1 Kings 2:28

2:28 When the news reached Joab (for Joab had supported ¹  Adonijah, although he had not supported Absalom), he ²  ran to the tent of the Lord and grabbed hold of the horns of the altar. ³ 

1 Kings 3:1

The Lord Gives Solomon Wisdom

3:1 Solomon made an alliance by marriage with Pharaoh, king of Egypt; he married Pharaoh’s daughter. He brought her to the City of David ⁴  until he could finish building his residence and the temple of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem. ⁵ 

1 Kings 5:3

5:3 “You know that my father David was unable to build a temple to honor the Lord ⁶  his God, for he was busy fighting battles on all fronts while the Lord subdued his enemies. ⁷ 

1 Kings 5:9

5:9 My servants will bring the timber down from Lebanon to the sea. I will send it by sea in raft-like bundles to the place you designate. ⁸  There I will separate the logs ⁹  and you can carry them away. In exchange you will supply the food I need for my royal court.” ¹⁰ 

1 Kings 6:15

6:15 He constructed the walls inside the temple with cedar planks; he paneled the inside with wood from the floor of the temple to the rafters ¹¹  of the ceiling. He covered the temple floor with boards made from the wood of evergreens.

1 Kings 7:23

7:23 He also made the large bronze basin called “The Sea.” ¹²  It measured 15 feet ¹³  from rim to rim, was circular in shape, and stood seven-and-a-half feet ¹⁴  high. Its circumference was 45 feet. ¹⁵ 

1 Kings 8:65

8:65 At that time Solomon and all Israel with him celebrated a festival before the Lord our God for two entire weeks. This great assembly included people from all over the land, from Lebo Hamath in the north to the Brook of Egypt ¹⁶  in the south. ¹⁷ 

1 Kings 9:3

9:3 The Lord said to him, “I have answered ¹⁸  your prayer and your request for help that you made to me. I have consecrated this temple you built by making it my permanent home; ¹⁹  I will be constantly present there. ²⁰ 

1 Kings 10:7

10:7 I did not believe these things until I came and saw them with my own eyes. Indeed, I didn’t hear even half the story! ²¹  Your wisdom and wealth ²²  surpass what was reported to me.

1 Kings 10:12

10:12 With the timber the king made supports ²³  for the Lord’s temple and for the royal palace and stringed instruments ²⁴  for the musicians. No one has seen so much of this fine timber to this very day. ²⁵ )

1 Kings 14:10

14:10 So I am ready to bring disaster ²⁶  on the dynasty ²⁷  of Jeroboam. I will cut off every last male belonging to Jeroboam in Israel, including even the weak and incapacitated. ²⁸  I will burn up the dynasty of Jeroboam, just as one burns manure until it is completely consumed. ²⁹ 

1 Kings 15:29

15:29 When he became king, he executed Jeroboam’s entire family. He wiped out everyone who breathed, ³⁰  just as the Lord had predicted ³¹  through his servant Ahijah the Shilonite.

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 17:17

17:17 After this ³²  the son of the woman who owned the house got sick. His illness was so severe he could no longer breathe.

1 Kings 18:21

18:21 Elijah approached all the people and said, “How long are you going to be paralyzed by indecision? ³³  If the Lord is the true God, ³⁴  then follow him, but if Baal is, follow him!” But the people did not say a word.

[2:28]  ¹ tn Heb “turned after” (also later in this verse).

[2:28]  ² tn Heb “Joab.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[2:28]  ³ sn Grabbed hold of the horns of the altar. The “horns” of the altar were the horn-shaped projections on the four corners of the altar (see Exod 27:2). By going to the holy place and grabbing hold of the horns of the altar, Joab was seeking asylum from Solomon.

[3:1]  ⁴ sn The phrase City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

[3:1]  ⁵ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[5:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “a house for the name of the Lord.” The word “name” sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor. The “name” of the Lord sometimes designates the Lord himself, being indistinguishable from the proper name.

[5:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “because of the battles which surrounded him until the Lord placed them under the soles of his feet.”

[5:9]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “I will place them [on? as?] rafts in the sea to the place where you designate to me.” This may mean he would send them by raft, or that he would tie them in raft-like bundles, and have ships tow them down to an Israelite port.

