
1 Asa did what Yahweh his God regards as good and right. 2 He abolished the foreign altars and the high places, broke the pillars, cut down the sacred poles, 3 and urged Judah to seek Yahweh, God of their ancestors, and to observe the law and commandment...

1 In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, Abijah became king of Judah 2 and reigned for three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Micaiah daughter of Uriel of Gibeah...

1 When Rehoboam had consolidated the kingdom and become strong, he, and all Israel with him, abandoned the Law of Yahweh; 2 and thus it happened that in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt marched on Jerusalem, because they had been unfaithful to Yahweh, 3 with twelve...

1 When Rehoboam reached Jerusalem, he mustered a hundred and eighty thousand picked warriors of the House of Judah and Benjamin to fight Israel and win back the kingdom for Rehoboam...

1 Rehoboam then went to Shechem, all Israel having come to Shechem to proclaim him king. 2 As soon as Jeroboam son of Nebat heard the news -- he was in Egypt, where he had taken refuge from King Solomon -- he returned from Egypt...

1 The queen of Sheba heard of Solomon's fame and came to Jerusalem to test Solomon with difficult questions, with a very large retinue with camels laden with spices and an immense quantity of gold and precious stones...

1 At the end of the twenty years which it took Solomon to build the Temple of Yahweh and his own palace, 2 and to rebuild the towns which Huram had given him and settle them with Israelites, 3 Solomon mounted an expedition against Hamath-Zobah and captured it...

1 When Solomon had finished his prayer, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of Yahweh filled the Temple. 2 The priests could not enter the Temple of Yahweh, because the glory of Yahweh filled the Temple of Yahweh...

1 Then Solomon said: Yahweh has chosen to dwell in thick cloud, 2 and I have built you a princely dwelling, a residence for you for ever. 3 Then the king turned round and blessed the whole assembly of Israel, while the whole assembly of Israel stood...

1 Then Solomon said: Yahweh has chosen to dwell in thick cloud, 2 and I have built you a princely dwelling, a residence for you for ever. 3 Then the king turned round and blessed the whole assembly of Israel, while the whole assembly of Israel stood...

1 Thus all the work done by Solomon for the Temple of Yahweh was completed, and Solomon brought in the gifts which his father David had consecrated; and he had the silver, the gold and all the utensils put into the treasuries of the Temple of God...

1 He made a bronze altar, twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high. 2 He made the Sea of cast metal, ten cubits from rim to rim, circular in shape and five cubits high; a cord thirty cubits long gave the measurement of its girth...

1 Solomon then began building the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah where David his father had had a vision -- on the site which David had prepared -- on the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite...

1 And Solomon allocated seventy thousand men to be porters and eighty thousand to quarry in the hills and three thousand six hundred overseers for them...











