1 Kings 1:37

1:37 As the Lord is with my master the king, so may he be with Solomon, and may he make him an even greater king than my master King David!” ¹ 

1 Kings 3:12-13

3:12 I ²  grant your request, ³  and give ⁴  you a wise and discerning mind ⁵  superior to that of anyone who has preceded or will succeed you. ⁶  3:13 Furthermore, I am giving ⁷  you what you did not request – riches and honor so that you will be the greatest king of your generation. ⁸ 

1 Kings 3:21

3:21 I got up in the morning to nurse my son, and there he was, ⁹  dead! But when I examined him carefully in the morning, I realized it was not my baby.” ¹⁰ 

1 Kings 10:3

10:3 Solomon answered all her questions; there was no question too complex for the king. ¹¹ 

1 Kings 10:5-6

10:5 the food in his banquet hall, ¹²  his servants and attendants, ¹³  their robes, his cupbearers, and his burnt offerings which he presented in the Lord’s temple, she was amazed. ¹⁴  10:6 She said to the king, “The report I heard in my own country about your wise sayings and insight ¹⁵  was true!

1 Kings 14:24

14:24 There were also male cultic prostitutes ¹⁶  in the land. They committed the same horrible sins as the nations ¹⁷  that the Lord had driven out from before the Israelites.

1 Kings 15:3

15:3 He followed all the sinful practices of his father before him. He was not wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God, as his ancestor David had been. ¹⁸ 

1 Kings 16:21

Omri’s Reign over Israel

16:21 At that time the people of Israel were divided in their loyalties. Half the people supported Tibni son of Ginath and wanted to make him king; the other half supported Omri.

1 Kings 18:3

18:3 So Ahab summoned Obadiah, who supervised the palace. (Now Obadiah was a very loyal follower of the Lord. ¹⁹ 

1 Kings 18:31

18:31 Then Elijah took twelve stones, corresponding to the number of tribes that descended from Jacob, to whom the Lord had said, “Israel will be your new ²⁰  name.” ²¹ 

1 Kings 21:1

Ahab Murders Naboth

21:1 After this the following episode took place. ²²  Naboth the Jezreelite owned a vineyard in Jezreel adjacent to the palace of King Ahab of Samaria. ²³ 

1 Kings 21:25

21:25 (There had never been anyone like Ahab, who was firmly committed ²⁴  to doing evil in the sight of ²⁵  the Lord, urged on by his wife Jezebel. ²⁶ 

1 Kings 22:35

22:35 While the battle raged throughout the day, the king stood propped up in his chariot opposite the Syrians. He died in the evening; the blood from the wound ran down into the bottom of the chariot.

[1:37]  ¹ tn Heb “and may he make his throne greater than the throne of my master King David.”

[3:12]  ² tn This statement is introduced in the Hebrew text by the particle הִנֵּה (hinneh, “look”) which draws attention to and emphasizes what follows.

[3:12]  ³ tn Heb “I am doing according to your words.” The perfect tense is sometimes used of actions occurring at the same time a statement is made.

[3:12]  ⁴ tn This statement is introduced by the particle הִנֵּה (hinneh, “look”) which draws attention to and emphasizes what follows. The translation assumes that the perfect tense here indicates that the action occurs as the statement is made (i.e., “right now I give you”).

[3:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “heart.” (The Hebrew term translated “heart” often refers to the mental faculties.)

[3:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “so that there has not been one like you prior to you, and after you one will not arise like you.”

[3:13]  ³ tn The translation assumes that the perfect tense here indicates that the action occurs as the statement is made.

[3:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “so that there is not one among the kings like you all your days.” The LXX lacks the words “all your days.”

[3:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “look.”

[3:21]  ⁵ tn Heb “look, it was not my son to whom I had given birth.”

[10:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “Solomon declared to her all her words; there was not a word hidden from the king which he did not declare to her.” If riddles are specifically in view (see v. 1), then one might translate, “Solomon explained to her all her riddles; there was no riddle too complex for the king.”

[10:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “the food on his table.”

[10:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “the seating of his servants and the standing of his attendants.”

[10:5]  ⁸ tn Heb “there was no breath still in her.”

[10:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “about your words [or perhaps, “deeds”] and your wisdom.”

[14:24]  ⁸ tc The Old Greek translation has “a conspiracy” rather than “male cultic prostitutes.”

[14:24]  ⁹ tn Heb “they did according to all the abominable acts of the nations.”

[15:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “his heart was not complete with the Lord his God, like the heart of David his father.”

[18:3]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “now Obadiah greatly feared the Lord.” “Fear” refers here to obedience and allegiance, the products of healthy respect for the Lord’s authority.

[18:31]  ¹¹ tn The word “new” is implied but not actually present in the Hebrew text.

[18:31]  ¹² sn Israel will be your new name. See Gen 32:28; 35:10.

[21:1]  ¹² tn Heb “after these things.” The words “the following episode took place” are added for stylistic reasons.

[21:1]  ¹³ sn King Ahab of Samaria. Samaria, as the capital of the northern kingdom, here stands for the nation of Israel.

[21:25]  ¹³ tn Heb “who sold himself.”

[21:25]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[21:25]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “like Ahab…whom his wife Jezebel incited.”