Read chapter in full: 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 faithfulness, […]

Read chapter in full: 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 his […]

Read chapter in full: 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 days of […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=2Corinthians+013   CHAPTER 13 (ESV) 1 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 […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=2Corinthians+012   CHAPTER 12 (ESV) 1 I must go on boasting. Though there is nothing to be gained by it, I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord. 2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the […]