5:1 (5:15) 7 King Hiram of Tyre 8 sent messengers 9 to Solomon when he heard that he had been anointed king in his father’s place. (Hiram had always been an ally of David.)
18:1 Some time later, in the third year of the famine, the Lord told Elijah, 23 “Go, make an appearance before Ahab, so I may send rain on the surface of the ground.”
1 sn Beginning with 4:21, the verse numbers through 5:18 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 4:21 ET = 5:1 HT, 4:22 ET = 5:2 HT, etc., through 5:18 ET = 5:32 HT. Beginning with 6:1 the numbering of verses in the English Bible and the Hebrew text is again the same.
2 tn Heb “the River” (also in v. 24). This is the standard designation for the Euphrates River in biblical Hebrew.
3 tn Heb “[They] were bringing tribute and were serving Solomon all the days of his life.”
4 tn Heb “because.” The words “his royal court was so large” are added to facilitate the logical connection with the preceding verse.
5 sn Tiphsah. This was located on the Euphrates River.
6 tn Heb “for he was ruling over all [the region] beyond the River, from Tiphsah to Gaza, over all the kingdoms beyond the River, and he had peace on every side all around.”
7 sn The verse numbers in the English Bible differ from those in the Hebrew text (BHS) here; 5:1-18 in the English Bible corresponds to 5:15-32 in the Hebrew text. See the note at 4:21.
8 map For location see Map1-A2; Map2-G2; Map4-A1; JP3-F3; JP4-F3.
9 tn Heb “his servants.”
10 tn Heb “and his house where he lived, the other court [i.e., as opposed to the great court], separated from the house belonging to the hall, was like this work [i.e., this style of architecture].”
11 tn Heb “and a house he was making for the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Solomon had taken, like this porch.”
13 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
14 tn Heb “with very great strength.” The Hebrew term חַיִל (khayil, “strength”) may refer here to the size of her retinue (cf. NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV) or to the great wealth she brought with her.
15 tn Or “balsam oil.”
16 tn Heb “bent his heart after.”
17 tn Heb “his heart was not complete with the
19 tn Heb “there was no one [following] after the house of David except the tribe of Judah, it alone.”
22 tn Heb “for the word which he cried out by the word of the
23 map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.
24 tn Heb “Samaria.” The name of Israel’s capital city here stands for the northern kingdom as a whole. Actually Samaria was not built and named until several years after this (see 1 Kgs 16:24), so it is likely that the author of Kings, writing at a later time, is here adapting the old prophet’s original statement.
25 tn Heb “and also through Jehu son of Hanani the word of the
26 tn Heb “angering him by the work of his hands, so that he was like the house of Jeroboam, and because of how he struck it down.”
28 tn Heb “the word of the