1 Kings 2:3

2:3 Do the job the Lord your God has assigned you ¹  by following his instructions ²  and obeying ³  his rules, commandments, regulations, and laws as written in the law of Moses. Then you will succeed in all you do and seek to accomplish, ⁴ 

1 Kings 11:19

11:19 Pharaoh liked Hadad so well ⁵  he gave him his sister-in-law (Queen Tahpenes’ sister) as a wife. ⁶ 

1 Kings 14:25

14:25 In King Rehoboam’s fifth year, King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.

1 Kings 18:40

18:40 Elijah told them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Don’t let even one of them escape!” So they seized them, and Elijah led them down to the Kishon Valley and executed ⁷  them there.

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 ⁸  until he could finish building his residence and the temple of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem. ⁹ 

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) ¹⁰  Jeroboam ¹¹  offered sacrifices on the altar he had made in Bethel. ¹²  He inaugurated a festival for the Israelites and went up to the altar to offer sacrifices.

[2:3]  ¹ tn Heb “keep the charge of the Lord your God.”

[2:3]  ² tn Heb “by walking in his ways.”

[2:3]  ³ tn Or “keeping.”

[2:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “then you will cause to succeed all which you do and all which you turn there.”

[11:19]  ⁵ tn Heb “and Hadad found great favor in the eyes of Pharaoh.”

[11:19]  ⁶ tn Heb “and he gave to him a wife, the sister of his wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.”

[18:40]  ⁹ tn Or “slaughtered.”

[3:1]  ¹³ 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]  ¹⁴ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[12:33]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “which he had chosen by himself.”

[12:33]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jeroboam) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[12:33]  ¹⁹ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.