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1 Kings · read by Don Currin
26 verses, in order. Only the verses Don read aloud are shown.
1 Kings 2
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So Solomon sat on the throne of his father David, and his kingdom was firmly established.Read from KJV · The Bareness of the Busy Life
1 Kings 3
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Now the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for it was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on the altar there.Read from NKJV · The Barrenness of Busyness
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So God said to him, "Since you have asked for this instead of requesting long life or wealth for yourself or death for your enemies—but you have asked for discernment to administer justice—Read from KJV · The Bareness of the Busy Life
1 Kings 4
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Solomon composed three thousand proverbs, and his songs numbered a thousand and five.Read from KJV · The Bareness of the Busy Life
1 Kings 6
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Solomon built the inner courtyard with three rows of dressed stone and one row of trimmed cedar beams.Read from NKJV · The Barrenness of Busyness
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The foundation of the house of the LORD was laid in the fourth year of Solomon's reign, in the month of Ziv.Read from ESV · The Barrenness of Busyness
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In his eleventh year and eighth month, the month of Bul, the temple was finished in every detail and according to every specification. So he built the temple in seven years.Read from KJV · The Bareness of the Busy Life
1 Kings 7
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Solomon, however, took thirteen years to complete the construction of his entire palace.Read from KJV · The Bareness of the Busy Life
1 Kings 9
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Now at the end of the twenty years during which Solomon built these two houses, the house of the LORD and the royal palace,Read from NKJV · The Barrenness of Busyness
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King Solomon gave twenty towns in the land of Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre, who had supplied him with cedar and cypress logs and gold for his every desire.Read from KJV · The Bareness of the Busy Life
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So Hiram went out from Tyre to inspect the towns that Solomon had given him, but he was not pleased with them.Read from KJV · The Bareness of the Busy Life
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"What are these towns you have given me, my brother?" asked Hiram, and he called them the Land of Cabul, as they are called to this day.Read from KJV · The Bareness of the Busy Life
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This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon imposed to build the house of the LORD, his own palace, the supporting terraces, and the wall of Jerusalem, as well as Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.Read from NKJV · The Barrenness of Busyness
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as well as all the store cities that Solomon had for his chariots and horses —whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout the land of his dominion.Read from KJV · The Bareness of the Busy Life
1 Kings 11
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King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women.Read from NKJV · The Barrenness of Busyness
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These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, "You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods." Yet Solomon clung to these women in love.Read from NKJV · The Barrenness of Busyness
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He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines—and his wives turned his heart away.Read from NKJV · Removing the High Places
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For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his father David had been.Read from KJV · Removing the High Places
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Solomon followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.Read from KJV · Removing the High Places
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So Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD; unlike his father David, he did not follow the LORD completely.Read from KJV · The Bareness of the Busy Life
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At that time on a hill east of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites.Read from KJV · Removing the High Places
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He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.Read from KJV · Removing the High Places
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Now the LORD grew angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice.Read from KJV · (Spiritual Dangers) the Danger of High Places
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Then the LORD said to Solomon, "Because you have done this and have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, I will tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant.Read from KJV · Removing the High Places
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Nevertheless, for the sake of your father David, I will not do it during your lifetime; I will tear it out of the hand of your son.Read from KJV · Removing the High Places