Category: 1 Kings

This chapter has some important information regarding the two new kings, Rehoboam and Jeroboam, and the historical divide of Israel and Judah. There’s too much to cover it all, so we’ll only look at a portion. “And the king [Rehoboam] answered the people harshly, and forsaking the counsel that the old men had given him,…

This chapter contains many details regarding Solomon’s household, the future of Israel, and the enemies that God raised up against Solomon. “Now King Solomon loved many foreign women… from the nations concerning which the Lord had said to the people of Israel, ‘You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you,…

This chapter contains more details about Solomon’s officers, wealth, and household. “Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty cors of fine flour and sixty cors of meal, ten fat oxen, and twenty pasture-fed cattle, a hundred sheep, besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl. Solomon also had 40,000 stalls of horses for his chariots, and…

This chapter describes the Queen of Sheba visiting Solomon, and the extent of Solomon’s wealth. “And [the Queen of Sheba] said to the king, ‘The report was true that I heard in my own land of your words and of your wisdom, but I did not believe the reports until I came and my own…

This chapter contains another account of God’s covenant with Solomon, and some details regarding Solomon’s additional acts as king. “At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king’s house, and Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress timber…

This chapter describes the ark being brought to the temple, Solomon blessing the Lord, his prayer of dedication for the temple, a benediction, and more. “Blessed be the Lord… Not one word has failed of all his good promise, which he spoke by Moses his servant. The Lord our God be with us, as he…

This chapter overviews the construction of Solomon’s palace, and has many details of the temple’s furnishings. “So Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of the Lord: the golden altar, the golden table for the bread of the Presence, the lampstands of pure gold, five on the south side and five on…

This chapter describes the details of the temple and its construction. “So Solomon built the house and finished it. He built twenty cubits of the rear of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls, and he built this within as an inner sanctuary, as the Most Holy Place. The cedar…

This chapter describes further preparations for building the temple (the house of the Lord). “King Solomon drafted forced labor out of all Israel, and the draft numbered 30,000 men. And he sent them to Lebanon, 10,000 a month in shifts. They would be a month in Lebanon and two months at home. Solomon also had…

This chapter tells us of God’s offer to give Solomon anything he requested, and also the well-known account of two women fighting over a child. “…the Lord appeared to Solomon… and God said, ‘Ask what I shall give you.’ And Solomon said, ‘…And now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in…