1 Kings 5:1

Solomon Gathers Building Materials for the Temple

5:1 (5:15) ¹  King Hiram of Tyre ²  sent messengers ³  to Solomon when he heard that he had been anointed king in his father’s place. (Hiram had always been an ally of David.)

1 Kings 9:3

9:3 The Lord said to him, “I have answered ⁴  your prayer and your request for help that you made to me. I have consecrated this temple you built by making it my permanent home; ⁵  I will be constantly present there. ⁶ 

1 Kings 11:36

11:36 I will leave ⁷  his son one tribe so my servant David’s dynasty may continue to serve me ⁸  in Jerusalem, the city I have chosen as my home. ⁹ 

1 Kings 12:7

12:7 They said to him, “Today if you show a willingness to help these people and grant their request, they will be your servants from this time forward.” ¹⁰ 

1 Kings 15:7

15:7 The rest of the events of Abijah’s reign, including all his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah. ¹¹  Abijah and Jeroboam had been at war with each other.

1 Kings 15:23

15:23 The rest of the events of Asa’s reign, including all his successes and accomplishments, as well as a record of the cities he built, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah. ¹²  Yet when he was very old he developed a foot disease. ¹³ 

1 Kings 22:39

22:39 The rest of the events of Ahab’s reign, including a record of his accomplishments and how he built a luxurious palace and various cities, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel. ¹⁴ 

¹ 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.

² map For location see Map1-A2; Map2-G2; Map4-A1; JP3-F3; JP4-F3.

³ tn Heb “his servants.”

⁴ tn Heb “I have heard.”

⁵ tn Heb “by placing my name there perpetually” (or perhaps, “forever”).

⁶ tn Heb “and my eyes and my heart will be there all the days.”

⁷ tn Heb “give.”

⁸ tn Heb “so there might be a lamp for David my servant all the days before me in Jerusalem.” The metaphorical “lamp” symbolizes the Davidic dynasty. Because this imagery is unfamiliar to the modern reader, the translation “so my servant David’s dynasty may continue to serve me” has been used.

⁹ tn Heb “so there might be a lamp for David my servant all the days before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “If today you are a servant to these people and you serve them and answer them and speak to them good words, they will be your servants all the days.”

¹³ tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Abijah, and all which he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?”

¹⁶ tn Heb “As for the rest of all the events of Asa, and all his strength and all which he did and the cities which he built, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?”

¹⁷ tn Heb “Yet in the time of his old age he became sick in his feet.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “As for the rest of the acts of Ahab and all that he did, and the house of ivory which he built and all the cities which he built, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?”