Discovery Box| (0.41) | 1Ki 6:7 |
| As the temple was being built, only stones shaped at the quarry 1 were used; the sound of hammers, pickaxes, or any other iron tool was not heard at the temple while it was being built. |
| (0.41) | 1Ki 8:8 |
| The poles were so long their ends were visible from the holy place in front of the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from beyond that point. 1 They have remained there to this very day. |
| (0.41) | 1Ki 8:11 |
| The priests could not carry out their duties 1 because of the cloud; the Lord’s glory filled his temple. 2 |
| (0.41) | 1Ki 8:19 |
| But you will not build the temple; your very own son will build the temple for my honor.’ 1 |
| (0.41) | 1Ki 8:27 |
| “God does not really live on the earth! 1 Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built! |
| (0.41) | 1Ki 8:41 |
| “Foreigners, who do not belong to your people Israel, will come from a distant land because of your reputation. 1 |
| (0.41) | 1Ki 9:12 |
| When Hiram went out from Tyre to inspect the cities Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them. 1 |
| (0.41) | 1Ki 9:20 |
| Now several non-Israelite peoples were left in the land after the conquest of Joshua, including the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. 1 |
| (0.41) | 1Ki 9:21 |
| Their descendants remained in the land (the Israelites were unable to wipe them out completely). Solomon conscripted them for his work crews, and they continue in that role to this very day. 1 |
| (0.41) | 1Ki 9:22 |
| Solomon did not assign Israelites to these work crews; 1 the Israelites served as his soldiers, attendants, officers, charioteers, and commanders of his chariot forces. 2 |
| (0.41) | 1Ki 10:5 |
| the food in his banquet hall, 1 his servants and attendants, 2 their robes, his cupbearers, and his burnt offerings which he presented in the Lord’s temple, she was amazed. 3 |
| (0.41) | 1Ki 10:20 |
| There were twelve statues of lions on the six steps, one lion at each end of each step. There was nothing like it in any other kingdom. 1 |
| (0.41) | 1Ki 11:10 |
| and had warned him about this very thing, so that he would not follow other gods. 1 But he did not obey 2 the Lord’s command. |
| (0.41) | 1Ki 11:13 |
| But I will not tear away the entire kingdom; I will leave 1 your son one tribe for my servant David’s sake and for the sake of my chosen city Jerusalem.” |
| (0.41) | 1Ki 11:22 |
| Pharaoh said to him, “What do you lack here that makes you want to go to your homeland?” 1 Hadad replied, 2 “Nothing, but please give me permission to leave.” 3 |
| (0.41) | 1Ki 11:41 |
| The rest of the events of Solomon’s reign, including all his accomplishments and his wise decisions, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of Solomon. 1 |
| (0.41) | 1Ki 12:31 |
| He built temples 1 on the high places and appointed as priests people who were not Levites. |
| (0.41) | 1Ki 14:4 |
| Jeroboam’s wife did as she was told. She went to Shiloh and visited Ahijah. 1 Now Ahijah could not see; he had lost his eyesight in his old age. 2 |
| (0.41) | 1Ki 14:29 |
| The rest of the events of Rehoboam’s reign, including his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah. 1 |
| (0.41) | 1Ki 15:3 |
| He followed all the sinful practices of his father before him. He was not wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God, as his ancestor David had been. 1 |
