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 2:20

2:20 She said, “I would like to ask you for just one small favor. ³  Please don’t refuse me.” ⁴  He said, ⁵  “Go ahead and ask, my mother, for I would not refuse you.”

1 Kings 2:28

2:28 When the news reached Joab (for Joab had supported ⁶  Adonijah, although he had not supported Absalom), he ⁷  ran to the tent of the Lord and grabbed hold of the horns of the altar. ⁸ 

1 Kings 3:18

3:18 Then three days after I had my baby, this woman also had a baby. We were alone; there was no one else in the house except the two of us. ⁹ 

1 Kings 6:16

6:16 He built a wall 30 feet in from the rear of the temple as a partition for an inner sanctuary that would be the most holy place. ¹⁰  He paneled the wall with cedar planks from the floor to the rafters. ¹¹ 

1 Kings 8:54

8:54 When Solomon finished presenting all these prayers and requests to the Lord, he got up from before the altar of the Lord where he had kneeled and spread out his hands toward the sky. ¹² 

1 Kings 12:14

12:14 and followed ¹³  the advice of the younger ones. He said, “My father imposed heavy demands on you; I will make them even heavier. ¹⁴  My father punished you with ordinary whips; I will punish you with whips that really sting your flesh.” ¹⁵ 

1 Kings 13:28

13:28 He went and found the corpse lying in the road with the donkey and the lion standing beside it; ¹⁶  the lion had neither eaten the corpse nor attacked the donkey.

1 Kings 13:32

13:32 for the prophecy he announced with the Lord’s authority ¹⁷  against the altar in Bethel ¹⁸  and against all the temples on the high places in the cities of the north ¹⁹  will certainly be fulfilled.”

1 Kings 18:34

18:34 Then he said, “Fill four water jars and pour the water on the offering and the wood.” When they had done so, ²⁰  he said, “Do it again.” So they did it again. Then he said, “Do it a third time.” So they did it a third time.

1 Kings 19:19

19:19 Elijah went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve pairs of oxen; he was near the twelfth pair. Elijah passed by him and threw his robe over him.

1 Kings 20:23

20:23 Now the advisers ²¹  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.

[1:39]  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.”

[2:20]  ³ tn Or “I’d like to make just one request of you.”

[2:20]  ⁴ tn Heb “Do not turn back my face.”

[2:20]  ⁵ tn Heb “and the king said to her.”

[2:28]  ⁵ tn Heb “turned after” (also later in this verse).

[2:28]  ⁶ tn Heb “Joab.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[2:28]  ⁷ sn Grabbed hold of the horns of the altar. The “horns” of the altar were the horn-shaped projections on the four corners of the altar (see Exod 27:2). By going to the holy place and grabbing hold of the horns of the altar, Joab was seeking asylum from Solomon.

[3:18]  ⁷ sn There was no one else in the house except the two of us. In other words, there were no other witnesses to the births who could identify which child belonged to which mother.

[6:16]  ⁹ tn Heb “He built twenty cubits from the rear areas of the temple with cedar planks from the floor to the walls, and he built it on the inside for an inner sanctuary, for a holy place of holy places.”

[6:16]  ¹⁰ tc The MT has קְלָעִים (qÿla’im, “curtains”), but this should be emended to קוֹרוֹת (qorot, “rafters”). See BDB 900 s.v. קוֹרָה.

[8:54]  ¹¹ tn Or “toward heaven.”

[12:14]  ¹³ tn Heb “and spoke to them according to.”

[12:14]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke.”

[12:14]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “My father punished you with whips, but I will punish you with scorpions.” See the note on the same phrase in v. 11.

[13:28]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “the corpse.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“it”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[13:32]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “for the word which he cried out by the word of the Lord”

[13:32]  ¹⁸ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[13:32]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “Samaria.” The name of Israel’s capital city here stands for the northern kingdom as a whole. Actually Samaria was not built and named until several years after this (see 1 Kgs 16:24), so it is likely that the author of Kings, writing at a later time, is here adapting the old prophet’s original statement.

[18:34]  ¹⁹ tn The words “when they had done so” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[20:23]  ²¹ tn Or “servants.”