Quotes About Kingdom

The weight of gold that came to Solomon each year was 666 talents,

Twelve lions stood on the six steps, one at either end of each step. Nothing like this had ever been made for any kingdom.

All King Solomonís drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, because it was accounted as nothing in the days of Solomon.

So King Solomon surpassed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.

Solomon had 4,000 stalls for horses and chariots, and 12,000 horses, which he stationed in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.

He reigned over all the kings from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt.

The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.

Solomonís horses were imported from Egypt and from all the lands.

Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.

And Solomon rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David. And his son Rehoboam reigned in his place.

When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard about this, he returned from Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon.

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.

And the king answered them harshly. King Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders

but Rehoboam still reigned over the Israelites living in the cities of Judah.

So to this day Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David.

When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mobilized the house of Judah and Benjamin—180,000 chosen warriors—to fight against Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam.

“Tell Rehoboam son of Solomon king of Judah and all the Israelites in Judah and Benjamin

So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah and supported Rehoboam son of Solomon for three years, because they walked for three years in the way of David and Solomon.

Rehoboam appointed Abijah son of Maacah as chief prince among his brothers, intending to make him king.

In the fifth year of Rehoboamís reign, because they had been unfaithful to the LORD, Shishak king of Egypt came up and attacked Jerusalem

So King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem and seized the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the royal palace. He took everything, including the gold shields that Solomon had made.

Yet Jeroboam son of Nebat, a servant of Solomon son of David, rose up and rebelled against his master.

And now you think you can resist the kingdom of the LORD, which is in the hands of Davidís descendants. You are indeed a vast army, and you have with you the golden calves that Jeroboam made for you as gods.

He also removed the high places and incense altars from all the cities of Judah, and under him the kingdom was at peace.