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 ¹  until he could finish building his residence and the temple of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem. ² 

1 Kings 6:14

6:14 So Solomon finished building the temple. ³ 

1 Kings 6:28

6:28 He plated the cherubs with gold.

1 Kings 7:14

7:14 He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, ⁴  and his father was a craftsman in bronze from Tyre. He had the skill and knowledge ⁵  to make all kinds of works of bronze. He reported to King Solomon and did all the work he was assigned.

1 Kings 7:40

7:40 Hiram also made basins, shovels, and bowls. He ⁶  finished all the work on the Lord’s temple he had been assigned by King Solomon. ⁷ 

1 Kings 7:45

7:45 and the pots, shovels, and bowls. All these items King Solomon assigned Hiram to make for the Lord’s temple ⁸  were made from polished bronze.

1 Kings 7:51

7:51 When King Solomon finished constructing the Lord’s temple, he ⁹  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 9:19

9:19 all the storage cities that belonged to him, ¹⁰  and the cities where chariots and horses were kept. ¹¹  He built whatever he wanted in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout his entire kingdom. ¹² 

1 Kings 14:15

14:15 The Lord will attack Israel, making it like a reed that sways in the water. ¹³  He will remove Israel from this good land he gave to their ancestors ¹⁴  and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, ¹⁵  because they angered the Lord by making Asherah poles. ¹⁶ 

1 Kings 14:26

14:26 He took away the treasures of the Lord’s temple and of the royal palace; he took everything, including all the golden shields that Solomon had made.

1 Kings 16:24

16:24 He purchased the hill of Samaria ¹⁷  from Shemer for two talents ¹⁸  of silver. He launched a construction project there ¹⁹  and named the city he built after Shemer, the former owner of the hill of Samaria.

[3:1]  ¹ 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]  ² map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[6:14]  ³ tn Heb “ built the house and completed it.”

[7:14]  ⁵ tn 2 Chr 2:14 (13 HT) says “from the daughters of Dan.”

[7:14]  ⁶ tn Heb “he was filled with the skill, understanding, and knowledge.”

[7:40]  ⁷ tn Heb “Hiram.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[7:40]  ⁸ tn Heb “Hiram finished doing all the work which he did for King Solomon [on] the house of the Lord.”

[7:45]  ⁹ tn Heb “which Hiram made for King Solomon [for] the house of the Lord.”

[7:51]  ¹¹ tn Heb “Solomon.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[9:19]  ¹³ tn Heb “to Solomon.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[9:19]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “the cities of the chariots and the cities of the horses.”

[9:19]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and the desire of Solomon which he desired to build in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land of his kingdom.”

[14:15]  ¹⁵ tn The elliptical Hebrew text reads literally “and the Lord will strike Israel as a reed sways in the water.”

[14:15]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 22, 31).

[14:15]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “the River.” In biblical Hebrew this is a typical reference to the Euphrates River. The name “Euphrates” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[14:15]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “because they made their Asherah poles that anger the Lord”; or “their images of Asherah”; ASV, NASB “their Asherim”; NCV “they set up idols to worship Asherah.”

[16:24]  ¹⁷ map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.

[16:24]  ¹⁸ tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 150 pounds of silver.

[16:24]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “he built up the hill.”