1 Kings
The First Book of the Kings, Commonly Called the Third Book of the Kings
How each chapter begins
- 1 Kings 1
Now king David was old and advanced in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he got 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
So 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 room of…
- 1 Kings 6
And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of…
- 1 Kings 7
But 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 chief of the fathers of the children…
- 1 Kings 9
And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the LORD, 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 the LORD, she came to prove him with…
- 1 Kings 11
But 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 had 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 the LORD to Beth-el: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to…
- 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 reigned Abijam over Judah.
- 1 Kings 16
Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,
- 1 Kings 17
And Elijah the Tishbite who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before…
- 1 Kings 18
And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, show…
- 1 Kings 19
And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.
- 1 Kings 20
And Ben-hadad the king of Syria collected all his army: and there were thirty and two kings with him, and horses, 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.