1 Kings 1:51

1:51 Solomon was told, “Look, Adonijah fears you; ¹  see, he has taken hold of the horns of the altar, saying, ‘May King Solomon solemnly promise ²  me today that he will not kill his servant with the sword.’”

1 Kings 2:8

2:8 “Note well, you still have to contend with Shimei son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahurim, ³  who tried to call down upon me a horrible judgment when I went to Mahanaim. ⁴  He came down and met me at the Jordan, and I solemnly promised ⁵  him by the Lord, ‘I will not strike you down ⁶  with the sword.’

1 Kings 2:29

2:29 When King Solomon heard ⁷  that Joab had run to the tent of the Lord and was right there beside the altar, he ordered Benaiah son of Jehoiada, ⁸  “Go, strike him down.”

1 Kings 3:15

3:15 Solomon then woke up and realized it was a dream. ⁹  He went to Jerusalem, stood before the ark of the Lord’s covenant, offered up burnt sacrifices, presented peace offerings, ¹⁰  and held a feast for all his servants.

1 Kings 10:7

10:7 I did not believe these things until I came and saw them with my own eyes. Indeed, I didn’t hear even half the story! ¹¹  Your wisdom and wealth ¹²  surpass what was reported to me.

1 Kings 13:25

13:25 Some men came by ¹³  and saw the corpse lying in the road with the lion standing beside it. ¹⁴  They went and reported what they had seen ¹⁵  in the city where the old prophet lived.

1 Kings 17:10

17:10 So he got up and went to Zarephath. When he went through the city gate, there was a widow gathering wood. He called out to her, “Please give me a cup ¹⁶  of water, so I can take a drink.”

1 Kings 19:11

19:11 The Lord ¹⁷  said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord. Look, the Lord is ready to pass by.”

A very powerful wind went before the Lord, digging into the mountain and causing landslides, ¹⁸  but the Lord was not in the wind. After the windstorm there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake.

1 Kings 20:13

The Lord Delivers Israel

20:13 Now a prophet visited King Ahab of Israel and said, “This is what the Lord says, ‘Do you see this huge army? ¹⁹  Look, I am going to hand it over to you this very day. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”

¹ tn Heb “King Solomon.” The name and title have been replaced by the pronoun (“you”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

² tn Or “swear an oath to.”

³ tn Heb “Look, with you is Shimei….”

⁴ tn Heb “and he cursed me with a horrible curse on the day I went to Mahanaim.”

⁵ tn Or “swore an oath to.”

⁶ tn Heb “kill you.”

⁵ tn Heb “and it was related to King Solomon.”

⁶ tn Heb “so Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, saying.”

⁷ tn Heb “and look, a dream.”

⁸ tn Or “tokens of peace”; NIV, TEV “fellowship offerings.”

⁹ tn Heb “the half was not told to me.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “good.”

¹¹ tn Heb “Look, men were passing by.”

¹² tn Heb “the corpse.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“it”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹³ tn The words “what they had seen” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

¹³ tn Heb “a little.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁶ tn Heb “tearing away the mountains and breaking the cliffs” (or perhaps, “breaking the stones”).

¹⁷ tn Heb “this great horde.”