1 Kings 8:44-45

8:44 “When you direct your people to march out and fight their enemies, 1  and they direct their prayers to the Lord 2  toward his chosen city and this temple I built for your honor, 3  8:45 then listen from heaven to their prayers for help 4  and vindicate them. 5 

1 Kings 8:2

8:2 All the men of Israel assembled before King Solomon during the festival 6  in the month Ethanim 7  (the seventh month).

1 Kings 13:14-15

13:14 and took off after the prophet, 8  whom he found sitting under an oak tree. He asked him, “Are you the prophet 9  from Judah?” He answered, “Yes, I am.” 13:15 He then said to him, “Come home with me and eat something.”

1 Kings 14:11-13

14:11 Dogs will eat the members of your family 10  who die in the city, and the birds of the sky will eat the ones who die in the country.”’ Indeed, the Lord has announced it!

14:12 “As for you, get up and go home. When you set foot in the city, the boy will die. 14:13 All Israel will mourn him and bury him. He is the only one in Jeroboam’s family 11  who will receive a decent burial, for he is the only one in whom the Lord God of Israel found anything good.

1 Kings 18:31

18:31 Then Elijah took twelve stones, corresponding to the number of tribes that descended from Jacob, to whom the Lord had said, “Israel will be your new 12  name.” 13 

1 Kings 20:12

20:12 When Ben Hadad received this reply, 14  he and the other kings were drinking in their quarters. 15  He ordered his servants, “Get ready to attack!” So they got ready to attack the city.

1 Kings 1:20-21

1:20 Now, 16  my master, O king, all Israel is watching anxiously to see who is named to succeed my master the king on the throne. 17  1:21 If a decision is not made, 18  when my master the king is buried with his ancestors, 19  my son Solomon and I 20  will be considered state criminals.” 21 

1 tn Heb “When your people go out for battle against their enemies in the way which you send them.”

2 tn Or perhaps “to you, O Lord.” See 2 Chr 6:34.

3 tn Heb “your name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in v. 41.

4 tn Heb “their prayer and their request for help.”

5 tn Heb “and accomplish their justice.”

7 sn The festival. This was the Feast of Tabernacles, see Lev 23:34.

8 sn The month Ethanim. This would be September-October in modern reckoning.

10 tn Heb “the man of God.”

11 tn Heb “the man of God.”

13 tn The Hebrew text has “belonging to Jeroboam” here.

16 tn Heb “house.”

19 tn The word “new” is implied but not actually present in the Hebrew text.

20 sn Israel will be your new name. See Gen 32:28; 35:10.

22 tn Heb “When he heard this word.”

23 tn Heb “in the temporary shelters.” This is probably referring to tents.

25 tc Many Hebrew mss have עַתָּה (’attah, “now”) rather than the similar sounding independent pronoun אַתָּה (’attah, “you”).

26 tn Heb “the eyes of all Israel are upon you to declare to them who will sit on the throne of my master the king after him.”

28 tn The words “if a decision is not made” are added for clarification.

29 tn Heb “lies down with his fathers.”

30 tn Heb “I and my son Solomon.” The order has been reversed in the translation for stylistic reasons.

31 tn Heb “will be guilty”; NASB “considered offenders”; TEV “treated as traitors.”