1 Kings 11:37

11:37 I will select¹ you; you will rule over all you desire to have and you will be king over Israel.

1 Kings 18:20

18:20 Ahab sent messengers to all the Israelites and had the prophets assemble at Mount Carmel.

1 Kings 4:24

4:24 His royal court was so large because² he ruled over all the kingdoms west of the Euphrates River from Tiphsah³ to Gaza; he was at peace with all his neighbors.⁴

1 Kings 1:3

1:3 So they looked through all Israel⁵ for a beautiful young woman and found Abishag, a Shunammite, and brought her to the king.

1 Kings 4:31

4:31 He was wiser than any man, including Ethan the Ezrahite or Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol. He was famous in all the neighboring nations.⁶

1 Kings 8:52

8:52 “May you be attentive⁷ to your servant’s and your people Israel’s requests for help and may you respond to all their prayers to you.⁸

1 Kings 8:58

8:58 May he make us submissive,⁹ so we can follow all his instructions¹⁰ and obey¹¹ the commandments, rules, and regulations he commanded our ancestors.

1 Kings 15:3

15:3 He followed all the sinful practices of his father before him. He was not wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God, as his ancestor David had been.¹²

1 Kings 16:26

16:26 He followed in the footsteps of Jeroboam son of Nebat and encouraged Israel to sin;¹³ they angered the Lord God of Israel with their worthless idols.¹⁴

1 Kings 2:4

2:4 and the Lord will fulfill his promise to me,¹⁵ ‘If your descendants watch their step¹⁶ and live faithfully in my presence¹⁷ with all their heart and being,¹⁸ then,’ he promised,¹⁹ ‘you will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’²⁰

1 Kings 4:21

4:21 (5:1)²¹ Solomon ruled all the kingdoms from the Euphrates River²² to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. These kingdoms paid tribute as Solomon’s subjects throughout his lifetime.²³

1 Kings 8:23

8:23 He prayed:²⁴ “O Lord, God of Israel, there is no god like you in heaven above or on earth below! You maintain covenantal loyalty²⁵ to your servants who obey you with sincerity.²⁶

1 Kings 8:48

8:48 When they return to you with all their heart and being²⁷ in the land where they are held prisoner,²⁸ and direct their prayers to you toward the land you gave to their ancestors, your chosen city, and the temple I built for your honor,²⁹

1 Kings 9:7

9:7 then I will remove Israel from the land³⁰ I have given them, I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence,³¹ and Israel will be mocked and ridiculed³² among all the nations.

1 Kings 14:8

14:8 I tore the kingdom away from the Davidic dynasty and gave it to you. But you are not like my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me wholeheartedly by doing only what I approve.³³

1 Kings 22:43

22:43 He followed in his father Asa’s footsteps and was careful to do what the Lord approved.³⁴ (22:44)³⁵ However, the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.

1 Kings 2:26

2:26 The king then told Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your property³⁶ in Anathoth. You deserve to die,³⁷ but today I will not kill you because you did carry the ark of the sovereign Lord before my father David and you suffered with my father through all his difficult times.”³⁸

¹tn Heb “take.”

²tn Heb “because.” The words “his royal court was so large” are added to facilitate the logical connection with the preceding verse.

³sn Tiphsah. This was located on the Euphrates River.

⁴tn Heb “for he was ruling over all [the region] beyond the River, from Tiphsah to Gaza, over all the kingdoms beyond the River, and he had peace on every side all around.”

³tn Heb “through all the territory of Israel.”

⁴tn Heb “his name was in all the surrounding nations.”

⁵tn Heb “May your eyes be open.”

⁶tn Heb “to listen to them in all their calling out to you.”

⁶tn Heb “to bend our hearts toward him.” The infinitive is subordinate to the initial prayer, “may the Lord our God be with us.” The Hebrew term לֵבָב (levav, “heart”) here refers to the people’s volition and will.

⁷tn Heb “to walk in all his ways.”

⁸tn Heb “keep.”

⁷tn Heb “his heart was not complete with the Lord his God, like the heart of David his father.”

⁸tn Heb “walked in all the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat and in his sin which he made Israel sin.”

⁹tn Heb “angering the Lord God of Israel with their empty things.”

⁹tn Heb “then the Lord will establish his word which he spoke to me, saying.”

¹⁰tn Heb “guard their way.”

¹¹tn Heb “by walking before me in faithfulness.”

¹²tn Or “soul.”

¹³tn Heb “saying.”

¹⁴tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel.”

¹⁰sn Beginning with 4:21, the verse numbers through 5:18 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 4:21 ET = 5:1 HT, 4:22 ET = 5:2 HT, etc., through 5:18 ET = 5:32 HT. Beginning with 6:1 the numbering of verses in the English Bible and the Hebrew text is again the same.

¹¹tn Heb “the River” (also in v. 24). This is the standard designation for the Euphrates River in biblical Hebrew.

¹²tn Heb “[They] were bringing tribute and were serving Solomon all the days of his life.”

¹¹tn Heb “said.”

¹²tn Heb “one who keeps the covenant and the loyal love.” The expression is a hendiadys.

¹³tn Heb “who walk before you with all their heart.”

¹²tn Or “soul.”

¹³tn Heb “in the land of their enemies.”

¹⁴tn Heb “your name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in v. 41.

¹³tn Heb “I will cut off Israel from upon the surface of the land.”

¹⁴tn Heb “and the temple which I consecrated for my name I will send away from before my face.”

¹⁵tn Heb “will become a proverb and a taunt,” that is, a proverbial example of destruction and an object of reproach.

¹⁴tn Heb “what was right in my eyes.”

¹⁵tn Heb “he walked in all the way of Asa his father and did not turn from it, doing what is right in the eyes of the Lord.”

¹⁶sn Beginning with 22:43b, the verse numbers through 22:53 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), because 22:43b in the English Bible = 22:44 in the Hebrew text. The remaining verses in the chapter differ by one, with 22:44-53 ET = 22:45-54 HT.

¹⁶tn Or “field.”

¹⁷tn Heb “you are a man of death.”

¹⁸tn Heb “and because you suffered through all which my father suffered.”