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 7:31

7:31 Inside the stand was a round opening that was a foot-and-a-half deep; it had a support that was two and one-quarter feet long. ²  On the edge of the opening were carvings in square frames. ³ 

1 Kings 9:9

9:9 Others will then answer, ⁴  ‘Because they abandoned the Lord their God, who led their ancestors ⁵  out of Egypt. They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served. ⁶  That is why the Lord has brought all this disaster down on them.’”

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 20:23

20:23 Now the advisers ¹⁰  of the king of Syria said to him: “Their God is a god of the mountains. That’s why they overpowered us. But if we fight them in the plains, we will certainly overpower them.

1 Kings 20:25

20:25 Muster an army like the one you lost, with the same number of horses and chariots. ¹¹  Then we will fight them in the plains; we will certainly overpower them.” He approved their plan and did as they advised. ¹² 

1 Kings 22:22

22:22 He replied, ‘I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouths of all his prophets.’ The Lord ¹³  said, ‘Deceive and overpower him. ¹⁴  Go out and do as you have proposed.’

[1:30]  ¹ tn Or “carry out, perform.”

[7:31]  ² tn Heb “And its opening from the inside to the top and upwards [was] a cubit, and its opening was round, the work of a stand, a cubit-and-a-half.” The precise meaning of this description is uncertain.

[7:31]  ³ tn Heb “also over its opening were carvings and their frames [were] squared, not round.”

[9:9]  ³ tn Heb “and they will say.”

[9:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “fathers.”

[9:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “and they took hold of other gods and bowed down to them and served them.”

[10:12]  ⁴ 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]  ⁵ tn Two types of stringed instruments are specifically mentioned, the כִּנּוֹר (kinnor, “zither” [?]), and נֶבֶל (nevel, “harp”).

[10:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “there has not come thus, the fine timber, and there has not been seen to this day.”

[20:23]  ⁵ tn Or “servants.”

[20:25]  ⁶ tn Heb “And you, you muster an army like the one that fell from you, horse like horse and chariot like chariot.”

[20:25]  ⁷ tn Heb “he listened to their voice and did so.”

[22:22]  ⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[22:22]  ⁸ tn The Hebrew text has two imperfects connected by וְגַם (vÿgam). These verbs could be translated as specific futures, “you will deceive and also you will prevail,” in which case the Lord is assuring the spirit of success on his mission. However, in a commissioning context (note the following imperatives) such as this, it is more likely that the imperfects are injunctive, in which case one could translate, “Deceive, and also overpower.”