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1 Kings

The First Book of the Kings Commonly Called the Third Book of the Kings

1 Kings in the King James Version has 22 chapters and 816 verses. It opens: Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat. (1 Kings 1:1)

Chapters at a glance

  1. Chapter 1Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.
  2. Chapter 2Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying,
  3. Chapter 3And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into the…
  4. Chapter 4So king Solomon was king over all Israel.
  5. Chapter 5And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in…
  6. Chapter 6And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the…
  7. Chapter 7But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
  8. Chapter 8Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of…
  9. Chapter 9And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the LORD, and the king’s house…
  10. Chapter 10And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove…
  11. Chapter 11But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites…
  12. Chapter 12And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.
  13. Chapter 13And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the LORD unto Beth-el: and Jeroboam stood…
  14. Chapter 14At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.
  15. Chapter 15Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah.
  16. Chapter 16Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,
  17. Chapter 17And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel…
  18. Chapter 18And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go…
  19. Chapter 19And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.
  20. Chapter 20And Ben-hadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together: and there were thirty and two kings with…
  21. Chapter 21And it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel…
  22. Chapter 22And they continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.