Quotes about Reign
I will carry out this very day exactly what I swore to you by the LORD, the God of Israel: Surely your son Solomon will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne in my place.”
— 1 Kings 1:30
Then you shall go up with him, and he is to come and sit on my throne and reign in my place. For I have appointed him ruler over Israel and Judah.”
— 1 Kings 1:35
The length of David’s reign over Israel was forty years—seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.
— 1 Kings 2:11
“You know that the kingship was mine,” he said. “All Israel expected that I should reign, but the kingship has turned to my brother, for it has come to him from the LORD.
— 1 Kings 2:15
So King Solomon ruled over Israel,
— 1 Kings 4:1
And Solomon reigned over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. These kingdoms offered tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.
— 1 Kings 4:21
In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, in the month of Ziv, the second month of the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, he began to build the house of the LORD.
— 1 Kings 6:1
The foundation of the house of the LORD was laid in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign, in the month of Ziv.
— 1 Kings 6:37
But as for you, I will take you, and you shall reign over all that your heart desires, and you will be king over Israel.
— 1 Kings 11:37
Thus the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.
— 1 Kings 11:42
but Rehoboam still reigned over the Israelites living in the cities of Judah.
— 1 Kings 12:17
As for the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he waged war and how he reigned, they are indeed written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.
— 1 Kings 14:19