1 Kings 3:17-18

3:17 One of the women said, “My master, this woman and I live in the same house. I had a baby while she was with me in the house. 3:18 Then three days after I had my baby, this woman also had a baby. We were alone; there was no one else in the house except the two of us. ¹ 

1 Kings 12:19

12:19 So Israel has been in rebellion against the Davidic dynasty to this very day.

1 Kings 12:29

12:29 He put one in Bethel ²  and the other in Dan.

1 Kings 13:11

13:11 Now there was an old prophet living in Bethel. ³  When his sons came home, they told their father ⁴  everything the prophet ⁵  had done in Bethel that day and all the words he had spoken to the king. ⁶ 

1 Kings 6:7

6:7 As the temple was being built, only stones shaped at the quarry ⁷  were used; the sound of hammers, pickaxes, or any other iron tool was not heard at the temple while it was being built.

1 Kings 8:31

8:31 “When someone is accused of sinning against his neighbor and the latter pronounces a curse on the alleged offender before your altar in this temple, be willing to forgive the accused if the accusation is false. ⁸ 

1 Kings 8:33

8:33 “The time will come when ⁹  your people Israel are defeated by an enemy ¹⁰  because they sinned against you. If they come back to you, renew their allegiance to you, ¹¹  and pray for your help ¹²  in this temple,

1 Kings 12:32

12:32 Jeroboam inaugurated a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, ¹³  like the festival celebrated in Judah. ¹⁴  On the altar in Bethel he offered sacrifices to the calves he had made. ¹⁵  In Bethel he also appointed priests for the high places he had made.

1 Kings 12:27

12:27 If these people go up to offer sacrifices in the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem, ¹⁶  their loyalty could shift to their former master, ¹⁷  King Rehoboam of Judah. They might kill me and return to King Rehoboam of Judah.”

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) ¹⁸  Jeroboam ¹⁹  offered sacrifices on the altar he had made in Bethel. ²⁰  He inaugurated a festival for the Israelites and went up to the altar to offer sacrifices.

1 Kings 13:4

13:4 When the king heard what the prophet ²¹  cried out against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam, standing at the altar, extended his hand ²²  and ordered, ²³  “Seize him!” The hand he had extended shriveled up ²⁴  and he could not pull it back.

1 Kings 13:32

13:32 for the prophecy he announced with the Lord’s authority ²⁵  against the altar in Bethel ²⁶  and against all the temples on the high places in the cities of the north ²⁷  will certainly be fulfilled.”

1 Kings 14:13

14:13 All Israel will mourn him and bury him. He is the only one in Jeroboam’s family ²⁸  who will receive a decent burial, for he is the only one in whom the Lord God of Israel found anything good.

[3:18]  ¹ sn There was no one else in the house except the two of us. In other words, there were no other witnesses to the births who could identify which child belonged to which mother.

[12:29]  ¹ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[13:11]  ¹ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[13:11]  ² tn Heb “and his son came and told him.” The MT has the singular here, but several other textual witnesses have the plural, which is more consistent with the second half of the verse and with vv. 12-13.

[13:11]  ³ tn Heb “the man of God.”

[13:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “all the actions which the man of God performed that day in Bethel, the words which he spoke to the king, and they told them to their father.”

[6:7]  ¹ tn Heb “finished stone of the quarry,” i.e., stones chiseled and shaped at the time they were taken out of the quarry.

[8:31]  ¹ tn Heb “and forgive the man who sins against his neighbor when one takes up against him a curse to curse him and the curse comes before your altar in this house.” In the Hebrew text the words “and forgive” conclude v. 30, but the accusative sign at the beginning of v. 31 suggests the verb actually goes with what follows in v. 31. The parallel text in 2 Chr 6:22 begins with “and if,” rather than the accusative sign. In this case “forgive” must be taken with what precedes, and v. 31 must be taken as the protasis (“if” clause) of a conditional sentence, with v. 32 being the apodosis (“then” clause) that completes the sentence.

[8:33]  ¹ tn Heb “when.” In the Hebrew text vv. 33-34 actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided into two sentences for stylistic reasons.

[8:33]  ² tn Or “are struck down before an enemy.”

[8:33]  ³ tn Heb “confess [or perhaps, “praise”] your name.”

[8:33]  ⁴ tn Heb “and they pray and ask for help.”

[12:32]  ¹ sn The eighth month would correspond to October-November in modern reckoning.

[12:32]  ² sn The festival he celebrated in Judah probably refers to the Feast of Tabernacles (i.e., Booths or Temporary Shelters), held in the seventh month (September-October). See also 1 Kgs 8:2.

[12:32]  ³ tn Heb “and he offered up [sacrifices] on the altar; he did this in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves which he had made.”

[12:27]  ¹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[12:27]  ² tn Heb “the heart of these people could return to their master.”

[12:33]  ¹ tn Heb “which he had chosen by himself.”

[12:33]  ² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jeroboam) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[12:33]  ³ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[13:4]  ¹ tn Heb “the man of God.”

[13:4]  ² tn Heb “Jeroboam extended his hand from the altar.”

[13:4]  ³ tn Heb “saying.”

[13:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “dried up” or “withered.” TEV and NLT interpret this as “became paralyzed.”

[13:32]  ¹ tn Heb “for the word which he cried out by the word of the Lord”

[13:32]  ² map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[13:32]  ³ 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.

[14:13]  ¹ tn Heb “house.”