Study Desk

so that they may fear You and walk in Your ways all the days they live in the land You gave to our fathers.

And King Solomon offered a sacrifice of 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.

So at that time Solomon and all Israel with him-a very great assembly of people from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt-observed the feast for seven days.

If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people,

For I have now chosen and consecrated this temple so that My Name may be there forever. My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.

Thus all the work of Solomon was carried out, from the day the foundation was laid for the house of the LORD until it was finished. So the house of the LORD was completed.

So Hiram sent him ships captained by his servants, along with crews of experienced sailors. They went with Solomon's servants to Ophir and acquired from there 450 talents of gold, which they delivered to King Solomon.

Now when the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon, she came to test him with difficult questions. She arrived in Jerusalem with a very large caravan, with camels bearing spices, gold in abundance, and precious stones. So she came to Solomon and spoke to him all that was on her mind.

So King Solomon surpassed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.

So they sent for Jeroboam, and he and all Israel came to Rehoboam and said,

Rehoboam answered, "Come back to me in three days." So the people departed.

So the king did not listen to the people, and indeed this turn of events was from God, in order that the LORD might fulfill the word that He had spoken through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.

When all Israel saw that the king had refused to listen to them, they answered the king: "What portion do we have in David, and what inheritance in the son of Jesse? To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, O David!" So all the Israelites went home,

So to this day Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David.

that this is what the LORD says: 'You are not to go up and fight against your brothers. Each of you must return home, for this word is from Me.'" So they listened to the words of the LORD and turned back from going against Jeroboam.

He also put shields and spears in all the cities and strengthened them greatly. So Judah and Benjamin belonged to him.

So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah and supported Rehoboam son of Solomon for three years, because they walked for three years in the way of David and Solomon.

So the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "The LORD is righteous."

Nevertheless, they will become his servants, so that they may learn the difference between serving Me and serving the kings of other lands."

So King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem and seized the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the royal palace. He took everything, including the gold shields that Solomon had made.