1 Kings 1:13

1:13 Visit ¹  King David and say to him, ‘My master, O king, did you not solemnly promise ²  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 3:15

3:15 Solomon then woke up and realized it was a dream. ³  He went to Jerusalem, stood before the ark of the Lord’s covenant, offered up burnt sacrifices, presented peace offerings, ⁴  and held a feast for all his servants.

1 Kings 8:53

8:53 After all, ⁵  you picked them out of all the nations of the earth to be your special possession, ⁶  just as you, O sovereign Lord, announced through your servant Moses when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt.”

1 Kings 16:24

16:24 He purchased the hill of Samaria ⁷  from Shemer for two talents ⁸  of silver. He launched a construction project there ⁹  and named the city he built after Shemer, the former owner of the hill of Samaria.

1 Kings 18:10

18:10 As certainly as the Lord your God lives, my master has sent to every nation and kingdom in an effort to find you. When they say, ‘He’s not here,’ he makes them ¹⁰  swear an oath that they could not find you.

1 Kings 22:6

22:6 So the king of Israel assembled about four hundred prophets and asked them, “Should I attack Ramoth Gilead or not?” ¹¹  They said, “Attack! The sovereign one ¹²  will hand it over to the king.”

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

² tn Or “swear an oath to.”

³ tn Heb “and look, a dream.”

⁴ tn Or “tokens of peace”; NIV, TEV “fellowship offerings.”

⁵ tn Or “For.”

⁶ tn Heb “your inheritance.”

⁷ map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.

⁸ tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 150 pounds of silver.

⁹ tn Heb “he built up the hill.”

⁹ tn Heb “he makes the kingdom or the nation swear an oath.”

¹¹ tn Heb “Should I go against Ramoth Gilead for war or should I refrain?”

¹² tn Though Jehoshaphat requested an oracle from “the Lord” (יְהוָה, Yahweh), they stop short of actually using this name and substitute the title אֲדֹנָי (’adonai, “lord; master”). This ambiguity may explain in part Jehoshaphat’s hesitancy and caution (vv. 7-8). He seems to doubt that the four hundred are genuine prophets of the Lord.