Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Kings+019   CHAPTER 19 (ESV) 1 Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. 2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do to me and more also, if I do not make your life…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Kings+018   CHAPTER 18 (ESV) 18 And he answered, “I have not troubled Israel, but you have, and your father’s house, because you have abandoned the commandments of the Lord and followed the Baals. 19 Now therefore send and gather all Israel to me at Mount Carmel, and the 450 prophets…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Kings+017   CHAPTER 17 (ESV) 9 “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to feed you.” 10 So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Kings+016   CHAPTER 16 (ESV) 1 And the word of the Lord came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying, 2 “Since I exalted you out of the dust and made you leader over my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have made…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Kings+015   CHAPTER 15 (ESV) 15 And he brought into the house of the Lord the sacred gifts of his father and his own sacred gifts, silver, and gold, and vessels. 16 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days. 17 Baasha king of Israel…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Kings+014   CHAPTER 14 (ESV) 21 Now Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there.…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Kings+013   CHAPTER 13 (ESV) 1 And behold, a man of God came out of Judah by the word of the Lord to Bethel. Jeroboam was standing by the altar to make offerings. 2 And the man cried against the altar by the word of the Lord and said, “O altar,…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Kings+012   CHAPTER 12 (ESV) 6 Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he was yet alive, saying, “How do you advise me to answer this people?” 7 And they said to him, “If you will be a servant to this…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Kings+011   CHAPTER 11 (ESV) 1 Now King Solomon loved many foreign women, along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women, 2 from the nations concerning which the Lord had said to the people of Israel, “You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Kings+010   CHAPTER 10 (ESV) 14 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was 666 talents of gold, 15 besides that which came from the explorers and from the business of the merchants, and from all the kings of the west and from the governors of…