1 Kings 3:23   (Read all of 1 Kings 3)

The king said, "This one says, 'My son is alive and your son is dead,' while that one says, 'No! Your son is dead and mine is alive.' "

1 Kings 3:26   (Read all of 1 Kings 3)

The woman whose son was alive was deeply moved out of love for her son and said to the king, "Please, my lord, give her the living baby! Don't kill him!" But the other said, "Neither I nor you shall have him. Cut him in two!"

1 Kings 5:3   (Read all of 1 Kings 5)

"You know that because of the wars waged against my father David from all sides, he could not build a temple for the Name of the Lord his God until the Lord put his enemies under his feet.

1 Kings 5:5   (Read all of 1 Kings 5)

I intend, therefore, to build a temple for the Name of the Lord my God, as the Lord told my father David, when he said, 'Your son whom I will put on the throne in your place will build the temple for my Name.'

1 Kings 5:6   (Read all of 1 Kings 5)

"So give orders that cedars of Lebanon be cut for me. My men will work with yours, and I will pay you for your men whatever wages you set. You know that we have no one so skilled in felling timber as the Sidonians."

1 Kings 5:8   (Read all of 1 Kings 5)

So Hiram sent word to Solomon: "I have received the message you sent me and will do all you want in providing the cedar and juniper logs.

1 Kings 5:9   (Read all of 1 Kings 5)

My men will haul them down from Lebanon to the Mediterranean Sea, and I will float them as rafts by sea to the place you specify. There I will separate them and you can take them away. And you are to grant my wish by providing food for my royal household."

1 Kings 6:12   (Read all of 1 Kings 6)

"As for this temple you are building, if you follow my decrees, observe my laws and keep all my commands and obey them, I will fulfill through you the promise I gave to David your father.

1 Kings 8:13   (Read all of 1 Kings 8)

I have indeed built a magnificent temple for you, a place for you to dwell forever."

1 Kings 8:18   (Read all of 1 Kings 8)

But the Lord said to my father David, 'You did well to have it in your heart to build a temple for my Name.

1 Kings 8:19   (Read all of 1 Kings 8)

Nevertheless, you are not the one to build the temple, but your son, your own flesh and blood-he is the one who will build the temple for my Name.'

1 Kings 8:23   (Read all of 1 Kings 8)

and said: "Lord, the God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven above or on earth below-you who keep your covenant of love with your servants who continue wholeheartedly in your way.

1 Kings 8:24   (Read all of 1 Kings 8)

You have kept your promise to your servant David my father; with your mouth you have promised and with your hand you have fulfilled it-as it is today.

1 Kings 8:25   (Read all of 1 Kings 8)

"Now Lord, the God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father the promises you made to him when you said, 'You shall never fail to have a successor to sit before me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants are careful in all they do to walk before me faithfully as you have done.'

1 Kings 8:26   (Read all of 1 Kings 8)

And now, God of Israel, let your word that you promised your servant David my father come true.

1 Kings 8:27   (Read all of 1 Kings 8)

"But will God really dwell on earth? The heavens, even the highest heaven, cannot contain you. How much less this temple I have built!

1 Kings 8:28   (Read all of 1 Kings 8)

Yet give attention to your servant's prayer and his plea for mercy, Lord my God. Hear the cry and the prayer that your servant is praying in your presence this day.

1 Kings 8:29   (Read all of 1 Kings 8)

May your eyes be open toward this temple night and day, this place of which you said, 'My Name shall be there,' so that you will hear the prayer your servant prays toward this place.

1 Kings 8:30   (Read all of 1 Kings 8)

Hear the supplication of your servant and of your people Israel when they pray toward this place. Hear from heaven, your dwelling place, and when you hear, forgive.

1 Kings 8:31   (Read all of 1 Kings 8)

"When anyone wrongs their neighbor and is required to take an oath and they come and swear the oath before your altar in this temple,

1 Kings 8:32   (Read all of 1 Kings 8)

then hear from heaven and act. Judge between your servants, condemning the guilty by bringing down on their heads what they have done, and vindicating the innocent by treating them in accordance with their innocence.

1 Kings 8:33   (Read all of 1 Kings 8)

"When your people Israel have been defeated by an enemy because they have sinned against you, and when they turn back to you and give praise to your name, praying and making supplication to you in this temple,

1 Kings 8:34   (Read all of 1 Kings 8)

then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel and bring them back to the land you gave to their ancestors.

1 Kings 8:35   (Read all of 1 Kings 8)

"When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because your people have sinned against you, and when they pray toward this place and give praise to your name and turn from their sin because you have afflicted them,