were divided in their loyalties. Half the people supported Tibni son of Ginath and wanted to make him king; the other half supported Omri.