1 Kings 3:10

3:10 The Lord ¹  was pleased that Solomon made this request. ² 

1 Kings 12:30

12:30 This caused Israel to sin; ³  the people went to Bethel and Dan to worship the calves. ⁴ 

1 Kings 20:24

20:24 So do this: Dismiss the kings from their command, and replace them with military commanders.

1 Kings 2:23

2:23 King Solomon then swore an oath by the Lord, “May God judge me severely, ⁵  if Adonijah does not pay for this request with his life! ⁶ 

1 Kings 2:38

2:38 Shimei said to the king, “My master the king’s proposal is acceptable. ⁷  Your servant will do as you say.” ⁸  So Shimei lived in Jerusalem for a long time. ⁹ 

1 Kings 10:6

10:6 She said to the king, “The report I heard in my own country about your wise sayings and insight ¹⁰  was true!

1 Kings 11:10

11:10 and had warned him about this very thing, so that he would not follow other gods. ¹¹  But he did not obey ¹²  the Lord’s command.

1 Kings 11:27

11:27 This is what prompted him to rebel against the king: ¹³  Solomon built a terrace and he closed up a gap in the wall of the city of his father David. ¹⁴ 

1 Kings 20:12

20:12 When Ben Hadad received this reply, ¹⁵  he and the other kings were drinking in their quarters. ¹⁶  He ordered his servants, “Get ready to attack!” So they got ready to attack the city.

1 Kings 1:27

1:27 Has my master the king authorized this without informing your servants ¹⁷  who should succeed my master the king on his throne?” ¹⁸ 

1 Kings 2:42

2:42 the king summoned ¹⁹  Shimei and said to him, “You will recall ²⁰  that I made you take an oath by the Lord, and I solemnly warned you, ‘If you ever leave and go anywhere, ²¹  know for sure that you will certainly die.’ You said to me, ‘The proposal is acceptable; I agree to it.’ ²² 

1 Kings 3:11

3:11 God said to him, “Because you asked for the ability to make wise judicial decisions, and not for long life, or riches, or vengeance on your enemies, ²³ 

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.”’” ²⁴  They obeyed the Lord and went home as the Lord had ordered them to do. ²⁵ 

1 Kings 13:32-33

13:32 for the prophecy he announced with the Lord’s authority ²⁶  against the altar in Bethel ²⁷  and against all the temples on the high places in the cities of the north ²⁸  will certainly be fulfilled.”

A Prophet Announces the End of Jeroboam’s Dynasty

13:33 After this happened, Jeroboam still did not change his evil ways; ²⁹  he continued to appoint common people ³⁰  as priests at the high places. Anyone who wanted the job he consecrated as a priest. ³¹ 

1 Kings 18:24

18:24 Then you ³²  will invoke the name of your god, and I will invoke the name of the Lord. The god who responds with fire will demonstrate that he is the true God.” ³³  All the people responded, “This will be a fair test.” ³⁴ 

1 Kings 21:4

21:4 So Ahab went into his palace, bitter and angry that Naboth the Jezreelite had said, ³⁵  “I will not sell to you my ancestral inheritance.” ³⁶  He lay down on his bed, pouted, ³⁷  and would not eat.

[3:10]  ¹ tn The Hebrew term translated “Lord” here and in v.15 is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).

[3:10]  ² tn Heb “And the thing was good in the eyes of the Lord, for Solomon asked for this thing.”

[12:30]  ³ tn Heb “and this thing became a sin.”

[12:30]  ⁴ tc The MT reads “and the people went before the one to Dan.” It is likely that some words have been accidentally omitted and that the text originally said, “and the people went before the one at Bethel and before the one at Dan.”

[2:23]  ⁵ tn Heb “So may God do to me, and so may he add.”

[2:23]  ⁶ tn Heb “if with his life Adonijah has not spoken this word.”

[2:38]  ⁷ tn Heb “Good is the word, as my master the king has spoken.”

[2:38]  ⁸ tn Heb “so your servant will do.”

[2:38]  ⁹ tn Heb “many days.”

[10:6]  ⁹ tn Heb “about your words [or perhaps, “deeds”] and your wisdom.”

[11:10]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and had commanded him concerning this thing not to walk after other gods.”

[11:10]  ¹² tn Or “keep.”

[11:27]  ¹³ tn Heb “this is the matter concerning which he raised a hand against the king.”

[11:27]  ¹⁴ sn The city of his father David. The phrase refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

[20:12]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “When he heard this word.”

[20:12]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “in the temporary shelters.” This is probably referring to tents.

[1:27]  ¹⁷ tc Many Hebrew mss and ancient textual witnesses agree with the Qere in reading this as singular, “your servant.”

[1:27]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “From my master the king is this thing done, and you did not make known to your servants who will sit on the throne of my master the king after him?”

[2:42]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “sent and summoned.”

[2:42]  ²⁰ tn Heb “Is it not [true]…?” In the Hebrew text the statement is interrogative; the rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course it is.”

[2:42]  ²¹ tn Heb “here or there.”

[2:42]  ²² tn Heb “good is the word; I have heard.”

[3:11]  ²¹ tn Heb “because you asked for this thing, and did not ask for yourself many days and did not ask for yourself riches and did not ask for the life of your enemies, but you asked for yourself understanding to hear judgment.”

[12:24]  ²³ tn Heb “for this thing is from me.”

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

[13:32]  ²⁵ tn Heb “for the word which he cried out by the word of the Lord”

[13:32]  ²⁶ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[13:32]  ²⁷ tn Heb “Samaria.” The name of Israel’s capital city here stands for the northern kingdom as a whole. Actually Samaria was not built and named until several years after this (see 1 Kgs 16:24), so it is likely that the author of Kings, writing at a later time, is here adapting the old prophet’s original statement.

[13:33]  ²⁷ tn Heb “did not turn from his evil way.”

[13:33]  ²⁸ sn The expression common people refers to people who were not Levites. See 1 Kgs 12:31.

[13:33]  ²⁹ tn Heb “and one who had the desire he was filling his hand so that he became [one of] the priests of the high places.”

[18:24]  ²⁹ tn Elijah now directly addresses the prophets.

[18:24]  ³⁰ tn Heb “the God.”

[18:24]  ³¹ tn Heb “The matter [i.e., proposal] is good [i.e., acceptable].”

[21:4]  ³¹ tn Heb “on account of the word that Naboth the Jezreelite spoke to him.”

[21:4]  ³² tn Heb “I will not give to you the inheritance of my fathers.”

[21:4]  ³³ tn Heb “turned away his face.”