Discovery Box| (0.42) | 1Ki 16:18 |
| When Zimri saw that the city was captured, he went into the fortified area of the royal palace. He set the palace on fire and died in the flames. 1 |
| (0.42) | 1Ki 16:20 |
| The rest of the events of Zimri’s reign, including the details of his revolt, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel. 1 |
| (0.42) | 1Ki 16:21 |
| At that time the people of Israel were divided in their loyalties. Half the people supported Tibni son of Ginath and wanted to make him king; the other half supported Omri. |
| (0.42) | 1Ki 16:31 |
| As if following in the sinful footsteps of Jeroboam son of Nebat were not bad enough, he married Jezebel the daughter of King Ethbaal of the Sidonians. Then he worshiped and bowed to Baal. 1 |
| (0.42) | 1Ki 18:1 |
| Some time later, in the third year of the famine, the Lord told Elijah, 1 “Go, make an appearance before Ahab, so I may send rain on the surface of the ground.” |
| (0.42) | 1Ki 18:43 |
| He told his servant, “Go on up and look in the direction of the sea.” So he went on up, looked, and reported, “There is nothing.” 1 Seven times Elijah sent him to look. 2 |
| (0.42) | 1Ki 20:12 |
| When Ben Hadad received this reply, 1 he and the other kings were drinking in their quarters. 2 He ordered his servants, “Get ready to attack!” So they got ready to attack the city. |
| (0.42) | 1Ki 20:22 |
| The prophet 1 visited the king of Israel and instructed him, “Go, fortify your defenses. 2 Determine 3 what you must do, for in the spring 4 the king of Syria will attack 5 you.” |
| (0.42) | 1Ki 20:23 |
| Now the advisers 1 of the king of Syria said to him: “Their God is a god of the mountains. That’s why they overpowered us. But if we fight them in the plains, we will certainly overpower them. |
| (0.42) | 1Ki 20:25 |
| Muster an army like the one you lost, with the same number of horses and chariots. 1 Then we will fight them in the plains; we will certainly overpower them.” He approved their plan and did as they advised. 2 |
| (0.42) | 1Ki 20:27 |
| When the Israelites had mustered and had received their supplies, they marched out to face them in battle. When the Israelites deployed opposite them, they were like two small flocks 1 of goats, but the Syrians filled the land. |
| (0.42) | 1Ki 20:29 |
| The armies were deployed opposite each other for seven days. On the seventh day the battle began, and the Israelites killed 100,000 Syrian foot soldiers in one day. |
| (0.42) | 1Ki 20:30 |
| The remaining 27,000 ran to Aphek and went into the city, but the wall fell on them. 1 Now Ben Hadad ran into the city and hid in an inner room. 2 |
| (0.42) | 1Ki 21:8 |
| She wrote out orders, 1 signed Ahab’s name to them, 2 and sealed them with his seal. She then sent the orders 3 to the leaders 4 and to the nobles who lived in Naboth’s city. 5 |
| (0.42) | 1Ki 21:18 |
| “Get up, go down and meet King Ahab of Israel who lives in Samaria. He is at the vineyard of Naboth; he has gone down there to take possession of it. |
| (0.42) | 1Ki 21:20 |
| When Elijah arrived, Ahab said to him, 1 “So, you have found me, my enemy!” Elijah 2 replied, “I have found you, because you are committed 3 to doing evil in the sight of 4 the Lord. |
| (0.42) | 1Ki 21:21 |
| The Lord says, 1 ‘Look, I am ready to bring disaster 2 on you. I will destroy you 3 and cut off every last male belonging to Ahab in Israel, including even the weak and incapacitated. 4 |
| (0.42) | 1Ki 22:10 |
| Now the king of Israel and King Jehoshaphat of Judah were sitting on their respective thrones, 1 dressed in their robes, at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria. 2 All the prophets were prophesying before them. |
| (0.42) | 1Ki 22:13 |
| Now the messenger who went to summon Micaiah said to him, “Look, the prophets are in complete agreement that the king will succeed. 1 Your words must agree with theirs; you must predict success.” 2 |
| (0.42) | 1Ki 22:17 |
| Micaiah 1 said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains like sheep that have no shepherd. Then the Lord said, ‘They have no master. They should go home in peace.’” |
