1 Kings
The First Book of the Kings
How each chapter begins
- 1 Kings 1
Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.
- 1 Kings 2
Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying,
- 1 Kings 3
And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into the city of…
- 1 Kings 4
And king Solomon was king over all Israel.
- 1 Kings 5
And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of…
- 1 Kings 6
And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of…
- 1 Kings 7
And Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
- 1 Kings 8
Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ houses of the…
- 1 Kings 9
And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of Jehovah, and the king’s house, and all…
- 1 Kings 10
And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of Jehovah, she came to prove him with…
- 1 Kings 11
Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites…
- 1 Kings 12
And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.
- 1 Kings 13
And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of Jehovah unto Beth-el: and Jeroboam was standing by the…
- 1 Kings 14
At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.
- 1 Kings 15
Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat began Abijam to reign over Judah.
- 1 Kings 16
And the word of Jehovah came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,
- 1 Kings 17
And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the sojourners of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As Jehovah, the God of Israel, liveth…
- 1 Kings 18
And it came to pass after many days, that the word of Jehovah came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, Go, show…
- 1 Kings 19
And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.
- 1 Kings 20
And Ben-hadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together; and there were thirty and two kings with him, and…
- 1 Kings 21
And it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the…
- 1 Kings 22
And they continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.