| Chapter | Verse/s | Verse Summary |
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| 1. | (1-4) | King David was old ... but gat no heat |
| (5-10) | Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself | |
| (11-27) | Nathan spake unto Bathsheba the mother of Solomon | |
| (28-31) | Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me | |
| (32-40) | Zadok the priest took a horn of oil ... anointed Solomon | |
| (41-49) | Adonijah and all the guests that were with him heard it | |
| (50-53) | Adonijah feared because of Solomon |
| 2. | (1-4) | David charges Solomon to follow the Lord |
| (5-9) | Directions toward Joab, Barzillai, Shimei | |
| (10-11) | David slept with his fathers and was buried | |
| (12-25) | Adonijah asks for Abishag the Shunamite | |
| (26-27) | Abiathar removed from being priest | |
| (28-34) | Benaiah sent to kill and bury Joab | |
| (35) | Benaiah replaces Joab, Zadok replaces Abiathar | |
| (36-38) | Shimei to live in Jerusalem, not to leave or die | |
| (39-46) | Solomon commands Benaiah to kill Shimei |
| 3. | (1) | Solomon brings Pharaoh's daughter to Jerusalem |
| (2-3) | Solomon and people sacrifice and burn incense in high places | |
| (4-15) | Solomon at Gibeah asks God for understanding heart | |
| (16-28) | Divide the living child in two and give half to one |
| 4. | (1-6) | Princes appointed by Solomon |
| (7-19) | Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel | |
| (20) | Judah and Israel were many ... making merry | |
| (21-28) | Solomon's reign and provisions | |
| (29-34) | Solomon’s wisdom |
| 5. | (1-12) | Solomon and Hiram ... cedar and fir for the temple |
| (13-18) | Solomon raises a levy ... workforce |
| 6. | (1) | Solomon begins building house for the Lord |
| (2-10) | Description of building, dimensions and materials | |
| (11-13) | God to dwell with Solomon and Israel if faithful | |
| (14-18) | Temple covered inside with cedar, description of the work | |
| (19-30) | Interior of the temple and gold overlays | |
| (31-35) | Door made of olive and fir | |
| (36) | Inner court made of cedar and stone | |
| (37-38) | House built in seven years |
| 7. | (1-12) | Solomon's house, house of forest of Lebanon, Pharaoh's daughter |
| (13-22) | Hiram creates brass pillars | |
| (23-25) | Brazen sea made | |
| (26-37) | Ten bases of brass | |
| (38-39) | Ten lavers to sit on bases made | |
| (40-47) | All the work Hiram made for Solomon for house of the Lord | |
| (48-51) | So was ended all the work Solomon made for the house of the Lord |
| 8. | (1-8) | Solomon moves the ark to the temple |
| (9) | Only tables of stone put there by Moses in the Ark | |
| (10-11) | Glory of the Lord and cloud filled the house of the Lord | |
| (12-21) | Solomon blesses the people, history regarding the building | |
| (22-26) | Solomon begins prayer of dedication | |
| (27-30) | But will God indeed dwell on the Earth | |
| (31-34) | When thy people smitten before the enemy | |
| (35-36) | When heaven is shut up and there is no rain | |
| (37-40) | If there be famine, pestilence, enemy besiege ... | |
| (41-43) | Concerning a stranger that is not of thy people | |
| (44-45) | If thy people go out to battle against their enemy | |
| (46-53) | If they sin against thee ... carry them away captive | |
| (54-61) | Let your heart therefore be perfect with the Lord our God | |
| (62-66) | The king and all Israel with him offered sacrifice |
| 9. | (1-9) | The Lord appeared to Solomon the second time |
| (10-14) | Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee | |
| (15-19) | The reason for the levy which king Solomon raised | |
| (20-21) | Bondservice imposed on Amorites, Hittites Perizzites etc. | |
| (22-23) | No bondmen taken of the children of Israel | |
| (24) | Pharaoh's daughter goes to the house Solomon built for her | |
| (25) | Solomon sacrifices three times in the year | |
| (26-27) | Solomon's navy at Ezion-Geber | |
| (28) | Gold from Ophir brought to Solomon |
| 10. | (1-10) | Queen of Sheba visits Solomon |
| (11-12) | Almug trees and precious stones | |
| (13) | Queen of Sheba goes to her own country | |
| (14-17) | Gold and what Solomon made of it | |
| (18-20) | Solomon's throne | |
| (21-29) | Solomon's wealth and trade with the nations |
| 11. | (1-3) | Solomon's wives from other countries |
| (4-8) | Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord | |
| (9-13) | I will surely rend the kingdom from thee | |
| (14-22) | Hadad the Edomite raised up as an adversary | |
| (23-25) | Rezon raised as another adversary to Solomon | |
| (26-28) | Jereboam ruler over all the charge of the house of Joseph | |
| (29-39) | Ahijah reveals that Jereboam to be king over ten tribes | |
| (40) | Solomon seeks to kill Jereboam who then flees to Egypt | |
| (41-43) | Solomon reigned forty years in Jerusalem |
| 12. | (1-5) | Rehoboam at Shechem to be made king |
| (6-7) | Counsel of old men that stood before Solomon | |
