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 2:4

2:4 and the Lord will fulfill his promise to me, ²  ‘If your descendants watch their step ³  and live faithfully in my presence ⁴  with all their heart and being, ⁵  then,’ he promised, ⁶  ‘you will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’ ⁷ 

1 Kings 2:29

2:29 When King Solomon heard ⁸  that Joab had run to the tent of the Lord and was right there beside the altar, he ordered Benaiah son of Jehoiada, ⁹  “Go, strike him down.”

1 Kings 5:6

5:6 So now order some cedars of Lebanon to be cut for me. My servants will work with your servants. I will pay your servants whatever you say is appropriate, for you know that we have no one among us who knows how to cut down trees like the Sidonians.”

1 Kings 8:35

8:35 “The time will come when ¹⁰  the skies are shut up tightly and no rain falls because your people ¹¹  sinned against you. When they direct their prayers toward this place, renew their allegiance to you, ¹²  and turn away from their sin because you punish ¹³  them,

1 Kings 8:46

8:46 “The time will come when your people ¹⁴  will sin against you (for there is no one who is sinless!) and you will be angry with them and deliver them over to their enemies, who will take them as prisoners to their own land, ¹⁵  whether far away or close by.

1 Kings 8:53

8:53 After all, ¹⁶  you picked them out of all the nations of the earth to be your special possession, ¹⁷  just as you, O sovereign Lord, announced through your servant Moses when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt.”

1 Kings 9:5

9:5 Then I will allow your dynasty to rule over Israel permanently, ¹⁸  just as I promised your father David, ‘You will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’ ¹⁹ 

1 Kings 12:7

12:7 They said to him, “Today if you show a willingness to help these people and grant their request, they will be your servants from this time forward.” ²⁰ 

1 Kings 14:8

14:8 I tore the kingdom away from the Davidic dynasty and gave it to you. But you are not like my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me wholeheartedly by doing only what I approve. ²¹ 

1 Kings 18:1

Elijah Meets the King’s Servant

18:1 Some time later, in the third year of the famine, the Lord told Elijah, ²²  “Go, make an appearance before Ahab, so I may send rain on the surface of the ground.”

1 Kings 18:5

18:5 Ahab told Obadiah, “Go through the land to all the springs and valleys. Maybe we can find some grazing areas ²³  so we can keep the horses and mules alive and not have to kill ²⁴  some of the animals.”

1 Kings 20:22

The Lord Gives Israel Another Victory

20:22 The prophet ²⁵  visited the king of Israel and instructed him, “Go, fortify your defenses. ²⁶  Determine ²⁷  what you must do, for in the spring ²⁸  the king of Syria will attack ²⁹  you.”

1 Kings 20:25

20:25 Muster an army like the one you lost, with the same number of horses and chariots. ³⁰  Then we will fight them in the plains; we will certainly overpower them.” He approved their plan and did as they advised. ³¹ 

1 Kings 20:34

20:34 Ben Hadad ³²  said, “I will return the cities my father took from your father. You may set up markets ³³  in Damascus, just as my father did in Samaria.” ³⁴  Ahab then said, “I want to make a treaty with you before I dismiss you.” ³⁵  So he made a treaty with him and then dismissed him.

1 Kings 21:4

21:4 So Ahab went into his palace, bitter and angry that Naboth the Jezreelite had said, ³⁶  “I will not sell to you my ancestral inheritance.” ³⁷  He lay down on his bed, pouted, ³⁸  and would not eat.

1 Kings 21:7

21:7 His wife Jezebel said to him, “You are the king of Israel! ³⁹  Get up, eat some food, and have a good time. ⁴⁰  I will get the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite for you.”

1 Kings 21:15

21:15 When Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned to death, she ⁴¹  said to Ahab, “Get up, take possession of the vineyard Naboth the Jezreelite refused to sell you for silver, for Naboth is no longer alive; he’s dead.”

[1:30]  ¹ tn Or “carry out, perform.”

[2:4]  ² tn Heb “then the Lord will establish his word which he spoke to me, saying.”

[2:4]  ³ tn Heb “guard their way.”

[2:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “by walking before me in faithfulness.”

[2:4]  ⁵ tn Or “soul.”

[2:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “saying.”

[2:4]  ⁷ tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel.”

[2:29]  ³ tn Heb “and it was related to King Solomon.”

[2:29]  ⁴ tn Heb “so Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, saying.”

[8:35]  ⁴ tn Heb “when.” In the Hebrew text vv. 35-36a actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided into two sentences for stylistic reasons.

[8:35]  ⁵ tn Heb “they”; the referent (your people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:35]  ⁶ tn Heb “confess [or perhaps, “praise”] your name.”

[8:35]  ⁷ tn The Hebrew text has “because you answer them,” as if the verb is from עָנָה (’anah, “to answer”). However, this reference to a divine answer is premature, since the next verse asks for God to intervene in mercy. It is better to revocalize the consonantal text as תְעַנֵּם (tÿ’annem, “you afflict them”), a Piel verb form from the homonym עָנָה (“to afflict”).

[8:46]  ⁵ tn Heb “they”; the referent (your people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:46]  ⁶ tn Heb “the land of the enemy.”

[8:53]  ⁶ tn Or “For.”

[8:53]  ⁷ tn Heb “your inheritance.”

[9:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever.”

[9:5]  ⁸ tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel.”

[12:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “If today you are a servant to these people and you serve them and answer them and speak to them good words, they will be your servants all the days.”

[14:8]  ⁹ tn Heb “what was right in my eyes.”

[18:1]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the word of the Lord came to Elijah.”

[18:5]  ¹¹ tn Heb “grass.”

[18:5]  ¹² tn Heb “to cut off.”

[20:22]  ¹² tn The definite article indicates previous reference, that is, “the prophet mentioned earlier” (see v. 13).

[20:22]  ¹³ tn Heb “strengthen yourself.”

[20:22]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “know and see.”

[20:22]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “at the turning of the year.”

[20:22]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “go up against.”

[20:25]  ¹³ tn Heb “And you, you muster an army like the one that fell from you, horse like horse and chariot like chariot.”

[20:25]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “he listened to their voice and did so.”

[20:34]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ben Hadad) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:34]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “streets,” but this must refer to streets set up with stalls for merchants to sell their goods. See HALOT 299 s.v. חוּץ.

[20:34]  ¹⁶ map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.

[20:34]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “I will send you away with a treaty.” The words “Ahab then said” are supplied in the translation. There is nothing in the Hebrew text to indicate that the speaker has changed from Ben Hadad to Ahab. Some suggest adding “and he said” before “I will send you away.” Others prefer to maintain Ben Hadad as the speaker and change the statement to, “Please send me away with a treaty.”

[21:4]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “on account of the word that Naboth the Jezreelite spoke to him.”

[21:4]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “I will not give to you the inheritance of my fathers.”

[21:4]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “turned away his face.”

[21:7]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “You, now, you are exercising kingship over Israel.”

[21:7]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “so your heart [i.e., disposition] might be well.”

[21:15]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “Jezebel”; the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“she”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.