1 KINGS

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Updated 12/2023

CHAPTER 1

1. a. David could not get warm. b. They found a young virgin lady to tend to him and to lie beside him to keep him warm.
2. a. David’s son, Adonijah decided to become king. b. Joab and Abiathar joined with Adonijah.
3. David’s son, Solomon, was appointed king.

CHAPTER 2

1. David told Solomon to follow the statues, commandments, and judgments of God so that he may prosper and never lack a son to sit on the throne.
2. David told Solomon to not let Joab go to his grave in peace because of all the innocent blood he had shed.
3. David told Solomon to use wisdom in deciding what to do with Shimei, but do not let him go to his grave without blood.
4. David reigned 40 years.
5. Adonijah was executed for using his mother to ask Solomon for his father's concubine. Solomon took this latest from Adonijah as a conspiracy to claim the throne.
6. Abiathar was exiled to his own field and removed as priest.
7. Solomom had Joab killed for all the innocent blood he had shed.
8. a. Shimei was to live in Jerusalem and not ever come out of the city past the river, or he would die. b. Shimei came out of the city to retrieve two runaway slaves. Solomon therefore had him killed.

CHAPTER 3

1. Solomon married Pharaoh's daughter of Egypt.
2. There was no house built for God at this time so the people sacrificed on their own.
3. a. Solomon ask for wisdom from God in judging as king, to know evil from good. b. God gave Solomon a wise and understanding heart and also the things he did not ask for, riches and honor.
4. Solomon judged two women who disputed over the ownership of a newborn baby. The one who did not want the child divided in half was the real mother.

CHAPTER 4

1. a. Solomon had twelve governors. b. Each governor provided food for the king and his household a month at a time.
2. a. Solomon spoke three thousand proverbs. b. His songs were one thousand and five songs.
3. Solomon was wise in trees, animals, birds, creeping things, and fish.

CHAPTER 5

1. a. The temple building materials came from Hiram, king of Tyre. b. Solomon provided Hiram with wheat and oil year by year.
2. Solomon had thirty thousand men in Lebanon, seventy thousand men to carry burdens, eighty thousand men who quarried rock, and three thousand three hundred men to supervise the work. There were one hundred eighty three thousand three hundred men to build the temple.

CHAPTER 6

1. Solomon began building the temple in his fourth year as king.
2. The temple was sixty cubits long by twenty cubits wide and thirty cubits high (approximately ninety by thirty by forty-five feet).
3. Solomon completed the temple in his eleventh year.

CHAPTER 7

1. It took thirteen years to build Solomon’s house.
2. Huram, the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali did all the bronze work.
3. Ten lampstands were made for the temple.

CHAPTER 8

1. a. Solomon put the Ark of the Covenant under the cherubim in the temple. b. The two tablets of stone given to Moses on Mt. Horeb were still in the ark.
2. God keeps His covenant and mercy with His servants who walk before Him with all their heart.
3. Solomon asked God to forgive the people after they fall away and then seek to turn back to Him.
4. Solomon sacrificed 22,000 bulls and 120,000 sheep when he dedicated the house of the Lord.

CHAPTER 9

1. a. After Solomon had finished building the temple and the royal house and done all he desired to do God appeared to him again. b. God told Solomon if he and his sons after him would walk upright before God, he would establish their throne over Israel forever. If not, he would cut off Israel from the land and destroy the temple.
2. Hiram did not appreciate the cities Solomon gave to him. He thought they were poor cities, good for nothing.
3. Pharaoh of Egypt attacked the Canaanites in the city of Gezer, took the city, and gave it as a dowry for his daughter, Solomon's wife.
4. No man of Israel was forced to do labor. They were men of war in all aspects, his servants, and his chiefs of officials over all the work of Solomon.

CHAPTER 10

1. a. The queen of Sheba came to witness the wisdom of Solomon. b. Solomon answered all of her questions.
2. The Queen of Sheba gave Solomon gifts of gold, precious stones, and abundance of spices as never before had been given.
3. Solomon’s drinking vessels were made of gold.
4. The people wanted to hear the wisdom God had put in Solomon’s heart.

CHAPTER 11

1. a. Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines. b. Solomon took wives from the nations with which Israel was not to intermarry, Moab, Ammon, Edom, Sidon, and Hittite. c. The foreign wives caused Solomon to turn his loyalty from God to start worshiping false gods. He built altars and places of worship for their idols.
2. All the tribes but one would be removed from Solomon and given to one who served under Him.
3. Jeroboam, a servant of Solomon's, would receive the ten tribes of Israel.
4. Rehoboam, Solomon's son, would reign over the remaining tribes of Israel.

CHAPTER 12

1. The people wanted Rehoboam to make their yoke lighter than what his father had put on them.
2. Rehooam listened to his young friends he had grown up with instead of the elders concerning the people.
3. a. Jeroboam worried the rest of Israel would worship God in Judah and become loyal to Rehoboam again. b. Jeroboam built two golden calves and placed them in two places in Israel for the people to worship.

