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Now King David was old and getting on in years. Although they covered him with bedclothes, he could not get warm.

Verse ConceptsOld Age, DisabilitiesCovering The BodyOld Age, Attainment OfWeakness, PhysicalFeeblenessCold WeatherAgeteenagervirginityscars

So his servants said to him: “Let us search for a young virgin for my lord the king. She is to attend the king and be his caregiver. She is to lie by your side so that my lord the king will get warm.”

Verse ConceptsLying Down To RestWarmingThose Looking For Peopleteenager

The girl was of unsurpassed beauty, and she became the king’s caregiver. She served him, but he was not intimate with her.

Verse ConceptsAbsence Of Sex

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

But his father had never once reprimanded him by saying, “Why do you act this way?” In addition, he was quite handsome and was born after Absalom.

Verse ConceptsChildren, needs ofOpposition, To Sin And EvilRestraintBeauty, In MenNot Asking OthersSoft TreatmentHandsome Men

Go, approach King David and say to him, ‘My lord the king, did you not swear to your servant: Your son Solomon is to become king after me, and he is the one who is to sit on my throne? So why has Adonijah become king?’

Verse ConceptsSittingThrone

So Bathsheba went to the king in his bedroom. Since the king was very old, Abishag the Shunammite was serving him.

Verse ConceptsElderlyBedroomsOld Age, Attainment OfPrivate RoomsDeath Approaching

Now, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you to tell them who will sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.

and it was announced to the king, “Nathan the prophet is here.” He came into the king’s presence and bowed to him with his face to the ground.

Verse ConceptsBowing Before David

I’m certain my lord the king would not have let this happen without letting your servant know who will sit on my lord the king’s throne after him.”

Verse ConceptsThose Who Did Not Tell

King David responded by saying, “Call in Bathsheba for me.” So she came into the king’s presence and stood before him.

Verse ConceptsKings Summoning

The king said to them, “Take my servants with you, have my son Solomon ride on my own mule, and take him down to Gihon.

Verse ConceptsMulesBackRiding Mules

There, Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet are to anoint him as king over Israel. You are to blow the ram’s horn and say, ‘Long live King Solomon!’

Verse ConceptsTrumpetAnointing KingsTrumpets For CelebrationNamed Prophets Of The Lord

You are to come up after him, and he is to come in and sit on my throne. He is the one who is to become king in my place; he is the one I have commanded to be ruler over Israel and Judah.”

Verse ConceptsTribes Of IsraelKings Of All Israel Or Judah

Then Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Cherethites, and the Pelethites went down, had Solomon ride on King David’s mule, and took him to Gihon.

Verse ConceptsMulesBodyguardsRiding MulesNamed Prophets Of The Lord

All the people followed him, playing flutes and rejoicing with such a great joy that the earth split open from the sound.

Verse ConceptsMusical Instruments, types ofMusic To CelebrateRejoicing In God's Works

Adonijah and all the invited guests who were with him heard the noise as they finished eating. Joab heard the sound of the ram’s horn and said, “Why is the town in such an uproar?”

Verse ConceptsGuestsMusic To CelebrateHearing Things

“Unfortunately not,” Jonathan answered him. “Our lord King David has made Solomon king.

And with Solomon, the king has sent Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and they have had him ride on the king’s mule.

Verse ConceptsMulesRiding Mules

Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon. They have gone from there rejoicing. The town has been in an uproar; that’s the noise you heard.

Verse ConceptsExcitementAnointing Kings

Then Solomon said, “If he is a man of character, not a single hair of his will fall to the ground, but if evil is found in him, he dies.”

Verse ConceptsMercy, Examples OfHeadsHairs ProtectedHair

So King Solomon sent for him, and they took him down from the altar. He came and paid homage to King Solomon, and Solomon said to him, “Go to your home.”

“Keep an eye on Shimei son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahurim who is with you. He uttered malicious curses against me the day I went to Mahanaim. But he came down to meet me at the Jordan River, and I swore to him by the Lord: ‘I will never kill you with the sword.’

Verse ConceptsCursing The Ungodly

So don’t let him go unpunished, for you are a wise man. You know how to deal with him to bring his gray head down to Sheol with blood.”

Verse ConceptsSheolGrey

“You know the kingship was mine,” he said. “All Israel expected me to be king, but then the kingship was turned over to my brother, for the Lord gave it to him.

So now I have just one request of you; don’t turn me down.”

She said to him, “Go on.”

He replied, “Please speak to King Solomon since he won’t turn you down. Let him give me Abishag the Shunammite as a wife.”

