Elijah told them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Don’t let even one of them escape!” So they seized them, and Elijah led them down to the Kishon Valley and executed ¹  them there.

He ordered, “Whether they come in peace or to do battle, take them alive.” ¹ 

Whenever the king visited the Lord’s temple, the royal guard carried them and then brought them back to the guardroom.

King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned them to the officers of the royal guard ¹  who protected the entrance to the royal palace.

They divided up the land between them; Ahab went ¹  one way and Obadiah went the other.

Forgive all the rebellious acts of your sinful people and cause their captors to have mercy on them. ¹ 

When Jezebel was killing ¹  the Lord’s prophets, Obadiah took one hundred prophets and hid them in two caves in two groups of fifty. He also brought them food and water.)

He carved cherubs, palm trees, and flowers in bloom and plated them with gold, leveled out over the carvings.

“The time will come when your people ¹  will sin against you (for there is no one who is sinless!) and you will be angry with them and deliver them over to their enemies, who will take them as prisoners to their own land, ²  whether far away or close by.

When the Israelites had mustered and had received their supplies, they marched out to face them in battle. When the Israelites deployed opposite them, they were like two small flocks ¹  of goats, but the Syrians filled the land.

The king had them cast in earth foundries ¹  in the region of the Jordan between Succoth and Zarethan.

Solomon acquired his horses from Egypt ¹  and from Que; the king’s traders purchased them from Que.

They came from nations about which the Lord had warned the Israelites, “You must not establish friendly relations with them! ¹  If you do, they will surely shift your allegiance to their gods.” ²  But Solomon was irresistibly attracted to them. ³ 

She wrote out orders, ¹  signed Ahab’s name to them, ²  and sealed them with his seal. She then sent the orders ³  to the leaders ⁴  and to the nobles who lived in Naboth’s city. ⁵ 

He said to them, “Go away for three days, then return to me.” So the people went away.

then listen from heaven to their prayers for help ¹  and vindicate them. ² 

So do this: Dismiss the kings from their command, and replace them with military commanders.

Their descendants remained in the land (the Israelites were unable to wipe them out completely). Solomon conscripted them for his work crews, and they continue in that role to this very day. ¹ 

Now the advisers ¹  of the king of Syria said to him: “Their God is a god of the mountains. That’s why they overpowered us. But if we fight them in the plains, we will certainly overpower them.

The men of the ¹  city, the leaders ²  and the nobles who lived there, ³  followed the written orders Jezebel had sent them. ⁴