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 2:3

2:3 Do the job the Lord your God has assigned you ⁶  by following his instructions ⁷  and obeying ⁸  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, ⁹ 

1 Kings 5:9

5:9 My servants will bring the timber down from Lebanon to the sea. I will send it by sea in raft-like bundles to the place you designate. ¹⁰  There I will separate the logs ¹¹  and you can carry them away. In exchange you will supply the food I need for my royal court.” ¹² 

1 Kings 7:8

7:8 The palace where he lived was constructed in a similar way. ¹³  He also constructed a palace like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had married. ¹⁴ 

1 Kings 8:9

8:9 There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets Moses had placed there in Horeb. ¹⁵  It was there that ¹⁶  the Lord made an agreement with the Israelites after he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

1 Kings 8:16

8:16 He told David, ¹⁷  ‘Since the day I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from all the tribes of Israel to build a temple in which to live. ¹⁸  But I have chosen David to lead my people Israel.’

1 Kings 8:29

8:29 Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. ¹⁹  May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place. ²⁰ 

1 Kings 11:36

11:36 I will leave ²¹  his son one tribe so my servant David’s dynasty may continue to serve me ²²  in Jerusalem, the city I have chosen as my home. ²³ 

1 Kings 13:17

13:17 For the Lord gave me strict orders, ²⁴  ‘Do not eat or drink ²⁵  there; do not go back the way you came.’”

1 Kings 14:2

14:2 Jeroboam told his wife, “Disguise ²⁶  yourself so that people cannot recognize you are Jeroboam’s wife. Then go to Shiloh; Ahijah the prophet, who told me I would rule over this nation, lives there. ²⁷ 

1 Kings 17:10

17:10 So he got up and went to Zarephath. When he went through the city gate, there was a widow gathering wood. He called out to her, “Please give me a cup ²⁸  of water, so I can take a drink.”

1 Kings 18:10

18:10 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 ²⁹  swear an oath that they could not find you.

1 Kings 18:40

18:40 Elijah told them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Don’t let even one of them escape!” So they seized them, and Elijah led them down to the Kishon Valley and executed ³⁰  them there.

[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.”

[2:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “keep the charge of the Lord your God.”

[2:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “by walking in his ways.”

[2:3]  ⁸ tn Or “keeping.”

[2:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “then you will cause to succeed all which you do and all which you turn there.”

[5:9]  ¹¹ tn Heb “I will place them [on? as?] rafts in the sea to the place where you designate to me.” This may mean he would send them by raft, or that he would tie them in raft-like bundles, and have ships tow them down to an Israelite port.

[5:9]  ¹² tn Heb “smash them,” i.e., untie the bundles.

[5:9]  ¹³ tn Heb “as for you, you will satisfy my desire by giving food for my house.”

[7:8]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and his house where he lived, the other court [i.e., as opposed to the great court], separated from the house belonging to the hall, was like this work [i.e., this style of architecture].”

[7:8]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and a house he was making for the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Solomon had taken, like this porch.”

[8:9]  ²¹ sn Horeb is another name for Mount Sinai.

[8:9]  ²² tn Heb “in Horeb where.”

[8:16]  ²⁶ tn Heb “saying.”

[8:16]  ²⁷ tn Heb “to build a house for my name to be there.”

[8:29]  ³¹ tn Heb “so your eyes might be open toward this house night and day, toward the place about which you said, ‘My name will be there.’”

[8:29]  ³² tn Heb “by listening to the prayer which your servant is praying concerning this place.”

[11:36]  ³⁶ tn Heb “give.”

[11:36]  ³⁷ tn Heb “so there might be a lamp for David my servant all the days before me in Jerusalem.” The metaphorical “lamp” symbolizes the Davidic dynasty. Because this imagery is unfamiliar to the modern reader, the translation “so my servant David’s dynasty may continue to serve me” has been used.

[11:36]  ³⁸ tn Heb “so there might be a lamp for David my servant all the days before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there.”

[13:17]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “for a word to me by the word of the Lord.”

[13:17]  ⁴² tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”

[14:2]  ⁴⁶ tn Heb “Get up, change yourself.”

[14:2]  ⁴⁷ tn Heb “look, Ahijah the prophet is there, he told me [I would be] king over this nation.”

[17:10]  ⁵¹ tn Heb “a little.”

[18:10]  ⁵⁶ tn Heb “he makes the kingdom or the nation swear an oath.”

[18:40]  ⁶¹ tn Or “slaughtered.”