Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Kings+009   CHAPTER 9 (ESV)   1 As soon as Solomon had finished building the house of the Lord and the king’s house and all that Solomon desired to build, 2 the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon. 3 And the Lord…

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Kings+008   CHAPTER 8 (ESV)   22 Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven, 23 and said, “O Lord, God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above or on…

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Kings+007   CHAPTER 7 (ESV)   1 Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished his entire house.   2 He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon. Its length was a hundred cubits and its breadth fifty cubits and its height thirty cubits, and it was…

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Kings+006   CHAPTER 6 (ESV)   1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house…

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Kings+005   CHAPTER 5 (ESV)   1 Now Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon when he heard that they had anointed him king in place of his father, for Hiram always loved David. 2 And Solomon sent word to Hiram, 3 “You know that David my father could…

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Kings+004   CHAPTER 4 (ESV)   24 For he had dominion over all the region west of the Euphrates from Tiphsah to Gaza, over all the kings west of the Euphrates. And he had peace on all sides around him. 25 And Judah and Israel lived in safety, from Dan even…

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Kings+003   CHAPTER 3 (ESV)   5 At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night, and God said, “Ask what I shall give you.” 6 And Solomon said, “You have shown great and steadfast love to your servant David my father, because he walked before you in…

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Kings+002   CHAPTER 2 (ESV)   1 When David’s time to die drew near, he commanded Solomon his son, saying, 2 “I am about to go the way of all the earth. Be strong, and show yourself a man, 3 and keep the charge of the Lord your God, walking in…

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Kings+001   First Kings   Introduction   The books commonly known as 1 & 2 Samuel and 1 & 2 Kings are really one long book. (They were separated due to the length of ancient scrolls.) Beginning with Samuel, the last of the judges, this book describes what happened in the…

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=2Corinthians+013   CHAPTER 13 (ESV) 13 This is the third time I am coming to you. Every charge must be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. 2 I warned those who sinned before and all the others, and I warn them now while absent, as I did when…