1 Kings 3:10

3:10 The Lord ¹  was pleased that Solomon made this request. ² 

1 Kings 8:51

8:51 After all, ³  they are your people and your special possession ⁴  whom you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron-smelting furnace. ⁵ 

1 Kings 8:60

8:60 Then ⁶  all the nations of the earth will recognize that the Lord is the only genuine God. ⁷ 

1 Kings 12:1

Rehoboam Loses His Kingdom

12:1 Rehoboam traveled to Shechem, for all Israel had gathered in ⁸  Shechem to make Rehoboam ⁹  king.

1 Kings 17:7

17:7 After a while, ¹⁰  the stream dried up because there had been no rain in the land.

1 Kings 18:9

18:9 Obadiah ¹¹  said, “What sin have I committed that you are ready to hand your servant over to Ahab for execution? ¹² 

1 Kings 18:15

18:15 But Elijah said, “As certainly as the Lord who rules over all ¹³  lives (whom I serve), ¹⁴  I will make an appearance before him today.”

1 Kings 18:41

18:41 Then Elijah told Ahab, “Go on up and eat and drink, for the sound of a heavy rainstorm can be heard.” ¹⁵ 

1 Kings 22:14

22:14 But Micaiah said, “As certainly as the Lord lives, I will say what the Lord tells me to say.”

1 Kings 22:33

22:33 When the chariot commanders realized he was not the king of Israel, they turned away from him.

¹ tn The Hebrew term translated “Lord” here and in v.15 is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).

² tn Heb “And the thing was good in the eyes of the Lord, for Solomon asked for this thing.”

³ tn Or “for.”

⁴ tn Heb “inheritance.”

⁵ tn The Hebrew term כּוּר (kur, “furnace,” cf. Akkadian ku„ru) is a metaphor for the intense heat of purification. A כּוּר was not a source of heat but a crucible (“iron-smelting furnace”) in which precious metals were melted down and their impurities burned away (see I. Cornelius, NIDOTTE 2:618-19). Thus Egypt served not as a place of punishment for the Israelites, but as a place of refinement to bring Israel to a place of submission to divine sovereignty.

⁵ tn Heb “so that.”

⁶ tn Heb “the Lord, he is the God, there is no other.”

⁷ tn Heb “come [to].”

⁸ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Rehoboam) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁹ tn Heb “And it came about at the end of days.”

¹¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Obadiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹² tn Heb “to kill me.”

¹³ tn Traditionally, “the Lord of Hosts.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “(before whom I stand).”

¹⁵ tn Heb “for [there is] the sound of the roar of the rain.”