1 Kings 1:47

1:47 The king’s servants have even come to congratulate ¹  our master ²  King David, saying, ‘May your God ³  make Solomon more famous than you and make him an even greater king than you!’ ⁴  Then the king leaned ⁵  on the bed

1 Kings 2:22

2:22 King Solomon answered his mother, “Why just request Abishag the Shunammite for him? ⁶  Since he is my older brother, you should also request the kingdom for him, for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab son of Zeruiah!”

1 Kings 3:1

The Lord Gives Solomon Wisdom

3:1 Solomon made an alliance by marriage with Pharaoh, king of Egypt; he married Pharaoh’s daughter. He brought her to the City of David ⁷  until he could finish building his residence and the temple of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem. ⁸ 

1 Kings 8:1

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 9:9

9:9 Others will then answer, ¹²  ‘Because they abandoned the Lord their God, who led their ancestors ¹³  out of Egypt. They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served. ¹⁴  That is why the Lord has brought all this disaster down on them.’”

1 Kings 12:6

12:6 King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served ¹⁵  his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, ¹⁶  “How do you advise me to answer these people?”

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; ¹⁷  the lion had neither eaten the corpse nor attacked the donkey.

1 Kings 15:22

15:22 King Asa ordered all the men of Judah (no exemptions were granted) to carry away the stones and wood that Baasha had used to build Ramah. ¹⁸  King Asa used the materials to build up ¹⁹  Geba (in Benjamin) and Mizpah.

1 Kings 16:24

16:24 He purchased the hill of Samaria ²⁰  from Shemer for two talents ²¹  of silver. He launched a construction project there ²²  and named the city he built after Shemer, the former owner of the hill of Samaria.

1 Kings 22:31

22:31 Now the king of Syria had ordered his thirty-two chariot commanders, “Do not fight common soldiers or high-ranking officers; ²³  fight only the king of Israel.”

[1:47]  ¹ tn Heb “to bless.”

[1:47]  ² tn The plural form is used in the Hebrew text to indicate honor and authority.

[1:47]  ³ tc Many Hebrew mss agree with the Qere in reading simply “God.”

[1:47]  ⁴ tn Heb “make the name of Solomon better than your name, and make his throne greater than your throne.” The term שֵׁם (shem, “name”) is used here of one’s fame and reputation.

[1:47]  ⁵ tn Or “bowed down; worshiped.”

[2:22]  ⁶ tn Heb “for Adonijah.”

[3:1]  ¹¹ sn The phrase City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

[3:1]  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]  ¹⁶ 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]  ¹⁷ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[8:1]  ¹⁸ 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).”

[9:9]  ²¹ tn Heb “and they will say.”

[9:9]  ²² tn Heb “fathers.”

[9:9]  ²³ tn Heb “and they took hold of other gods and bowed down to them and served them.”

[12:6]  ²⁶ tn Heb “stood before.”

[12:6]  ²⁷ tn Heb “saying.”

[13:28]  ³¹ tn Heb “the corpse.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“it”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[15:22]  ³⁶ tn Heb “and King Asa made a proclamation to all Judah, there was no one exempt, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its wood which Baasha had built.”

[15:22]  ³⁷ tn Heb “and King Asa built with them.”

[16:24]  ⁴¹ map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.

[16:24]  ⁴² tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 150 pounds of silver.

[16:24]  ⁴³ tn Heb “he built up the hill.”

[22:31]  ⁴⁶ tn Heb “small or great.”