1 Kings 1:1

Adonijah Tries to Seize the Throne

1:1 King David was very old; even when they covered him with blankets, he could not get warm.

1 Kings 1:29

1:29 The king swore an oath: “As certainly as the Lord lives (he who has rescued me from every danger),

1 Kings 1:50

1:50 Adonijah feared Solomon, so he got up and went and grabbed hold of the horns of the altar.

1 Kings 2:11

2:11 David reigned over Israel forty years; he reigned in Hebron seven years, and in Jerusalem thirty-three years.

1 Kings 2:34

2:34 So Benaiah son of Jehoiada went up and executed Joab; he was buried at his home in the wilderness.

1 Kings 4:10-11

4:10 Ben-Hesed was in charge of Arubboth; he controlled Socoh and all the territory of Hepher.

4:11 Ben-Abinadab was in charge of Naphath Dor. (He was married to Solomon’s daughter Taphath.)

1 Kings 6:22

6:22 He plated the entire inside of the temple with gold, as well as the altar inside the inner sanctuary.

1 Kings 6:29

6:29 On all the walls around the temple, inside and out, he carved cherubs, palm trees, and flowers in bloom.

1 Kings 6:35-36

6:35 He carved cherubs, palm trees, and flowers in bloom and plated them with gold, leveled out over the carvings. 6:36 He built the inner courtyard with three rows of chiseled stones and a row of cedar beams.

1 Kings 7:16

7:16 He made two bronze tops for the pillars; each was seven-and-a-half feet high.

1 Kings 9:2

9:2 the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time, in the same way he had appeared to him at Gibeon.

1 Kings 9:12

9:12 When Hiram went out from Tyre to inspect the cities Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them.

1 Kings 10:4

10:4 When the queen of Sheba saw for herself Solomon’s extensive wisdom, the palace he had built,

1 Kings 11:8

11:8 He built high places for all his foreign wives so they could burn incense and make sacrifices to their gods.

1 Kings 11:19

11:19 Pharaoh liked Hadad so well he gave him his sister-in-law (Queen Tahpenes’ sister) as a wife.

1 Kings 12:5

12:5 He said to them, “Go away for three days, then return to me.” So the people went away.

1 Kings 12:8

12:8 But Rehoboam rejected their advice and consulted the young advisers who served him, with whom he had grown up.

1 Kings 13:16

13:16 But he replied, “I can’t go back with you or eat and drink with you in this place.

1 Kings 13:30

13:30 He put the corpse into his own tomb, and they mourned over him, saying, “Ah, my brother!”

1 Kings 14:20

14:20 Jeroboam ruled for twenty-two years; then he passed away. His son Nadab replaced him as king.

1 Kings 17:6

17:6 The ravens would bring him bread and meat each morning and evening, and he would drink from the stream.

1 Kings 17:11

17:11 As she went to get it, he called out to her, “Please bring me a piece of bread.”

1 Kings 17:22

17:22 The Lord answered Elijah’s prayer; the boy’s breath returned to him and he lived.

1 Kings 18:14

18:14 Now you say, ‘Go and say to your master, “Elijah is back,”’ but he will kill me.”

1 Kings 18:17

18:17 When Ahab saw Elijah, he said to him, “Is it really you, the one who brings disaster on Israel?”

1 Kings 20:21

20:21 Then the king of Israel marched out and struck down the horses and chariots; he thoroughly defeated Syria.

1 Kings 22:33

22:33 When the chariot commanders realized he was not the king of Israel, they turned away from him.

1 Kings 22:46

22:46 He removed from the land any male cultic prostitutes who had managed to survive the reign of his father Asa.

1 Kings 22:53

22:53 He worshiped and bowed down to Baal, angering the Lord God of Israel just as his father had done.