--- title: 1 Kings — the Tanakh in Hebrew, Aramaic and English, with trees and pragmatics description: The book of 1 Kings (מְלָכִים א), Nevi'im — the Prophets, in Mova's open Tanakh corpus: 22 chapters and 817 verses in Hebrew, Aramaic (Targum Jonathan) and English (JPS 1917), each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / 1 Kings # 1 Kings מְלָכִים א 22 chapters, 817 verses: Hebrew, Aramaic (Targum Jonathan) and English (JPS 1917). - [Chapter 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/1/) — NOW KING David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he could get no heat. — 53 verses - [Chapter 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/2/) — Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying: — 46 verses - [Chapter 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/3/) — And Solomon became allied to Pharaoh king of Egypt by marriage, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about. — 28 verses - [Chapter 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/4/) — And king Solomon was king over all Israel. — 20 verses - [Chapter 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/5/) — And Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt; they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life. — 32 verses - [Chapter 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/6/) — And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD. — 38 verses - [Chapter 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/7/) — And Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house. — 51 verses - [Chapter 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/8/) — Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers' houses of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion. — 66 verses - [Chapter 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/9/) — And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all Solomon's delight which he was pleased to do, — 28 verses - [Chapter 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/10/) — And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon because of the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions. — 29 verses - [Chapter 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/11/) — Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, besides the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites; — 43 verses - [Chapter 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/12/) — And Rehoboam went to Shechem; for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king. — 33 verses - [Chapter 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/13/) — And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the LORD unto Beth-el; and Jeroboam was standing by the altar to offer. — 34 verses - [Chapter 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/14/) — At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick. — 31 verses - [Chapter 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/15/) — Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat began Abijam to reign over Judah. — 34 verses - [Chapter 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/16/) — And the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasa, saying: — 34 verses - [Chapter 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/17/) — And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the settlers of Gilead, said unto Ahab: 'As the LORD, the God of Israel, liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.' — 24 verses - [Chapter 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/18/) — And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the LORD came to Elijah, in the third year, saying: 'Go, show thyself unto Ahab, and I will send rain upon the land.' — 46 verses - [Chapter 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/19/) — And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword. — 21 verses - [Chapter 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/20/) — And Ben-hadad the king of Aram gathered all his host together; and there were thirty and two kings with him, and horses and chariots; and he went up and besieged Samaria, and fought against it. — 43 verses - [Chapter 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/21/) — And it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab, king of Samaria. — 29 verses - [Chapter 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/22/) — And they continued three years without war between Aram and Israel. — 54 verses - ← previous: [2 Samuel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA/) - next →: [2 Kings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI/) - ↑ back to [Nevi'im — the Prophets](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/)