1 Kings 2:17

2:17 He said, “Please ask King Solomon if he would give me Abishag the Shunammite as a wife, for he won’t refuse you.” ¹ 

1 Kings 3:18

3:18 Then three days after I had my baby, this woman also had a baby. We were alone; there was no one else in the house except the two of us. ² 

1 Kings 11:1

The Lord Punishes Solomon for Idolatry

11:1 King Solomon fell in love with many foreign women (besides Pharaoh’s daughter), including Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites.

1 Kings 11:26

11:26 Jeroboam son of Nebat, one of Solomon’s servants, rebelled against ³  the king. He was an Ephraimite ⁴  from Zeredah whose mother was a widow named Zeruah.

1 Kings 14:4

14:4 Jeroboam’s wife did as she was told. She went to Shiloh and visited Ahijah. ⁵  Now Ahijah could not see; he had lost his eyesight in his old age. ⁶ 

1 Kings 17:9

17:9 “Get up, go to Zarephath in Sidonian territory, and live there. I have already told ⁷  a widow who lives there to provide for you.”

1 Kings 17:24

17:24 The woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a prophet and that the Lord really does speak through you.” ⁸ 

1 Kings 20:5

20:5 The messengers came again and said, “This is what Ben Hadad says, ‘I sent this message to you, “You must give me your silver, gold, wives, and sons.”

1 Kings 21:5

21:5 Then his wife Jezebel came in and said to him, “Why do you have a bitter attitude and refuse to eat?”

1 Kings 21:25

21:25 (There had never been anyone like Ahab, who was firmly committed ⁹  to doing evil in the sight of ¹⁰  the Lord, urged on by his wife Jezebel. ¹¹ 

[2:17]  ¹ tn Heb “Say to Solomon the king, for he will not turn back your face, that he might give to me Abishag the Shunammite for a wife.”

[3:18]  ² sn There was no one else in the house except the two of us. In other words, there were no other witnesses to the births who could identify which child belonged to which mother.

[11:26]  ³ tn Heb “raised a hand against.”

[11:26]  ⁴ tn Heb “Ephrathite,” which here refers to an Ephraimite (see HALOT 81 s.v. אֶפְרַיִם).

[14:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “and the wife of Jeroboam did so; she arose and went to Shiloh and entered the house of Ahijah.”

[14:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “his eyes were set because of his old age.”

[17:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “Look, I have commanded.”

[17:24]  ⁶ tn Heb “you are a man of God and the word of the Lord is truly in your mouth.”

[21:25]  ⁷ tn Heb “who sold himself.”

[21:25]  ⁸ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[21:25]  ⁹ tn Heb “like Ahab…whom his wife Jezebel incited.”