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1 Kings · read by Ken Baird
26 verses, in order. Only the verses Ken read aloud are shown.
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 KJV · Rehoboam
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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 KJV · Rehoboam
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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 · Rehoboam
1 Kings 12
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"Your father put a heavy yoke on us. But now you should lighten the burden of your father's service and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you."Read from KJV · Rehoboam
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Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. "How do you advise me to respond to these people?" he asked.Read from KJV · Rehoboam
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They replied, "If you will be a servant to these people and serve them this day, and if you will respond by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever."Read from KJV · Rehoboam
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He asked them, "What message do you advise that we send back to these people who have spoken to me, saying, 'Lighten the yoke your father put on us'?"Read from KJV · Rehoboam
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The young men who had grown up with him replied, "This is how you should answer these people who said to you, 'Your father made our yoke heavy, but you should make it lighter.' This is what you should tell them: 'My little finger is thicker than my father's waist!Read from KJV · Rehoboam
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When all Israel saw that the king had refused to listen to them, they answered the king: "What portion do we have in David, and what inheritance in the son of Jesse? To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, O David!" So the Israelites went home,Read from KJV · Rehoboam
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but Rehoboam still reigned over the Israelites living in the cities of Judah.Read from KJV · Rehoboam
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And when Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mobilized the whole house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin—180,000 chosen warriors—to fight against the house of Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam son of Solomon.Read from KJV · Rehoboam
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"Tell Rehoboam son of Solomon king of Judah, all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and the rest of the peopleRead from KJV · Rehoboam
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that this is what the LORD says: 'You are not to go up and fight against your brothers, the Israelites. Each of you must return home, for this word is from Me.'" So they listened to the word of the LORD and turned back according to the word of the LORD.Read from KJV · Rehoboam
1 Kings 17
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Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As surely as the LORD lives—the God of Israel before whom I stand—there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!"Read from KJV · Elijah and Elisha
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And you are to drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there."Read from KJV · Elijah and Elisha
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"Get up and go to Zarephath of Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you."Read from KJV · Elijah and Elisha
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And as she was going to get it, he called to her and said, "Please bring me a piece of bread."Read from KJV · Elijah and Elisha
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"Do not be afraid," Elijah said to her. "Go and do as you have said. But first make me a small cake of bread from what you have, and bring it out to me. Afterward, make some for yourself and your son,Read from KJV · Elijah and Elisha
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for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'The jar of flour will not be exhausted and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD sends rain upon the face of the earth.'"Read from KJV · Elijah and Elisha
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So she went and did according to the word of Elijah, and there was food every day for Elijah and the woman and her household.Read from KJV · Elijah and Elisha
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The jar of flour was not exhausted and the jug of oil did not run dry, according to the word that the LORD had spoken through Elijah.Read from KJV · Elijah and Elisha
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Then the woman said to Elijah, "Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the LORD from your mouth is truth."Read from KJV · Elijah and Elisha