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1 Kings opens with “A Throne Secured, and a Wish” and carries its history toward “A Vineyard, and a Borrowed Death.” Adonijah throws himself a coronation while his father is still dying, and Bathsheba and Nathan get to the old king first. Ahab sulks in bed because a man will not sell him a family plot, and Jezebel arranges a show trial to get it.
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1 Kings 1–4
Adonijah throws himself a coronation while his father is still dying, and Bathsheba and Nathan get to the old king first. Solomon takes the throne and settles the scores David left him. Offered anything he wants in a dream, he asks for a listening heart, and the first case he hears is two women and one living baby.
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1 Kings 5–8
Cedar comes down from Lebanon and stone is dressed at the quarry so no hammer is heard at the site. When it is finished the ark is carried in, a cloud fills the house, and Solomon prays with his hands spread toward heaven for the foreigner as well as for Israel.
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1 Kings 9–11
The queen of Sheba comes to test him with hard questions and leaves saying the half was not told her. Then the wives arrive by the hundred, and the man who built the house builds high places for their gods on the hill facing it.
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1 Kings 12–16
Rehoboam takes the advice of the young men and tells the north that his little finger will be thicker than his father’s waist, and ten tribes walk out. Jeroboam sets up two golden calves so nobody has to travel to Jerusalem to worship, and every northern king after him is measured against that one decision. Dynasties rise and are murdered a few verses apart, until Ahab marries Jezebel.
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1 Kings 17–19
Elijah shuts the sky, is fed by ravens and then by a widow down to her last handful, and calls fire onto a soaked altar in front of four hundred and fifty prophets. Then he runs into the desert, asks to die, and God arrives as a low whisper after the wind and the earthquake.
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1 Kings 20–22
Ahab sulks in bed because a man will not sell him a family plot, and Jezebel arranges a show trial to get it. Later four hundred prophets promise victory and one promises disaster, so the king goes into battle in disguise and an arrow finds him anyway.
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