1 Kings 2:4

2:4 and the Lord will fulfill his promise to me, ¹  ‘If your descendants watch their step ²  and live faithfully in my presence ³  with all their heart and being, ⁴  then,’ he promised, ⁵  ‘you will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’ ⁶ 

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 ⁷  until he could finish building his residence and the temple of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem. ⁸ 

1 Kings 5:5

5:5 So I have decided ⁹  to build a temple to honor the Lord ¹⁰  my God, as the Lord instructed my father David, ‘Your son, whom I will put on your throne in your place, is the one who will build a temple to honor me.’ ¹¹ 

1 Kings 11:38

11:38 You must obey ¹²  all I command you to do, follow my instructions, ¹³  do what I approve, ¹⁴  and keep my rules and commandments, like my servant David did. Then I will be with you and establish for you a lasting dynasty, as I did for David; ¹⁵  I will give you Israel.

1 Kings 12:24

12:24 ‘The Lord says this: “Do not attack and make war with your brothers, the Israelites. Each of you go home, for I have caused this to happen.”’” ¹⁶  They obeyed the Lord and went home as the Lord had ordered them to do. ¹⁷ 

1 Kings 15:19

15:19 “I want to make a treaty with you, like the one our fathers made. ¹⁸  See, I have sent you silver and gold as a present. Break your treaty with King Baasha of Israel, so he will retreat from my land.” ¹⁹ 

1 Kings 17:12

17:12 She said, “As certainly as the Lord your God lives, I have no food, except for a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. Right now I am gathering a couple of sticks for a fire. Then I’m going home to make one final meal for my son and myself. After we have eaten that, we will die of starvation.” ²⁰ 

1 Kings 21:2

21:2 Ahab said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard so I can make a vegetable garden out of it, for it is adjacent to my palace. I will give you an even better vineyard in its place, or if you prefer, ²¹  I will pay you silver for it.” ²² 

1 Kings 22:6

22:6 So the king of Israel assembled about four hundred prophets and asked them, “Should I attack Ramoth Gilead or not?” ²³  They said, “Attack! The sovereign one ²⁴  will hand it over to the king.”

1 Kings 22:34

22:34 Now an archer shot an arrow at random, ²⁵  and it struck the king of Israel between the plates of his armor. The king ²⁶  ordered his charioteer, “Turn around and take me from the battle line, ²⁷  because I’m wounded.”

[2:4]  ¹ tn Heb “then the Lord will establish his word which he spoke to me, saying.”

[2:4]  ² tn Heb “guard their way.”

[2:4]  ³ tn Heb “by walking before me in faithfulness.”

[2:4]  ⁴ tn Or “soul.”

[2:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “saying.”

[2:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel.”

[3:1]  ⁷ 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]  ⁸ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[5:5]  ¹³ tn Heb “Look, I am saying.”

[5:5]  ¹⁴ 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.

[5:5]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “a house for my name.” 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.

[11:38]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “If you obey.” In the Hebrew text v. 38 is actually one long conditional sentence, which has been broken into two parts in the translation for stylistic purposes.

[11:38]  ²⁰ tn Heb “walk in my ways.”

[11:38]  ²¹ tn Heb “do what is right in my eyes.”

[11:38]  ²² tn Heb “I will build for you a permanent house, like I built for David.”

[12:24]  ²⁵ tn Heb “for this thing is from me.”

[12:24]  ²⁶ tn Heb “and they heard the word of the Lord and returned to go according to the word of the Lord.”

[15:19]  ³¹ tn Heb “[May there be] a covenant between me and you [as there was] between my father and your father.”

[15:19]  ³² tn Heb “so he will go up from upon me.”

[17:12]  ³⁷ tn Heb “Look, I am gathering two sticks and then I will go and make it for me and my son and we will eat it and we will die.”

[21:2]  ⁴³ tn Heb “if it is good in your eyes.”

[21:2]  ⁴⁴ tc The Old Greek translation includes the following words: “And it will be mine as a garden of herbs.”

[22:6]  ⁴⁹ tn Heb “Should I go against Ramoth Gilead for war or should I refrain?”

[22:6]  ⁵⁰ tn Though Jehoshaphat requested an oracle from “the Lord” (יְהוָה, Yahweh), they stop short of actually using this name and substitute the title אֲדֹנָי (’adonai, “lord; master”). This ambiguity may explain in part Jehoshaphat’s hesitancy and caution (vv. 7-8). He seems to doubt that the four hundred are genuine prophets of the Lord.

[22:34]  ⁵⁵ tn Heb “now a man drew a bow in his innocence” (i.e., with no specific target in mind, or at least without realizing his target was the king of Israel).

[22:34]  ⁵⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[22:34]  ⁵⁷ tn Heb “camp.”