1 Kings 1:13

1:13 Visit¹ King David and say to him, ‘My master, O king, did you not solemnly promise² your servant, “Surely your son Solomon will be king after me; he will sit on my throne”? So why has Adonijah become king?’

1 Kings 1:27

1:27 Has my master the king authorized this without informing your servants³ who should succeed my master the king on his throne?”⁴

1 Kings 1:30

1:30 I will keep⁵ today the oath I swore to you by the Lord God of Israel: ‘Surely Solomon your son will be king after me; he will sit in my place on my throne.’”

1 Kings 2:24

2:24 Now, as certainly as the Lord lives (he who made me secure, allowed me to sit on my father David’s throne, and established a dynasty⁶ for me as he promised), Adonijah will be executed today!”

1 Kings 7:8

7:8 The palace where he lived was constructed in a similar way.⁷ He also constructed a palace like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had married.⁸

1 Kings 8:20

8:20 The Lord has kept the promise he made.⁹ I have taken my father David’s place and have occupied the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised. I have built this temple for the honor¹⁰ of the Lord God of Israel

1 Kings 8:30

8:30 Respond to the request of your servant and your people Israel for this place.¹¹ Hear from inside your heavenly dwelling place¹² and respond favorably.¹³

1 Kings 8:39

8:39 then listen from your heavenly dwelling place, forgive their sin,¹⁴ and act favorably toward each one based on your evaluation of his motives.¹⁵ (Indeed you are the only one who can correctly evaluate the motives of all people.)¹⁶

1 Kings 9:16

9:16 (Pharaoh, king of Egypt, had attacked and captured Gezer. He burned it and killed the Canaanites who lived in the city. He gave it as a wedding present to his daughter, who had married Solomon.)

1 Kings 13:11

13:11 Now there was an old prophet living in Bethel.¹⁷ When his sons came home, they told their father¹⁸ everything the prophet¹⁹ had done in Bethel that day and all the words he had spoken to the king.²⁰

1 Kings 13:25

13:25 Some men came by²¹ and saw the corpse lying in the road with the lion standing beside it.²² They went and reported what they had seen²³ in the city where the old prophet lived.

1 Kings 19:4

19:4 while he went a day’s journey into the desert. He went and sat down under a shrub²⁴ and asked the Lord to take his life:²⁵ “I’ve had enough! Now, O Lord, take my life. After all, I’m no better than my ancestors.”²⁶

1 Kings 21:13

21:13 The two villains arrived and sat opposite him. Then the villains testified against Naboth right before the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king.” So they dragged him²⁷ outside the city and stoned him to death.²⁸

1 Kings 22:10

22:10 Now the king of Israel and King Jehoshaphat of Judah were sitting on their respective thrones,²⁹ dressed in their robes, at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria.³⁰ All the prophets were prophesying before them.

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

²tn Or “swear an oath to.”

³tc Many Hebrew mss and ancient textual witnesses agree with the Qere in reading this as singular, “your servant.”

⁴tn Heb “From my master the king is this thing done, and you did not make known to your servants who will sit on the throne of my master the king after him?”

⁵tn Or “carry out, perform.”

⁷tn Heb “house.”

⁹tn Heb “and his house where he lived, the other court [i.e., as opposed to the great court], separated from the house belonging to the hall, was like this work [i.e., this style of architecture].”

¹⁰tn Heb “and a house he was making for the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Solomon had taken, like this porch.”

¹¹tn Heb “his word that he spoke.”

¹²tn Heb “name.”

¹³tn Heb “listen to the request of your servant and your people Israel which they are praying concerning this place.”

¹⁴tn Heb “and you, hear inside your dwelling place, inside heaven.” The precise nuance of the preposition אֶל (’el), used here with the verb “hear,” is unclear. One expects the preposition “from,” which appears in the parallel text in 2 Chr 6:21. The nuance “inside; among” is attested for אֶל (see Gen 23:19; 1 Sam 10:22; Jer 4:3), but in each case a verb of motion is employed with the preposition, unlike 1 Kgs 8:30. The translation above (“from inside”) is based on the demands of the immediate context rather than attested usage elsewhere.

¹⁵tn Heb “hear and forgive.”

¹⁵tn The words “their sin” are added for clarification.

¹⁶tn Heb “and act and give to each one according to all his ways because you know his heart.” In the Hebrew text vv. 37-39a actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided up for stylistic reasons.

¹⁷tn Heb “Indeed you know, you alone, the heart of all the sons of mankind.”

¹⁷map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.

¹⁸tn Heb “and his son came and told him.” The MT has the singular here, but several other textual witnesses have the plural, which is more consistent with the second half of the verse and with vv. 12-13.

¹⁹tn Heb “the man of God.”

²⁰tn Heb “all the actions which the man of God performed that day in Bethel, the words which he spoke to the king, and they told them to their father.”

¹⁹tn Heb “Look, men were passing by.”

²⁰tn Heb “the corpse.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“it”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

²¹tn The words “what they had seen” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

²¹tn Or “broom tree” (also in v. 5).

²²tn Heb “and asked with respect to his life to die.”

²³tn Heb “fathers.”

²³tn Heb “led him.”

²⁴tn Heb “and they stoned him with stones and he died.”

²⁵tn Heb “were sitting, a man on his throne.”

²⁶map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.