1 Kings 1:44
Context1:44 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 2:3
Context2:3 Do the job the Lord your God has assigned you 1 by following his instructions 2 and obeying 3 his rules, commandments, regulations, and laws as written in the law of Moses. Then you will succeed in all you do and seek to accomplish, 4
1 Kings 4:7
Context4:7 Solomon had twelve district governors appointed throughout Israel who acquired supplies for the king and his palace. Each was responsible for one month in the year.
1 Kings 4:27
Context4:27 The district governors acquired supplies for King Solomon and all who ate in his royal palace. 5 Each was responsible for one month in the year; they made sure nothing was lacking.
1 Kings 6:12
Context6:12 “As for this temple you are building, if you follow 6 my rules, observe 7 my regulations, and obey all my commandments, 8 I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David. 9
1 Kings 7:39
Context7:39 He put five basins on the south side of the temple and five on the north side. He put “The Sea” on the south side, in the southeast corner.
1 Kings 7:42
Context7:42 the four hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments for the latticework of the two pillars (each latticework had two rows of these ornaments at the bowl-shaped top of the pillar),
1 Kings 9:3
Context9:3 The Lord said to him, “I have answered 10 your prayer and your request for help that you made to me. I have consecrated this temple you built by making it my permanent home; 11 I will be constantly present there. 12
1 Kings 9:7
Context9:7 then I will remove Israel from the land 13 I have given them, I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence, 14 and Israel will be mocked and ridiculed 15 among all the nations.
1 Kings 9:16
Context9:16 (Pharaoh, king of Egypt, had attacked and captured Gezer. He burned it and killed the Canaanites who lived in the city. He gave it as a wedding present to his daughter, who had married Solomon.)
1 Kings 12:21
Context12:21 When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he summoned 180,000 skilled warriors from all of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin 16 to attack Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam son of Solomon.
1 Kings 13:25
Context13:25 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 18:10
Context18:10 As certainly as the Lord your God lives, my master has sent to every nation and kingdom in an effort to find you. When they say, ‘He’s not here,’ he makes them 20 swear an oath that they could not find you.
1 Kings 18:19
Context18:19 Now send out messengers 21 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. 22
1 Kings 19:10
Context19:10 He answered, “I have been absolutely loyal 23 to the Lord, the sovereign God, 24 even though the Israelites have abandoned the agreement they made with you, 25 torn down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left and now they want to take my life.” 26
1 Kings 19:14
Context19:14 He answered, “I have been absolutely loyal 27 to the Lord, the sovereign God, 28 even though the Israelites have abandoned the agreement they made with you, 29 torn down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left and now they want to take my life.” 30
1 Kings 20:6
Context20:6 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.” 31
1 Kings 22:31
Context22:31 Now the king of Syria had ordered his thirty-two chariot commanders, “Do not fight common soldiers or high-ranking officers; 32 fight only the king of Israel.”


[2:3] 1 tn Heb “keep the charge of the
[2:3] 2 tn Heb “by walking in his ways.”
[2:3] 4 tn Heb “then you will cause to succeed all which you do and all which you turn there.”
[4:27] 1 tn Heb “everyone who drew near to the table of King Solomon.”
[6:12] 3 tn Heb “and keep all my commandments by walking in them.”
[6:12] 4 tn Heb “I will establish my word with you which I spoke to David your father.”
[9:3] 1 tn Heb “I have heard.”
[9:3] 2 tn Heb “by placing my name there perpetually” (or perhaps, “forever”).
[9:3] 3 tn Heb “and my eyes and my heart will be there all the days.”
[9:7] 1 tn Heb “I will cut off Israel from upon the surface of the land.”
[9:7] 2 tn Heb “and the temple which I consecrated for my name I will send away from before my face.”
[9:7] 3 tn Heb “will become a proverb and a taunt,” that is, a proverbial example of destruction and an object of reproach.
[12:21] 1 tn Heb “he summoned all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, one hundred eighty thousand chosen men, accomplished in war.”
[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.
[18:10] 1 tn Heb “he makes the kingdom or the nation swear an oath.”
[18:19] 1 tn The word “messengers” is supplied in the translation both here and in v. 20 for clarification.
[18:19] 2 tn Heb “who eat at the table of Jezebel.”
[19:10] 1 tn Or “very zealous.” The infinitive absolute preceding the finite verb emphasizes the degree of his zeal and allegiance.
[19:10] 2 tn Traditionally, “the God of hosts.”
[19:10] 3 tn Heb “abandoned your covenant.”
[19:10] 4 tn Heb “and they are seeking my life to take it.”
[19:14] 1 tn Or “very zealous.” The infinitive absolute preceding the finite verb emphasizes the degree of his zeal and allegiance.
[19:14] 2 tn Traditionally, “the God of hosts.”
[19:14] 3 tn Heb “abandoned your covenant.”
[19:14] 4 tn Heb “and they are seeking my life to take it.”
[20:6] 1 tn Heb “all that is desirable to your eyes they will put in their hand and take.”