1 Kings 1:11

1:11 Nathan said to Bathsheba, Solomon’s mother, “Has it been reported to you ¹  that Haggith’s son Adonijah has become king behind our master David’s back? ² 

1 Kings 3:22

3:22 The other woman said, “No! My son is alive; your son is dead!” But the first woman replied, “No, your son is dead; my son is alive.” Each presented her case before the king. ³ 

1 Kings 8:5

8:5 Now King Solomon and all the Israelites who had assembled with him went on ahead of the ark and sacrificed more sheep and cattle than could be counted or numbered. ⁴ 

1 Kings 10:7

10:7 I did not believe these things until I came and saw them with my own eyes. Indeed, I didn’t hear even half the story! ⁵  Your wisdom and wealth ⁶  surpass what was reported to me.

1 Kings 10:12

10:12 With the timber the king made supports ⁷  for the Lord’s temple and for the royal palace and stringed instruments ⁸  for the musicians. No one has seen so much of this fine timber to this very day. ⁹ )

1 Kings 11:2

11:2 They came from nations about which the Lord had warned the Israelites, “You must not establish friendly relations with them! ¹⁰  If you do, they will surely shift your allegiance to their gods.” ¹¹  But Solomon was irresistibly attracted to them. ¹² 

1 Kings 12:24

12:24 ‘The Lord says this: “Do not attack and make war with your brothers, the Israelites. Each of you go home, for I have caused this to happen.”’” ¹³  They obeyed the Lord and went home as the Lord had ordered them to do. ¹⁴ 

1 Kings 13:28

13:28 He went and found the corpse lying in the road with the donkey and the lion standing beside it; ¹⁵  the lion had neither eaten the corpse nor attacked the donkey.

1 Kings 17:14

17:14 For this is what the Lord God of Israel says, ‘The jar of flour will not be empty and the jug of oil will not run out until the day the Lord makes it rain on the surface of the ground.’”

1 Kings 18:10

18:10 As certainly as the Lord your God lives, my master has sent to every nation and kingdom in an effort to find you. When they say, ‘He’s not here,’ he makes them ¹⁶  swear an oath that they could not find you.

1 Kings 18:12

18:12 But when I leave you, the Lord’s spirit will carry you away so I can’t find you. ¹⁷  If I go tell Ahab I’ve seen you, he won’t be able to find you and he will kill me. ¹⁸  That would not be fair, ¹⁹  because your servant has been a loyal follower of ²⁰  the Lord from my youth.

1 Kings 18:23

18:23 Let them bring us two bulls. Let them choose one of the bulls for themselves, cut it up into pieces, and place it on the wood. But they must not set it on fire. I will do the same to the other bull and place it on the wood. But I will not set it on fire.

1 Kings 19:11

19:11 The Lord ²¹  said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord. Look, the Lord is ready to pass by.”

A very powerful wind went before the Lord, digging into the mountain and causing landslides, ²²  but the Lord was not in the wind. After the windstorm there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake.

1 Kings 21:4

21:4 So Ahab went into his palace, bitter and angry that Naboth the Jezreelite had said, ²³  “I will not sell to you my ancestral inheritance.” ²⁴  He lay down on his bed, pouted, ²⁵  and would not eat.

1 Kings 22:43

22:43 He followed in his father Asa’s footsteps and was careful to do what the Lord approved. ²⁶  (22:44) ²⁷  However, the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.

[1:11]  ¹ tn Heb “Have you not heard?”

[1:11]  ² tn Heb “and our master David does not know.”

[3:22]  ³ tn Heb “they spoke before the king.” Another option is to translate, “they argued before the king.”

[8:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “And King Solomon and all the assembly of Israel, those who had been gathered to him, [were] before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle which could not be counted or numbered because of the abundance.”

[10:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “the half was not told to me.”

[10:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “good.”

[10:12]  ⁹ tn This Hebrew architectural term occurs only here. The meaning is uncertain; some have suggested “banisters” or “parapets”; cf. TEV, NLT “railings.” The parallel passage in 2 Chr 9:11 has a different word, meaning “tracks,” or perhaps “steps.”

[10:12]  ¹⁰ tn Two types of stringed instruments are specifically mentioned, the כִּנּוֹר (kinnor, “zither” [?]), and נֶבֶל (nevel, “harp”).

[10:12]  ¹¹ tn Heb “there has not come thus, the fine timber, and there has not been seen to this day.”

[11:2]  ¹¹ tn Heb “you must not go into them, and they must not go into you.”

[11:2]  ¹² tn Heb “Surely they will bend your heart after their gods.” The words “if you do” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[11:2]  ¹³ tn Heb “Solomon clung to them for love.” The pronominal suffix, translated “them,” is masculine here, even though it appears the foreign women are in view. Perhaps this is due to attraction to the masculine forms used of the nations earlier in the verse.

[12:24]  ¹³ tn Heb “for this thing is from me.”

[12:24]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and they heard the word of the Lord and returned to go according to the word of the Lord.”

[13:28]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “the corpse.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“it”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[18:10]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “he makes the kingdom or the nation swear an oath.”

[18:12]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “to [a place] which I do not know.”

[18:12]  ²⁰ tn Heb “and I will go to inform Ahab and he will not find you and he will kill me.”

[18:12]  ²¹ tn The words “that would not be fair” are added to clarify the logic of Obadiah’s argument.

[18:12]  ²² tn Heb “has feared the Lord” (also see the note at 1 Kgs 18:3).

[19:11]  ²¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[19:11]  ²² tn Heb “tearing away the mountains and breaking the cliffs” (or perhaps, “breaking the stones”).

[21:4]  ²³ tn Heb “on account of the word that Naboth the Jezreelite spoke to him.”

[21:4]  ²⁴ tn Heb “I will not give to you the inheritance of my fathers.”

[21:4]  ²⁵ tn Heb “turned away his face.”

[22:43]  ²⁵ tn Heb “he walked in all the way of Asa his father and did not turn from it, doing what is right in the eyes of the Lord.”

[22:43]  ²⁶ sn Beginning with 22:43b, the verse numbers through 22:53 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), because 22:43b in the English Bible = 22:44 in the Hebrew text. The remaining verses in the chapter differ by one, with 22:44-53 ET = 22:45-54 HT.