1 Kings 8:31

8:31 “When someone is accused of sinning against his neighbor and the latter pronounces a curse on the alleged offender before your altar in this temple, be willing to forgive the accused if the accusation is false. ¹ 

1 Kings 10:8

10:8 Your attendants, who stand before you at all times and hear your wise sayings, are truly happy! ² 

1 Kings 16:6

16:6 Baasha passed away ³  and was buried in Tirzah. His son Elah replaced him as king.

1 Kings 20:29

20:29 The armies were deployed opposite each other for seven days. On the seventh day the battle began, and the Israelites killed 100,000 Syrian foot soldiers in one day.

1 Kings 7:9

7:9 All of these were built with the best ⁴  stones, chiseled to the right size ⁵  and cut with a saw on all sides, ⁶  from the foundation to the edge of the roof ⁷  and from the outside to the great courtyard.

1 Kings 9:23

9:23 These men were also in charge of Solomon’s work projects; there were a total of 550 men who supervised the workers. ⁸ 

1 Kings 16:8

Elah’s Reign over Israel

16:8 In the twenty-sixth year of King Asa’s reign over Judah, Baasha’s son Elah became king over Israel; he ruled in Tirzah for two years.

1 Kings 16:14

16:14 The rest of the events of Elah’s reign, including all his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel. ⁹ 

1 Kings 22:23

22:23 So now, look, the Lord has placed a lying spirit in the mouths of all these prophets of yours; but the Lord has decreed disaster for you.”

1 Kings 8:59

8:59 May the Lord our God be constantly aware of these requests of mine I have presented to him, ¹⁰  so that he might vindicate ¹¹  his servant and his people Israel as the need arises.

1 Kings 16:13

16:13 This happened because of all the sins which Baasha and his son Elah committed and which they made Israel commit. They angered the Lord God of Israel with their worthless idols. ¹² 

¹ tn Heb “and forgive the man who sins against his neighbor when one takes up against him a curse to curse him and the curse comes before your altar in this house.” In the Hebrew text the words “and forgive” conclude v. 30, but the accusative sign at the beginning of v. 31 suggests the verb actually goes with what follows in v. 31. The parallel text in 2 Chr 6:22 begins with “and if,” rather than the accusative sign. In this case “forgive” must be taken with what precedes, and v. 31 must be taken as the protasis (“if” clause) of a conditional sentence, with v. 32 being the apodosis (“then” clause) that completes the sentence.

² tn Heb “How happy are your men! How happy are these servants of yours, who stand before you continually, who hear your wisdom!”

³ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

⁴ tn Or “valuable” (see 5:17).

⁵ tn Heb “according to the measurement of chiseled [stone].”

⁶ tn Heb “inside and out.”

⁷ tn The precise meaning of the Hebrew word טְפָחוֹת (tÿfakhot) is uncertain, but it is clear that the referent stands in opposition to the foundation.

⁵ tn Heb “these [were] the officials of the governors who were over the work belonging to Solomon, five hundred fifty, the ones ruling over the people, the ones doing the work.”

⁶ tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Elah, and all which he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?”

⁷ tn Heb “May these words of mine, which I have requested before the Lord, be near the Lord our God day and night.”

⁸ tn Heb “accomplish the justice of.”

⁸ tn Heb “angering the Lord God of Israel with their empty things.”