1 Kings 3:21

3:21 I got up in the morning to nurse my son, and there he was, ¹  dead! But when I examined him carefully in the morning, I realized it was not my baby.” ² 

1 Kings 8:58

8:58 May he make us submissive, ³  so we can follow all his instructions ⁴  and obey ⁵  the commandments, rules, and regulations he commanded our ancestors.

1 Kings 11:9-10

11:9 The Lord was angry with Solomon because he had shifted his allegiance ⁶  away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him on two occasions ⁷  11:10 and had warned him about this very thing, so that he would not follow other gods. ⁸  But he did not obey ⁹  the Lord’s command.

1 Kings 13:14

13:14 and took off after the prophet, ¹⁰  whom he found sitting under an oak tree. He asked him, “Are you the prophet ¹¹  from Judah?” He answered, “Yes, I am.”

1 Kings 14:3

14:3 Take ¹²  ten loaves of bread, some small cakes, and a container of honey and visit him. He will tell you what will happen to the boy.”

1 Kings 18:30-31

18:30 Elijah then told all the people, “Approach me.” So all the people approached him. He repaired the altar of the Lord that had been torn down. ¹³  18:31 Then Elijah took twelve stones, corresponding to the number of tribes that descended from Jacob, to whom the Lord had said, “Israel will be your new ¹⁴  name.” ¹⁵ 

1 Kings 19:9

19:9 He went into a cave there and spent the night. All of a sudden the Lord spoke to him, “Why are you here, Elijah?”

1 Kings 19:13

19:13 When Elijah heard it, he covered his face with his robe and went out and stood at the entrance to the cave. All of a sudden ¹⁶  a voice asked him, “Why are you here, Elijah?”

1 Kings 19:15

19:15 The Lord said to him, “Go back the way you came and then head for the Desert of Damascus. Go and anoint Hazael king over Syria.

1 Kings 20:40

20:40 Well, it just so happened that while your servant was doing this and that, he disappeared.” The king of Israel said to him, “Your punishment is already determined by your own testimony.” ¹⁷ 

1 Kings 20:42

20:42 The prophet ¹⁸  then said to him, “This is what the Lord says, ‘Because you released a man I had determined should die, you will pay with your life and your people will suffer instead of his people.’” ¹⁹ 

1 Kings 22:16

22:16 The king said to him, “How many times must I make you solemnly promise in ²⁰  the name of the Lord to tell me only the truth?”

[3:21]  ¹ tn Heb “look.”

[3:21]  ² tn Heb “look, it was not my son to whom I had given birth.”

[8:58]  ³ tn Heb “to bend our hearts toward him.” The infinitive is subordinate to the initial prayer, “may the Lord our God be with us.” The Hebrew term לֵבָב (levav, “heart”) here refers to the people’s volition and will.

[8:58]  ⁴ tn Heb “to walk in all his ways.”

[8:58]  ⁵ tn Heb “keep.”

[11:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “bent his heart.”

[11:9]  ⁶ sn These two occasions are mentioned in 1 Kgs 3:5 and 9:2.

[11:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “and had commanded him concerning this thing not to walk after other gods.”

[11:10]  ⁸ tn Or “keep.”

[13:14]  ⁹ tn Heb “the man of God.”

[13:14]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the man of God.”

[14:3]  ¹¹ tn Heb “take in your hand.”

[18:30]  ¹³ sn Torn down. The condition of the altar symbolizes the spiritual state of the people.

[18:31]  ¹⁵ tn The word “new” is implied but not actually present in the Hebrew text.

[18:31]  ¹⁶ sn Israel will be your new name. See Gen 32:28; 35:10.

[19:13]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “look.”

[20:40]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “so [i.e., in accordance with his testimony] is your judgment, you have determined [it].”

[20:42]  ²¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the prophet) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:42]  ²² tn Heb “Because you sent away the man of my destruction [i.e., that I determined should be destroyed] from [my/your?] hand, your life will be in place of his life, and your people in place of his people.”

[22:16]  ²³ tn Or “swear an oath by.”