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Ask a QuestionThen Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, "I will be king"; and he prepared for himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.
"So if you walk in My ways, to keep My statutes and My commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days."
So he said, "What kind of cities are these which you have given me, my brother?" And he called them the land of Cabul, as they are to this day.
Now it happened, as they sat at the table, that the word of the LORD came to the prophet who had brought him back;
Now as Obadiah was on his way, suddenly Elijah met him; and he recognized him, and fell on his face, and said, "Is that you, my lord Elijah?"
And the king of Israel answered and said, "My lord, O king, just as you say, I and all that I have are yours."
But as one was cutting down a tree, the iron ax head fell into the water; and he cried out and said, "Alas, master! For it was borrowed."
'and the corpse of Jezebel shall be as refuse on the surface of the field, in the plot at Jezreel, so that they shall not say, "Here lies Jezebel." ' "
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as the kings of Israel who were before him.
Now some of them, five hundred men of the sons of Simeon, went to Mount Seir, having as their captains Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.
"You have kept what You promised Your servant David my father; You have both spoken with Your mouth and fulfilled it with Your hand, as it is this day.
Then the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him: "I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.
"And as for this house, which is exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and say, 'Why has the LORD done thus to this land and this house?'
that is, their descendants who were left in the land after them, whom the children of Israel did not destroy - from these Solomon raised forced labor, as it is to this day.
So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had directed, saying, "Come back to me the third day."
Nevertheless the high places were not taken away, for as yet the people had not directed their hearts to the God of their fathers.
"Therefore the wrath of the LORD fell upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He has given them up to trouble, to desolation, and to jeering, as you see with your eyes.
And he did not humble himself before the LORD, as his father Manasseh had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.
And they gave their promise that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they presented a ram of the flock as their trespass offering.
Every one of the builders had his sword girded at his side as he built. And the one who sounded the trumpet was beside me.