1 Kings 11:37

11:37 I will select ¹  you; you will rule over all you desire to have and you will be king over Israel.

1 Kings 18:20

18:20 Ahab sent messengers to all the Israelites and had the prophets assemble at Mount Carmel.

1 Kings 4:24

4:24 His royal court was so large because ²  he ruled over all the kingdoms west of the Euphrates River from Tiphsah ³  to Gaza; he was at peace with all his neighbors. ⁴ 

1 Kings 1:3

1:3 So they looked through all Israel ⁵  for a beautiful young woman and found Abishag, a Shunammite, and brought her to the king.

1 Kings 4:31

4:31 He was wiser than any man, including Ethan the Ezrahite or Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol. He was famous in all the neighboring nations. ⁶ 

1 Kings 8:52

8:52 “May you be attentive ⁷  to your servant’s and your people Israel’s requests for help and may you respond to all their prayers to you. ⁸ 

1 Kings 8:58

8:58 May he make us submissive, ⁹  so we can follow all his instructions ¹⁰  and obey ¹¹  the commandments, rules, and regulations he commanded our ancestors.

1 Kings 15:3

15:3 He followed all the sinful practices of his father before him. He was not wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God, as his ancestor David had been. ¹² 

1 Kings 16:26

16:26 He followed in the footsteps of Jeroboam son of Nebat and encouraged Israel to sin; ¹³  they angered the Lord God of Israel with their worthless idols. ¹⁴ 

1 Kings 2:4

2:4 and the Lord will fulfill his promise to me, ¹⁵  ‘If your descendants watch their step ¹⁶  and live faithfully in my presence ¹⁷  with all their heart and being, ¹⁸  then,’ he promised, ¹⁹  ‘you will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’ ²⁰ 

1 Kings 4:21

4:21 (5:1) ²¹  Solomon ruled all the kingdoms from the Euphrates River ²²  to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. These kingdoms paid tribute as Solomon’s subjects throughout his lifetime. ²³ 

1 Kings 8:23

8:23 He prayed: ²⁴  “O Lord, God of Israel, there is no god like you in heaven above or on earth below! You maintain covenantal loyalty ²⁵  to your servants who obey you with sincerity. ²⁶ 

1 Kings 8:48

8:48 When they return to you with all their heart and being ²⁷  in the land where they are held prisoner, ²⁸  and direct their prayers to you toward the land you gave to their ancestors, your chosen city, and the temple I built for your honor, ²⁹ 

1 Kings 9:7

9:7 then I will remove Israel from the land ³⁰  I have given them, I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence, ³¹  and Israel will be mocked and ridiculed ³²  among all the nations.

1 Kings 14:8

14:8 I tore the kingdom away from the Davidic dynasty and gave it to you. But you are not like my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me wholeheartedly by doing only what I approve. ³³ 

1 Kings 22:43

22:43 He followed in his father Asa’s footsteps and was careful to do what the Lord approved. ³⁴  (22:44) ³⁵  However, the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.

1 Kings 2:26

2:26 The king then told Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your property ³⁶  in Anathoth. You deserve to die, ³⁷  but today I will not kill you because you did carry the ark of the sovereign Lord before my father David and you suffered with my father through all his difficult times.” ³⁸ 

[11:37]  ¹ tn Heb “take.”

[4:24]  ² tn Heb “because.” The words “his royal court was so large” are added to facilitate the logical connection with the preceding verse.

[4:24]  ³ sn Tiphsah. This was located on the Euphrates River.

[4:24]  ⁴ tn Heb “for he was ruling over all [the region] beyond the River, from Tiphsah to Gaza, over all the kingdoms beyond the River, and he had peace on every side all around.”

[1:3]  ³ tn Heb “through all the territory of Israel.”

[4:31]  ⁴ tn Heb “his name was in all the surrounding nations.”

[8:52]  ⁵ tn Heb “May your eyes be open.”

[8:52]  ⁶ tn Heb “to listen to them in all their calling out to you.”

[8:58]  ⁶ tn Heb “to bend our hearts toward him.” The infinitive is subordinate to the initial prayer, “may the Lord our God be with us.” The Hebrew term לֵבָב (levav, “heart”) here refers to the people’s volition and will.

[8:58]  ⁷ tn Heb “to walk in all his ways.”

[8:58]  ⁸ tn Heb “keep.”

[15:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “his heart was not complete with the Lord his God, like the heart of David his father.”

[16:26]  ⁸ tn Heb “walked in all the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat and in his sin which he made Israel sin.”

[16:26]  ⁹ tn Heb “angering the Lord God of Israel with their empty things.”

[2:4]  ⁹ tn Heb “then the Lord will establish his word which he spoke to me, saying.”

[2:4]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “guard their way.”

[2:4]  ¹¹ tn Heb “by walking before me in faithfulness.”

[2:4]  ¹² tn Or “soul.”

[2:4]  ¹³ tn Heb “saying.”

[2:4]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel.”

[4:21]  ¹⁰ sn Beginning with 4:21, the verse numbers through 5:18 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 4:21 ET = 5:1 HT, 4:22 ET = 5:2 HT, etc., through 5:18 ET = 5:32 HT. Beginning with 6:1 the numbering of verses in the English Bible and the Hebrew text is again the same.

[4:21]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the River” (also in v. 24). This is the standard designation for the Euphrates River in biblical Hebrew.

[4:21]  ¹² tn Heb “[They] were bringing tribute and were serving Solomon all the days of his life.”

[8:23]  ¹¹ tn Heb “said.”

[8:23]  ¹² tn Heb “one who keeps the covenant and the loyal love.” The expression is a hendiadys.

[8:23]  ¹³ tn Heb “who walk before you with all their heart.”

[8:48]  ¹² tn Or “soul.”

[8:48]  ¹³ tn Heb “in the land of their enemies.”

[8:48]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “your name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in v. 41.

[9:7]  ¹³ tn Heb “I will cut off Israel from upon the surface of the land.”

[9:7]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and the temple which I consecrated for my name I will send away from before my face.”

[9:7]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “will become a proverb and a taunt,” that is, a proverbial example of destruction and an object of reproach.

[14:8]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “what was right in my eyes.”

[22:43]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “he walked in all the way of Asa his father and did not turn from it, doing what is right in the eyes of the Lord.”

[22:43]  ¹⁶ sn Beginning with 22:43b, the verse numbers through 22:53 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), because 22:43b in the English Bible = 22:44 in the Hebrew text. The remaining verses in the chapter differ by one, with 22:44-53 ET = 22:45-54 HT.

[2:26]  ¹⁶ tn Or “field.”

[2:26]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “you are a man of death.”

[2:26]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “and because you suffered through all which my father suffered.”