1 Kings 16:23

16:23 In the thirty-first year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Omri became king over Israel. He ruled for twelve years, six of them in Tirzah.

1 Kings 22:42

22:42 Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he became king and he reigned for twenty-five years in Jerusalem. ¹  His mother was Azubah, the daughter of Shilhi.

1 Kings 7:1

The Building of the Royal Palace

7:1 Solomon took thirteen years to build his palace. ² 

1 Kings 11:42

11:42 Solomon ruled over all Israel from Jerusalem ³  for forty years.

1 Kings 15:10

15:10 He ruled for forty-one years in Jerusalem. ⁴  His grandmother ⁵  was Maacah daughter of Abishalom.

1 Kings 6:1

The Building of the Temple

6:1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites left Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, during the month Ziv ⁶  (the second month), he began building the Lord’s temple.

1 Kings 16:29

Ahab Promotes Idolatry

16:29 In the thirty-eighth year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Omri’s son Ahab became king over Israel. Ahab son of Omri ruled over Israel for twenty-two years in Samaria. ⁷ 

1 Kings 2:11

2:11 David reigned over Israel forty years; he reigned in Hebron seven years, and in Jerusalem ⁸  thirty-three years.

1 Kings 9:10

Foreign Affairs and Building Projects

9:10 After twenty years, during which Solomon built the Lord’s temple and the royal palace, ⁹ 

1 Kings 10:25

10:25 Year after year visitors brought their gifts, which included items of silver, items of gold, clothes, perfume, spices, horses, and mules. ¹⁰ 

1 Kings 14:20

14:20 Jeroboam ruled for twenty-two years; then he passed away. ¹¹  His son Nadab replaced him as king.

1 Kings 15:33

Baasha’s Reign over Israel

15:33 In the third year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Baasha son of Ahijah became king over all Israel in Tirzah; he ruled for twenty-four years.

1 Kings 16:8

Elah’s Reign over Israel

16:8 In the twenty-sixth year of King Asa’s reign over Judah, Baasha’s son Elah became king over Israel; he ruled in Tirzah for two years.

1 Kings 16:15

Zimri’s Reign over Israel

16:15 In the twenty-seventh year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Zimri became king over Israel; he ruled for seven days in Tirzah. Zimri’s revolt took place while the army was deployed ¹²  in Gibbethon, which was in Philistine territory.

1 Kings 14:21

Rehoboam’s Reign over Judah

14:21 Now Rehoboam son of Solomon ruled in Judah. He ¹³  was forty-one years old when he became king and he ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem, ¹⁴  the city the Lord chose from all the tribes of Israel to be his home. ¹⁵  His mother was an Ammonite woman ¹⁶  named Naamah.

1 Kings 5:11

5:11 and Solomon supplied Hiram annually with 20,000 cors ¹⁷  of wheat as provision for his royal court, ¹⁸  as well as 20,000 baths ¹⁹  of pure ²⁰  olive oil. ²¹ 

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¹ tn Heb “His house Solomon built in thirteen years and he completed all his house.”

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² tn Heb “mother,” but Hebrew often uses the terms “father” and “mother” for grandparents and more remote ancestors.

¹ sn During the month Ziv. This would be April-May, 966 b.c. by modern reckoning.

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¹ tn Heb “the two houses, the house of the Lord and the house of the king.”

¹ tn Heb “and they were bringing each one his gift, items of silver…and mules, the matter of a year in a year.”

¹ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

¹ tn Heb “Now the people were encamped.

¹ tn Heb “Rehoboam.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

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³ tn Heb “the city where the Lord chose to place his name from all the tribes of Israel.”

⁴ tn Heb “an Ammonite”; the word “woman” is implied.

¹ sn As a unit of dry measure a cor was roughly equivalent to six bushels.

² tn Heb “his house.”

³ tc The Hebrew text has “twenty cors,” but the ancient Greek version and the parallel text in 2 Chr 2:10 read “twenty thousand baths.”

⁴ tn Or “pressed.”

⁵ tn Heb “and Solomon supplied Hiram with twenty thousand cors of wheat…pure olive oil. So Solomon would give to Hiram year by year.”