1 Kings 2:15

2:15 He said, “You know that the kingdom ¹  was mine and all Israel considered me king. ²  But then the kingdom was given to my brother, for the Lord decided it should be his. ³ 

1 Kings 7:9

7:9 All of these were built with the best ⁴  stones, chiseled to the right size ⁵  and cut with a saw on all sides, ⁶  from the foundation to the edge of the roof ⁷  and from the outside to the great courtyard.

1 Kings 7:39

7:39 He put five basins on the south side of the temple and five on the north side. He put “The Sea” on the south side, in the southeast corner.

1 Kings 8:29

8:29 Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. ⁸  May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place. ⁹ 

1 Kings 8:35

8:35 “The time will come when ¹⁰  the skies are shut up tightly and no rain falls because your people ¹¹  sinned against you. When they direct their prayers toward this place, renew their allegiance to you, ¹²  and turn away from their sin because you punish ¹³  them,

1 Kings 8:44

8:44 “When you direct your people to march out and fight their enemies, ¹⁴  and they direct their prayers to the Lord ¹⁵  toward his chosen city and this temple I built for your honor, ¹⁶ 

1 Kings 8:54

8:54 When Solomon finished presenting all these prayers and requests to the Lord, he got up from before the altar of the Lord where he had kneeled and spread out his hands toward the sky. ¹⁷ 

1 Kings 17:14

17:14 For this is what the Lord God of Israel says, ‘The jar of flour will not be empty and the jug of oil will not run out until the day the Lord makes it rain on the surface of the ground.’”

1 Kings 18:1

Elijah Meets the King’s Servant

18:1 Some time later, in the third year of the famine, the Lord told Elijah, ¹⁸  “Go, make an appearance before Ahab, so I may send rain on the surface of the ground.”

1 Kings 20:27

20:27 When the Israelites had mustered and had received their supplies, they marched out to face them in battle. When the Israelites deployed opposite them, they were like two small flocks ¹⁹  of goats, but the Syrians filled the land.

1 Kings 20:29

20:29 The armies were deployed opposite each other for seven days. On the seventh day the battle began, and the Israelites killed 100,000 Syrian foot soldiers in one day.

[2:15]  ¹ tn Or “kingship.”

[2:15]  ² tn Heb “set their face to me to be king.”

[2:15]  ³ tn Heb “and the kingdom turned about and became my brother’s, for from the Lord it became his.”

[7:9]  ⁴ tn Or “valuable” (see 5:17).

[7:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “according to the measurement of chiseled [stone].”

[7:9]  ⁶ tn Heb “inside and out.”

[7:9]  ⁷ tn The precise meaning of the Hebrew word טְפָחוֹת (tÿfakhot) is uncertain, but it is clear that the referent stands in opposition to the foundation.

[8:29]  ⁷ 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]  ⁸ tn Heb “by listening to the prayer which your servant is praying concerning this place.”

[8:35]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “when.” In the Hebrew text vv. 35-36a actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided into two sentences for stylistic reasons.

[8:35]  ¹¹ tn Heb “they”; the referent (your people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:35]  ¹² tn Heb “confess [or perhaps, “praise”] your name.”

[8:35]  ¹³ tn The Hebrew text has “because you answer them,” as if the verb is from עָנָה (’anah, “to answer”). However, this reference to a divine answer is premature, since the next verse asks for God to intervene in mercy. It is better to revocalize the consonantal text as תְעַנֵּם (tÿ’annem, “you afflict them”), a Piel verb form from the homonym עָנָה (“to afflict”).

[8:44]  ¹³ tn Heb “When your people go out for battle against their enemies in the way which you send them.”

[8:44]  ¹⁴ tn Or perhaps “to you, O Lord.” See 2 Chr 6:34.

[8:44]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “your name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in v. 41.

[8:54]  ¹⁶ tn Or “toward heaven.”

[18:1]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “the word of the Lord came to Elijah.”

[20:27]  ²² tn The noun translated “small flocks” occurs only here. The common interpretation derives the word from the verbal root חשׂף, “to strip off; to make bare.” In this case the noun refers to something “stripped off” or “made bare.” HALOT 359 s.v. II חשׂף derives the noun from a proposed homonymic verbal root (which occurs only in Ps 29:9) meaning “cause a premature birth.” In this case the derived noun could refer to goats that are undersized because they are born prematurely.