1 Kings 5:3

5:3 “You know that my father David was unable to build a temple to honor the Lord ¹  his God, for he was busy fighting battles on all fronts while the Lord subdued his enemies. ² 

1 Kings 14:6

14:6 When Ahijah heard the sound of her footsteps as she came through the door, he said, “Come on in, wife of Jeroboam! