Read chapter in full: 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 built on […]

Read chapter in full: 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 of […]

Read chapter in full: 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 not […]

Read chapter in full: 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 to […]

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, […]