Discovery Box| (0.29) | 1Ki 8:23 |
| He prayed: 1 “O Lord, God of Israel, there is no god like you in heaven above or on earth below! You maintain covenantal loyalty 2 to your servants who obey you with sincerity. 3 |
| (0.29) | 1Ki 8:36 |
| then listen from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Certainly 1 you will then teach them the right way to live 2 and send rain on your land that you have given your people to possess. 3 |
| (0.29) | 1Ki 8:44 |
| “When you direct your people to march out and fight their enemies, 1 and they direct their prayers to the Lord 2 toward his chosen city and this temple I built for your honor, 3 |
| (0.29) | 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 |
| (0.29) | 1Ki 8:66 |
| On the fifteenth day after the festival started, 1 he dismissed the people. They asked God to empower the king 2 and then went to their homes, happy and content 3 because of all the good the Lord had done for his servant David and his people Israel. |
| (0.29) | 1Ki 9:25 |
| Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings 1 on the altar he had built for the Lord, burning incense along with them before the Lord. He made the temple his official worship place. 2 |
| (0.29) | 1Ki 10:9 |
| May the Lord your God be praised because he favored 1 you by placing you on the throne of Israel! Because of the Lord’s eternal love for Israel, he made you king so you could make just and right decisions.” 2 |
| (0.29) | 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 |
| (0.29) | 1Ki 12:10 |
| The young advisers with whom Rehoboam 1 had grown up said to him, “Say this to these people who have said to you, ‘Your father made us work hard, but now lighten our burden.’ 2 Say this to them: ‘I am a lot harsher than my father! 3 |
| (0.29) | 1Ki 12:14 |
| and followed 1 the advice of the younger ones. He said, “My father imposed heavy demands on you; I will make them even heavier. 2 My father punished you with ordinary whips; I will punish you with whips that really sting your flesh.” 3 |
| (0.29) | 1Ki 12:18 |
| King Rehoboam sent Adoniram, 1 the supervisor of the work crews, 2 out after them, but all Israel stoned him to death. King Rehoboam managed to jump into his chariot and escape to Jerusalem. 3 |
| (0.29) | 1Ki 12:20 |
| When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they summoned him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. No one except the tribe of Judah remained loyal to the Davidic dynasty. 1 |
| (0.29) | 1Ki 14:15 |
| The Lord will attack Israel, making it like a reed that sways in the water. 1 He will remove Israel from this good land he gave to their ancestors 2 and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, 3 because they angered the Lord by making Asherah poles. 4 |
| (0.29) | 1Ki 15:7 |
| The rest of the events of Abijah’s reign, including all his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah. 1 Abijah and Jeroboam had been at war with each other. |
| (0.29) | 1Ki 15:19 |
| “I want to make a treaty with you, like the one our fathers made. 1 See, I have sent you silver and gold as a present. Break your treaty with King Baasha of Israel, so he will retreat from my land.” 2 |
| (0.29) | 1Ki 15:23 |
| The rest of the events of Asa’s reign, including all his successes and accomplishments, as well as a record of the cities he built, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah. 1 Yet when he was very old he developed a foot disease. 2 |
| (0.29) | 1Ki 16:2 |
| “I raised you up 1 from the dust and made you ruler over my people Israel. Yet you followed in Jeroboam’s footsteps 2 and encouraged my people Israel to sin; their sins have made me angry. 3 |
| (0.29) | 1Ki 16:16 |
| While deployed there, the army received this report: 1 “Zimri has conspired against the king and assassinated him.” 2 So all Israel made Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel that very day in the camp. |
| (0.29) | 1Ki 16:24 |
| He purchased the hill of Samaria 1 from Shemer for two talents 2 of silver. He launched a construction project there 3 and named the city he built after Shemer, the former owner of the hill of Samaria. |
| (0.29) | 1Ki 17:14 |
| For this is what the Lord God of Israel says, ‘The jar of flour will not be empty and the jug of oil will not run out until the day the Lord makes it rain on the surface of the ground.’” |
