1 Kings 1:33

1:33 and he¹ told them, “Take your master’s² servants with you, put my son Solomon on my mule, and lead him down to Gihon.³

1 Kings 1:44

1:44 The king sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites, and the Pelethites and they put him on the king’s mule.

1 Kings 1:47

1:47 The king’s servants have even come to congratulate⁴ our master⁵ King David, saying, ‘May your God⁶ make Solomon more famous than you and make him an even greater king than you!’⁷ Then the king leaned⁸ on the bed

1 Kings 2:3

2:3 Do the job the Lord your God has assigned you⁹ by following his instructions¹⁰ and obeying¹¹ his rules, commandments, regulations, and laws as written in the law of Moses. Then you will succeed in all you do and seek to accomplish,¹²

1 Kings 2:20

2:20 She said, “I would like to ask you for just one small favor.¹³ Please don’t refuse me.”¹⁴ He said,¹⁵ “Go ahead and ask, my mother, for I would not refuse you.”

1 Kings 6:12

6:12 “As for this temple you are building, if you follow¹⁶ my rules, observe¹⁷ my regulations, and obey all my commandments,¹⁸ I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David.¹⁹

1 Kings 8:1

Solomon Moves the Ark into the Temple

8:1 ²⁰Then Solomon convened in Jerusalem²¹ Israel’s elders, all the leaders of the Israelite tribes and families, so they could witness the transferal of the ark of the Lord’s covenant from the city of David (that is, Zion).²²

1 Kings 9:3

9:3 The Lord said to him, “I have answered²³ your prayer and your request for help that you made to me. I have consecrated this temple you built by making it my permanent home;²⁴ I will be constantly present there.²⁵

1 Kings 9:9

9:9 Others will then answer,²⁶ ‘Because they abandoned the Lord their God, who led their ancestors²⁷ out of Egypt. They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served.²⁸ That is why the Lord has brought all this disaster down on them.’”

1 Kings 12:14

12:14 and followed²⁹ the advice of the younger ones. He said, “My father imposed heavy demands on you; I will make them even heavier.³⁰ My father punished you with ordinary whips; I will punish you with whips that really sting your flesh.”³¹

1 Kings 12:21

12:21 When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he summoned 180,000 skilled warriors from all of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin³² to attack Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam son of Solomon.

1 Kings 13:28

13:28 He went and found the corpse lying in the road with the donkey and the lion standing beside it;³³ the lion had neither eaten the corpse nor attacked the donkey.

1 Kings 13:31

13:31 After he buried him, he said to his sons, “When I die, bury me in the tomb where the prophet³⁴ is buried; put my bones right beside his bones,

1 Kings 19:10

19:10 He answered, “I have been absolutely loyal³⁵ to the Lord, the sovereign God,³⁶ even though the Israelites have abandoned the agreement they made with you,³⁷ torn down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left and now they want to take my life.”³⁸

1 Kings 19:14

19:14 He answered, “I have been absolutely loyal³⁹ to the Lord, the sovereign God,⁴⁰ even though the Israelites have abandoned the agreement they made with you,⁴¹ torn down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left and now they want to take my life.”⁴²

1 Kings 20:6

20:6 But now at this time tomorrow I will send my servants to you and they will search through your palace and your servants’ houses. They will carry away all your valuables.”⁴³

¹tn Heb “the king.”

²tn The plural form is used in the Hebrew text to indicate honor and authority.

³tn Heb “mount Solomon my son on the mule that belongs to me and take him down to Gihon.”

⁴tn Heb “to bless.”

⁵tn The plural form is used in the Hebrew text to indicate honor and authority.

⁶tc Many Hebrew mss agree with the Qere in reading simply “God.”

⁷tn Heb “make the name of Solomon better than your name, and make his throne greater than your throne.” The term שֵׁם (shem, “name”) is used here of one’s fame and reputation.

⁸tn Or “bowed down; worshiped.”

⁷tn Heb “keep the charge of the Lord your God.”

⁸tn Heb “by walking in his ways.”

⁹tn Or “keeping.”

¹⁰tn Heb “then you will cause to succeed all which you do and all which you turn there.”

¹⁰tn Or “I’d like to make just one request of you.”

¹¹tn Heb “Do not turn back my face.”

¹²tn Heb “and the king said to her.”

¹³tn Heb “walk in.”

¹⁴tn Heb “do.”

¹⁵tn Heb “and keep all my commandments by walking in them.”

¹⁶tn Heb “I will establish my word with you which I spoke to David your father.”

¹⁶tc The Old Greek translation includes the following words at the beginning of ch. 8: “It so happened that when Solomon finished building the Lord’s temple and his own house, after twenty years.”

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¹⁸tn Heb “Then Solomon convened the elders of Israel, the heads of the tribes, the chiefs of the fathers belonging to the sons of Israel to King Solomon [in] Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the city of David (it is Zion).”

¹⁹tn Heb “I have heard.”

²⁰tn Heb “by placing my name there perpetually” (or perhaps, “forever”).

²¹tn Heb “and my eyes and my heart will be there all the days.”

²²tn Heb “and they will say.”

²³tn Heb “fathers.”

²⁴tn Heb “and they took hold of other gods and bowed down to them and served them.”

²⁵tn Heb “and spoke to them according to.”

²⁶tn Heb “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke.”

²⁷tn Heb “My father punished you with whips, but I will punish you with scorpions.” See the note on the same phrase in v. 11.

²⁸tn Heb “he summoned all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, one hundred eighty thousand chosen men, accomplished in war.”

³¹tn Heb “the corpse.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“it”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

³⁴tn Heb “the man of God.”

³⁷tn Or “very zealous.” The infinitive absolute preceding the finite verb emphasizes the degree of his zeal and allegiance.

³⁸tn Traditionally, “the God of hosts.”

³⁹tn Heb “abandoned your covenant.”

⁴⁰tn Heb “and they are seeking my life to take it.”

⁴⁰tn Or “very zealous.” The infinitive absolute preceding the finite verb emphasizes the degree of his zeal and allegiance.

⁴¹tn Traditionally, “the God of hosts.”

⁴²tn Heb “abandoned your covenant.”

⁴³tn Heb “and they are seeking my life to take it.”

⁴³tn Heb “all that is desirable to your eyes they will put in their hand and take.”