1 Kings
History
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1 Kings 1
Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he couldn't keep warm.
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1 Kings 2
Now the days of David drew near that he should die; and he commanded Solomon his son, saying,
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1 Kings 3
Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of Yahweh, and the wall of Jerusalem all around.
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1 Kings 4
King Solomon was king over all Israel.
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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 father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David.
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1 Kings 6
It happened in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of Yahweh.
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1 Kings 7
Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
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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 children of Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of the city of David, which is Zion.
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1 Kings 9
It happened, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of Yahweh, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,
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1 Kings 10
When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of Yahweh, she came to prove him with hard questions.
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1 Kings 11
Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;
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1 Kings 12
Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.
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1 Kings 13
Behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of Yahweh to Beth El: and Jeroboam was standing by the altar to burn incense.
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1 Kings 14
At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.
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1 Kings 15
Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat began Abijam to reign over Judah.
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1 Kings 16
The word of Yahweh came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,
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1 Kings 17
Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the foreigners of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word."
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1 Kings 18
It happened after many days, that the word of Yahweh came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, "Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain on the earth."
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1 Kings 19
Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.
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1 Kings 20
Ben Hadad the king of Syria gathered all his army together; and there were thirty-two kings with him, and horses and chariots: and he went up and besieged Samaria, and fought against it.
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1 Kings 21
It happened after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.
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1 Kings 22
They continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.