Discovery Box| (0.24) | 1Ki 18:1 |
| Some time later, in the third year of the famine, the Lord told Elijah, 1 “Go, make an appearance before Ahab, so I may send rain on the surface of the ground.” |
| (0.24) | 1Ki 18:43 |
| He told his servant, “Go on up and look in the direction of the sea.” So he went on up, looked, and reported, “There is nothing.” 1 Seven times Elijah sent him to look. 2 |
| (0.24) | 1Ki 20:12 |
| When Ben Hadad received this reply, 1 he and the other kings were drinking in their quarters. 2 He ordered his servants, “Get ready to attack!” So they got ready to attack the city. |
| (0.24) | 1Ki 20:22 |
| The prophet 1 visited the king of Israel and instructed him, “Go, fortify your defenses. 2 Determine 3 what you must do, for in the spring 4 the king of Syria will attack 5 you.” |
| (0.24) | 1Ki 20:23 |
| Now the advisers 1 of the king of Syria said to him: “Their God is a god of the mountains. That’s why they overpowered us. But if we fight them in the plains, we will certainly overpower them. |
| (0.24) | 1Ki 20:25 |
| Muster an army like the one you lost, with the same number of horses and chariots. 1 Then we will fight them in the plains; we will certainly overpower them.” He approved their plan and did as they advised. 2 |
| (0.24) | 1Ki 20:27 |
| When the Israelites had mustered and had received their supplies, they marched out to face them in battle. When the Israelites deployed opposite them, they were like two small flocks 1 of goats, but the Syrians filled the land. |
| (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 20:30 |
| The remaining 27,000 ran to Aphek and went into the city, but the wall fell on them. 1 Now Ben Hadad ran into the city and hid in an inner room. 2 |
| (0.24) | 1Ki 21:8 |
| She wrote out orders, 1 signed Ahab’s name to them, 2 and sealed them with his seal. She then sent the orders 3 to the leaders 4 and to the nobles who lived in Naboth’s city. 5 |
| (0.24) | 1Ki 21:18 |
| “Get up, go down and meet King Ahab of Israel who lives in Samaria. He is at the vineyard of Naboth; he has gone down there to take possession of it. |
| (0.24) | 1Ki 21:20 |
| When Elijah arrived, Ahab said to him, 1 “So, you have found me, my enemy!” Elijah 2 replied, “I have found you, because you are committed 3 to doing evil in the sight of 4 the Lord. |
| (0.24) | 1Ki 21:21 |
| The Lord says, 1 ‘Look, I am ready to bring disaster 2 on you. I will destroy you 3 and cut off every last male belonging to Ahab in Israel, including even the weak and incapacitated. 4 |
| (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) | 1Ki 22:13 |
| Now the messenger who went to summon Micaiah said to him, “Look, the prophets are in complete agreement that the king will succeed. 1 Your words must agree with theirs; you must predict success.” 2 |
| (0.24) | 1Ki 22:17 |
| Micaiah 1 said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains like sheep that have no shepherd. Then the Lord said, ‘They have no master. They should go home in peace.’” |
| (0.24) | 1Ki 22:22 |
| He replied, ‘I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouths of all his prophets.’ The Lord 1 said, ‘Deceive and overpower him. 2 Go out and do as you have proposed.’ |
| (0.24) | 1Ki 22:39 |
| The rest of the events of Ahab’s reign, including a record of his accomplishments and how he built a luxurious palace and various cities, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel. 1 |
| (0.24) | 1Ki 22:42 |
| Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he became king and he reigned for twenty-five years in Jerusalem. 1 His mother was Azubah, the daughter of Shilhi. |
| (0.24) | 1Ki 22:43 |
| He followed in his father Asa’s footsteps and was careful to do what the Lord approved. 1 (22:44) 2 However, the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places. |
