1 Kings 1:17

1:17 She replied to him, “My master, you swore an oath to your servant by the Lord your God, ‘Solomon your son will be king after me and he will sit on my throne.’

1 Kings 1:30

1:30 I will keep ¹  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 1:48

1:48 and said ²  this: ‘The Lord God of Israel is worthy of praise because ³  today he has placed a successor on my throne and allowed me to see it.’” ⁴ 

1 Kings 3:7

3:7 Now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in my father David’s place, even though I am only a young man and am inexperienced. ⁵ 

1 Kings 3:11

3:11 God said to him, “Because you asked for the ability to make wise judicial decisions, and not for long life, or riches, or vengeance on your enemies, ⁶ 

1 Kings 5:3

5:3 “You know that my father David was unable to build a temple to honor the Lord ⁷  his God, for he was busy fighting battles on all fronts while the Lord subdued his enemies. ⁸ 

1 Kings 9:6

9:6 “But if you or your sons ever turn away from me, fail to obey the regulations and rules I instructed you to keep, ⁹  and decide to serve and worship other gods, ¹⁰ 

1 Kings 10:9

10:9 May the Lord your God be praised because he favored ¹¹  you by placing you on the throne of Israel! Because of the Lord’s eternal love for Israel, he made you king so you could make just and right decisions.” ¹² 

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! ¹³  If you do, they will surely shift your allegiance to their gods.” ¹⁴  But Solomon was irresistibly attracted to them. ¹⁵ 

1 Kings 12:28

12:28 After the king had consulted with his advisers, ¹⁶  he made two golden calves. Then he said to the people, ¹⁷  “It is too much trouble for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look, Israel, here are your gods who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”

1 Kings 14:9

14:9 You have sinned more than all who came before you. You went and angered me by making other gods, formed out of metal; you have completely disregarded me. ¹⁸ 

1 Kings 14:13

14:13 All Israel will mourn him and bury him. He is the only one in Jeroboam’s family ¹⁹  who will receive a decent burial, for he is the only one in whom the Lord God of Israel found anything good.

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. ²⁰ 

1 Kings 16:26

16:26 He followed in the footsteps of Jeroboam son of Nebat and encouraged Israel to sin; ²¹  they angered the Lord God of Israel with their worthless idols. ²² 

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 18:25

18:25 Elijah told the prophets of Baal, “Choose one of the bulls for yourselves and go first, for you are the majority. Invoke the name of your god, but do not light a fire.” ²³ 

1 Kings 21:13

21:13 The two villains arrived and sat opposite him. Then the villains testified against Naboth right before the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king.” So they dragged him ²⁴  outside the city and stoned him to death. ²⁵ 

[1:30]  ¹ tn Or “carry out, perform.”

[1:48]  ¹ tn The Hebrew text reads, “and the king said.”

[1:48]  ² tn Or “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who….” In this blessing formula אֲשֶׁר (’asher, “who; because”) introduces the reason why the one being blessed deserves the honor.

[1:48]  ³ tn Heb “and my eyes are seeing.”

[3:7]  ¹ tn Heb “and I do not know going out or coming in.”

[3:11]  ¹ tn Heb “because you asked for this thing, and did not ask for yourself many days and did not ask for yourself riches and did not ask for the life of your enemies, but you asked for yourself understanding to hear judgment.”

[5:3]  ¹ 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.

[5:3]  ² tn Heb “because of the battles which surrounded him until the Lord placed them under the soles of his feet.”

[9:6]  ¹ tn Heb “which I placed before you.”

[9:6]  ² tn Heb “and walk and serve other gods and bow down to them.”

[10:9]  ¹ tn Or “delighted in.”

[10:9]  ² tn Heb “to do justice and righteousness.”

[11:2]  ¹ tn Heb “you must not go into them, and they must not go into you.”

[11:2]  ² 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]  ³ 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.

[12:28]  ¹ tn The words “with his advisers” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[12:28]  ² tn Heb “to them,” although this may be a corruption of “to the people.” Cf. the Old Greek translation.

[14:9]  ¹ tn Heb “you went and you made for yourself other gods, metal [ones], angering me, and you threw me behind your back.”

[14:13]  ¹ tn Heb “house.”

[16:13]  ¹ tn Heb “angering the Lord God of Israel with their empty things.”

[16:26]  ¹ tn Heb “walked in all the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat and in his sin which he made Israel sin.”

[16:26]  ² tn Heb “angering the Lord God of Israel with their empty things.”

[18:25]  ¹ tc The last sentence of v. 25 is absent in the Syriac Peshitta.

[21:13]  ¹ tn Heb “led him.”

[21:13]  ² tn Heb “and they stoned him with stones and he died.”