Verse ConceptsInfatuationTransferring Wives

So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him about Adonijah. The king stood up to greet her, bowed to her, sat down on his throne, and had a throne placed for the king’s mother. So she sat down at his right hand.

Verse ConceptsQueensRespect, For Human BeingsThroneRight Sides

King Solomon answered his mother, “Why are you requesting Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Since he is my elder brother, you might as well ask the kingship for him, for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab son of Zeruiah.”

Verse ConceptsBrothersThe Kingdom Of Others

It was reported to King Solomon: “Joab has fled to the Lord’s tabernacle and is now beside the altar.” Then Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada and told him, “Go and strike him down!”

Verse ConceptsDeath penalty

The king said to him, “Do just as he says. Strike him down and bury him in order to remove from me and from my father’s house the blood that Joab shed without just cause.

Verse ConceptsInnocent BloodSheddingKilling Named Individuals

Benaiah son of Jehoiada went up, struck down Joab, and put him to death. He was buried at his house in the wilderness.

Verse ConceptsSwordsLiving In The WildernessKilling Named Individuals

Then the king summoned Shimei and said to him, “Build a house for yourself in Jerusalem and live there, but don’t leave there and go anywhere else.

Verse ConceptsBuilding Houses

So the king summoned Shimei and said to him, “Didn’t I make you swear by the Lord and warn you, saying, ‘On the day you leave and go anywhere else, know for sure that you will certainly die’? And you said to me, ‘The sentence is fair; I will obey.’

Verse ConceptsAssentingKings SummoningPeople Bound By Oaths

And Solomon replied, “You have shown great and faithful love to Your servant, my father David, because he walked before You in faithfulness, righteousness, and integrity. You have continued this great and faithful love for him by giving him a son to sit on his throne, as it is today.

Verse ConceptsGrace, In OtKindnessRighteousness, Of BelieversSittingThroneCharacter Of SaintsGod Showed His Lovingkindness

So God said to him, “Because you have requested this and did not ask for long life or riches for yourself, or the death of your enemies, but you asked discernment for yourself to understand justice,

Verse ConceptsGetting RichDiscernmentNatural Disasters

Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.

Verse ConceptsProstitutionTwo Women

She got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while your servant was asleep. She laid him at her breast, and she put her dead son in my arms.

Verse ConceptsBreasts, Nursing MothersMidnightCorpses Of Other People

When I got up in the morning to nurse my son, I discovered he was dead. That morning, when I looked closely at him I realized that he was not the son I gave birth to.”

Verse ConceptsMorningNursesWho Is This?Not The OneDeath Of A Childsisterhood

The woman whose son was alive spoke to the king because she felt great compassion for her son. “My lord, give her the living baby,” she said, “but please don’t have him killed!”

But the other one said, “He will not be mine or yours. Cut him in two!”

Verse ConceptsAffection, ExpressingMaternal LoveLove, And The WorldMercy, HumanBowelsHalf Of BodiesPeople Showing MercyMothers Love For Her ChildrenHaving A Babybaby

The king responded, “Give the living baby to the first woman, and don’t kill him. She is his mother.”

Verse ConceptsMothers Love For Her ChildrenDeath Of A Mother

All Israel heard about the judgment the king had given, and they stood in awe of the king because they saw that God’s wisdom was in him to carry out justice.

Verse ConceptsGod, Wisdom OfJudging OthersShrewdnessWisdom, Human ImportanceFear Of Individuals

“You know my father David was not able to build a temple for the name of Yahweh his God. This was because of the warfare all around him until the Lord put his enemies under his feet.

Verse ConceptsDavid, Abilities OfFootstoolsFeetPeople's Inability To Serve GodSolomon's TemplePeople OvercomingReady For WarA Place For God's NameAll Enemies Under God's Feet

The Lord gave Solomon wisdom, as He had promised him. There was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty.

Verse ConceptsCovenant RelationshipsAgreements, LegalCovenant breakersAliancesWisdom, Human NatureAllegiancesTime Of Peace

At that time Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, all the tribal heads and the ancestral leaders of the Israelites before him at Jerusalem in order to bring the ark of the Lord’s covenant from the city of David, that is Zion.

Verse Conceptselders, as community leadersJerusalem, History OfRankAssembling LeadersThe Ark In The TempleThe Elders Gathered

King Solomon and the entire congregation of Israel, who had gathered around him and were with him in front of the ark, were sacrificing sheep and cattle that could not be counted or numbered, because there were so many.

Verse ConceptsSheepUncountableMany CreaturesSacrificing Cattle Sheep And Goats

You have kept what You promised
to Your servant, my father David.
You spoke directly to him
and You fulfilled Your promise by Your power
as it is today.

