1 Kings 1:20

1:20 Now,¹ my master, O king, all Israel is watching anxiously to see who is named to succeed my master the king on the throne.²

1 Kings 1:48

1:48 and said³ this: ‘The Lord God of Israel is worthy of praise because⁴ today he has placed a successor on my throne and allowed me to see it.’”⁵

1 Kings 8:52

8:52 “May you be attentive⁶ to your servant’s and your people Israel’s requests for help and may you respond to all their prayers to you.⁷

1 Kings 9:12

9:12 When Hiram went out from Tyre to inspect the cities Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them.⁸

1 Kings 11:19

11:19 Pharaoh liked Hadad so well⁹ he gave him his sister-in-law (Queen Tahpenes’ sister) as a wife.¹⁰

1 Kings 14:4

14:4 Jeroboam’s wife did as she was told. She went to Shiloh and visited Ahijah.¹¹ Now Ahijah could not see; he had lost his eyesight in his old age.¹²

1 Kings 14:22

14:22 Judah did evil in the sight of¹³ the Lord. They made him more jealous by their sins than their ancestors had done.¹⁴

1 Kings 16:19

16:19 This happened because of the sins he committed. He did evil in the sight of¹⁵ the Lord and followed in Jeroboam’s footsteps and encouraged Israel to continue sinning.¹⁶

1 Kings 20:41

20:41 The prophet¹⁷ quickly removed the bandage from his eyes and the king of Israel recognized he was one of the prophets.

1 Kings 21:20

21:20 When Elijah arrived, Ahab said to him,¹⁸ “So, you have found me, my enemy!” Elijah¹⁹ replied, “I have found you, because you are committed²⁰ to doing evil in the sight of²¹ the Lord.

1 Kings 21:25

21:25 (There had never been anyone like Ahab, who was firmly committed²² to doing evil in the sight of²³ the Lord, urged on by his wife Jezebel.²⁴

1 Kings 22:52

22:52 He did evil in the sight of²⁵ the Lord and followed in the footsteps²⁶ of his father and mother; like Jeroboam son of Nebat, he encouraged Israel to sin.²⁷

¹tc Many Hebrew mss have עַתָּה (’attah, “now”) rather than the similar sounding independent pronoun אַתָּה (’attah, “you”).

²tn Heb “the eyes of all Israel are upon you to declare to them who will sit on the throne of my master the king after him.”

³tn The Hebrew text reads, “and the king said.”

⁴tn Or “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who….” In this blessing formula אֲשֶׁר (’asher, “who; because”) introduces the reason why the one being blessed deserves the honor.

⁵tn Heb “and my eyes are seeing.”

⁵tn Heb “May your eyes be open.”

⁶tn Heb “to listen to them in all their calling out to you.”

⁷tn Heb “they were not agreeable in his eyes.”

⁹tn Heb “and Hadad found great favor in the eyes of Pharaoh.”

¹⁰tn Heb “and he gave to him a wife, the sister of his wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.”

¹¹tn Heb “and the wife of Jeroboam did so; she arose and went to Shiloh and entered the house of Ahijah.”

¹²tn Heb “his eyes were set because of his old age.”

¹³tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

¹⁴tn Heb “and they made him jealous more than all which their fathers had done by their sins which they sinned.”

¹⁵tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

¹⁶tn Heb “walking in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin which he did to make Israel sin.”

¹⁷tn Heb “he”; the referent (the prophet) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁹tn Heb “and Ahab said to Elijah.” The narrative is elliptical and streamlined. The words “when Elijah arrived” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

²⁰tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²¹tn Heb “you have sold yourself.”

²²tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

²¹tn Heb “who sold himself.”

²²tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

²³tn Heb “like Ahab…whom his wife Jezebel incited.”

²³tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

²⁴tn Or “way.”

²⁵tn Heb “and walked in the way of his father and in the way of his mother and in the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat who made Israel sin.”