1 Kings
Introduction

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22

Contradictions
Cruelty and Violence
Injustice
Absurdities
Family Values
Intolerance
Language
Women
Interpretation
Homosexuality
Science and History
Sex
Prophecy
Good Stuff

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Family Values in 1 Kings

1. Old King David tries to get some heat by having a beautiful virgin minister unto him. 1:1-4

2. In David's last words, he commands his son Solomon to murder Joab and Shimei. 2:1-9

3. Adonijah (Solomon's half-brother) sends Bathsheba (Solomon's mother) to ask King Solomon to let Adonijah have sex with his David's concubine Abishag. But Solomon had him murdered instead. 2:13-25

4. Solomon has his brother (Adonijah) murdered. 2:24-25

5. Solomon carries out the deathbed instructions of his father David by having Joab murdered. 2:29-34

6. "King Solomon loved many strange women. And he had 700 wives and 300 concubines." 11:1-3

7. God is angry with Solomon, but decides to punish Solomon's son rather than Solomon himself, because he liked Solomon's father (David) so darned much. 11:11-12

8. Did Abijam marry his own mother?
   Since Asa's father was Abijam and they had the same mother (Maachah), Abijam was both father and brother to Asa. 15:9-10

9. Baasha kills "all of the house of Jeroboam" leaving none "to breath." This slaughter was done "according to the word of the Lord." 15:29

10. When Hiel rebuilds Jericho, he lays the foundation with the body of his oldest son and sets up the gates with his youngest son's body "according to the word of the Lord." 16:34