1 Kings 1:39

1:39 Zadok the priest took a horn filled with olive oil ¹  from the tent and poured it on ²  Solomon; the trumpet was blown and all the people declared, “Long live King Solomon!”

1 Kings 1:51

1:51 Solomon was told, “Look, Adonijah fears you; ³  see, he has taken hold of the horns of the altar, saying, ‘May King Solomon solemnly promise ⁴  me today that he will not kill his servant with the sword.’”

1 Kings 2:29

2:29 When King Solomon heard ⁵  that Joab had run to the tent of the Lord and was right there beside the altar, he ordered Benaiah son of Jehoiada, ⁶  “Go, strike him down.”

1 Kings 4:27

4:27 The district governors acquired supplies for King Solomon and all who ate in his royal palace. ⁷  Each was responsible for one month in the year; they made sure nothing was lacking.

1 Kings 7:51--8:1

7:51 When King Solomon finished constructing the Lord’s temple, he ⁸  put the holy items that belonged to his father David (the silver, gold, and other articles) in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple.

Solomon Moves the Ark into the Temple

8:1 ⁹ Then Solomon convened in Jerusalem ¹⁰  Israel’s elders, all the leaders of the Israelite tribes and families, so they could witness the transferal of the ark of the Lord’s covenant from the city of David (that is, Zion). ¹¹ 

1 Kings 9:11

9:11 King Solomon gave King Hiram of Tyre ¹²  twenty cities in the region of Galilee, because Hiram had supplied Solomon with cedars, evergreens, and all the gold he wanted.

1 Kings 10:13

10:13 King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba everything she requested, besides what he had freely offered her. ¹³  Then she left and returned ¹⁴  to her homeland with her attendants.

1 Kings 10:21

10:21 All of King Solomon’s cups were made of gold, and all the household items in the Palace of the Lebanon Forest were made of pure gold. There were no silver items, for silver was not considered very valuable in Solomon’s time. ¹⁵ 

[1:39]  ¹ tn Heb “the horn of oil.” This has been specified as olive oil in the translation for clarity.

[1:39]  ² tn Or “anointed.”

[1:51]  ³ tn Heb “King Solomon.” The name and title have been replaced by the pronoun (“you”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[1:51]  ⁴ tn Or “swear an oath to.”

[2:29]  ⁵ tn Heb “and it was related to King Solomon.”

[2:29]  ⁶ tn Heb “so Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, saying.”

[4:27]  ⁷ tn Heb “everyone who drew near to the table of King Solomon.”

[7:51]  ⁹ tn Heb “Solomon.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[8:1]  ¹¹ tc The Old Greek translation includes the following words at the beginning of ch. 8: “It so happened that when Solomon finished building the Lord’s temple and his own house, after twenty years.”

[8:1]  ¹² map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[8:1]  ¹³ tn Heb “Then Solomon convened the elders of Israel, the heads of the tribes, the chiefs of the fathers belonging to the sons of Israel to King Solomon [in] Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the city of David (it is Zion).”

[9:11]  ¹³ map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[10:13]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “besides what he had given her according to the hand of King Solomon.”

[10:13]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “turned and went.”

[10:21]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “there was no silver, it was not regarded as anything in the days of Solomon.”