1 Kings 1:27

1:27 Has my master the king authorized this without informing your servants ¹  who should succeed my master the king on his throne?” ² 

1 Kings 3:4

3:4 The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for it had the most prominent of the high places. ³  Solomon would offer up ⁴  a thousand burnt sacrifices on the altar there.

1 Kings 7:17

7:17 The latticework on the tops of the pillars was adorned with ornamental wreaths and chains; the top of each pillar had seven groupings of ornaments. ⁵ 

1 Kings 7:42

7:42 the four hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments for the latticework of the two pillars (each latticework had two rows of these ornaments at the bowl-shaped top of the pillar),

1 Kings 11:7

11:7 Furthermore, ⁶  on the hill east of Jerusalem ⁷  Solomon built a high place ⁸  for the detestable Moabite god Chemosh ⁹  and for the detestable Ammonite god Milcom. ¹⁰ 

1 Kings 12:9

12:9 He asked them, “How do you advise me ¹¹  to respond to these people who said to me, ‘Lessen the demands your father placed on us’?” ¹² 

1 Kings 12:11

12:11 My father imposed heavy demands on you; I will make them even heavier. ¹³  My father punished you with ordinary whips; I will punish you with whips that really sting your flesh.’” ¹⁴ 

1 Kings 18:39

18:39 When all the people saw this, they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground and said, “The Lord is the true God! ¹⁵  The Lord is the true God!”

1 Kings 19:15

19:15 The Lord said to him, “Go back the way you came and then head for the Desert of Damascus. Go and anoint Hazael king over Syria.

1 Kings 22:24

22:24 Zedekiah son of Kenaanah approached, hit Micaiah on the jaw, and said, “Which way did the Lord’s spirit go when he went from me to speak to you?”

[1:27]  ¹ tc Many Hebrew mss and ancient textual witnesses agree with the Qere in reading this as singular, “your servant.”

[1:27]  ² tn Heb “From my master the king is this thing done, and you did not make known to your servants who will sit on the throne of my master the king after him?”

[3:4]  ³ tn Heb “for it was the great high place.”

[3:4]  ⁴ tn The verb form is an imperfect, which is probably used here in a customary sense to indicate continued or repeated action in past time. See GKC 314 §107.b.

[7:17]  ⁵ tn Heb “there were seven for the first capital, and seven for the second capital.”

[11:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “then.”

[11:7]  ⁸ sn The hill east of Jerusalem refers to the Mount of Olives.

[11:7]  ⁹ sn A high place. The “high places” were places of worship that were naturally or artificially elevated (see 1 Kgs 3:2).

[11:7]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Chemosh, the detestable thing of Moab.”

[11:7]  ¹¹ tc The MT reads “Molech,” but Milcom must be intended (see vv. 5, 33).

[12:9]  ⁹ tn In the Hebrew text the verb “we will respond” is plural, although it can be understood as an editorial “we.” The ancient versions have the singular here.

[12:9]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Lighten the yoke which your father placed on us.”

[12:11]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and now my father placed upon you a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke.”

[12:11]  ¹² tn Heb “My father punished you with whips, but I will punish you with scorpions.” “Scorpions” might allude to some type of torture using poisonous insects, but more likely it refers to a type of whip that inflicts an especially biting, painful wound. Cf. CEV “whips with pieces of sharp metal.”

[18:39]  ¹³ tn Heb “the God” (the phrase occurs twice in this verse).