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 6:5

6:5 He built an extension all around the walls of the temple’s main hall and holy place and constructed side rooms in it. ⁶ 

1 Kings 7:27

7:27 He also made ten bronze movable stands. Each stand was six feet ⁷  long, six feet ⁸  wide, and four-and-a-half feet ⁹  high.

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, ¹⁰ 

1 Kings 10:16

10:16 King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; 600 measures ¹¹  of gold were used for each shield.

1 Kings 14:22

14:22 Judah did evil in the sight of ¹²  the Lord. They made him more jealous by their sins than their ancestors had done. ¹³ 

1 Kings 14:27

14:27 King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned them to the officers of the royal guard ¹⁴  who protected the entrance to the royal palace.

1 Kings 16:33

16:33 Ahab also made an Asherah pole; he ¹⁵  did more to anger the Lord God of Israel than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

1 Kings 18:32

18:32 With the stones he constructed an altar for the Lord. ¹⁶  Around the altar he made a trench large enough to contain two seahs ¹⁷  of seed.

1 Kings 22:11

22:11 Zedekiah son of Kenaanah made iron horns and said, “This is what the Lord says, ‘With these you will gore Syria until they are destroyed.’”

1 Kings 22:52

22:52 He did evil in the sight of ¹⁸  the Lord and followed in the footsteps ¹⁹  of his father and mother; like Jeroboam son of Nebat, he encouraged Israel to sin. ²⁰ 

[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.”

[6:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “and he built on the wall of the temple an extension all around, the walls of the temple all around, for the main hall and for the holy place, and he made side rooms all around.”

[7:27]  ¹¹ tn Heb “four cubits.”

[7:27]  ¹² tn Heb “four cubits.”

[7:27]  ¹³ tn Heb “three cubits.”

[7:48]  ¹⁶ 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.

[10:16]  ²¹ tn The Hebrew text has simply “six hundred,” with no unit of measure given.

[14:22]  ²⁶ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[14:22]  ²⁷ tn Heb “and they made him jealous more than all which their fathers had done by their sins which they sinned.”

[14:27]  ³¹ tn Heb “runners.”

[16:33]  ³⁶ tn Heb “Ahab”; the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[18:32]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “and he built the stones into an altar in the name of the Lord.”

[18:32]  ⁴² tn A seah was a dry measure equivalent to about seven quarts.

[22:52]  ⁴⁶ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[22:52]  ⁴⁷ tn Or “way.”

[22:52]  ⁴⁸ tn Heb “and walked in the way of his father and in the way of his mother and in the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat who made Israel sin.”