1 Kings 2:20

2:20 She said, “I would like to ask you for just one small favor. ¹  Please don’t refuse me.” ²  He said, ³  “Go ahead and ask, my mother, for I would not refuse you.”

1 Kings 4:7

4:7 Solomon had twelve district governors appointed throughout Israel who acquired supplies for the king and his palace. Each was responsible for one month in the year.

1 Kings 6:27

6:27 He put the cherubs in the inner sanctuary of the temple. ⁴  Their wings were spread out. One of the first cherub’s wings touched one wall and one of the other cherub’s wings touched the opposite wall. The first cherub’s other wing touched the second cherub’s other wing in the middle of the room. ⁵ 

1 Kings 7:15-16

7:15 He fashioned two bronze pillars; each pillar was 27 feet ⁶  high and 18 feet ⁷  in circumference. 7:16 He made two bronze tops for the pillars; each was seven-and-a-half feet high. ⁸ 

1 Kings 7:18

7:18 When he made the pillars, there were two rows of pomegranate-shaped ornaments around the latticework covering the top of each pillar. ⁹ 

1 Kings 7:42

7:42 the four hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments for the latticework of the two pillars (each latticework had two rows of these ornaments at the bowl-shaped top of the pillar),

1 Kings 8:56

8:56 “The Lord is worthy of praise because he has made Israel his people secure ¹⁰  just as he promised! Not one of all the faithful promises he made through his servant Moses is left unfulfilled! ¹¹ 

1 Kings 10:22

10:22 Along with Hiram’s fleet, the king had a fleet of large merchant ships ¹²  that sailed the sea. Once every three years the fleet ¹³  came into port with cargoes of ¹⁴  gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks. ¹⁵ 

1 Kings 11:36

11:36 I will leave ¹⁶  his son one tribe so my servant David’s dynasty may continue to serve me ¹⁷  in Jerusalem, the city I have chosen as my home. ¹⁸ 

1 Kings 13:11

13:11 Now there was an old prophet living in Bethel. ¹⁹  When his sons came home, they told their father ²⁰  everything the prophet ²¹  had done in Bethel that day and all the words he had spoken to the king. ²² 

1 Kings 18:25

18:25 Elijah told the prophets of Baal, “Choose one of the bulls for yourselves and go first, for you are the majority. Invoke the name of your god, but do not light a fire.” ²³ 

1 Kings 19:2

19:2 Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah with this warning, ²⁴  “May the gods judge me severely ²⁵  if by this time tomorrow I do not take your life as you did theirs!” ²⁶ 

1 Kings 19:4

19:4 while he went a day’s journey into the desert. He went and sat down under a shrub ²⁷  and asked the Lord to take his life: ²⁸  “I’ve had enough! Now, O Lord, take my life. After all, I’m no better than my ancestors.” ²⁹ 

1 Kings 20:13

The Lord Delivers Israel

20:13 Now a prophet visited King Ahab of Israel and said, “This is what the Lord says, ‘Do you see this huge army? ³⁰  Look, I am going to hand it over to you this very day. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”

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.

[2:20]  ¹ tn Or “I’d like to make just one request of you.”

[2:20]  ² tn Heb “Do not turn back my face.”

[2:20]  ³ tn Heb “and the king said to her.”

[6:27]  ⁴ tn Heb “in the midst of the inner house,” i.e., in the inner sanctuary.

[6:27]  ⁵ tn Heb “and their wings were in the middle of the room, touching wing to wing.”

[7:15]  ⁷ tn Heb “eighteen cubits.”

[7:15]  ⁸ tn Heb “twelve cubits.”

[7:16]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “two capitals he made to place on the tops of the pillars, cast in bronze; five cubits was the height of the first capital, and five cubits was the height of the second capital.”

[7:18]  ¹³ tn Heb “he made the pillars, and two rows surrounding one latticework to cover the capitals which were on top of the pomegranates, and so he did for the second latticework.” The translation supplies “pomegranates” after “two rows,” and understands “pillars,” rather than “pomegranates,” to be the correct reading after “on top of.” The latter change finds support from many Hebrew mss and the ancient Greek version.

[8:56]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “he has given a resting place to his people Israel.”

[8:56]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “not one word from his entire good word he spoke by Moses his servant has fallen.”

[10:22]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “a fleet of Tarshish [ships].” This probably refers to large ships either made in or capable of traveling to the distant western port of Tarshish.

[10:22]  ²⁰ tn Heb “the fleet of Tarshish [ships].”

[10:22]  ²¹ tn Heb “came carrying.”

[10:22]  ²² tn The meaning of this word is unclear. Some suggest “baboons.”

[11:36]  ²² tn Heb “give.”

[11:36]  ²³ tn Heb “so there might be a lamp for David my servant all the days before me in Jerusalem.” The metaphorical “lamp” symbolizes the Davidic dynasty. Because this imagery is unfamiliar to the modern reader, the translation “so my servant David’s dynasty may continue to serve me” has been used.

[11:36]  ²⁴ tn Heb “so there might be a lamp for David my servant all the days before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there.”

[13:11]  ²⁵ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[13:11]  ²⁶ tn Heb “and his son came and told him.” The MT has the singular here, but several other textual witnesses have the plural, which is more consistent with the second half of the verse and with vv. 12-13.

[13:11]  ²⁷ tn Heb “the man of God.”

[13:11]  ²⁸ tn Heb “all the actions which the man of God performed that day in Bethel, the words which he spoke to the king, and they told them to their father.”

[18:25]  ²⁸ tc The last sentence of v. 25 is absent in the Syriac Peshitta.

[19:2]  ³¹ tn Heb “saying.”

[19:2]  ³² tn Heb “So may the gods do to me, and so may they add.”

[19:2]  ³³ tn Heb “I do not make your life like the life of one of them.”

[19:4]  ³⁴ tn Or “broom tree” (also in v. 5).

[19:4]  ³⁵ tn Heb “and asked with respect to his life to die.”

[19:4]  ³⁶ tn Heb “fathers.”

[20:13]  ³⁷ tn Heb “this great horde.”