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Adonijah son of Haggith kept exalting himself, saying, “I will be king!” He prepared chariots, cavalry, and 50 men to run ahead of him.

Verse ConceptsChildren, Bad KidsLove, Abuse OfRashnessRunningSolomon, Life OfWorldly Ambition ExamplesFifties

“The king’s servants have also gone to congratulate our lord King David, saying, ‘May your God make the name of Solomon more well known than your name, and may He make his throne greater than your throne.’ Then the king bowed in worship on his bed.

Verse ConceptsBowingBowing Before GodThe Kingdom Of Solomon

“You also know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me and what he did to the two commanders of Israel’s army, Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether. He murdered them in a time of peace to avenge blood shed in war. He spilled that blood on his own waistband and on the sandals of his feet.

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The king also said, “You yourself know all the evil that you did to my father David. Therefore, the Lord has brought back your evil on your head,

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Solomon loved the Lord by walking in the statutes of his father David, but he also sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

Verse ConceptsIncense Offered AmissThose Loving GodSacrificing On The High Places

On the third day after I gave birth, she also had a baby and we were alone. No one else was with us in the house; just the two of us were there.

Verse ConceptsThe Third Day Of The Week

Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also had married a daughter of Solomon—Basemath);

Verse ConceptsNamed Wives

He described trees, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop growing out of the wall. He also taught about animals, birds, reptiles, and fish.

Verse ConceptsCedarHyssopPlantsRelation Of Animals To ManBeauty Of NatureFishPets

He also made windows with beveled frames for the temple.

Verse ConceptsWindows For The Temple

The lowest chamber was 7½ feet wide, the middle was nine feet wide, and the third was 10½ feet wide. He also provided offset ledges for the temple all around the outside so that nothing would be inserted into the temple walls.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of Chambers

he paneled the interior temple walls with cedar boards; from the temple floor to the surface of the ceiling he overlaid the interior with wood. He also overlaid the floor with cypress boards.

Verse ConceptsCedar Wood

The interior of the sanctuary was 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 30 feet high; he overlaid it with pure gold. He also overlaid the cedar altar.

Verse ConceptsCubesDimensions Of ChambersOverlaid With WoodCedar Wood

The second cherub also was 15 feet; both cherubim had the same size and shape.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of Temple FurnitureSame Sizes

Above were also costly stones, cut to size, as well as cedar wood.

Verse ConceptsCedar WoodWood And Stone

He also made two capitals of cast bronze to set on top of the pillars; 7½ feet was the height of the first capital, and 7½ feet was also the height of the second capital.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of PillarsBronze Items For The Tabernacle

The capitals on the two pillars were also immediately above the rounded surface next to the grating, and 200 pomegranates were in rows encircling each capital.

Verse ConceptsPomegranatesThe Number Two Hundred

At the top of the cart was a band nine inches high encircling it; also, at the top of the cart, its braces and its frames were one piece with it.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of Temple Furniture

Solomon also made all the equipment in the Lord’s temple: the gold altar; the gold table that the bread of the Presence was placed on;

Verse ConceptsTablesGold Items For The Tabernacl

The king also made a large ivory throne and overlaid it with fine gold.

Verse ConceptsArtIvoryOverlaid With Gold

Jeroboam also built shrines on the high places and set up priests from every class of people who were not Levites.

Verse ConceptsHigh PlacesPriests, Institution In Ot Times

Jeroboam made a festival in the eighth month on the fifteenth day of the month, like the festival in Judah. He offered sacrifices on the altar; he made this offering in Bethel to sacrifice to the calves he had set up. He also stationed the priests in Bethel for the high places he had set up.

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Now a certain old prophet was living in Bethel. His son came and told him all the deeds that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. His sons also told their father the words that he had spoken to the king.

Verse ConceptsAnonymityTelling What People DidUnnamed Prophets Of The Lord

He said to him, “I am also a prophet like you. An angel spoke to me by the word of the Lord: ‘Bring him back with you to your house so that he may eat bread and drink water.’” The old prophet deceived him,

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They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree;

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The rest of the events of Abijam’s reign, along with all his accomplishments, are written in the Historical Record of Judah’s Kings. There was also war between Abijam and Jeroboam.

Verse ConceptsCivil WarHistorical Books

He also removed his grandmother Maacah from being queen mother because she had made an obscene image of Asherah. Asa chopped down her obscene image and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

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Through the prophet Jehu son of Hanani the word of the Lord also came against Baasha and against his house because of all the evil he had done in the Lord’s sight, provoking Him with the work of his hands and being like the house of Jeroboam, and because Baasha had struck down the house of Jeroboam.

Verse ConceptsMessengerProphets, Role OfImitating Wicked KingsNamed Prophets Of The Lord

When these troops heard that Zimri had not only conspired but had also struck down the king, then all Israel made Omri, the army commander, king over Israel that very day in the camp.

Verse ConceptsConspiraciesMaking KingsList Of Kings Of Israel

Ahab also made an Asherah pole. Ahab did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

Verse ConceptsFalse GodsServing Asherahjezebel

Then he cried out to the Lord and said, “My Lord God, have You also brought tragedy on the widow I am staying with by killing her son?”

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Also do this: remove each king from his position and appoint captains in their place.

Verse ConceptsExchanging Of Leaders

The ones who remained fled into the city of Aphek, and the wall fell on those 27,000 remaining men.

Ben-hadad also fled and went into an inner room in the city.

Verse ConceptsWallsTwenty Thousand And UpPeoples Who FledPrivate Rooms

Tell him, ‘This is what the Lord says: Have you murdered and also taken possession?’ Then tell him, ‘This is what the Lord says: In the place where the dogs licked Naboth’s blood, the dogs will also lick your blood!’”

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The Lord also speaks of Jezebel: The dogs will eat Jezebel in the plot of land at Jezreel:

Verse ConceptsEating Corpsesjezebel

Jehoshaphat also made peace with the king of Israel.