Discovery Box| (0.41) | 1Ki 2:31 |
| The king told him, “Do as he said! Strike him down and bury him. Take away from me and from my father’s family 1 the guilt of Joab’s murderous, bloody deeds. 2 |
| (0.41) | 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. |
| (0.41) | 1Ki 7:2 |
| He named 1 it “The Palace of the Lebanon Forest”; 2 it was 150 feet 3 long, 75 feet 4 wide, and 45 feet 5 high. It had four rows of cedar pillars and cedar beams above the pillars. |
| (0.41) | 1Ki 7:18 |
| When he made the pillars, there were two rows of pomegranate-shaped ornaments around the latticework covering the top of each pillar. 1 |
| (0.41) | 1Ki 7:25 |
| “The Sea” stood on top of twelve bulls. Three faced northward, three westward, three southward, and three eastward. “The Sea” was placed on top of them, and they all faced outward. 1 |
| (0.41) | 1Ki 7:39 |
| He put five basins on the south side of the temple and five on the north side. He put “The Sea” on the south side, in the southeast corner. |
| (0.41) | 1Ki 7:41 |
| He made 1 the two pillars, the two bowl-shaped tops of the pillars, the latticework for the bowl-shaped tops of the two pillars, |
| (0.41) | 1Ki 9:7 |
| then I will remove Israel from the land 1 I have given them, I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence, 2 and Israel will be mocked and ridiculed 3 among all the nations. |
| (0.41) | 1Ki 9:8 |
| This temple will become a heap of ruins; 1 everyone who passes by it will be shocked and will hiss out their scorn, 2 saying, ‘Why did the Lord do this to this land and this temple?’ |
| (0.41) | 1Ki 11:11 |
| So the Lord said to Solomon, “Because you insist on doing these things and have not kept the covenantal rules I gave you, 1 I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant. |
| (0.41) | 1Ki 12:33 |
| On the fifteenth day of the eighth month (a date he had arbitrarily chosen) 1 Jeroboam 2 offered sacrifices on the altar he had made in Bethel. 3 He inaugurated a festival for the Israelites and went up to the altar to offer sacrifices. |
| (0.41) | 1Ki 13:32 |
| for the prophecy he announced with the Lord’s authority 1 against the altar in Bethel 2 and against all the temples on the high places in the cities of the north 3 will certainly be fulfilled.” |
| (0.41) | 1Ki 14:2 |
| Jeroboam told his wife, “Disguise 1 yourself so that people cannot recognize you are Jeroboam’s wife. Then go to Shiloh; Ahijah the prophet, who told me I would rule over this nation, lives there. 2 |
| (0.41) | 1Ki 16:7 |
| The prophet Jehu son of Hanani received from the Lord the message predicting the downfall of Baasha and his family because of all the evil Baasha had done in the sight of the Lord. 1 His actions angered the Lord (including the way he had destroyed Jeroboam’s dynasty), so that his family ended up like Jeroboam’s. 2 |
| (0.41) | 1Ki 16:29 |
| In the thirty-eighth year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Omri’s son Ahab became king over Israel. Ahab son of Omri ruled over Israel for twenty-two years in Samaria. 1 |
| (0.41) | 1Ki 18:23 |
| Let them bring us two bulls. Let them choose one of the bulls for themselves, cut it up into pieces, and place it on the wood. But they must not set it on fire. I will do the same to the other bull and place it on the wood. But I will not set it on fire. |
| (0.41) | 1Ki 21:4 |
| So Ahab went into his palace, bitter and angry that Naboth the Jezreelite had said, 1 “I will not sell to you my ancestral inheritance.” 2 He lay down on his bed, pouted, 3 and would not eat. |
| (0.41) | 2Ki 6:30 |
| When the king heard what the woman said, he tore his clothes. As he was passing by on the wall, the people could see he was wearing sackcloth under his clothes. 1 |
| (0.41) | 2Ki 7:6 |
| The Lord had caused the Syrian camp to hear the sound of chariots and horses and a large army. Then they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel has paid the kings of the Hittites and Egypt to attack us!” |
| (0.41) | 2Ki 7:17 |
| Now the king had placed the officer who was his right-hand man 1 at the city gate. When the people rushed out, they trampled him to death in the gate. 2 This fulfilled the prophet’s word which he had spoken when the king tried to arrest him. 3 |
