1 Kings 2:9

2:9 But now ¹  don’t treat him as if he were innocent. You are a wise man and you know how to handle him; ²  make sure he has a bloody death.” ³ 

1 Kings 2:20

2:20 She said, “I would like to ask you for just one small favor. ⁴  Please don’t refuse me.” ⁵  He said, ⁶  “Go ahead and ask, my mother, for I would not refuse you.”

1 Kings 6:8

6:8 The entrance to the bottom ⁷  level of side rooms was on the south side of the temple; stairs went up ⁸  to the middle floor and then on up to the third ⁹  floor.

1 Kings 8:23

8:23 He prayed: ¹⁰  “O Lord, God of Israel, there is no god like you in heaven above or on earth below! You maintain covenantal loyalty ¹¹  to your servants who obey you with sincerity. ¹² 

1 Kings 8:36

8:36 then listen from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Certainly ¹³  you will then teach them the right way to live ¹⁴  and send rain on your land that you have given your people to possess. ¹⁵ 

1 Kings 9:4

9:4 You must serve me with integrity and sincerity, just as your father David did. Do everything I commanded and obey my rules and regulations. ¹⁶ 

1 Kings 9:25

9:25 Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings ¹⁷  on the altar he had built for the Lord, burning incense along with them before the Lord. He made the temple his official worship place. ¹⁸ 

1 Kings 12:18

12:18 King Rehoboam sent Adoniram, ¹⁹  the supervisor of the work crews, ²⁰  out after them, but all Israel stoned him to death. King Rehoboam managed to jump into his chariot and escape to Jerusalem. ²¹ 

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 ²²  them there.

1 Kings 21:15

21:15 When Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned to death, she ²³  said to Ahab, “Get up, take possession of the vineyard Naboth the Jezreelite refused to sell you for silver, for Naboth is no longer alive; he’s dead.”

[2:9]  ¹ tc The Lucianic recension of the Old Greek and the Vulgate have here “you” rather than “now.” The two words are homonyms in Hebrew.

[2:9]  ² tn Heb “what you should do to him.”

[2:9]  ³ tn Heb “bring his grey hair down in blood [to] Sheol.”

[2:20]  ⁴ tn Or “I’d like to make just one request of you.”

[2:20]  ⁵ tn Heb “Do not turn back my face.”

[2:20]  ⁶ tn Heb “and the king said to her.”

[6:8]  ⁷ tc The Hebrew text has “middle,” but the remainder of the verse suggests this is an error.

[6:8]  ⁸ tn Heb “by stairs they went up.” The word translated “stairs” occurs only here. Other options are “trapdoors” or “ladders.”

[6:8]  ⁹ tc The translation reads with a few medieval Hebrew mss, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate הַשְּׁלִשִׁית (hashÿlishit, “the third”) rather than MT הַשְּׁלִשִׁים (hashÿlishim, “the thirty”).

[8:23]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “said.”

[8:23]  ¹¹ tn Heb “one who keeps the covenant and the loyal love.” The expression is a hendiadys.

[8:23]  ¹² tn Heb “who walk before you with all their heart.”

[8:36]  ¹³ tn The translation understands כִּי (ki) in an emphatic or asseverative sense.

[8:36]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “the good way in which they should walk.”

[8:36]  ¹⁵ tn Or “for an inheritance.”

[9:4]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “As for you, if you walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, by doing all which I commanded you, [and] you keep my rules and my regulations.” Verse 4 is actually a lengthy protasis (“if” section) of a conditional sentence, the apodosis (“then” section) of which appears in v. 5.

[9:25]  ¹⁹ tn Or “tokens of peace”; NIV, TEV “fellowship offerings.”

[9:25]  ²⁰ tn Heb “and he made complete the house.”

[12:18]  ²² tc The MT has “Adoram” here, but the Old Greek translation and Syriac Peshitta have “Adoniram.” Cf. 1 Kgs 4:6.

[12:18]  ²³ sn The work crews. See the note on this expression in 4:6.

[12:18]  ²⁴ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[18:40]  ²⁵ tn Or “slaughtered.”

[21:15]  ²⁸ tn Heb “Jezebel”; the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“she”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.