1 Kings 4:20

Solomon’s Wealth and Fame

4:20 The people of Judah and Israel were as innumerable as the sand on the seashore; they had plenty to eat and drink and were happy.

1 Kings 1:40

1:40 All the people followed him up, playing flutes and celebrating so loudly they made the ground shake. ¹ 

1 Kings 1:45

1:45 Then Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anointed ²  him king in Gihon. They went up from there rejoicing, and the city is in an uproar. That is the sound you hear.

1 Kings 8:66

8:66 On the fifteenth day after the festival started, ³  he dismissed the people. They asked God to empower the king ⁴  and then went to their homes, happy and content ⁵  because of all the good the Lord had done for his servant David and his people Israel.

¹ tn Heb “and all the people went up after him, and the people were playing flutes and rejoicing with great joy and the ground split open at the sound of them.” The verb בָּקַע (baqa’, “to split open”), which elsewhere describes the effects of an earthquake, is obviously here an exaggeration for the sake of emphasis.

¹ tn I.e., designated by anointing with oil.

¹ tn Heb “on the eighth day” (that is, the day after the second seven-day sequence).

² tn Heb “they blessed the king.”

³ tn Heb “good of heart.”