1 Kings 3:18

3:18 Then three days after I had my baby, this woman also had a baby. We were alone; there was no one else in the house except the two of us. ¹ 

1 Kings 8:29

8:29 Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. ²  May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place. ³ 

1 Kings 9:21

9:21 Their descendants remained in the land (the Israelites were unable to wipe them out completely). Solomon conscripted them for his work crews, and they continue in that role to this very day. ⁴ 

1 Kings 13:3

13:3 That day he also announced ⁵  a sign, “This is the sign the Lord has predetermined: ⁶  The altar will be split open and the ashes ⁷  on it will fall to the ground.” ⁸ 

1 Kings 13:11

13:11 Now there was an old prophet living in Bethel. ⁹  When his sons came home, they told their father ¹⁰  everything the prophet ¹¹  had done in Bethel that day and all the words he had spoken to the king. ¹² 

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 ¹³  in Gibbethon, which was in Philistine territory.

1 Kings 22:35

22:35 While the battle raged throughout the day, the king stood propped up in his chariot opposite the Syrians. He died in the evening; the blood from the wound ran down into the bottom of the chariot.

¹ sn There was no one else in the house except the two of us. In other words, there were no other witnesses to the births who could identify which child belonged to which mother.

² tn Heb “so your eyes might be open toward this house night and day, toward the place about which you said, ‘My name will be there.’”

³ tn Heb “by listening to the prayer which your servant is praying concerning this place.”

³ tn Heb “their sons who were left after them in the land, whom the sons of Israel were unable to wipe out, and Solomon raised them up for a crew of labor to this day.”

⁴ tn Heb “gave.”

⁵ tn Heb “spoken.”

⁶ tn Heb “the fat.” Reference is made to burnt wood mixed with fat. See HALOT 234 s.v. דשׁן.

⁷ tn Heb “will be poured out.”

⁵ map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.

⁶ tn Heb “and his son came and told him.” The MT has the singular here, but several other textual witnesses have the plural, which is more consistent with the second half of the verse and with vv. 12-13.

⁷ tn Heb “the man of God.”

⁸ tn Heb “all the actions which the man of God performed that day in Bethel, the words which he spoke to the king, and they told them to their father.”

⁶ tn Heb “Now the people were encamped.