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 7:31

7:31 Inside the stand was a round opening that was a foot-and-a-half deep; it had a support that was two and one-quarter feet long.⁶ On the edge of the opening were carvings in square frames.⁷

1 Kings 13:18

13:18 The old prophet then said,⁸ “I too am a prophet like you. An angel told me with the Lord’s authority,⁹ ‘Bring him back with you to your house so he can eat and drink.’”¹⁰ But he was lying to him.¹¹

1 Kings 16:7

16:7 The prophet Jehu son of Hanani received from the Lord the message predicting the downfall of Baasha and his family because of all the evil Baasha had done in the sight of the Lord.¹² His actions angered the Lord (including the way he had destroyed Jeroboam’s dynasty), so that his family ended up like Jeroboam’s.¹³

1 Kings 16:16

16:16 While deployed there, the army received this report:¹⁴ “Zimri has conspired against the king and assassinated him.”¹⁵ So all Israel made Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel that very day in the camp.

1 Kings 22:22

22:22 He replied, ‘I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouths of all his prophets.’ The Lord¹⁶ said, ‘Deceive and overpower him.¹⁷ Go out and do as you have proposed.’

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 “And its opening from the inside to the top and upwards [was] a cubit, and its opening was round, the work of a stand, a cubit-and-a-half.” The precise meaning of this description is uncertain.

⁷tn Heb “also over its opening were carvings and their frames [were] squared, not round.”

¹¹tn Heb “and he said to him.”

¹²tn Heb “by the word of the Lord.”

¹³tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”

¹⁴tn Or “deceiving him.”

¹⁶tn Heb “and also through Jehu son of Hanani the word of the Lord came concerning [or “against”] Baasha and his house, and because of all the evil which he did in the eyes of the Lord.”

¹⁷tn Heb “angering him by the work of his hands, so that he was like the house of Jeroboam, and because of how he struck it down.”

²¹tn Heb “and the people who were encamped heard.”

²²tn Heb “has conspired against and also has struck down the king.”

²⁶tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²⁷tn The Hebrew text has two imperfects connected by וְגַם (vÿgam). These verbs could be translated as specific futures, “you will deceive and also you will prevail,” in which case the Lord is assuring the spirit of success on his mission. However, in a commissioning context (note the following imperatives) such as this, it is more likely that the imperfects are injunctive, in which case one could translate, “Deceive, and also overpower.”