1 Kings
1 Kings 1
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Now King David was old and advanced in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he couldn’t keep warm.Therefore his servants said to him, “Let a young virgin be sought for my lord the king. Let her stand before the king, and cherish him; and let her lie in your bosom, that my lord...
1 Kings 2
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Now the days of David came near that he should die; and he commanded Solomon his son, saying,“I am going the way of all the earth. You be strong therefore, and show yourself a man;and keep the instruction of the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, his commandments, his...
1 Kings 3
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Solomon made a marriage alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt. He took Pharaoh’s daughter and brought her into David’s city until he had finished building his own house, the LORD’s house, and the wall around Jerusalem.However, the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was not yet a house built for the LORD’s name.Solomon...
1 Kings 4
Last Updated: October 10, 2026King Solomon was king over all Israel.These were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest;Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder;Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army; Zadok and Abiathar were priests;Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers;...
1 Kings 5
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon, for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the place of his father, and Hiram had always loved David.Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,“You know that David my father could not build a house for the name of the LORD his God because of...
1 Kings 6
Last Updated: October 10, 2026In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the LORD’s house.The house which King Solomon built for the LORD had a...
1 Kings 7
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.For he built the House of the Forest of Lebanon. Its length was one hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars.It was covered with cedar above...
1 Kings 8
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel with all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel, to King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the LORD’s covenant out of David’s city, which is Zion.All the men of Israel assembled themselves to King Solomon...
1 Kings 9
Last Updated: October 10, 2026When Solomon had finished the building of the LORD’s house, the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do,The LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.The LORD said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication that you have made before...
1 Kings 10
Last Updated: October 10, 2026When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the LORD’s name, she came to test him with hard questions.She came to Jerusalem with a very great caravan, with camels that bore spices, very much gold, and precious stones; and when she had come to Solomon, she talked with him about all...
1 Kings 11
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Now King Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites,of the nations concerning which the LORD said to the children of Israel, “You shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you, for surely they will turn away your heart after...
1 Kings 12
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.When Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was yet in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of King Solomon, and Jeroboam lived in Egypt;and they sent and called him), Jeroboam and all the assembly of...
1 Kings 13
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Behold, a man of God came out of Judah by the LORD’s word to Bethel; and Jeroboam was standing by the altar to burn incense.He cried against the altar by the LORD’s word, and said, “Altar! Altar! The LORD says: ‘Behold, a son will be born to David’s house, Josiah by name. On you he...
1 Kings 14
Last Updated: October 10, 2026At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam became sick.Jeroboam said to his wife, “Please get up and disguise yourself, so that you won’t be recognized as Jeroboam’s wife. Go to Shiloh. Behold, Ahijah the prophet is there, who said that I would be king over this people.Take with you ten loaves of bread, some...
1 Kings 15
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Now in the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam the son of Nebat, Abijam began to reign over Judah.He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; and his heart was not perfect with the LORD...
1 Kings 16
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The LORD’s word came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,“Because I exalted you out of the dust and made you prince over my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins,behold, I will...
1 Kings 17
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”Then the LORD’s word came to him, saying,“Go away from here, turn eastward, and hide yourself...
1 Kings 18
Last Updated: October 10, 2026After many days, the LORD’s word came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain on the earth.”Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria.Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly;for when Jezebel cut...
1 Kings 19
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don’t make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!”When he...
1 Kings 20
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Ben Hadad the king of Syria gathered all his army together; and there were thirty-two kings with him, with horses and chariots. He went up and besieged Samaria, and fought against it.He sent messengers into the city to Ahab king of Israel and said to him, “Ben Hadad says,‘Your silver and your gold are mine....
1 Kings 21
Last Updated: October 10, 2026After these things, Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard which was in Jezreel, next to the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, “Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near my house; and I will give you for it a better...
1 Kings 22
Last Updated: October 10, 2026They continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.In the third year, Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.The king of Israel said to his servants, “You know that Ramoth Gilead is ours, and we do nothing, and don’t take it out of the hand of the king of...