1 Kings 1:5

1:5 Now Adonijah, son of David and Haggith,¹ was promoting himself,² boasting,³ “I will be king!” He managed to acquire⁴ chariots and horsemen, as well as fifty men to serve as his royal guard.⁵

1 Kings 6:21

6:21 Solomon plated the inside of the temple with gold.⁶ He hung golden chains in front of the inner sanctuary and plated the inner sanctuary⁷ with gold.

1 Kings 7:48

7:48 Solomon also made all these items for the Lord’s temple: the gold altar, the gold table on which was kept the Bread of the Presence,⁸

1 Kings 11:6

11:6 Solomon did evil in the Lord’s sight;⁹ he did not remain loyal to¹⁰ the Lord, like his father David had.

1 Kings 11:22

11:22 Pharaoh said to him, “What do you lack here that makes you want to go to your homeland?”¹¹ Hadad replied,¹² “Nothing, but please give me permission to leave.”¹³

1 Kings 13:34

13:34 This sin caused Jeroboam’s dynasty¹⁴ to come to an end and to be destroyed from the face of the earth.

1 Kings 14:17

14:17 So Jeroboam’s wife got up and went back to¹⁵ Tirzah. As she crossed the threshold of the house, the boy died.

1 Kings 16:3

16:3 So I am ready to burn up¹⁶ Baasha and his family, and make your family¹⁷ like the family of Jeroboam son of Nebat.

1 Kings 18:30

18:30 Elijah then told all the people, “Approach me.” So all the people approached him. He repaired the altar of the Lord that had been torn down.¹⁸

1 Kings 20:15

20:15 So Ahab¹⁹ assembled the 232 servants of the district governors. After that he assembled all the Israelite army, numbering 7,000.²⁰

1 Kings 22:12

22:12 All the prophets were prophesying the same, saying, “Attack Ramoth Gilead! You will succeed; the Lord will hand it over to the king.”

¹tn Heb “son of Haggith,” but since this formula usually designates the father (who in this case was David), the translation specifies that David was Adonijah’s father.

²tn Heb “lifting himself up.”

³tn Heb “saying.”

⁴tn Or “he acquired for himself.”

⁵tn Heb “to run ahead of him.”

⁶tn Heb “with plated gold” (or perhaps, “with pure gold”).

⁷tn Heb “it.”

¹¹tn Heb “the bread of the face [or presence].” Many recent English versions employ “the bread of the Presence,” although this does not convey much to the modern reader.

¹⁶tn Heb “in the eyes of the Lord.”

¹⁷tn The idiomatic statement reads in Hebrew, “he did not fill up after.”

²¹tn Heb “Indeed what do you lack with me, that now you are seeking to go to your land?”

²²tn Heb “and he said.”

²³sn So Hadad asked Pharaoh… This lengthy description of Hadad’s exile in Egypt explains why Hadad wanted to oppose Solomon and supports the author’s thesis that his hostility to Solomon found its ultimate source in divine providence. Though Hadad enjoyed a comfortable life in Egypt, when the Lord raised him up (apparently stirring up his desire for vengeance) he decided to leave the comforts of Egypt and return to Edom.

²⁶tn Heb “house.”

³¹tn Heb “went and entered.”

³⁶tn The traditional view understands the verb בָּעַר (ba’ar) to mean “burn.” However, an alternate view takes בָּעַר (ba’ar) as a homonym meaning “sweep away” (HALOT 146 s.v. II בער). In this case one might translate, “I am ready to sweep away Baasha and his family.” Either metaphor emphasizes the thorough and destructive nature of the coming judgment.

³⁷tc The Old Greek, Syriac Peshitta, and some mss of the Targum have here “his house.”

⁴¹sn Torn down. The condition of the altar symbolizes the spiritual state of the people.

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

⁴⁷tn Heb “after them he assembled all the people, all the sons of Israel, seven thousand.”