1 KINGS 11:11-12: Therefore 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 surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant. Nevertheless I will not do it in...

1 KINGS 11:1-2: But King Solomon loved many foreign women, as well as the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites–from the nations of whom the Lord had said to the children of Israel, “You shall not intermarry with them, nor they with you. For...

1 KINGS 10:23-24: So King Solomon surpassed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom. And all the earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart. An American arriving in England for postgraduate study went to visit Nobel Prize-winning...

1 KINGS 10:6-7: Then she said to the king: “It was a true report which I heard in my own land aboutyour words and your wisdom. However I did not believe the words until I came and saw with my owneyes; and indeed the half was not told me. Your...

1 KINGS 9:6-7: “But if you or your sons at all turn from following Me, and do not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them, then I will cut off Israel from the land which I...

1 KINGS 9:4-5: “Now if you walk before Me as your father David walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and My judgments, then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over...

1 KINGS 8:33-34: “When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and when they turn back to You and confess Your name, and pray and make supplication to You in this temple, then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of Your people...

1 KINGS 8:27: “But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain You. How much less this temple which I have built!” Years ago when the city fathers of New York contemplated the future growth of their city, they plotted the streets...

1 KINGS 8:10-11: And it came to pass, when the priests came out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the Lord, so that the priests could not continue ministering because of the cloud; for the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord....

1 KINGS 8:5: Also King Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel who were assembled with him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen that could not be counted or numbered for multitude. Japanese folklore tells of a rice farmer whose land overlooked the village where his...