1 Kings 2:9

2:9 But now ¹  don’t treat him as if he were innocent. You are a wise man and you know how to handle him; ²  make sure he has a bloody death.” ³ 

1 Kings 2:20

2:20 She said, “I would like to ask you for just one small favor. ⁴  Please don’t refuse me.” ⁵  He said, ⁶  “Go ahead and ask, my mother, for I would not refuse you.”

1 Kings 6:8

6:8 The entrance to the bottom ⁷  level of side rooms was on the south side of the temple; stairs went up ⁸  to the middle floor and then on up to the third ⁹  floor.

1 Kings 8:23

8:23 He prayed: ¹⁰  “O Lord, God of Israel, there is no god like you in heaven above or on earth below! You maintain covenantal loyalty ¹¹  to your servants who obey you with sincerity. ¹² 

1 Kings 8:36

8:36 then listen from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Certainly ¹³  you will then teach them the right way to live ¹⁴  and send rain on your land that you have given your people to possess. ¹⁵ 

1 Kings 9:4

9:4 You must serve me with integrity and sincerity, just as your father David did. Do everything I commanded and obey my rules and regulations. ¹⁶ 

1 Kings 9:25

9:25 Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings ¹⁷  on the altar he had built for the Lord, burning incense along with them before the Lord. He made the temple his official worship place. ¹⁸ 

1 Kings 12:18

12:18 King Rehoboam sent Adoniram, ¹⁹  the supervisor of the work crews, ²⁰  out after them, but all Israel stoned him to death. King Rehoboam managed to jump into his chariot and escape to Jerusalem. ²¹ 

1 Kings 18:40

18:40 Elijah told them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Don’t let even one of them escape!” So they seized them, and Elijah led them down to the Kishon Valley and executed ²²  them there.

1 Kings 21:15

21:15 When Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned to death, she ²³  said to Ahab, “Get up, take possession of the vineyard Naboth the Jezreelite refused to sell you for silver, for Naboth is no longer alive; he’s dead.”

¹ tc The Lucianic recension of the Old Greek and the Vulgate have here “you” rather than “now.” The two words are homonyms in Hebrew.

² tn Heb “what you should do to him.”

³ tn Heb “bring his grey hair down in blood [to] Sheol.”

⁴ tn Or “I’d like to make just one request of you.”

⁵ tn Heb “Do not turn back my face.”

⁶ tn Heb “and the king said to her.”

⁷ tc The Hebrew text has “middle,” but the remainder of the verse suggests this is an error.

⁸ tn Heb “by stairs they went up.” The word translated “stairs” occurs only here. Other options are “trapdoors” or “ladders.”

⁹ tc The translation reads with a few medieval Hebrew mss, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate הַשְּׁלִשִׁית (hashÿlishit, “the third”) rather than MT הַשְּׁלִשִׁים (hashÿlishim, “the thirty”).

¹⁰ tn Heb “said.”

¹¹ tn Heb “one who keeps the covenant and the loyal love.” The expression is a hendiadys.

¹² tn Heb “who walk before you with all their heart.”

¹³ tn The translation understands כִּי (ki) in an emphatic or asseverative sense.

¹⁴ tn Heb “the good way in which they should walk.”

¹⁵ tn Or “for an inheritance.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “As for you, if you walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, by doing all which I commanded you, [and] you keep my rules and my regulations.” Verse 4 is actually a lengthy protasis (“if” section) of a conditional sentence, the apodosis (“then” section) of which appears in v. 5.

¹⁹ tn Or “tokens of peace”; NIV, TEV “fellowship offerings.”

²⁰ tn Heb “and he made complete the house.”

²² tc The MT has “Adoram” here, but the Old Greek translation and Syriac Peshitta have “Adoniram.” Cf. 1 Kgs 4:6.

²³ sn The work crews. See the note on this expression in 4:6.

²⁴ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

²⁵ tn Or “slaughtered.”

²⁸ tn Heb “Jezebel”; the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“she”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.