Quotes About Reign

Saul was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned over Israel forty-two years.

Saulís son Ish-bosheth was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned for two years. The house of Judah, however, followed David.

David was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned forty years.

In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah.

Thus David reigned over all Israel and administered justice and righteousness for all his people:

“My lord,” she replied, “you yourself swore to your maidservant by the LORD your God: ëSurely your son Solomon will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne.í

“My lord the king,” said Nathan, “did you say, ëAdonijah will reign after me, and he will sit on my throneí?

I will carry out this very day exactly what I swore to you by the LORD, the God of Israel: Surely your son Solomon will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne in my place.”

Then you shall go up with him, and he is to come and sit on my throne and reign in my place. For I have appointed him ruler over Israel and Judah.”

The length of Davidís reign over Israel was forty years—seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.

“You know that the kingship was mine,” he said. “All Israel expected that I should reign, but the kingship has turned to my brother, for it has come to him from the LORD.

And Solomon reigned over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. These kingdoms offered tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.

In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, in the month of Ziv, the second month of the fourth year of Solomonís reign over Israel, he began to build the house of the LORD.

The foundation of the house of the LORD was laid in the fourth year of Solomonís reign, in the month of Ziv.

But as for you, I will take you, and you shall reign over all that your heart desires, and you will be king over Israel.

Thus the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was 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.

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

As for the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he waged war and how he reigned, they are indeed written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

And the length of Jeroboamís reign was twenty-two years, and he rested with his fathers, and his son Nadab reigned in his place.

Meanwhile, Rehoboam son of Solomon reigned in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel in which to put His Name. His motherís name was Naamah the Ammonite.

In the eighteenth year of the reign of Jeroboam son of Nebat, Abijam became king of Judah,

and he reigned in Jerusalem three years. His motherís name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom.

And Abijam rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David, and his son Asa reigned in his place.