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1 Kings

The kings of Israel.

1. David's old age--Adonijah's plot to become king--Nathan tells Bathsheba, Solomon's mother and they go to David--Solomon chosen and anointed king--Adonijah brought before Solomon

2. David's instructions to Solomon--David dies--Adonijah attempts a second plot--Adonijah is executed--Joab is executed--Shimei is executed--the kingdom established for Solomon

3. Solomon unwise in marriage--Solomon asks for wisdom and it is granted by God--Solomon judges wisely

4. Solomon's 11 princes and 12 officers--Solomon reigns in wisdom

5. Solomon, Hiram, and material for the temple--the laborers

6. building the temple--the temple completed according to the pattern that God gave

7. Solomon's palace--temple furnishings

8. the Ark of the Covenant placed in the temple--God's glory fills the temple (a type of the church when it comes to full maturity)--Solomon speaks to the people--the temple dedicated

9. God restates His promises and warnings--cities given to Hiram, king of Tyre, in exchange for his help with the temple--Canaanite slaves

10. the Queen of Sheba--Solomon's wealth, wisdom, and power

11. Solomon marries many non-Jewish women and serves their idols--God raises adversaries against Israel for Solomon's sin--Solomon dies and Rehoboam is anointed king

12. request to lower taxes--older counselors advise Rehoboam to lower taxes but Rehoboam decides to follow advice of younger counselors to raise taxes--the northern tribes revolt--the kingdom is divided with Jeroboam king of Israel (10 tribes) and Rehoboam king of Judah (2 tribes)--Jeroboam leads Israel into idolatry for political reasons

13. a prophet warns Jeroboam--the prophet leaves Jeroboam but disobeys God's command not to eat or drink with any person and is killed by a lion as judgment

14. Jeroboam sends his wife in disguise to Ahijah the prophet--God tells the prophet she is coming--prophecy of the terrible punishment for Jeroboam's sin and because he caused Israel to sin--Jeroboam dies--Judah did evil under Rehoboam: idol worship and other sins including sodomy, and Shishak of Egypt comes against Judah--Rehoboam dies

15. Abijam king of Judah walks in all the sins of his father and dies--Asa rules over Judah during the reign of Jeroboam in Israel and does right, removing the sodomites and idols, even his own mother's idol--Asa dies and Jehoshaphat is king of Judah--Nadab succeeds Jeroboam in Israel and does evil for 2 years--Baasha kills Nadab and every descendant of Jeroboam, then became king of Israel--war between Asa and Baasha--Baasha did evil just as Jeroboam had

16. Jehu prophesies against Baasha--Baasha dies and Elah his son becomes king for 1 year until Zimri killed him, became king and killed the entire household of Baasha and all his friends in fulfillment of prophecy and punishment for making Israel sin--Zimri reigned 7 days when Omri, commander of the army attacked and Zimri burned the house he was in--Israel divided, half making Tibni king and half making Omri king--Omri more wicked than any before him--Omri died and his son Ahab became king of Israel in the 38th year of Asa king of Judah--Ahab married Jezebel who served and worshiped Baal and did more to anger God than any before him

17. Elijah prophesies no rain, but God feeds him miraculously--Elijah raises the widow's son

18. Obadiah meets Elijah--challenge to the prophets of Baal--fire from heaven--the sound of rain and Elijah's miraculous run

19. Elijah eludes Jezebel--Elijah in the cave, depressed--the still small voice

20. Ben-hadad and 32 kings attack Samaria and threaten Israel--prophecy: Ahab to deliver Israel--Ahab delivers--a second victory over Ben-hadad but let Ben-hadad live--prophecy: because Ahab let him live when God had ordered him to die, Ahab would die

21. Ahab and Jezebel kill Naboth for his vineyard--Elisha prophesies predicting Ahab's and Jezebel's death

22. all Ahab's favorite prophets tell Ahab that he will win in battle but the true prophet says he will die--Ahab disguises himself but is killed in battle--Jehoshaphat continued in Judah and Ahaziah, who did evil, reigned in Israel

God has established the pattern of Scripture, for life and for the Church.