1 Kings
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Session 1 · 1 Kings 1–5
A threatened throne, a hearing heart, and timber for the house
- Adonijah exalts himself while David is frail, but Nathan and Bathsheba press the king's oath and Solomon is anointed at Gihon.
- David charges Solomon to keep the law of Moses, and the new king settles Adonijah, Abiathar, Joab, and Shimei until the kingdom is firm.
- At Gibeon Solomon asks for a hearing heart to judge the people, and that wisdom is proved when two mothers claim one living child.
- Solomon's officers and twelve monthly governors feed a numerous people at peace, and his wisdom is set above the east and above Egypt.
- Hiram of Tyre sends cedar and cypress, a levy of workers is raised, and the great stones are dressed because the Lord has given rest.
Session 2 · 1 Kings 6–10
The house for the Name, glory in the cloud, and Sheba
- In the four hundred eightieth year after the exodus the temple rises, with no iron tool heard, and the Lord ties His dwelling to obedience.
- Solomon's own palace takes longer than the temple, while Huram casts the pillars Jachin and Boaz, the bronze sea, and the vessels of the court.
- The ark is brought in, the cloud fills the house, and Solomon prays that the Lord would hear from heaven toward this place.
- The Lord appears a second time, promising an enduring throne if Solomon walks before Him and warning that apostasy will make the house a byword.
- The queen of Sheba sees the wisdom and the gold, while horses from Egypt and silver treated as stones begin to press the law of the king.
Session 3 · 1 Kings 11–15
Foreign altars, a torn cloak, and a lamp kept for David
- Solomon's many foreign wives turn his heart, high places rise east of Jerusalem, and Ahijah tears a new cloak into twelve pieces for Jeroboam.
- Rehoboam rejects the elders, Israel cries that they have no portion in David, and Jeroboam sets golden calves at Bethel and Dan.
- A man of God cries against the altar at Bethel and names Josiah, then dies by a lion because he trusts a prophet who contradicts the first word.
- Ahijah condemns Jeroboam's house, the child Abijah dies and is mourned, and Shishak of Egypt takes the temple treasures in Rehoboam's fifth year.
- Abijam is kept for David's sake, Asa removes idols and Maacah's Asherah, and he buys Aram's help with silver from the house of the Lord.
Session 4 · 1 Kings 16–20
Baal's house, Carmel's fire, and a voice after the wind
- Omri builds Samaria, Ahab marries Jezebel and raises an altar for Baal, and Hiel rebuilds Jericho at the cost of Abiram and Segub.
- Elijah announces a drought, is fed by ravens at Cherith, and in Zarephath the widow's flour and oil endure while her son is restored to life.
- On Carmel Elijah calls Israel to stop limping between two opinions, fire falls on the drenched altar, and rain returns after the prophets of Baal are slain.
- Jezebel's threat sends Elijah to Horeb, where wind, earthquake, and fire pass, and the Lord speaks in a thin quiet sound before Elisha is called.
- Ahab twice defeats Ben-hadad and then spares him, and a prophet's enacted parable says his life will stand in place of the enemy he released.
Session 5 · 1 Kings 21–22
A stolen vineyard and one prophet against four hundred
- Jezebel seals letters in Ahab's name so that Naboth is falsely accused and stoned, and Elijah meets the king in the stolen vineyard.
- Ahab and Jehoshaphat go up to Ramoth-gilead, Micaiah alone contradicts four hundred prophets, and Ahab dies while dogs lick his blood as the word had said.