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So his attendants said to him, “Let us look for a young virgin to serve the king and take care of him. She can lie beside him so that our lord the king may keep warm.”
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“But if you or your descendants turn away from me and do not observe the commands and decrees I have given you and go off to serve other gods and worship them,
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Solomon conscripted the descendants of all these peoples remaining in the land—whom the Israelites could not exterminate—to serve as slave labor, as it is to this day.
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And Hiram sent his men—sailors who knew the sea—to serve in the fleet with Solomon’s men.
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But Hadad, still only a boy, fled to Egypt with some Edomite officials who had served his father.
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“Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but now lighten the harsh labor and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”
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Then King Rehoboam consulted the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How would you advise me to answer these people?” he asked.
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They replied, “If today you will be a servant to these people and serve them and give them a favorable answer, they will always be your servants.”
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He not only considered it trivial to commit the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, but he also married Jezebel daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and began to serve Baal and worship him.
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Elijah Announces a Great Drought
Now Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word.”
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Elijah said, “As the Lord Almighty lives, whom I serve, I will surely present myself to Ahab today.”
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He served and worshiped Baal and aroused the anger of the Lord, the God of Israel, just as his father had done.