Verse ConceptsMouths

may You hear in heaven and act.
May You judge Your servants,
condemning the wicked man by bringing
what he has done on his own head
and providing justice for the righteous
by rewarding him according to his righteousness.

Verse ConceptsHeadsInnocence, Teaching OnLet Evil ReboundAcquitting The Just

so that He causes us to be devoted to Him, to walk in all His ways, and to keep His commands, statutes, and ordinances, which He commanded our ancestors.

Verse ConceptsConversion, nature ofethics, and graceHardness Of HeartWanting To Keep The Commandments

The king and all Israel with him were offering sacrifices in the Lord’s presence.

Solomon and all Israel with him—a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the Brook of Egypt—observed the festival at that time in the presence of the Lord our God, seven days, and seven more days—14 days.

Verse ConceptsWeeksDinnerSeven DaysTen Or More DaysCelebration

the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time just as He had appeared to him at Gibeon.

Verse ConceptsDoing Things TwiceGod Appearing

The Lord said to him:

I have heard your prayer and petition you have made before Me. I have consecrated this temple you have built, to put My name there forever; My eyes and My heart will be there at all times.

Verse ConceptsHeart, DivineHoliness, Believers' Growth InHoliness, As Set Apart For GodHoliness, Purpose OfPrayer, Answers ToReceptivenessWatchfulness, DivineGod Answered PrayerGod Pays AttentionA Place For God's Namesupplication

Hiram king of Tyre having supplied him with cedar and cypress logs and gold for his every wish—King Solomon gave Hiram 20 towns in the land of Galilee.

Verse ConceptsCedarTwentyCedar WoodPeople Giving Other Things

So Hiram went out from Tyre to look over the towns that Solomon had given him, but he was not pleased with them.

Verse ConceptsNot Pleasing People

The queen of Sheba heard about Solomon’s fame connected with the name of Yahweh and came to test him with difficult questions.

Verse ConceptsCaravansFameMission, Of IsraelQueensCelebritiesAskingRelationships And Datingconnection

She came to Jerusalem with a very large entourage, with camels bearing spices, gold in great abundance, and precious stones. She came to Solomon and spoke to him about everything that was on her mind.

Verse ConceptsJewelsPrecious StonesJewellery

The Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from Yahweh, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice.

Verse ConceptsConversion, God's demands forDoing Things TwiceGod AppearingGod Angry With Individualsrehabilitation

He had commanded him about this, so that he would not follow other gods, but Solomon did not do what the Lord had commanded.

Verse ConceptsDifferent GodsDo Not Have Other godsThey Do Not Keep Commands

Yet I will not tear the entire kingdom away from him. I will give one tribe to your son because of my servant David and because of Jerusalem that I chose.”

Verse ConceptsFor The Sake Of God's People

Hadad and his men set out from Midian and went to Paran. They took men with them from Paran and went to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave Hadad a house, ordered that he be given food, and gave him land.

Pharaoh liked Hadad so much that he gave him a wife, the sister of his own wife, Queen Tahpenes.

Tahpenes’ sister gave birth to Hadad’s son Genubath. Tahpenes herself weaned him in Pharaoh’s palace, and Genubath lived there along with Pharaoh’s sons.

Verse ConceptsWeaningAdoption

But Pharaoh asked him, “What do you lack here with me for you to want to go back to your own country?”

“Nothing,” he replied, “but please let me leave.”

Verse ConceptsPlenty In Egypt

Now the man Jeroboam was capable, and Solomon noticed the young man because he was getting things done. So he appointed him over the entire labor force of the house of Joseph.

Verse ConceptsdiligenceDiligence, Results OfServants, GoodIndustry, Examples OfPromotionEntrustingForced Labour

“‘However, I will not take the whole kingdom from his hand but will let him be ruler all the days of his life because of My servant David, whom I chose and who kept My commands and My statutes.

Verse ConceptsRulers

Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone to Shechem to make him king.

Verse ConceptsCoronationsMaking Kings

They summoned him, and Jeroboam and the whole assembly of Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam:

Verse ConceptsOthers Summoning

But he rejected the advice of the elders who had advised him and consulted with the young men who had grown up with him and served him.

Verse ConceptsAdvice, Rejecting Good AdviceImmaturityThe Elders GatheredMan's CounselRejectionBad Counsel

Then the young men who had grown up with him told him, “This is what you should say to these people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you, make it lighter on us!’ This is what you should tell them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s loins!

Verse ConceptsFingersBroadnessRemoving BurdensLight YokeFingers Of PeopleEasy Burdens

Then the king answered the people harshly. He rejected the advice the elders had given him

Verse ConceptsDiscourtesyThe Elders GatheredMan's Counsel

When all Israel saw that the king had not listened to them, the people answered him:

What portion do we have in David?
We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse.
Israel, return to your tents;
David, now look after your own house!


