Discovery Box| (0.35) | 1Ki 12:6 |
| King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served 1 his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, 2 “How do you advise me to answer these people?” |
| (0.35) | 1Ki 13:3 |
| That day he also announced 1 a sign, “This is the sign the Lord has predetermined: 2 The altar will be split open and the ashes 3 on it will fall to the ground.” 4 |
| (0.35) | 1Ki 13:5 |
| The altar split open and the ashes 1 fell from the altar to the ground, 2 in fulfillment of the sign the prophet had announced with the Lord’s authority. 3 |
| (0.35) | 1Ki 13:11 |
| Now there was an old prophet living in Bethel. 1 When his sons came home, they told their father 2 everything the prophet 3 had done in Bethel that day and all the words he had spoken to the king. 4 |
| (0.35) | 1Ki 13:21 |
| and he cried out to the prophet from Judah, “This is what the Lord says, ‘You 1 have rebelled against the Lord 2 and have not obeyed the command the Lord your God gave you. |
| (0.35) | 1Ki 13:22 |
| You went back and ate and drank in this place, even though he said to you, “Do not eat or drink there.” 1 Therefore 2 your corpse will not be buried in your ancestral tomb.’” 3 |
| (0.35) | 1Ki 13:31 |
| After he buried him, he said to his sons, “When I die, bury me in the tomb where the prophet 1 is buried; put my bones right beside his bones, |
| (0.35) | 1Ki 13:33 |
| After this happened, Jeroboam still did not change his evil ways; 1 he continued to appoint common people 2 as priests at the high places. Anyone who wanted the job he consecrated as a priest. 3 |
| (0.35) | 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 |
| (0.35) | 1Ki 14:4 |
| Jeroboam’s wife did as she was told. She went to Shiloh and visited Ahijah. 1 Now Ahijah could not see; he had lost his eyesight in his old age. 2 |
| (0.35) | 1Ki 14:8 |
| I tore the kingdom away from the Davidic dynasty and gave it to you. But you are not like my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me wholeheartedly by doing only what I approve. 1 |
| (0.35) | 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 |
| (0.35) | 1Ki 15:20 |
| Ben Hadad accepted King Asa’s offer and ordered his army commanders to attack the cities of Israel. 1 They conquered 2 Ijon, Dan, Abel Beth Maacah, and all the territory of Naphtali, including the region of Kinnereth. 3 |
| (0.35) | 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 |
| (0.35) | 1Ki 16:11 |
| When he became king and occupied the throne, he killed Baasha’s entire family. He did not spare any male belonging to him; he killed his relatives and his friends. 1 |
| (0.35) | 1Ki 16:19 |
| This happened because of the sins he committed. He did evil in the sight of 1 the Lord and followed in Jeroboam’s footsteps and encouraged Israel to continue sinning. 2 |
| (0.35) | 1Ki 16:21 |
| At that time the people of Israel were divided in their loyalties. Half the people supported Tibni son of Ginath and wanted to make him king; the other half supported Omri. |
| (0.35) | 1Ki 16:31 |
| As if following in the sinful footsteps of Jeroboam son of Nebat were not bad enough, he married Jezebel the daughter of King Ethbaal of the Sidonians. Then he worshiped and bowed to Baal. 1 |
| (0.35) | 1Ki 17:1 |
| Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As certainly as the Lord God of Israel lives (whom I serve), 1 there will be no dew or rain in the years ahead unless I give the command.” 2 |
| (0.35) | 1Ki 18:39 |
| When all the people saw this, they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground and said, “The Lord is the true God! 1 The Lord is the true God!” |
