1 Kings 2:22

2:22 King Solomon answered his mother, “Why just request Abishag the Shunammite for him? ¹  Since he is my older brother, you should also request the kingdom for him, for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab son of Zeruiah!”

1 Kings 3:15

3:15 Solomon then woke up and realized it was a dream. ²  He went to Jerusalem, stood before the ark of the Lord’s covenant, offered up burnt sacrifices, presented peace offerings, ³  and held a feast for all his servants.

1 Kings 4:21

4:21 (5:1) ⁴  Solomon ruled all the kingdoms from the Euphrates River ⁵  to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. These kingdoms paid tribute as Solomon’s subjects throughout his lifetime. ⁶ 

1 Kings 5:11

5:11 and Solomon supplied Hiram annually with 20,000 cors ⁷  of wheat as provision for his royal court, ⁸  as well as 20,000 baths ⁹  of pure ¹⁰  olive oil. ¹¹ 

1 Kings 7:51

7:51 When King Solomon finished constructing the Lord’s temple, he ¹²  put the holy items that belonged to his father David (the silver, gold, and other articles) in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple.

1 Kings 8:53

8:53 After all, ¹³  you picked them out of all the nations of the earth to be your special possession, ¹⁴  just as you, O sovereign Lord, announced through your servant Moses when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt.”

1 Kings 9:9

9:9 Others will then answer, ¹⁵  ‘Because they abandoned the Lord their God, who led their ancestors ¹⁶  out of Egypt. They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served. ¹⁷  That is why the Lord has brought all this disaster down on them.’”

1 Kings 12:21

12:21 When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he summoned 180,000 skilled warriors from all of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin ¹⁸  to attack Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam son of Solomon.

1 Kings 12:33

A Prophet from Judah Visits Bethel

12:33 On the fifteenth day of the eighth month (a date he had arbitrarily chosen) ¹⁹  Jeroboam ²⁰  offered sacrifices on the altar he had made in Bethel. ²¹  He inaugurated a festival for the Israelites and went up to the altar to offer sacrifices.

1 Kings 13:32

13:32 for the prophecy he announced with the Lord’s authority ²²  against the altar in Bethel ²³  and against all the temples on the high places in the cities of the north ²⁴  will certainly be fulfilled.”

1 Kings 16:7

16:7 The prophet Jehu son of Hanani received from the Lord the message predicting the downfall of Baasha and his family because of all the evil Baasha had done in the sight of the Lord. ²⁵  His actions angered the Lord (including the way he had destroyed Jeroboam’s dynasty), so that his family ended up like Jeroboam’s. ²⁶ 

1 Kings 19:21

19:21 Elisha ²⁷  went back and took his pair of oxen and slaughtered them. He cooked the meat over a fire that he made by burning the harness and yoke. ²⁸  He gave the people meat and they ate. Then he got up and followed Elijah and became his assistant.

1 Kings 20:25

20:25 Muster an army like the one you lost, with the same number of horses and chariots. ²⁹  Then we will fight them in the plains; we will certainly overpower them.” He approved their plan and did as they advised. ³⁰ 

[2:22]  ¹ tn Heb “for Adonijah.”

[3:15]  ² tn Heb “and look, a dream.”

[3:15]  ³ tn Or “tokens of peace”; NIV, TEV “fellowship offerings.”

[4:21]  ³ 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]  ⁴ tn Heb “the River” (also in v. 24). This is the standard designation for the Euphrates River in biblical Hebrew.

[4:21]  ⁵ tn Heb “[They] were bringing tribute and were serving Solomon all the days of his life.”

[5:11]  ⁴ sn As a unit of dry measure a cor was roughly equivalent to six bushels.

[5:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “his house.”

[5:11]  ⁶ tc The Hebrew text has “twenty cors,” but the ancient Greek version and the parallel text in 2 Chr 2:10 read “twenty thousand baths.”

[5:11]  ⁷ tn Or “pressed.”

[5:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “and Solomon supplied Hiram with twenty thousand cors of wheat…pure olive oil. So Solomon would give to Hiram year by year.”

[7:51]  ⁵ tn Heb “Solomon.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[8:53]  ⁶ tn Or “For.”

[8:53]  ⁷ tn Heb “your inheritance.”

[9:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “and they will say.”

[9:9]  ⁸ tn Heb “fathers.”

[9:9]  ⁹ tn Heb “and they took hold of other gods and bowed down to them and served them.”

[12:21]  ⁸ tn Heb “he summoned all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, one hundred eighty thousand chosen men, accomplished in war.”

[12:33]  ⁹ tn Heb “which he had chosen by himself.”

[12:33]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jeroboam) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[12:33]  ¹¹ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[13:32]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “for the word which he cried out by the word of the Lord”

[13:32]  ¹¹ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[13:32]  ¹² tn Heb “Samaria.” The name of Israel’s capital city here stands for the northern kingdom as a whole. Actually Samaria was not built and named until several years after this (see 1 Kgs 16:24), so it is likely that the author of Kings, writing at a later time, is here adapting the old prophet’s original statement.

[16:7]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and also through Jehu son of Hanani the word of the Lord came concerning [or “against”] Baasha and his house, and because of all the evil which he did in the eyes of the Lord.”

[16:7]  ¹² tn Heb “angering him by the work of his hands, so that he was like the house of Jeroboam, and because of how he struck it down.”

[19:21]  ¹² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[19:21]  ¹³ tn Heb “and with the equipment of the oxen he cooked them, the flesh.”

[20:25]  ¹³ tn Heb “And you, you muster an army like the one that fell from you, horse like horse and chariot like chariot.”

[20:25]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “he listened to their voice and did so.”