3 Kingdoms
Old Testament · 22 chapters · 827 verses
Every chapter of 3 Kingdoms is given below in Sir Lancelot Brenton's classic English translation of the Septuagint (LXX) — 827 verses in 22 chapters — each with the Greek text of the Septuagint in parallel and the translator's notes to the printed edition.
Patristic commentary has not yet been attached to 3 Kingdoms. The full corpus of the Fathers remains searchable in the Fathers Library.
Chapters
Chapter by Chapter
- 3 Kingdoms 1 And king David was old and advanced in days, and they covered him with clothes, and he was not warmed.
- 3 Kingdoms 2 And the days of David drew near that he should die: and he * addressed his son Solomon, saying, I go the way of all the earth:
- 3 Kingdoms 3 And the wisdom of Solomon abounded exceedingly beyond the wisdom of all the ancients, and beyond all the wise men of Egypt: and he took the daughter…
- 3 Kingdoms 4 And king Solomon reigned over Israel.
- 3 Kingdoms 5 And Chiram king of Tyre sent his servants to anoint Solomon in the room of David his father, because Chiram always loved David.
- 3 Kingdoms 6 And it came to pass in the four hundred and fortieth year after the departure of the children of Israel out of Egypt, in the fourth year and second…
- 3 Kingdoms 7 *
- 3 Kingdoms 8 And it came to pass when Solomon had finished building the house of the Lord and his own house after twenty years, then king Solomon assembled all…
- 3 Kingdoms 9 And it came to pass when Solomon had finished building the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and all the work of Solomon, whatever he wished…
- 3 Kingdoms 10 And the queen of Saba heard of the name of Solomon, and the name of the Lord, and she came to try him with riddles.
- 3 Kingdoms 11 * And king Solomon was a lover of women. † And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. And he took strange women, as…
- 3 Kingdoms 12 And king Roboam goes to Sikima; for all Israel were coming to Sikima to make him king.
- 3 Kingdoms 13 And behold, there came a man of God out of Juda by the word of the Lord to Baethel, and Jeroboam stood at the altar to sacrifice.
- 3 Kingdoms 14 *
- 3 Kingdoms 15 And in the eighteenth year of the reign of Jeroboam son of Nabat, Abiu son of Roboam reigns over Juda.
- 3 Kingdoms 16 And the word of the Lord came by the hand of Ju son of Anani to Baasa, saying,
- 3 Kingdoms 17 And Eliu the prophet, the Thesbite of Thesbae of Galaad, said to Achaab, As the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, *…
- 3 Kingdoms 18 And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the Lord came to Eliu in the third year, saying, Go, and appear before Achaab, and I will bring…
- 3 Kingdoms 19 And Achaab told Jezabel his wife all that Eliu had done, and how he had slain the prophets with the sword.
- 3 Kingdoms 20 And Nabuthai the Jezraelite had a vineyard, near the threshing floor of Achaab king of Samaria.
- 3 Kingdoms 21 And the son of Ader gathered all his forces, and went up and besieged Samaria, he and thirty-two kings with him, and all his horse and * chariots:…
- 3 Kingdoms 22 And he rested three years, and there was no war between Syria and Israel.