Discovery Box| (0.22) | 1Ki 8:18 |
| The Lord told my father David, ‘It is right for you to have a strong desire to build a temple to honor me. 1 |
| (0.22) | 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! |
| (0.22) | 1Ki 8:39 |
| then listen from your heavenly dwelling place, forgive their sin, 1 and act favorably toward each one based on your evaluation of his motives. 2 (Indeed you are the only one who can correctly evaluate the motives of all people.) 3 |
| (0.22) | 1Ki 8:54 |
| When Solomon finished presenting all these prayers and requests to the Lord, he got up from before the altar of the Lord where he had kneeled and spread out his hands toward the sky. 1 |
| (0.22) | 1Ki 8:58 |
| May he make us submissive, 1 so we can follow all his instructions 2 and obey 3 the commandments, rules, and regulations he commanded our ancestors. |
| (0.22) | 1Ki 9:4 |
| You must serve me with integrity and sincerity, just as your father David did. Do everything I commanded and obey my rules and regulations. 1 |
| (0.22) | 1Ki 9:11 |
| King Solomon gave King Hiram of Tyre 1 twenty cities in the region of Galilee, because Hiram had supplied Solomon with cedars, evergreens, and all the gold he wanted. |
| (0.22) | 1Ki 10:17 |
| He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold; three minas 1 of gold were used for each of these shields. The king placed them in the Palace of the Lebanon Forest. 2 |
| (0.22) | 1Ki 10:19 |
| There were six steps leading up to the throne, and the back of it was rounded on top. The throne had two armrests with a statue of a lion standing on each side. 1 |
| (0.22) | 1Ki 11:4 |
| When Solomon became old, his wives shifted his allegiance to 1 other gods; he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God, as his father David had been. 2 |
| (0.22) | 1Ki 11:14 |
| The Lord brought 1 against Solomon an enemy, Hadad the Edomite, a descendant of the Edomite king. |
| (0.22) | 1Ki 11:27 |
| This is what prompted him to rebel against the king: 1 Solomon built a terrace and he closed up a gap in the wall of the city of his father David. 2 |
| (0.22) | 1Ki 11:36 |
| I will leave 1 his son one tribe so my servant David’s dynasty may continue to serve me 2 in Jerusalem, the city I have chosen as my home. 3 |
| (0.22) | 1Ki 11:43 |
| Then Solomon passed away 1 and was buried in the city of his father David. 2 His son Rehoboam replaced him as king. 3 |
| (0.22) | 1Ki 12:6 |
| King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served 1 his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, 2 “How do you advise me to answer these people?” |
| (0.22) | 1Ki 12:9 |
| He asked them, “How do you advise me 1 to respond to these people who said to me, ‘Lessen the demands your father placed on us’?” 2 |
| (0.22) | 1Ki 13:12 |
| Their father asked them, “Which road did he take?” His sons showed him 1 the road the prophet 2 from Judah had taken. |
| (0.22) | 1Ki 13:21 |
| and he cried out to the prophet from Judah, “This is what the Lord says, ‘You 1 have rebelled against the Lord 2 and have not obeyed the command the Lord your God gave you. |
| (0.22) | 1Ki 13:25 |
| Some men came by 1 and saw the corpse lying in the road with the lion standing beside it. 2 They went and reported what they had seen 3 in the city where the old prophet lived. |
| (0.22) | 1Ki 13:33 |
| After this happened, Jeroboam still did not change his evil ways; 1 he continued to appoint common people 2 as priests at the high places. Anyone who wanted the job he consecrated as a priest. 3 |
