Books of Kings

The Book of Kings (Hebrew: סֵפֶר מְלָכִים, Sēfer Məlāḵīm) is a book in the Hebrew Bible, found as two books (1–2 Kings, sometimes called First Kings and Second Kings) in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. It concludes the Deuteronomistic history, a history of ancient Israel also including the books of Joshua, Judges, and Samuel.

Quotes

1 Kings

Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.
Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat.
So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of Israel, and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the king.
And the damsel was very fair, and cherished the king, and ministered to him: but the king knew her not.
- 1:1–4 (KJV)

And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.
He was a widow’s son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his work.
For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about.
And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits:
And nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter.
And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the chapiters that were upon the top, with pomegranates: and so did he for the other chapiter.
And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily work in the porch, four cubits.
And the chapiters upon the two pillars had pomegranates also above, over against the belly which was by the network: and the pomegranates were two hundred in rows round about upon the other chapiter.
And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin: and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz.
And upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.
And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
And under the brim of it round about there were knops compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about: the knops were cast in two rows, when it was cast.
It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.
And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.
And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.
And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had borders, and the borders were between the ledges: And on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges there was a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work.
And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass: and the four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver were undersetters molten, at the side of every addition.
And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit: but the mouth thereof was round after the work of the base, a cubit and an half: and also upon the mouth of it were gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round.
And under the borders were four wheels; and the axletrees of the wheels were joined to the base: and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit.
And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, were all molten.
And there were four undersetters to the four corners of one base: and the undersetters were of the very base itself.
And in the top of the base was there a round compass of half a cubit high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof were of the same.
For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of every one, and additions round about.
After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one size.
Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: and every laver was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten bases one laver.
And he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward over against the south.
And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for the house of the Lord:
The two pillars, and the two bowls of the chapiters that were on the top of the two pillars; and the two networks, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars;
And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, even two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that were upon the pillars;
And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases;
And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;
And the pots, and the shovels, and the basons: and all these vessels, which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the Lord, were of bright brass.
- 7:13–45 (KJV)

Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people.
- 9:7 (KJV)

And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon’s wisdom, and the house that he had built,
And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the Lord; there was no more spirit in her.
- 10:4–5 (KJV)

Behold, the half was not told me.
- 10:7 (KJV)

Once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
- 10:22

But king Solomon loved many strange women.
- 11:1 (KJV)

My little finger shall be thicker than my father’s loins.
- 12:10 (KJV)

My father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
- 12:11 (KJV)

To your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David.
- 12:16 (KJV)

He slept with his fathers.
- 14:20 (KJV)

He went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
- 17:5-6 (KJV)

An handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse.
- 17:12 (KJV)

How long halt ye between two opinions?
- 18:21 (KJV)

He is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
- 18:27 (KJV)

There is a sound of abundance of rain.
- 18:41 (KJV)

There ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man’s hand.
- 18:44 (KJV)

He girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab.
- 18:46 (KJV)

He himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree.
- 19:4 (KJV)

But the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake:
And after the earthquake a fire: but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
- 19:11-12 (KJV)

Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him.
- 19:19 (KJV)

Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.
- 20:11 (KJV)

Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab King of Samaria.
And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my house.
- 21:1-2 (KJV)

Hast thou found me, O mine enemy?
- 21:20 (KJV)

But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
- 21:25 (KJV)

I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, as sheep that have not a shepherd.
- 22:17 (KJV)

Feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.
And Micaiah said, If thou return at all in peace, the Lord hath not spoken by me.
- 22:27-28 (KJV)

And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness.
- 22:34 (KJV)

2 Kings

Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.
- 2:11-12 (KJV)

The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha.
- 2:15 (KJV)

And as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.
And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.
- 2:23-24 (KJV)

Is it well with the child? And she answered, It is well.
- 4:26 (KJV)

There is death in the pot.
- 4:40 (KJV)

He shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.
- 5:8 (KJV)

Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel?
- 5:12 (KJV)

I bow myself in the house of Rimmon.
- 5:18 (KJV)

Whence comest thou, Gehazi?
- 5:25 (KJV)

Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?
- 8:13 (KJV)

Is it peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me.
- 9:18 (KJV)

The driving is like the driving of Jehu, the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously.
- 9:20 (KJV)

What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?
- 9:22 (KJV)

She painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window.
- 9:30 (KJV)

Had Zimri peace, who slew his master?
- 9:31 (KJV)

Who is on my side? who?
- 9:32 (KJV)

They found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
- 9:35 (KJV)

In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel:
And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel; so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel.
- 9:36-37 (KJV)