1 Kings
The First Book of Kings
How each chapter begins
- 1 Kings 1
And king David was old [and] advanced in age; and they covered him with clothes, but he obtained no warmth.
- 1 Kings 2
And the days of David were at hand that he should die; and he enjoined Solomon his son saying,
- 1 Kings 3
And Solomon allied himself by marriage with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into…
- 1 Kings 4
And king Solomon was king over all Israel.
- 1 Kings 5
And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the place 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 thirteen years building his own house; 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 of the…
- 1 Kings 9
And it came to pass when Solomon had completed the building of the house of Jehovah, and the king's house, and all…
- 1 Kings 10
And the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon in connection with the name of Jehovah, and came to prove him with…
- 1 Kings 11
But king Solomon loved many foreign women, besides the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites…
- 1 Kings 12
And Rehoboam went to Shechem; for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
- 1 Kings 13
And behold, there came a man of God from Judah, by the word of Jehovah, to Bethel; and Jeroboam stood by the altar to…
- 1 Kings 14
At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam was sick.
- 1 Kings 15
And 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, of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, As Jehovah the God of Israel liveth, before whom I…
- 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, shew…
- 1 Kings 19
And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and in detail how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.
- 1 Kings 20
And Ben-Hadad king of Syria assembled all his host; and there were thirty-two kings with him, and horses and chariots…
- 1 Kings 21
And it came to pass after these things, [that] Naboth the Jizreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jizreel, by the side…
- 1 Kings 22
And they continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.