1 Kings 6:12

6:12 “As for this temple you are building, if you follow ¹  my rules, observe ²  my regulations, and obey all my commandments, ³  I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David. ⁴ 

1 Kings 9:25

9:25 Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings ⁵  on the altar he had built for the Lord, burning incense along with them before the Lord. He made the temple his official worship place. ⁶ 

1 Kings 14:5

14:5 But the Lord had told Ahijah, “Look, Jeroboam’s wife is coming to find out from you what will happen to her son, for he is sick. Tell her so-and-so. ⁷  When she comes, she will be in a disguise.”

1 Kings 15:22-23

15:22 King Asa ordered all the men of Judah (no exemptions were granted) to carry away the stones and wood that Baasha had used to build Ramah. ⁸  King Asa used the materials to build up ⁹  Geba (in Benjamin) and Mizpah.

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. ¹⁰  Yet when he was very old he developed a foot disease. ¹¹ 

1 Kings 16:24

16:24 He purchased the hill of Samaria ¹²  from Shemer for two talents ¹³  of silver. He launched a construction project there ¹⁴  and named the city he built after Shemer, the former owner of the hill of Samaria.

1 Kings 16:34

16:34 During Ahab’s reign, ¹⁵  Hiel the Bethelite rebuilt Jericho. ¹⁶  Abiram, his firstborn son, died when he laid the foundation; ¹⁷  Segub, his youngest son, died when he erected its gates, ¹⁸  just as the Lord had warned ¹⁹  through Joshua son of Nun. ²⁰ 

¹ tn Heb “walk in.”

² tn Heb “do.”

³ tn Heb “and keep all my commandments by walking in them.”

⁴ tn Heb “I will establish my word with you which I spoke to David your father.”

⁵ tn Or “tokens of peace”; NIV, TEV “fellowship offerings.”

⁶ tn Heb “and he made complete the house.”

⁹ sn Tell her so-and-so. Certainly the Lord gave Ahijah a specific message to give to Jeroboam’s wife (see vv. 6-16), but the author of Kings here condenses the Lord’s message with the words “so-and-so.” For dramatic effect he prefers to have us hear the message from Ahijah’s lips as he speaks to the king’s wife.

¹³ tn Heb “and King Asa made a proclamation to all Judah, there was no one exempt, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its wood which Baasha had built.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “and King Asa built with them.”

¹⁷ 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?”

¹⁸ tn Heb “Yet in the time of his old age he became sick in his feet.”

²¹ map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.

²² tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 150 pounds of silver.

²³ tn Heb “he built up the hill.”

²⁵ tn Heb “in his days.”

²⁶ map For location see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.

²⁷ tn Heb “with Abiram, his firstborn, he founded it.”

²⁸ tn Heb “with Segub, his youngest, he set up its gates.”

²⁹ tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord which he spoke.”

³⁰ sn Warned through Joshua son of Nun. For the background to this statement, see Josh 6:26, where Joshua pronounces a curse on the one who dares to rebuild Jericho. Here that curse is viewed as a prophecy spoken by God through Joshua.