[5:9]  ¹¹ tn Heb “smash them,” i.e., untie the bundles.

[5:9]  ¹² tn Heb “as for you, you will satisfy my desire by giving food for my house.”

[6:15]  ¹³ tc The MT reads קִירוֹת (qirot, “walls”), but this should be emended to קוֹרוֹת (qorot, “rafters”). See BDB 900 s.v. קוֹרָה.

[7:23]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “He made the sea, cast.”

[7:23]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “ten cubits.”

[7:23]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “five cubits.”

[7:23]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and a measuring line went around it thirty cubits all around.”

[8:65]  ¹⁹ tn Or “the Wadi of Egypt” (NAB, NIV, NRSV); CEV “the Egyptian Gorge.”

[8:65]  ²⁰ tn Heb “Solomon held at that time the festival, and all Israel was with him, a great assembly from Lebo Hamath to the Brook of Egypt, before the Lord our God for seven days and seven days, fourteen days.”

[9:3]  ²² tn Heb “I have heard.”

[9:3]  ²³ tn Heb “by placing my name there perpetually” (or perhaps, “forever”).

[9:3]  ²⁴ tn Heb “and my eyes and my heart will be there all the days.”

[10:7]  ²⁵ tn Heb “the half was not told to me.”

[10:7]  ²⁶ tn Heb “good.”

[10:12]  ²⁸ tn This Hebrew architectural term occurs only here. The meaning is uncertain; some have suggested “banisters” or “parapets”; cf. TEV, NLT “railings.” The parallel passage in 2 Chr 9:11 has a different word, meaning “tracks,” or perhaps “steps.”

[10:12]  ²⁹ tn Two types of stringed instruments are specifically mentioned, the כִּנּוֹר (kinnor, “zither” [?]), and נֶבֶל (nevel, “harp”).

[10:12]  ³⁰ tn Heb “there has not come thus, the fine timber, and there has not been seen to this day.”

[14:10]  ³¹ sn Disaster. There is a wordplay in the Hebrew text. The word translated “disaster” (רָעָה, ra’ah) is from the same root as the expression “you have sinned” in v. 9 (וַתָּרַע [vattara’], from רָעַע, [ra’a’]). Jeroboam’s sins would receive an appropriate punishment.

[14:10]  ³² tn Heb “house.”

[14:10]  ³³ tn Heb “and I will cut off from Jeroboam those who urinate against a wall (including both those who are) restrained and let free (or “abandoned”) in Israel.” The precise meaning of the idiomatic phrase עָצוּר וְעָזוּב (’atsur vÿ’azuv) is uncertain. For various options see HALOT 871 s.v. עצר 6 and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 107. The two terms are usually taken as polar opposites (“slaves and freemen” or “minors and adults”), but Cogan and Tadmor, on the basis of contextual considerations (note the usage with אֶפֶס [’efes], “nothing but”) in Deut 32:36 and 2 Kgs 14:26, argue convincingly that the terms are synonyms, meaning “restrained and abandoned,” and refer to incapable or incapacitated individuals.

[14:10]  ³⁴ tn The traditional view understands the verb בָּעַר (ba’ar) to mean “burn.” Manure was sometimes used as fuel (see Ezek 4:12, 15). However, an alternate view takes בָּעַר as a homonym meaning “sweep away” (HALOT 146 s.v. II בער). In this case one might translate, “I will sweep away the dynasty of Jeroboam, just as one sweeps away manure it is gone” (cf. ASV, NASB, TEV). Either metaphor emphasizes the thorough and destructive nature of the coming judgment.

[15:29]  ³⁴ tn Heb “and when he became king, he struck down all the house of Jeroboam; he did not leave any breath to Jeroboam until he destroyed him.”

[15:29]  ³⁵ tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord which he spoke.”

[17:17]  ³⁷ tn Heb “after these things.”

[18:21]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “How long are you going to limp around on two crutches?” (see HALOT 762 s.v. סְעִפִּים). In context this idiomatic expression refers to indecision rather than physical disability.

[18:21]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “the God.”