1 Kings
The First Book of 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 couldn’t keep warm.
- 1 Kings 2
Now the days of David came near that he should die; and he commanded Solomon his son, saying,
- 1 Kings 3
Solomon made a marriage alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt. He took Pharaoh’s daughter and brought her into David’s…
- 1 Kings 4
King Solomon was king over all Israel.
- 1 Kings 5
Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon, for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the place of his…
- 1 Kings 6
In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth…
- 1 Kings 7
Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
- 1 Kings 8
Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel with all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ households of…
- 1 Kings 9
When Solomon had finished the building of the LORD’s house, the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was…
- 1 Kings 10
When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the LORD’s name, she came to test him with hard…
- 1 Kings 11
Now King Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites…
- 1 Kings 12
Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
- 1 Kings 13
Behold, a man of God came out of Judah by the LORD’s word to Bethel; and Jeroboam was standing by the altar to burn…
- 1 Kings 14
At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam became sick.
- 1 Kings 15
Now in the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam the son of Nebat, Abijam began to reign over Judah.
- 1 Kings 16
The LORD’s word came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,
- 1 Kings 17
Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives…
- 1 Kings 18
After many days, the LORD’s word came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send…
- 1 Kings 19
Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.
- 1 Kings 20
Ben Hadad the king of Syria gathered all his army together; and there were thirty-two kings with him, with horses and…
- 1 Kings 21
After these things, Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard which was in Jezreel, next to the palace of Ahab king of…
- 1 Kings 22
They continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.