1 Kings 1:13

1:13 Visit ¹  King David and say to him, ‘My master, O king, did you not solemnly promise ²  your servant, “Surely your son Solomon will be king after me; he will sit on my throne”? So why has Adonijah become king?’

1 Kings 1:30

1:30 I will keep ³  today the oath I swore to you by the Lord God of Israel: ‘Surely Solomon your son will be king after me; he will sit in my place on my throne.’”

1 Kings 2:22

2:22 King Solomon answered his mother, “Why just request Abishag the Shunammite for him? ⁴  Since he is my older brother, you should also request the kingdom for him, for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab son of Zeruiah!”

1 Kings 4:24

4:24 His royal court was so large because ⁵  he ruled over all the kingdoms west of the Euphrates River from Tiphsah ⁶  to Gaza; he was at peace with all his neighbors. ⁷ 

1 Kings 5:5

5:5 So I have decided ⁸  to build a temple to honor the Lord ⁹  my God, as the Lord instructed my father David, ‘Your son, whom I will put on your throne in your place, is the one who will build a temple to honor me.’ ¹⁰ 

1 Kings 6:1

The Building of the Temple

6:1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites left Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, during the month Ziv ¹¹  (the second month), he began building the Lord’s temple.

1 Kings 7:14

7:14 He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, ¹²  and his father was a craftsman in bronze from Tyre. He had the skill and knowledge ¹³  to make all kinds of works of bronze. He reported to King Solomon and did all the work he was assigned.

1 Kings 8:1

Solomon Moves the Ark into the Temple

8:1 ¹⁴ Then Solomon convened in Jerusalem ¹⁵  Israel’s elders, all the leaders of the Israelite tribes and families, so they could witness the transferal of the ark of the Lord’s covenant from the city of David (that is, Zion). ¹⁶ 

1 Kings 8:65

8:65 At that time Solomon and all Israel with him celebrated a festival before the Lord our God for two entire weeks. This great assembly included people from all over the land, from Lebo Hamath in the north to the Brook of Egypt ¹⁷  in the south. ¹⁸ 

1 Kings 10:10

10:10 She gave the king 120 talents ¹⁹  of gold, a very large quantity of spices, and precious gems. The quantity of spices the queen of Sheba gave King Solomon has never been matched. ²⁰ 

1 Kings 10:13

10:13 King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba everything she requested, besides what he had freely offered her. ²¹  Then she left and returned ²²  to her homeland with her attendants.

1 Kings 13:26

13:26 When the old prophet who had invited him to his house heard the news, ²³  he said, “It is the prophet ²⁴  who rebelled against the Lord. ²⁵  The Lord delivered him over to the lion and it ripped him up ²⁶  and killed him, just as the Lord warned him.” ²⁷ 

1 Kings 14:2

14:2 Jeroboam told his wife, “Disguise ²⁸  yourself so that people cannot recognize you are Jeroboam’s wife. Then go to Shiloh; Ahijah the prophet, who told me I would rule over this nation, lives there. ²⁹ 

1 Kings 16:16

16:16 While deployed there, the army received this report: ³⁰  “Zimri has conspired against the king and assassinated him.” ³¹  So all Israel made Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel that very day in the camp.

1 Kings 18:24

18:24 Then you ³²  will invoke the name of your god, and I will invoke the name of the Lord. The god who responds with fire will demonstrate that he is the true God.” ³³  All the people responded, “This will be a fair test.” ³⁴ 

1 Kings 19:4

19:4 while he went a day’s journey into the desert. He went and sat down under a shrub ³⁵  and asked the Lord to take his life: ³⁶  “I’ve had enough! Now, O Lord, take my life. After all, I’m no better than my ancestors.” ³⁷ 

1 Kings 20:32

20:32 So they put sackcloth around their waists and ropes on their heads and went to the king of Israel. They said, “Your servant ³⁸  Ben Hadad says, ‘Please let me live!’” Ahab ³⁹  replied, “Is he still alive? He is my brother.” ⁴⁰ 

[1:13]  ¹ tn Heb “come, go to.” The imperative of הָלַךְ (halakh) is here used as an introductory interjection. See BDB 234 s.v. חָלַךְ.

