1 Kings 1:47

1:47 The king’s servants have even come to congratulate¹ our master² King David, saying, ‘May your God³ make Solomon more famous than you and make him an even greater king than you!’⁴ Then the king leaned⁵ on the bed

1 Kings 2:22

2:22 King Solomon answered his mother, “Why just request Abishag the Shunammite for him?⁶ Since he is my older brother, you should also request the kingdom for him, for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab son of Zeruiah!”

1 Kings 3:1

The Lord Gives Solomon Wisdom

3:1 Solomon made an alliance by marriage with Pharaoh, king of Egypt; he married Pharaoh’s daughter. He brought her to the City of David⁷ until he could finish building his residence and the temple of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem.⁸

1 Kings 3:26

3:26 The real mother⁹ spoke up to the king, for her motherly instincts were aroused.¹⁰ She said, “My master, give her the living child! Whatever you do, don’t kill him!”¹¹ But the other woman said, “Neither one of us will have him! Let them cut him in two!”

1 Kings 8:25

8:25 Now, O Lord, God of Israel, keep the promise you made to your servant, my father David, when you said, ‘You will never fail to have a successor ruling before me on the throne of Israel,¹² provided that your descendants watch their step and serve me as you have done.’¹³

1 Kings 16:34

16:34 During Ahab’s reign,¹⁴ Hiel the Bethelite rebuilt Jericho.¹⁵ Abiram, his firstborn son, died when he laid the foundation;¹⁶ Segub, his youngest son, died when he erected its gates,¹⁷ just as the Lord had warned¹⁸ through Joshua son of Nun.¹⁹

1 Kings 18:12

18:12 But when I leave you, the Lord’s spirit will carry you away so I can’t find you.²⁰ If I go tell Ahab I’ve seen you, he won’t be able to find you and he will kill me.²¹ That would not be fair,²² because your servant has been a loyal follower of²³ the Lord from my youth.

1 Kings 18:26-27

18:26 So they took a bull, as he had suggested,²⁴ and prepared it. They invoked the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, “Baal, answer us.” But there was no sound and no answer. They jumped²⁵ around on the altar they had made.²⁶ 18:27 At noon Elijah mocked them, “Yell louder! After all, he is a god; he may be deep in thought, or perhaps he stepped out for a moment or has taken a trip. Perhaps he is sleeping and needs to be awakened.”²⁷

1 Kings 19:21

19:21 Elisha²⁸ went back and took his pair of oxen and slaughtered them. He cooked the meat over a fire that he made by burning the harness and yoke.²⁹ He gave the people meat and they ate. Then he got up and followed Elijah and became his assistant.

¹tn Heb “to bless.”

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

³tc Many Hebrew mss agree with the Qere in reading simply “God.”

⁴tn 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.

⁵tn Or “bowed down; worshiped.”

⁶tn Heb “for Adonijah.”

¹¹sn The phrase City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

¹²map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

¹⁶tn Heb “the woman whose son was alive.”

¹⁷tn Heb “for her compassions grew warm for her son.”

¹⁸tn The infinitive absolute before the negated jussive emphasizes the main verb.

²¹tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from before me sitting on the throne of Israel.”

²²tn Heb “guard their way by walking before me as you have walked before me.”

²⁶tn Heb “in his days.”

²⁷map For location see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.

²⁸tn Heb “with Abiram, his firstborn, he founded it.”

²⁹tn Heb “with Segub, his youngest, he set up its gates.”

³⁰tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord which he spoke.”

³¹sn Warned through Joshua son of Nun. For the background to this statement, see Josh 6:26, where Joshua pronounces a curse on the one who dares to rebuild Jericho. Here that curse is viewed as a prophecy spoken by God through Joshua.

³¹tn Heb “to [a place] which I do not know.”

³²tn Heb “and I will go to inform Ahab and he will not find you and he will kill me.”

³³tn The words “that would not be fair” are added to clarify the logic of Obadiah’s argument.

³⁴tn Heb “has feared the Lord” (also see the note at 1 Kgs 18:3).

³⁶tn Heb “and they took the bull which he allowed them.”

³⁷tn Heb “limped” (the same verb is used in v. 21).

³⁸tc The MT has “which he made,” but some medieval Hebrew mss and the ancient versions have the plural form of the verb.

⁴¹sn Elijah’s sarcastic proposals would have been especially offensive and irritating to Baal’s prophets, for they believed Baal was imprisoned in the underworld as death’s captive during this time of drought. Elijah’s apparent ignorance of their theology is probably designed for dramatic effect; indeed the suggestion that Baal is away on a trip or deep in sleep comes precariously close to the truth as viewed by the prophets.

⁴⁶tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴⁷tn Heb “and with the equipment of the oxen he cooked them, the flesh.”