<p class="bodytext">&#8220;The time will come when the land suffers from a famine, a plague, blight and disease, or a locust<n id="1" /> invasion, or when their enemy lays siege to the cities of the land,<n id="2" /> or when some other type of plague or epidemic occurs.

But King Solomon will be empowered<n id="1" /> and David&#8217;s dynasty<n id="2" /> will endure permanently before the <sc>Lordsc>.&#8221;

As the <sc>Lordsc> is with my master the king, so may he be with Solomon, and may he make him an even greater king than my master King David!&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

Solomon said, &#8220;If he is a loyal subject,<n id="1" /> not a hair of his head will be harmed, but if he is found to be a traitor,<n id="2" /> he will die.&#8221;

May Joab and his descendants be perpetually guilty of their shed blood, but may the <sc>Lordsc> give perpetual peace to David, his descendants, his family,<n id="1" /> and his dynasty.&#8221;<n id="2" />

If you ever do leave and cross the Kidron Valley, know for sure that you will certainly die! You will be responsible for your own death.&#8221;<n id="1" />

Each one also brought to the assigned location his quota of barley and straw for the various horses.<n id="1" />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.

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>

Then Elijah took twelve stones, corresponding to the number of tribes that descended from Jacob, to whom the <sc>Lordsc> had said, &#8220;Israel will be your new<n id="1" /> name.&#8221;<n id="2" />

<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.

Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live.<n id="1" /> May you answer your servant&#8217;s prayer for this place.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;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,

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, &#8216;Why did the <sc>Lordsc> do this to this land and this temple?&#8217;

for the prophecy he announced with the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;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.&#8221;p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, &#8220;As certainly as the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel lives (whom I serve),<n id="1" /> there will be no dew or rain in the years ahead unless I give the command.&#8221;<n id="2" />

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;