[1:13]  ² tn Or “swear an oath to.”

[1:30]  ³ tn Or “carry out, perform.”

[2:22]  ⁵ tn Heb “for Adonijah.”

[4:24]  ⁷ tn Heb “because.” The words “his royal court was so large” are added to facilitate the logical connection with the preceding verse.

[4:24]  ⁸ sn Tiphsah. This was located on the Euphrates River.

[4:24]  ⁹ tn Heb “for he was ruling over all [the region] beyond the River, from Tiphsah to Gaza, over all the kingdoms beyond the River, and he had peace on every side all around.”

[5:5]  ⁹ tn Heb “Look, I am saying.”

[5:5]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “a house for the name of the Lord.” The word “name” sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor. The “name” of the Lord sometimes designates the Lord himself, being indistinguishable from the proper name.

[5:5]  ¹¹ tn Heb “a house for my name.” The word “name” sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor. The “name” of the Lord sometimes designates the Lord himself, being indistinguishable from the proper name.

[6:1]  ¹¹ sn During the month Ziv. This would be April-May, 966 b.c. by modern reckoning.

[7:14]  ¹³ tn 2 Chr 2:14 (13 HT) says “from the daughters of Dan.”

[7:14]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “he was filled with the skill, understanding, and knowledge.”

[8:1]  ¹⁵ tc The Old Greek translation includes the following words at the beginning of ch. 8: “It so happened that when Solomon finished building the Lord’s temple and his own house, after twenty years.”

[8:1]  ¹⁶ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[8:1]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “Then Solomon convened the elders of Israel, the heads of the tribes, the chiefs of the fathers belonging to the sons of Israel to King Solomon [in] Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the city of David (it is Zion).”

[8:65]  ¹⁷ tn Or “the Wadi of Egypt” (NAB, NIV, NRSV); CEV “the Egyptian Gorge.”

[8:65]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “Solomon held at that time the festival, and all Israel was with him, a great assembly from Lebo Hamath to the Brook of Egypt, before the Lord our God for seven days and seven days, fourteen days.”

[10:10]  ¹⁹ 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 9,000 pounds of gold (cf. NCV, NLT); CEV “five tons”; TEV “4,000 kilogrammes.”

[10:10]  ²⁰ tn Heb “there has not come like those spices yet for quantity which the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.”

[10:13]  ²¹ tn Heb “besides what he had given her according to the hand of King Solomon.”

[10:13]  ²² tn Heb “turned and went.”

[13:26]  ²³ tn Heb “and the prophet who had brought him back from the road heard.”

[13:26]  ²⁴ tn Heb “the man of God.”

[13:26]  ²⁵ tn Heb “the mouth of the Lord.”

[13:26]  ²⁶ tn Heb “broke him,” or “crushed him.”

[13:26]  ²⁷ tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord which he spoke to him.”

[14:2]  ²⁵ tn Heb “Get up, change yourself.”

[14:2]  ²⁶ tn Heb “look, Ahijah the prophet is there, he told me [I would be] king over this nation.”

[16:16]  ²⁷ tn Heb “and the people who were encamped heard.”

[16:16]  ²⁸ tn Heb “has conspired against and also has struck down the king.”

[18:24]  ²⁹ tn Elijah now directly addresses the prophets.

[18:24]  ³⁰ tn Heb “the God.”

[18:24]  ³¹ tn Heb “The matter [i.e., proposal] is good [i.e., acceptable].”

[19:4]  ³¹ tn Or “broom tree” (also in v. 5).

[19:4]  ³² tn Heb “and asked with respect to his life to die.”

[19:4]  ³³ tn Heb “fathers.”

[20:32]  ³³ sn Your servant. By referring to Ben Hadad as Ahab’s servant, they are suggesting that Ahab make him a subject in a vassal treaty arrangement.

[20:32]  ³⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ahab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:32]  ³⁵ sn He is my brother. Ahab’s response indicates that he wants to make a parity treaty and treat Ben Hadad as an equal partner.