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1 Kings

1 Kings in full in the Berean Standard Bible (22 chapters): read it chapter by chapter and compare translations.

Chapters of 1 Kings

  1. 1Now King David was old and well along in years, and though they covered him with blankets, he could not keep warm.
  2. 2As the time drew near for David to die, he charged his son Solomon,
  3. 3Later, Solomon formed an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt by marrying his daughter. Solomon brought her to…
  4. 4So King Solomon ruled over Israel,
  5. 5Now when Hiram king of Tyre heard that Solomon had been anointed king in his father’s place, he sent envoys…
  6. 6In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, in the month…
  7. 7Solomon, however, took thirteen years to complete the construction of his entire palace.
  8. 8At that time Solomon assembled before him in Jerusalem the elders of Israel—all the tribal heads and family…
  9. 9Now when Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and had achieved all that…
  10. 10Now when the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to test…
  11. 11King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon…
  12. 12Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king.
  13. 13Suddenly, as Jeroboam was standing beside the altar to burn incense, there came a man of God from Judah to…
  14. 14At that time Abijah son of Jeroboam became ill,
  15. 15In the eighteenth year of the reign of Jeroboam son of Nebat, Abijam became king of Judah,
  16. 16Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu son of Hanani against Baasha, saying:
  17. 17Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD lives—the…
  18. 18After a long time, in the third year of the drought, the word of the LORD came to Elijah: “Go and present…
  19. 19Now Ahab told Jezebel everything that Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.
  20. 20Now Ben-hadad king of Aram assembled his entire army. Accompanied by thirty-two kings with their horses and…
  21. 21Some time later, Naboth the Jezreelite happened to own a vineyard in Jezreel next to the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.
  22. 22Then three years passed without war between Aram and Israel.