1 Kings 1:44

1:44 The king sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites, and the Pelethites and they put him on the king’s mule.

1 Kings 2:20

2:20 She said, “I would like to ask you for just one small favor. ¹  Please don’t refuse me.” ²  He said, ³  “Go ahead and ask, my mother, for I would not refuse you.”

1 Kings 3:28

3:28 When all Israel heard about the judicial decision which the king had rendered, they respected ⁴  the king, for they realized ⁵  that he possessed supernatural wisdom ⁶  to make judicial decisions.

1 Kings 8:32

8:32 Listen from heaven and make a just decision about your servants’ claims. Condemn the guilty party, declare the other innocent, and give both of them what they deserve. ⁷ 

1 Kings 10:2

10:2 She arrived in Jerusalem ⁸  with a great display of pomp, ⁹  bringing with her camels carrying spices, ¹⁰  a very large quantity of gold, and precious gems. She visited Solomon and discussed with him everything that was on her mind.

1 Kings 10:22

10:22 Along with Hiram’s fleet, the king had a fleet of large merchant ships ¹¹  that sailed the sea. Once every three years the fleet ¹²  came into port with cargoes of ¹³  gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks. ¹⁴ 

1 Kings 13:24-25

13:24 As the prophet from Judah was traveling, a lion attacked him on the road and killed him. ¹⁵  His corpse was lying on the road, and the donkey and the lion just stood there beside it. ¹⁶  13:25 Some men came by ¹⁷  and saw the corpse lying in the road with the lion standing beside it. ¹⁸  They went and reported what they had seen ¹⁹  in the city where the old prophet lived.

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; ²⁰  the lion had neither eaten the corpse nor attacked the donkey.

1 Kings 15:29

15:29 When he became king, he executed Jeroboam’s entire family. He wiped out everyone who breathed, ²¹  just as the Lord had predicted ²²  through his servant Ahijah the Shilonite.

1 Kings 16:11

16:11 When he became king and occupied the throne, he killed Baasha’s entire family. He did not spare any male belonging to him; he killed his relatives and his friends. ²³ 

1 Kings 16:16

16:16 While deployed there, the army received this report: ²⁴  “Zimri has conspired against the king and assassinated him.” ²⁵  So all Israel made Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel that very day in the camp.

1 Kings 20:29-30

20:29 The armies were deployed opposite each other for seven days. On the seventh day the battle began, and the Israelites killed 100,000 Syrian foot soldiers in one day. 20:30 The remaining 27,000 ran to Aphek and went into the city, but the wall fell on them. ²⁶  Now Ben Hadad ran into the city and hid in an inner room. ²⁷ 

[2:20]  ¹ tn Or “I’d like to make just one request of you.”

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

[2:20]  ³ tn Heb “and the king said to her.”

[3:28]  ¹ tn Heb “feared,” perhaps in the sense, “stood in awe of.”

[3:28]  ² tn Heb “saw.”

[3:28]  ³ tn Heb “the wisdom of God within him.”

[8:32]  ¹ tn Heb “and you, hear [from] heaven and act and judge your servants by declaring the guilty to be guilty, to give his way on his head, and to declare the innocent to be innocent, to give to him according to his innocence.”

[10:2]  ¹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[10:2]  ² tn Heb “with very great strength.” The Hebrew term חַיִל (khayil, “strength”) may refer here to the size of her retinue (cf. NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV) or to the great wealth she brought with her.

[10:2]  ³ tn Or “balsam oil.”

[10:22]  ¹ tn Heb “a fleet of Tarshish [ships].” This probably refers to large ships either made in or capable of traveling to the distant western port of Tarshish.

[10:22]  ² tn Heb “the fleet of Tarshish [ships].”

[10:22]  ³ tn Heb “came carrying.”

[10:22]  ⁴ tn The meaning of this word is unclear. Some suggest “baboons.”

[13:24]  ¹ tn Heb “and he went and a lion met him in the road and killed him.”

[13:24]  ² tn Heb “and his corpse fell on the road, and the donkey was standing beside it, and the lion was standing beside the corpse.”

[13:25]  ¹ tn Heb “Look, men were passing by.”

[13:25]  ² tn Heb “the corpse.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“it”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[13:25]  ³ tn The words “what they had seen” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[13:28]  ¹ tn Heb “the corpse.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“it”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[15:29]  ¹ tn Heb “and when he became king, he struck down all the house of Jeroboam; he did not leave any breath to Jeroboam until he destroyed him.”

[15:29]  ² tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord which he spoke.”

[16:11]  ¹ tn Heb “and he did not spare any belonging to him who urinate against a wall, [including] his kinsmen redeemers and his friends.”

[16:16]  ¹ tn Heb “and the people who were encamped heard.”

[16:16]  ² tn Heb “has conspired against and also has struck down the king.”

[20:30]  ¹ tn Heb “and the remaining ones fled to Aphek to the city and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men, the ones who remained.”

[20:30]  ² tn Heb “and Ben Hadad fled and went into the city, [into] an inner room in an inner room.”