Discovery Box| (0.10) | 1Ki 3:1 |
| Solomon made an alliance by marriage with Pharaoh, king of Egypt; he married Pharaoh’s daughter. He brought her to the City of David 1 until he could finish building his residence and the temple of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem. 2 |
| (0.10) | 1Ki 3:7 |
| Now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in my father David’s place, even though I am only a young man and am inexperienced. 1 |
| (0.10) | 1Ki 3:18 |
| Then three days after I had my baby, this woman also had a baby. We were alone; there was no one else in the house except the two of us. 1 |
| (0.10) | 1Ki 3:23 |
| The king said, “One says, ‘My son is alive; your son is dead,’ while the other says, ‘No, your son is dead; my son is alive.’” |
| (0.10) | 1Ki 4:13 |
| Ben-Geber was in charge of Ramoth Gilead; he controlled the tent villages of Jair son of Manasseh in Gilead, as well as the region of Argob in Bashan, including sixty large walled cities with bronze bars locking their gates. |
| (0.10) | 1Ki 4:19 |
| Geber son of Uri was in charge of the land of Gilead (the territory which had once belonged to King Sihon of the Amorites and to King Og of Bashan). He was sole governor of the area. |
| (0.10) | 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. |
| (0.10) | 1Ki 7:15 |
| He fashioned two bronze pillars; each pillar was 27 feet 1 high and 18 feet 2 in circumference. |
| (0.10) | 1Ki 7:31 |
| Inside the stand was a round opening that was a foot-and-a-half deep; it had a support that was two and one-quarter feet long. 1 On the edge of the opening were carvings in square frames. 2 |
| (0.10) | 1Ki 7:49 |
| the pure gold lampstands at the entrance to the inner sanctuary (five on the right and five on the left), the gold flower-shaped ornaments, lamps, and tongs, |
| (0.10) | 1Ki 8:15 |
| He said, “The Lord God of Israel is worthy of praise because he has fulfilled 1 what he promised 2 my father David. |
| (0.10) | 1Ki 8:24 |
| You have kept your word to your servant, my father David; 1 this very day you have fulfilled what you promised. 2 |
| (0.10) | 1Ki 8:29 |
| Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. 1 May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place. 2 |
| (0.10) | 1Ki 8:30 |
| Respond to the request of your servant and your people Israel for this place. 1 Hear from inside your heavenly dwelling place 2 and respond favorably. 3 |
| (0.10) | 1Ki 8:33 |
| “The time will come when 1 your people Israel are defeated by an enemy 2 because they sinned against you. If they come back to you, renew their allegiance to you, 3 and pray for your help 4 in this temple, |
| (0.10) | 1Ki 8:47 |
| When your people 1 come to their senses 2 in the land where they are held prisoner, they will repent and beg for your mercy in the land of their imprisonment, admitting, ‘We have sinned and gone astray; 3 we have done evil.’ |
| (0.10) | 1Ki 8:50 |
| Forgive all the rebellious acts of your sinful people and cause their captors to have mercy on them. 1 |
| (0.10) | 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 |
| (0.10) | 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. |
| (0.10) | 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 |