So Israel went to their tents,

Verse ConceptsTentsRevoltsNot Sharing

Then King Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was in charge of forced labor, but all Israel stoned him to death. King Rehoboam managed to get into the chariot and flee to Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsChariotsHasty ActionForced LabourKilling Named Individuals

When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had come back, they summoned him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. No one followed the house of David except the tribe of Judah alone.

Verse ConceptsLoyaltyCoronationsMaking KingsList Of Kings Of Israelalignment

When the king heard the word that the man of God had cried out against the altar at Bethel, Jeroboam stretched out his hand from the altar and said, “Arrest him!” But the hand he stretched out against him withered, and he could not pull it back to himself.

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesLimbs WitheredDiseased Hands

Then the king responded to the man of God, “Plead for the favor of the Lord your God and pray for me so that my hand may be restored to me.” So the man of God pleaded for the favor of the Lord, and the king’s hand was restored to him and became as it had been at first.

Verse ConceptsPray For UsPraying For Sinners

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

Then he said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” So they saddled the donkey for him, and he got on it.

Verse ConceptsPreparing To TravelSaddling Donkeys

He followed the man of God and found him sitting under an oak tree. He asked him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?”

“I am,” he said.

Verse ConceptsOaksIs It Really?

Then he said to him, “Come home with me and eat bread.”

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,

Verse ConceptsExamples Of DeceitLying, Examples OfProphesying LiesLike Good PeopleIndividual ProphetsLying And Deceitlieingrehabilitation

and the man of God went back with him, ate bread in his house, and drank water.

While they were sitting at the table, the word of the Lord came to the prophet who had brought him back,

Verse ConceptsProphecy, Inspiration Of Ot

When he left, a lion attacked him along the way and killed him. His corpse was thrown on the road, and the donkey was standing beside it; the lion was standing beside the corpse too.

Verse ConceptsRoadsAnimals KillingCorpses Of Other PeopleDeath

When the prophet who had brought him back from his way heard about it, he said, “He is the man of God who disobeyed the command of the Lord. The Lord has given him to the lion, and it has mauled and killed him, according to the word of the Lord that He spoke to him.”

Verse ConceptsIn Danger From Lionsdisobedience

So the prophet lifted the corpse of the man of God and laid it on the donkey and brought it back. The old prophet came into the city to mourn and bury him.

Verse ConceptsCorpses Of Other People

Then he laid the corpse in his own grave, and they mourned over him: “Oh, my brother!”

Verse ConceptsAnother's Burial Place

After he had buried him, he said to his sons, “When I die, you must bury me in the grave where the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones,

Verse ConceptsGrave, TheBonesAnother's Burial PlaceBurying places

Take with you 10 loaves of bread, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will happen to the boy.”

Verse ConceptsPresentsTen Things

All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. He alone out of Jeroboam’s house will be put in the family tomb, because out of the house of Jeroboam the Lord God of Israel found something good only in him.

Verse ConceptsNo BurialsOnly One PersonMourning The Death Of Others

He was buried, and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the Lord He had spoken through His servant Ahijah the prophet.

Verse ConceptsMourning The Death Of OthersNamed Prophets Of The Lord

Judah did what was evil in the Lord’s eyes. They provoked Him to jealous anger more than all that their ancestors had done with the sins they committed.

Verse ConceptsGod, Zeal OfJealousyGod's People Sinning

Abijam walked in all the sins his father before him had committed, and he was not completely devoted to the Lord his God as his ancestor David had been.

Verse ConceptsHeart, Of Unregenerate PeopleNot Whole HeartedHeart, Fallen And RedeemedHeirs

But because of David, the Lord his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem to raise up his son after him and to establish Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsCovenant, God's with DavidFor The Sake Of God's Peoplegrandfathers

For David did what was right in the Lord’s eyes, and he did not turn aside from anything He had commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

Verse ConceptsCommitment, to GodSin, Universality OfPeople Who Did Right

Then Baasha son of Ahijah of the house of Issachar conspired against Nadab, and Baasha struck him down at Gibbethon of the Philistines while Nadab and all Israel were besieging Gibbethon.

Verse ConceptsConspiraciesKilling KingsThe Nations Attacked

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

His servant Zimri, commander of half his chariots, conspired against him while Elah was in Tirzah getting drunk in the house of Arza, who was in charge of the household at Tirzah.

Verse Conceptsdrinking, abstention fromConspiraciesHalf Of GroupsDrunk IndividualsConspiracy