Discovery Box| (0.24) | 1Ki 4:7 |
| Solomon had twelve district governors appointed throughout Israel who acquired supplies for the king and his palace. Each was responsible for one month in the year. |
| (0.24) | 1Ki 5:1 |
| (5:15) 1 King Hiram of Tyre 2 sent messengers 3 to Solomon when he heard that he had been anointed king in his father’s place. (Hiram had always been an ally of David.) |
| (0.24) | 1Ki 6:8 |
| The entrance to the bottom 1 level of side rooms was on the south side of the temple; stairs went up 2 to the middle floor and then on up to the third 3 floor. |
| (0.24) | 1Ki 6:24 |
| Each of the first cherub’s wings was seven and a half feet long; its entire wingspan was 15 feet. 1 |
| (0.24) | 1Ki 8:38 |
| When all your people Israel pray and ask for help, 1 as they acknowledge their pain 2 and spread out their hands toward this temple, |
| (0.24) | 1Ki 8:56 |
| “The Lord is worthy of praise because he has made Israel his people secure 1 just as he promised! Not one of all the faithful promises he made through his servant Moses is left unfulfilled! 2 |
| (0.24) | 1Ki 11:20 |
| Tahpenes’ sister gave birth to his son, 1 named Genubath. Tahpenes raised 2 him in Pharaoh’s palace; Genubath grew up in Pharaoh’s palace among Pharaoh’s sons. |
| (0.24) | 1Ki 12:4 |
| “Your father made us work too hard. 1 Now if you lighten the demands he made and don’t make us work as hard, we will serve you.” 2 |
| (0.24) | 1Ki 15:13 |
| He also removed Maacah his grandmother 1 from her position as queen because she had made a loathsome Asherah pole. Asa cut down her Asherah pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley. |
| (0.24) | 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. |
| (0.24) | 1Ki 20:42 |
| The prophet 1 then said to him, “This is what the Lord says, ‘Because you released a man I had determined should die, you will pay with your life and your people will suffer instead of his people.’” 2 |
| (0.24) | 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. |
| (0.24) | 2Ki 8:15 |
| The next day Hazael 1 took a piece of cloth, dipped it in water, and spread it over Ben Hadad’s 2 face until he died. Then Hazael replaced him as king. |
| (0.24) | 2Ki 8:26 |
| Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king and he reigned for one year in Jerusalem. 1 His mother was Athaliah, the granddaughter 2 of King Omri of Israel. |
| (0.24) | 2Ki 10:8 |
| The messenger came and told Jehu, 1 “They have brought the heads of the king’s sons.” Jehu 2 said, “Stack them in two piles at the entrance of the city gate until morning.” |
| (0.24) | 2Ki 10:11 |
| Then Jehu killed all who were left of Ahab’s family in Jezreel, and all his nobles, close friends, and priests. He left no survivors. |
| (0.24) | 2Ki 17:16 |
| They abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God; they made two metal calves and an Asherah pole, bowed down to all the stars in the sky, 1 and worshiped 2 Baal. |
| (0.24) | 1Ch 14:15 |
| When you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the trees, then attack. 1 For at that moment the Lord is going before you to strike down the army 2 of the Philistines.” |
| (0.24) | 1Ch 21:13 |
| David said to Gad, “I am very upset! I prefer to be attacked by the Lord, for his mercy is very great; I do not want to be attacked by men!” 1 |
| (0.24) | 2Ch 3:17 |
| He set up the pillars in front of the temple, one on the right side and the other on the left. 1 He named the one on the right Jachin, 2 and the one on the left Boaz. 3 |