| (8-11) | Counsel of the young men that grew up with him | |
| (12-15) | King answers roughly, forsakes old men's counsel | |
| (16-17) | What portion have we in David | |
| (18-19) | Adoram stoned, Rehoboam flees, Israel rebels | |
| (20) | Jereboam made king over Israel | |
| (21-24) | Ye shall not go up not fight against your brethren | |
| (25-33) | Jereboam sets up golden calves at Dan and Bethel |
| 13. | (1-10) | Man of God sent to speak against Jereboam |
| (11-22) | Old prophet deceives the man of God | |
| (23-29) | Old prophet brings body of man of God to bury him | |
| (30-32) | Old prophet instructs his sons to bury him with the man of God | |
| (33-34) | Jereboam returned not from his evil way |
| 14. | (1-6) | Jereboam's son sick, wife sent to Ahijah |
| (7-13) | God to bring evil upon Jereboam, child to die | |
| (14-16) | God to raise up a king that will cut off the house of Jereboam | |
| (17-18) | Jereboam's child dies and is mourned | |
| (19-20) | Jereboam reigns twenty-two years and dies | |
| (21-24) | Rehoboam rules, evil in the land | |
| (25-28) | Shishak plunders Jerusalem | |
| (29-31) | Summary of Rehoboams life & reign |
| 15. | (1-8) | Abijam reigns over Judah, war with Jereboam |
| (9-15) | Asa's good reign over Judah | |
| (16-17) | Baasha prevents travel into Judah, Asa sends present to Hadad | |
| (18-21) | Asa takes gold from the house of the Lord | |
| (22-24) | Asa builds, diseased in feet when older, his reign | |
| (25-26) | Nadab son of Jereboam begins reign, does evil | |
| (27-28) | Baasha kills Nadab, assumed rule | |
| (29-30) | Baasha wipes out Jereboam's offspring as prophesied | |
| (31) | Summary of reign of Nadab | |
| (32-34) | Baasha reigns in third year of Asa, did evil |
| 16. | (1-4) | Word of the Lord against Baasha to Jehu the prophet |
| (5-7) | The reign of Baasha and the evil that he did | |
| (8-14) | Elah son of Baasha killed by Zimri while getting drunk | |
| (15-20) | Zimri reigns seven days, besieged by Omri, sets house on fire, dies | |
| (21-22) | Civil war in Israel between Omri and Tibni | |
| (23-24) | Omri reigns six years, buys Samaria | |
| (25-28) | Omri did worse than all before him, summary of his reign | |
| (29-33) | Ahab reigns, marries Jezebel, serves Baal, more evil than before | |
| (34) | Hiel the Bethelite, sons die building Jericho as Joshua foretold |
| 17. | (1) | Elijah tells Ahab there will be no rain |
| (2-7) | Elijah at brook Cherith, fed by ravens | |
| (8-16) | The widow of Zarephath, barrel of meal, cruse of oil | |
| (17-24) | Elijah raises the widows son, she affirms he is a man of God |
| 18. | (1-2) | Elijah to go to Ahab, God to send rain |
| (3-4) | Obadiah greatly feared the Lord, hid one hundred prophets | |
| (5-6) | Obadiah and Ahab search for grass to feed animals | |
| (7-16) | Elijah instructs Obadiah to tell Ahab, Obadiah fears | |
| (17-19) | Ahab and Elijah meet, prophets of Baal and groves to be called | |
| (20-40) | Elijah challenges prophets of Baal at mount Carmel | |
| (41-45) | Elijah tells of an abundance of rain | |
| (46) | God's hand upon Elijah, outruns Ahab to Jezreel |
| 19. | (1-2) | Jezebel threatens Elijah's life |
| (3-8) | Elijah asks to die, fed by an angel twice | |
| (9-18) | Elijah comes to a cave, God asks why he is there | |
| (19-21) | Elijah calls Elisha to follow him |
| 20. | (1-12) | Ben-hadad besieges Samaria, demands to be met |
| (13-21) | Ahab and thirty-two princes attack the Syrians | |
| (22) | At the return of the year the king of Syria will come up | |
| (23-25) | Let us fight against them in the plain | |
| (26-30) | Children of Israel slew of the Syrians one hundred thousand | |
| (31-34) | Ahab's covenant with Ben-hadad the Syrian | |
| (35-37) | Man of the sons of the prophets ... smite me I pray thee | |
| (38-43) | Therefore thy life shall go for his life |
| 21. | (1-7) | Ahab attempts to buy Naboth's vineyard |
| (8-14) | Jezebel's letters and death of Naboth | |
| (15-16) | Ahab goes to possess Naboth's vineyard | |
| (17-27) | God sends Elijah to Ahab | |
| (28-29) | Seeth thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me |
| 22. | (1) | Three years of peace between Israel and Syria |
| (2-6) | King of Israel and Jehoshaphat to take Ramoth Gilead | |
| (7-9) | Is there not a prophet of the Lord besides | |
| (10-12) | Zedekiah and prophets foretell success at Ramoth Gilead | |
| (13-23) | Micaiah prophesies and tells of the lying spirit | |
| (24-25) | Zedekiah strikes Micaiah, Micaiah prophesies against him | |
| (26-28) | Ahab orders Micaiah to be held until be returns | |
| (29-33) | King of Israel disguises himself, King of Syria orders to attack him | |
| (34-38) | A certain drew a bow at a venture and smote the king | |
| (39-40) | Summary of Ahab's reign, Ahaziah reigns | |
| (41-50) | Jehoshaphat's good reign, Jehoram reigns | |
| (51-53) | Ahaziah reigns in Israel two years and does evil |