CHAPTER 13

1. A man of God came to tell Jeroboam that the altar would split apart and the ashes would pour out as a sign that a man of the house of David, Josiah, would rise to power and burn the bones of Jeroboam's priests on the altars.
2. The messenger of God was not to eat or drink in that place and to go home by a different way than he had come.
3. The messenger believed the lie the old prophet told him who said God had told him to bring him back to eat and drink. The messenger should have sought word from God on this.
4. The man of God was attacked and killed by a lion but his body was not eaten.

CHAPTER 14

1. a. Jeroboam sent his wife to Ahijah the prophet who had told Jeroboam he would be king. b. He disguised his wife so one would recognize her.
2. God spoke to Ahijah and told him Jeroboam's was coming and why.
3. The prophet told Jeroboam's wife as soon as she set foot in her city, her child would die. Also, the house of Jeroboam would be completely removed. No son would remain to take over the throne of Israel.
4. Judah did more evil than any of their fathers before them. They provoked God to jealousy by worshiping false gods under every green tree and high hill and they became perverted as were the nations whom God had driven out before them.

CHAPTER 15

1. King Asa was a good king and reigned forty-one years in Judah.
2. Asa's grandmother was removed as queen because she had built an image of a Canaanite goddess.
3. Baasha of the house of Issachar killed the household of Jeroboam and became king in Israel..

CHAPTER 16

1. Zimri, commander of the chariots, killed Elah and the household of Baasha.
2. The people of Israel wanted Omri, the commander of the army, to be king.
3. Tibni challenged Omri to be king but Omri prevailed.
4. Omri built the city of Samaria.
5. Ahab, the son of Omri, became king of Israel in the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Israel.
6. a. Hiel tried to rebuild Jericho. b. Hiel's firstborn and his youngest son were killed in the rebuilding of the city fulfilling the prophecy of Joshua.

CHAPTER 17

1. Elijah prophesied there would be no dew or rain on the land for three years.
2. God sent ravens with meat and bread every morning and evening to Elijah.
3. God sent Elijah to a widow’s house in Sidon where he would be provided for.
4. a. The widow’s handful of flour never used up and her little jar of oil never ran dry even though there was only enough left for one meal. b, Elijah prayed to the Lord to revive the widow’s dead son and it was done.

CHAPTER 18

1. Obiadiah, who was in charge of Ahab’s house but greatly feared the Lord, hid one hundred of God's prophets in two caves and gave them food to eat.
2. Jezebel, Ahab's wife, was trying to rid the land of all the Lord’s prophets.
3. Obadiah feared Elijah would be moved somewhere by the Spirit and not be found later and then Ahab would kill him.
4. Elijah had two altars prepared, one for Baal's prophets and one for Elijah, the prophet of God. Each would call on their god to set the altar on fire. The one who answered was the real God.
5. Elijah poured water all over his altar three times.
6. a. Nothing happened when the prophets of Baal called upon Baal. b. God answered by fire and burned up the altar and consumed all the water, stones, and dirt at the altar for Elijah.
7. a. Elijah sent a message to Ahab to leave before the rain stopped him from getting to Jezreel. b. Ahab rode on a horse. c. Elijah left on foot. d. Elijah arrived first.

CHAPTER 19

1. Jezebel, Ahab's wife, threatened Elijah’s life.
2. a. God provide Elijah a cake baked on hot coals and a jar of water. b. For forty days and forty nights this food strengthened Elijah.
3. a. Elijah looked for God first in a mighty wind, then in an earthquake, and then by fire. b. God spoke to Elijah by a still small voice (His Spirit).
4. The seven thousand are all the people who have not served false gods. God will gather all those who have feared Him, not leaving anyone to be lost.
5. Elisha would take over the work of Elijah after Elijah was gone.

CHAPTER 20

1. Ben Hadad was advised the gods of Israel were stronger because they were gods of the hills. Israel could be defeated in the plains.
2. God severely defeated Ben Hadad's army; 127,000 were killed.
3. Ahab did not put Ben Hadad to death whom the Lord had appointed for utter destruction. Instead, Ahab made a treaty with him.

CHAPTER 21

1. a. Ahab wanted Naboth's vineyard so he could make a vegetable garden next to his palace. b. Naboth would not give, sell, or trade his vineyard to Ahab. c. Ahab became sullen and refused to eat.
2. Jezebel had two scoundrels falsely accuse Naboth of blasphemy against God and the king, which is worthy of death.
3. a. God would cut off the posterity of Ahab's household. The dogs would lick his blood in the same place where they licked Naboth's blood. b. The dogs would eat Jezebel’s body by the walls of Jezreel.
4. Ahab humbled himself before God and mourned.

CHAPTER 22

1. a. Ahab wanted the city of Ramoth Gilead of the Syrians. b. Ahab asked Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, to help him.
2. a. Micaiah the prophet spoke against the battle. b. Ahab did not heed Micaiah's words. c. Ahab had Micaiah thrown into prison.
3. During the battle a Syrian drew his sword at random and it struck Ahab between the joints of his armor and he died.
4. . Ahaziah reigned in Ahab’s place.