Discovery Box| (0.29) | 1Ki 2:39 |
| Three years later two of Shimei’s servants ran away to King Achish son of Maacah of Gath. Shimei was told, “Look, your servants are in Gath.” |
| (0.29) | 1Ki 3:2 |
| Now the people were offering sacrifices at the high places, 1 because in those days a temple had not yet been built to honor the Lord. 2 |
| (0.29) | 1Ki 4:3 |
| Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, wrote down what happened. 1 Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was in charge of the records. |
| (0.29) | 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. |
| (0.29) | 1Ki 4:23 |
| ten calves fattened in the stall, 1 twenty calves from the pasture, and a hundred sheep, not to mention rams, gazelles, deer, and well-fed birds. |
| (0.29) | 1Ki 4:31 |
| He was wiser than any man, including Ethan the Ezrahite or Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol. He was famous in all the neighboring nations. 1 |
| (0.29) | 1Ki 6:5 |
| He built an extension all around the walls of the temple’s main hall and holy place and constructed side rooms in it. 1 |
| (0.29) | 1Ki 6:18 |
| The inside of the temple was all cedar and was adorned with carvings of round ornaments and of flowers in bloom. Everything was cedar; no stones were visible. 1 |
| (0.29) | 1Ki 6:21 |
| Solomon plated the inside of the temple with gold. 1 He hung golden chains in front of the inner sanctuary and plated the inner sanctuary 2 with gold. |
| (0.29) | 1Ki 6:33 |
| In the same way he made doorposts of olive wood for the entrance to the main hall, only with four-sided pillars. 1 |
| (0.29) | 1Ki 6:37 |
| In the month Ziv 1 of the fourth year of Solomon’s reign 2 the foundation was laid for the Lord’s temple. |
| (0.29) | 1Ki 7:8 |
| The palace where he lived was constructed in a similar way. 1 He also constructed a palace like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had married. 2 |
| (0.29) | 1Ki 7:20 |
| On the top of each pillar, right above the bulge beside the latticework, there were two hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments arranged in rows all the way around. 1 |
| (0.29) | 1Ki 7:38 |
| He also made ten bronze basins, each of which could hold about 240 gallons. 1 Each basin was six feet in diameter; 2 there was one basin for each stand. |
| (0.29) | 1Ki 8:4 |
| The priests and Levites carried the ark of the Lord, the tent of meeting, 1 and all the holy items in the tent. 2 |
| (0.29) | 1Ki 8:22 |
| Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in front of the entire assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward the sky. 1 |
| (0.29) | 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. |
| (0.29) | 1Ki 9:20 |
| Now several non-Israelite peoples were left in the land after the conquest of Joshua, including the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. 1 |
| (0.29) | 1Ki 9:23 |
| These men were also in charge of Solomon’s work projects; there were a total of 550 men who supervised the workers. 1 |
| (0.29) | 1Ki 10:6 |
| She said to the king, “The report I heard in my own country about your wise sayings and insight 1 was true! |
