1 Kings 1:12

1:12 Now ¹  let me give you some advice as to how ²  you can save your life and your son Solomon’s life.

1 Kings 1:50

1:50 Adonijah feared Solomon, so he got up and went and grabbed hold of the horns of the altar. ³ 

1 Kings 8:60

8:60 Then ⁴  all the nations of the earth will recognize that the Lord is the only genuine God. ⁵ 

1 Kings 10:25

10:25 Year after year visitors brought their gifts, which included items of silver, items of gold, clothes, perfume, spices, horses, and mules. ⁶ 

1 Kings 11:8

11:8 He built high places for all his foreign wives so they could burn incense and make sacrifices to their gods. ⁷ 

1 Kings 16:12

16:12 Zimri destroyed Baasha’s entire family, just as the Lord had predicted to Baasha ⁸  through Jehu the prophet.

1 Kings 16:17

16:17 Omri and all Israel went up from Gibbethon and besieged Tirzah.

¹ tn Heb “now, come.” The imperative of הָלַךְ (halakh) is here used as an introductory interjection. See BDB 234 s.v. חָלַךְ.

² tn Or “so that.”

³ sn Grabbed hold of the horns of the altar. The “horns” of the altar were the horn-shaped projections on the four corners of the altar (see Exod 27:2). By going to the holy place and grabbing hold of the horns of the altar, Adonijah was seeking asylum from Solomon.

⁵ tn Heb “so that.”

⁶ tn Heb “the Lord, he is the God, there is no other.”

⁷ tn Heb “and they were bringing each one his gift, items of silver…and mules, the matter of a year in a year.”

⁹ tn Heb “and the same thing he did for all his foreign wives, [who] were burning incense and sacrificing to their gods.”

¹¹ tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord which he spoke concerning [or “spoke against”]).”