Solomon built the terrace as soon as Pharaoh&#8217;s daughter moved up from the city of David<n id="1" /> to the palace Solomon built for her.<n id="2" />p>

O <sc>Lordsc>,<n id="1" /> truly I have built a lofty temple for you, a place where you can live permanently.&#8221;

He set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal he had built in Samaria.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Solomon took thirteen years to build his palace.<n id="1" />

When the queen of Sheba saw for herself Solomon&#8217;s extensive wisdom,<n id="1" /> the palace<n id="2" /> he had built,

<p class="bodytext">The rest of the events of Ahab&#8217;s reign, including a record of his accomplishments and how he built a luxurious palace and various cities, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">Next the king summoned<n id="1" /> Shimei and told him, &#8220;Build yourself a house in Jerusalem<n id="2" /> and live there &#8211; but you may not leave there to go anywhere!<n id="3" />

She got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side, while your servant was sleeping. She put him in her arms, and put her dead son in my arms.

The temple King Solomon built for the <sc>Lordsc> was 90 feet<n id="1" /> long, 30 feet<n id="2" /> wide, and 45 feet<n id="3" /> high.

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

This is what prompted him to rebel against the king:<n id="1" /> Solomon built a terrace and he closed up a gap in the wall of the city of his father David.<n id="2" />

Then he called out to the <sc>Lordsc>, &#8220;O <sc>Lordsc>, my God, are you also bringing disaster on this widow I am staying with by killing her son?&#8221;

The real mother<n id="1" /> spoke up to the king, for her motherly instincts were aroused.<n id="2" /> She said, &#8220;My master, give her the living child! Whatever you do, don&#8217;t kill him!&#8221;<n id="3" /> But the other woman said, &#8220;Neither one of us will have him! Let them cut him in two!&#8221;

&#8220;As for this temple you are building, if you follow<n id="1" /> my rules, observe<n id="2" /> my regulations, and obey all my commandments,<n id="3" /> I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David.<n id="4" />

<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>

But the <sc>Lordsc> had told Ahijah, &#8220;Look, Jeroboam&#8217;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.&#8221;

King Asa ordered all the men of Judah (no exemptions were granted) to carry away the stones and wood that Baasha had used to build Ramah.<n id="1" /> King Asa used the materials to build up<n id="2" /> Geba (in Benjamin) and Mizpah.p>

<p class="bodytext">The rest of the events of Asa&#8217;s reign, including all his successes and accomplishments, as well as a record of the cities he built, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah.<n id="1" /> Yet when he was very old he developed a foot disease.<n id="2" />

He purchased the hill of Samaria<n id="1" /> from Shemer for two talents<n id="2" /> of silver. He launched a construction project there<n id="3" /> and named the city he built after Shemer, the former owner of the hill of Samaria.

<p class="bodytext">During Ahab&#8217;s reign,<n id="1" /> Hiel the Bethelite rebuilt Jericho.<n id="2" /> Abiram, his firstborn son, died when he laid the foundation;<n id="3" /> Segub, his youngest son, died when he erected its gates,<n id="4" /> just as the <sc>Lordsc> had warned<n id="5" /> through Joshua son of Nun.<n id="6" />p>