1 Kings 1:40

1:40 All the people followed him up, playing flutes and celebrating so loudly they made the ground shake. ¹ 

1 Kings 3:3

3:3 Solomon demonstrated his loyalty to the Lord by following ²  the practices ³  of his father David, except that he offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places.

1 Kings 7:40

7:40 Hiram also made basins, shovels, and bowls. He ⁴  finished all the work on the Lord’s temple he had been assigned by King Solomon. ⁵ 

1 Kings 17:20

17:20 Then he called out to the Lord, “O Lord, my God, are you also bringing disaster on this widow I am staying with by killing her son?”

¹ tn Heb “and all the people went up after him, and the people were playing flutes and rejoicing with great joy and the ground split open at the sound of them.” The verb בָּקַע (baqa’, “to split open”), which elsewhere describes the effects of an earthquake, is obviously here an exaggeration for the sake of emphasis.

² tn Heb “Solomon loved the Lord by walking in.”

³ tn Or “policies, rules.”

³ tn Heb “Hiram.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁴ tn Heb “Hiram finished doing all the work which he did for King Solomon [on] the house of the Lord.”