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- 1 Kings 3:11
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So God said to him, “Since you have asked for this instead of requesting long life or wealth for yourself or death for your enemies—but you have asked for discernment to administer justice—
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- 1 Kings 3:17
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One woman said, “Please, my lord, this woman and I live in the same house, and I gave birth while she was in the house.
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- 1 Kings 3:22
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“No,” said the other woman, “the living one is my son and the dead one is your son.” But the first woman insisted, “No, the dead one is yours and the living one is mine.” So they argued before the king.
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- 1 Kings 3:23
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Then the king replied, “This woman says, ‘My son is alive and yours is dead,’ but that woman says, ‘No, your son is dead and mine is alive.’”
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- 1 Kings 3:24
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The king continued, “Bring me a sword.” So they brought him a sword,
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- 1 Kings 3:25
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and the king declared, “Cut the living child in two and give half to one and half to the other.”
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- 1 Kings 3:26
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Then the woman whose son was alive spoke to the king because she yearned with compassion for her son. “Please, my lord,” she said, “give her the living baby. Do not kill him!” But the other woman said, “He will be neither mine nor yours. Cut him in two!”
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- 1 Kings 3:27
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Then the king gave his ruling: “Give the living baby to the first woman. By no means should you kill him; she is his mother.”
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- 1 Kings 5:2
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And Solomon relayed this message to Hiram:
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Source alternate reference: 5.16
- 1 Kings 5:5
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So behold, I plan to build a house for the Name of the LORD my God, according to what the LORD said to my father David: ‘I will put your son on your throne in your place, and he will build the house for My Name.’
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Source alternate reference: 5.19
- 1 Kings 5:6
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Now therefore, order that cedars of Lebanon be cut down for me. My servants will be with your servants, and I will pay your servants whatever wages you set, for you know that there are none among us as skilled in logging as the Sidonians.”
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Source alternate reference: 5.20
- 1 Kings 5:7
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When Hiram received Solomon’s message, he rejoiced greatly and said, “Blessed be the LORD this day! He has given David a wise son over this great people!”
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Source alternate reference: 5.21
- 1 Kings 5:8
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Then Hiram sent a reply to Solomon, saying: “I have received your message; I will do all you desire regarding the cedar and cypress timber.
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Source alternate reference: 5.22
- 1 Kings 6:11
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Then the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying:
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- 1 Kings 8:12
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Then Solomon declared: “The LORD has said that He would dwell in the thick cloud.
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- 1 Kings 8:15
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and said: “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who has fulfilled with His own hand what He spoke with His mouth to my father David, saying,
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- 1 Kings 8:18
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But the LORD said to my father David, ‘Since it was in your heart to build a house for My Name, you have done well to have this in your heart.
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- 1 Kings 8:23
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and said: “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven above or on earth below, keeping Your covenant of loving devotion with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts.
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- 1 Kings 8:25
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Therefore now, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for Your servant, my father David, what You promised when You said: ‘You will never fail to have a man to sit before Me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants guard their way to walk before Me as you have done.’
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- 1 Kings 8:29
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May Your eyes be open toward this temple night and day, toward the place of which You said, ‘My Name shall be there,’ so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place.
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- 1 Kings 8:47
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and when they come to their senses in the land to which they were taken, and they repent and plead with You in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong; we have acted wickedly,’
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- 1 Kings 8:55
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And he stood and blessed the whole assembly of Israel in a loud voice, saying:
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- 1 Kings 9:3
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And the LORD said to him: “I have heard your prayer and petition before Me. I have consecrated this temple, which you have built, by putting My Name there forever; My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.
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- 1 Kings 9:5
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then I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised your father David when I said, ‘You will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.’
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- 1 Kings 9:8
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And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’
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- 1 Kings 9:9
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And others will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the LORD their God who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—because of this, the LORD has brought all this disaster upon them.’”
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- 1 Kings 9:13
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“What are these towns you have given me, my brother?” asked Hiram, and he called them the Land of Cabul, as they are called to this day.
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- 1 Kings 10:6
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She said to the king, “The report I heard in my own country about your words and wisdom is true.
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- 1 Kings 11:2
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These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods.” Yet Solomon clung to these women in love.
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- 1 Kings 11:11
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Then the LORD said to Solomon, “Because you have done this and have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, I will tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant.
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- 1 Kings 11:18
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Hadad and his men set out from Midian and went to Paran. They took men from Paran with them and went to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave Hadad a house and land and provided him with food.
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- 1 Kings 11:21
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When Hadad heard in Egypt that David had rested with his fathers and that Joab, the commander of the army, was dead, he said to Pharaoh, “Let me go, that I may return to my own country.”
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- 1 Kings 11:22
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But Pharaoh asked him, “What have you lacked here with me that you suddenly want to go back to your own country?” “Nothing,” Hadad replied, “but please let me go.”
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- 1 Kings 11:31
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and said to Jeroboam, “Take ten pieces for yourself, for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and I will give you ten tribes.
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- 1 Kings 12:3
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So they sent for Jeroboam, and he and the whole assembly of Israel came to Rehoboam and said,
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- 1 Kings 12:5
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Rehoboam answered, “Go away for three days and then return to me.” So the people departed.
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- 1 Kings 12:6
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Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How do you advise me to respond to these people?” he asked.
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- 1 Kings 12:7
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They replied, “If you will be a servant to these people and serve them this day, and if you will respond by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”
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- 1 Kings 12:9
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He asked them, “What message do you advise that we send back to these people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’?”
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- 1 Kings 12:10
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The young men who had grown up with him replied, “This is how you should answer these people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you must make it lighter.’ This is what you should tell them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist!
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- 1 Kings 12:12
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After three days, Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, since the king had said, “Come back to me on the third day.”
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- 1 Kings 12:14
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and spoke to them as the young men had advised, saying, “Whereas my father made your yoke heavy, I will add to your yoke. Whereas my father scourged you with whips, I will scourge you with scorpions.”
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- 1 Kings 12:16
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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 the Israelites went home,
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- 1 Kings 12:22
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But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God:
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- 1 Kings 12:23
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“Tell Rehoboam son of Solomon king of Judah, all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and the rest of the people
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- 1 Kings 12:24
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that this is what the LORD says: ‘You are not to go up and fight against your brothers, the Israelites. Each of you must return home, for this is My doing.’” So they listened to the word of the LORD and turned back according to the word of the LORD.
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- 1 Kings 12:26
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Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom might revert to the house of David.
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- 1 Kings 12:28
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After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves and said to the people, “Going up to Jerusalem is too much for you. Here, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”
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- 1 Kings 13:2
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And he cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD, “O altar, O altar, this is what the LORD says: ‘A son named Josiah will be born to the house of David, and upon you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense upon you, and human bones will be burned upon you.’”
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- 1 Kings 13:3
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That day the man of God gave a sign, saying, “The LORD has spoken this sign: ‘Surely the altar will be split apart, and the ashes upon it will be poured out.’”
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