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Saul, David, and Solomon reign over one Israel: the ark comes up to Jerusalem, God covenants an everlasting throne to David's line, and the temple rises in gold and cedar.

• 1095 BCSaul anointed first king of Israel
• 1095 BCSaul is publicly chosen as king at Mizpah
• ·Saul rescues Jabesh-gilead and the kingdom is renewed
• ·Samuel gives his farewell address to Israel
• ·Saul offers sacrifice before Samuel arrives
• ·Jonathan and his armor-bearer rout a Philistine outpost
• ·Saul's rash oath endangers Jonathan
• ·Saul is rejected after sparing Agag and the best spoil
• ·Samuel anoints David at Bethlehem
• ·David enters Saul's service as a musician
• ·David defeats Goliath
• ·Jonathan makes a covenant with David
• ·David defeats the Philistines and marries Michal
• ·Michal helps David escape Saul
• ·Jonathan warns David and renews their covenant
• ·David receives holy bread at Nob and flees to Gath
• ·David gathers followers; Saul kills the priests of Nob
• ·David saves Keilah and escapes Saul
• ·Jonathan strengthens David in God in the wilderness
• ·David spares Saul in the cave at En-gedi
• ·Samuel dies and Israel mourns
• ·Abigail turns David back from bloodshed
• ·David spares Saul again in the wilderness of Ziph
• ·David lives among the Philistines at Ziklag
• 1055 BCSaul consults the medium at Endor
• 1055 BCPhilistine commanders dismiss David from battle
• 1055 BCDavid recovers the captives taken from Ziklag
• 1055 BCDeath of Saul and Jonathan at Gilboa
• 1055 BCDavid laments Saul and Jonathan
• 1055 BCDavid king over Judah at Hebron
• ·Ish-bosheth rules Israel as conflict begins with David's house
• ·Abner defects to David and Joab kills him
• ·Ish-bosheth is assassinated
• 1048 BCDavid king over all Israel; Jerusalem taken
• 1048 BCHiram builds David a palace in Jerusalem
• ·David defeats the Philistines at Baal-perazim and Rephaim
• 1045 BCUzzah dies during the first attempt to move the ark
• 1045 BCThe ark brought to Jerusalem
• ·The Davidic covenant
• ·David's kingdom is established through victories
• ·David shows covenant kindness to Mephibosheth
• 1035 BCAmmon humiliates David's envoys and war follows
• 1035 BCDavid's sin with Bathsheba and Uriah
• 1035 BCNathan rebukes David; Solomon is born
• 1035 BCDavid confesses his sin in Psalm 51
• 1035 BCRabbah is captured and David returns to Jerusalem
• ·Amnon violates Tamar
• ·Absalom kills Amnon and flees to Geshur
• ·Joab arranges Absalom's return to Jerusalem
• ·Absalom seizes support and David flees Jerusalem
• ·Ziba meets David; Shimei curses him; Hushai enters Jerusalem
• ·Hushai defeats Ahithophel's counsel
• ·Absalom's rebellion and death
• ·David returns to Jerusalem after Absalom's death
• ·Joab ends Sheba's rebellion
• ·Justice for the Gibeonites ends a three-year famine
• ·David's warriors defeat Philistine giants
• ·David sings of the LORD his rock and deliverer
• ·David's last words and mighty men are remembered
• ·David's census brings plague; an altar is built on the threshing floor
• 1015 BCAdonijah attempts to claim David's throne
• 1015 BCSolomon is anointed king at Gihon
• 1015 BCDeath of David; Solomon enthroned
• 1015 BCSolomon's throne is firmly established
• ·Solomon asks the LORD for wisdom at Gibeon
• ·Solomon judges between two women claiming one child
• ·Solomon organizes the kingdom and Israel prospers
• ·Solomon's proverbs and songs
• ·Solomon and Hiram prepare materials for the temple
• 1012 BCSolomon begins the temple
• 1005 BCSolomon completes the temple structure
• 1005 BCHiram completes the temple's bronze furnishings
• 1005 BCThe temple dedicated; the glory fills the house
• ·Solomon completes his palace complex
• ·The LORD appears to Solomon after the dedication
• ·Solomon expands his building projects and maritime trade
• ·The queen of Sheba visits Solomon
• ·Solomon's wealth and international power increase
• ·Solomon's foreign wives turn his heart toward other gods
• ·Adversaries rise and Ahijah foretells Jeroboam's kingdom
• 975 BCDeath of Solomon; the kingdom about to divide