1 Kings 1:41

1:41 Now Adonijah and all his guests heard the commotion just as they had finished eating. ¹  When Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he asked, “Why is there such a noisy commotion in the city?” ² 

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 2:15

2:15 He said, “You know that the kingdom ⁵  was mine and all Israel considered me king. ⁶  But then the kingdom was given to my brother, for the Lord decided it should be his. ⁷ 

1 Kings 7:32

7:32 The four wheels were under the frames and the crossbars of the axles were connected to the stand. Each wheel was two and one-quarter feet ⁸  high.

1 Kings 13:25

13:25 Some men came by ⁹  and saw the corpse lying in the road with the lion standing beside it. ¹⁰  They went and reported what they had seen ¹¹  in the city where the old prophet lived.

1 Kings 14:9

14:9 You have sinned more than all who came before you. You went and angered me by making other gods, formed out of metal; you have completely disregarded me. ¹² 

1 Kings 14:11

14:11 Dogs will eat the members of your family ¹³  who die in the city, and the birds of the sky will eat the ones who die in the country.”’ Indeed, the Lord has announced it!

1 Kings 18:19

18:19 Now send out messengers ¹⁴  and assemble all Israel before me at Mount Carmel, as well as the 450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of Asherah whom Jezebel supports. ¹⁵ 

1 Kings 18:43

18:43 He told his servant, “Go on up and look in the direction of the sea.” So he went on up, looked, and reported, “There is nothing.” ¹⁶  Seven times Elijah sent him to look. ¹⁷ 

1 Kings 19:20

19:20 He left the oxen, ran after Elijah, and said, “Please let me kiss my father and mother goodbye, then I will follow you.” Elijah ¹⁸  said to him, “Go back! Indeed, what have I done to you?”

1 Kings 20:1

Ben Hadad Invades Israel

20:1 Now King Ben Hadad of Syria assembled all his army, along with thirty-two other kings with their horses and chariots. He marched against Samaria ¹⁹  and besieged and attacked it. ²⁰ 

1 Kings 20:6

20:6 But now at this time tomorrow I will send my servants to you and they will search through your palace and your servants’ houses. They will carry away all your valuables.” ²¹ 

1 Kings 20:10

20:10 Ben Hadad sent another message to him, “May the gods judge me severely ²²  if there is enough dirt left in Samaria for my soldiers to scoop up in their hands.” ²³ 

[1:41]  ¹ tn Heb “And Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard, now they had finished eating.”

[1:41]  ² tn Heb “Why is the city’s sound noisy?”

[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.”

[2:15]  ⁵ tn Or “kingship.”

[2:15]  ⁶ tn Heb “set their face to me to be king.”

[2:15]  ⁷ tn Heb “and the kingdom turned about and became my brother’s, for from the Lord it became his.”

[7:32]  ⁷ tn Heb “a cubit-and-a-half” (a cubit was a unit of measure roughly equivalent to 18 inches or 45 cm).

[13:25]  ⁹ tn Heb “Look, men were passing by.”

[13:25]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the corpse.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“it”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[13:25]  ¹¹ tn The words “what they had seen” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[14:9]  ¹¹ tn Heb “you went and you made for yourself other gods, metal [ones], angering me, and you threw me behind your back.”

[14:11]  ¹³ tn The Hebrew text has “belonging to Jeroboam” here.

[18:19]  ¹⁵ tn The word “messengers” is supplied in the translation both here and in v. 20 for clarification.

[18:19]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “who eat at the table of Jezebel.”

[18:43]  ¹⁷ sn So he went on up, looked, and reported, “There is nothing.” Several times in this chapter those addressed by Elijah obey his orders. In vv. 20 and 42 Ahab does as instructed, in vv. 26 and 28 the prophets follow Elijah’s advice, and in vv. 30, 34, 40 and 43 the people and servants do as they are told. By juxtaposing Elijah’s commands with accounts of those commands being obeyed, the narrator emphasizes the authority of the Lord’s prophet.

[18:43]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “He said, ‘Return,’ seven times.”

[19:20]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:1]  ²¹ map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.

[20:1]  ²² tn Heb “and he went up and besieged Samaria and fought against it.”

[20:6]  ²³ tn Heb “all that is desirable to your eyes they will put in their hand and take.”

[20:10]  ²⁵ tn Heb “So may the gods do to me, and so may they add.”

[20:10]  ²⁶ tn Heb “if the dirt of Samaria suffices for the handfuls of all the people who are at my feet.”