1 Kings 2:38; 1 Kings 3:8; 1 Kings 3:11; 1 Kings 4:20; 1 Kings 5:7; 1 Kings 10:2; 1 Kings 11:1; 1 Kings 12:28; 1 Kings 18:1; 1 Kings 18:25; 1 Kings 19:4; 1 Kings 19:7 (New American Standard)

38 Shimei then said to the king, "The word is good. As my lord the king has said, so your servant will do." So Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days. 8 "Your servant is in the midst of Your people which You have chosen, a great people who are too many to be numbered or counted. 11 God said to him, "Because you have asked this thing and have not asked for yourself long life, nor have asked riches for yourself, nor have you asked for the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself discernment to understand justice,

Solomon's Power, Wealth and Wisdom

20 Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand that is on the seashore in abundance ; they were eating and drinking and rejoicing. 7 When Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced greatly and said, "Blessed be the LORD today, who has given to David a wise son over this great people." 2 So she came to Jerusalem with a very large retinue, with camels carrying spices and very much gold and precious stones. When she came to Solomon, she spoke with him about all that was in her heart.

Solomon Turns from God

1 Now King Solomon loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh : Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women, 28 So the king consulted, and made two golden calves, and he said to them, "It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem ; behold your gods, O Israel, that brought you up from the land of Egypt."

Obadiah Meets Elijah

1 Now it happened after many days that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, "Go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain on the face of the earth." 25 So Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, "Choose one ox for yourselves and prepare it first for you are many, and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under it." 4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree ; and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, "It is enough ; now, O LORD, take my life, for I am not better than my fathers." 7 The angel of the LORD came again a second time and touched him and said, "Arise, eat, because the journey is too great for you."