1 Kings 14:13

14:13 All Israel will mourn him and bury him. He is the only one in Jeroboam’s family ¹  who will receive a decent burial, for he is the only one in whom the Lord God of Israel found anything good.

1 Kings 14:2

14:2 Jeroboam told his wife, “Disguise ²  yourself so that people cannot recognize you are Jeroboam’s wife. Then go to Shiloh; Ahijah the prophet, who told me I would rule over this nation, lives there. ³ 

1 Kings 9:28

9:28 They sailed ⁴  to Ophir, took from there four hundred twenty talents ⁵  of gold, and then brought them to King Solomon.

1 Kings 9:1

The Lord Gives Solomon a Promise and a Warning

9:1 After Solomon finished building the Lord’s temple, the royal palace, and all the other construction projects he had planned, ⁶ 

¹ tn Heb “house.”

² tn Heb “Get up, change yourself.”

³ tn Heb “look, Ahijah the prophet is there, he told me [I would be] king over this nation.”

⁴ tn Heb “went.”

⁵ tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 31,500 pounds of gold (cf. NCV); CEV, NLT “sixteen tons”; TEV “more than 14,000 kilogrammes.”

⁶ tn Heb “and all the desire of Solomon which he wanted to do.”