1 KINGS 3:8-9: “And Your servant is in the midst of Your people whom You have chosen, a great people, too numerous to be numbered or counted. Therefore give to Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people, that I may discern between good and evil. For who is...
1 KINGS 3:1: Now Solomon made a treaty with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and married Pharaoh’s daughter; then he brought her to the City of David until he had finished building his own house, and the house of the Lord, and the wall all around Jerusalem. We often receive letters...
1 KINGS 2:2-3: “I go the way of all the earth; be strong, therefore, and prove yourself a man. And keep the charge of the Lord your God: to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, His commandments, His judgments, and His testimonies, as it is written in the...
1 KINGS 1:40: And all the people went up after him; and the people played the flutes and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth seemed to split with their sound. A middle-aged schoolteacher invested her life savings in a business enterprise that turned out to be a swindle....
1 KINGS 1:33: The king also said to them, “Take with you the servants of your lord, and have Solomon my son ride on my own mule, and take him down to Gihon.” Richard Weaver earned his living in the mines, but his higher priority was bringing others to Christ....
1 KINGS 1:7: Then he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest, and they followed and helped Adonijah. Aristotle claimed that a friend is “one soul dwelling in two bodies.” Others have defined a friend as “a person who knows all about us and still...
1 KINGS 1:5: Now 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. Self-centeredness keeps us from truly caring about others. One of the saddest characters in American literature is Willy Loman...
2 KINGS 2:14: Then he took the mantle of Elijah that had fallen from him, and struck the water, and said, “Where is the Lord God of Elijah?” And when he also had struck the water, it was divided this way and that; and Elisha crossed over. Someone once said,...
2 KINGS 2:1, 11: And it came to pass, when the Lord was about to take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal. Then it happened, as they continued on and talked, that suddenly a chariot of fire appeared with horses of fire,...
2 KINGS 2:6-8: Then Elijah said to him, “Stay here, please, for the Lord has sent me on to the Jordan.” But he said, “As the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you!” So the two of them went on. And fifty men of the...