1 Kings 8:16

8:16 He told David, ¹  ‘Since the day I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from all the tribes of Israel to build a temple in which to live. ²  But I have chosen David to lead my people Israel.’

1 Kings 8:29

8:29 Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. ³  May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place. ⁴ 

1 Kings 11:4

11:4 When Solomon became old, his wives shifted his allegiance to ⁵  other gods; he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God, as his father David had been. ⁶ 

1 Kings 12:6-7

12:6 King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served ⁷  his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, ⁸  “How do you advise me to answer these people?” 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.” ⁹ 

1 Kings 12:20

12:20 When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they summoned him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. No one except the tribe of Judah remained loyal to the Davidic dynasty. ¹⁰ 

1 Kings 13:32

13:32 for the prophecy he announced with the Lord’s authority ¹¹  against the altar in Bethel ¹²  and against all the temples on the high places in the cities of the north ¹³  will certainly be fulfilled.”

1 Kings 16:7

16:7 The prophet Jehu son of Hanani received from the Lord the message predicting the downfall of Baasha and his family because of all the evil Baasha had done in the sight of the Lord. ¹⁴  His actions angered the Lord (including the way he had destroyed Jeroboam’s dynasty), so that his family ended up like Jeroboam’s. ¹⁵ 

1 Kings 17:17

17:17 After this ¹⁶  the son of the woman who owned the house got sick. His illness was so severe he could no longer breathe.

1 Kings 18:1

Elijah Meets the King’s Servant

18:1 Some time later, in the third year of the famine, the Lord told Elijah, ¹⁷  “Go, make an appearance before Ahab, so I may send rain on the surface of the ground.”

¹ tn Heb “saying.”

² tn Heb “to build a house for my name to be there.”

³ 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.’”

⁴ tn Heb “by listening to the prayer which your servant is praying concerning this place.”

⁵ tn Heb “bent his heart after.”

⁶ tn Heb “his heart was not complete with the Lord his God, like the heart of David his father.”

⁷ tn Heb “stood before.”

⁸ tn Heb “saying.”

⁹ 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.”

¹¹ tn Heb “there was no one [following] after the house of David except the tribe of Judah, it alone.”

¹³ tn Heb “for the word which he cried out by the word of the Lord”

¹⁴ map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.

¹⁵ 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.

¹⁵ tn Heb “and also through Jehu son of Hanani the word of the Lord came concerning [or “against”] Baasha and his house, and because of all the evil which he did in the eyes of the Lord.”

¹⁶ 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.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “after these things.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “the word of the Lord came to Elijah.”