1 Kings 1:8
Context1:8 But Zadok the priest, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, and David’s elite warriors 1 did not ally themselves 2 with Adonijah.
1 Kings 12:31
Context12:31 He built temples 3 on the high places and appointed as priests people who were not Levites.
1 Kings 14:9
Context14:9 You have sinned more than all who came before you. You went and angered me by making other gods, formed out of metal; you have completely disregarded me. 4
1 Kings 16:33
Context16:33 Ahab also made an Asherah pole; he 5 did more to anger the Lord God of Israel than all the kings of Israel who were before him.
1 Kings 9:19
Context9:19 all the storage cities that belonged to him, 6 and the cities where chariots and horses were kept. 7 He built whatever he wanted in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout his entire kingdom. 8
1 Kings 12:6
Context12:6 King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served 9 his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, 10 “How do you advise me to answer these people?”


[1:8] 1 tn Or “bodyguard” (Heb “mighty men”).
[12:31] 3 tn The Hebrew text has the singular, but the plural is preferable here (see 1 Kgs 13:32). The Old Greek translation and the Vulgate have the plural.
[14:9] 5 tn Heb “you went and you made for yourself other gods, metal [ones], angering me, and you threw me behind your back.”
[16:33] 7 tn Heb “Ahab”; the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
[9:19] 9 tn Heb “to Solomon.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
[9:19] 10 tn Heb “the cities of the chariots and the cities of the horses.”
[9:19] 11 tn Heb “and the desire of Solomon which he desired to build in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land of his kingdom.”