1 Kings 1:5

1:5 Now Adonijah, son of David and Haggith, ¹  was promoting himself, ²  boasting, ³  “I will be king!” He managed to acquire ⁴  chariots and horsemen, as well as fifty men to serve as his royal guard. ⁵ 

1 Kings 6:21

6:21 Solomon plated the inside of the temple with gold. ⁶  He hung golden chains in front of the inner sanctuary and plated the inner sanctuary ⁷  with gold.

1 Kings 7:48

7:48 Solomon also made all these items for the Lord’s temple: the gold altar, the gold table on which was kept the Bread of the Presence, ⁸ 

1 Kings 11:6

11:6 Solomon did evil in the Lord’s sight; ⁹  he did not remain loyal to ¹⁰  the Lord, like his father David had.

1 Kings 11:22

11:22 Pharaoh said to him, “What do you lack here that makes you want to go to your homeland?” ¹¹  Hadad replied, ¹²  “Nothing, but please give me permission to leave.” ¹³ 

1 Kings 13:34

13:34 This sin caused Jeroboam’s dynasty ¹⁴  to come to an end and to be destroyed from the face of the earth.

1 Kings 14:17

14:17 So Jeroboam’s wife got up and went back to ¹⁵  Tirzah. As she crossed the threshold of the house, the boy died.

1 Kings 16:3

16:3 So I am ready to burn up ¹⁶  Baasha and his family, and make your family ¹⁷  like the family of Jeroboam son of Nebat.

1 Kings 18:30

18:30 Elijah then told all the people, “Approach me.” So all the people approached him. He repaired the altar of the Lord that had been torn down. ¹⁸ 

1 Kings 20:15

20:15 So Ahab ¹⁹  assembled the 232 servants of the district governors. After that he assembled all the Israelite army, numbering 7,000. ²⁰ 

1 Kings 22:12

22:12 All the prophets were prophesying the same, saying, “Attack Ramoth Gilead! You will succeed; the Lord will hand it over to the king.”

[1:5]  ¹ tn Heb “son of Haggith,” but since this formula usually designates the father (who in this case was David), the translation specifies that David was Adonijah’s father.

[1:5]  ² tn Heb “lifting himself up.”

[1:5]  ³ tn Heb “saying.”

[1:5]  ⁴ tn Or “he acquired for himself.”

[1:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “to run ahead of him.”

[6:21]  ⁶ tn Heb “with plated gold” (or perhaps, “with pure gold”).

[6:21]  ⁷ tn Heb “it.”

[7:48]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the bread of the face [or presence].” Many recent English versions employ “the bread of the Presence,” although this does not convey much to the modern reader.

[11:6]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “in the eyes of the Lord.”

[11:6]  ¹⁷ tn The idiomatic statement reads in Hebrew, “he did not fill up after.”

[11:22]  ²¹ tn Heb “Indeed what do you lack with me, that now you are seeking to go to your land?”

[11:22]  ²² tn Heb “and he said.”

[11:22]  ²³ sn So Hadad asked Pharaoh… This lengthy description of Hadad’s exile in Egypt explains why Hadad wanted to oppose Solomon and supports the author’s thesis that his hostility to Solomon found its ultimate source in divine providence. Though Hadad enjoyed a comfortable life in Egypt, when the Lord raised him up (apparently stirring up his desire for vengeance) he decided to leave the comforts of Egypt and return to Edom.

[13:34]  ²⁶ tn Heb “house.”

[14:17]  ³¹ tn Heb “went and entered.”

[16:3]  ³⁶ tn The traditional view understands the verb בָּעַר (ba’ar) to mean “burn.” However, an alternate view takes בָּעַר (ba’ar) as a homonym meaning “sweep away” (HALOT 146 s.v. II בער). In this case one might translate, “I am ready to sweep away Baasha and his family.” Either metaphor emphasizes the thorough and destructive nature of the coming judgment.

[16:3]  ³⁷ tc The Old Greek, Syriac Peshitta, and some mss of the Targum have here “his house.”

[18:30]  ⁴¹ sn Torn down. The condition of the altar symbolizes the spiritual state of the people.

[20:15]  ⁴⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ahab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:15]  ⁴⁷ tn Heb “after them he assembled all the people, all the sons of Israel, seven thousand.”