1 Kings
How each chapter begins
- 1 Kings 1
Now King David was old and well along in years, and though they covered him with blankets, he could not keep warm.
- 1 Kings 2
As the time drew near for David to die, he charged his son Solomon,
- 1 Kings 3
Later, Solomon formed an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt by marrying his daughter. Solomon brought her to the City…
- 1 Kings 4
So King Solomon ruled over Israel,
- 1 Kings 5
Now when Hiram king of Tyre heard that Solomon had been anointed king in his father’s place, he sent envoys to Solomon…
- 1 Kings 6
In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, in the month of Ziv, the…
- 1 Kings 7
Solomon, however, took thirteen years to complete the construction of his entire palace.
- 1 Kings 8
At that time Solomon assembled before him in Jerusalem the elders of Israel—all the tribal heads and family leaders of…
- 1 Kings 9
Now when Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and had achieved all that he had…
- 1 Kings 10
Now when the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to test him with…
- 1 Kings 11
King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and…
- 1 Kings 12
Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king.
- 1 Kings 13
Suddenly, as Jeroboam was standing beside the altar to burn incense, there came a man of God from Judah to Bethel by…
- 1 Kings 14
At that time Abijah son of Jeroboam became ill,
- 1 Kings 15
In the eighteenth year of the reign of Jeroboam son of Nebat, Abijam became king of Judah,
- 1 Kings 16
Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu son of Hanani against Baasha, saying:
- 1 Kings 17
Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD lives—the God of…
- 1 Kings 18
After a long time, in the third year of the drought, the word of the LORD came to Elijah: “Go and present yourself to…
- 1 Kings 19
Now Ahab told Jezebel everything that Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.
- 1 Kings 20
Now Ben-hadad king of Aram assembled his entire army. Accompanied by thirty-two kings with their horses and chariots…
- 1 Kings 21
Some time later, Naboth the Jezreelite happened to own a vineyard in Jezreel next to the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.
- 1 Kings 22
Then three years passed without war between Aram and Israel.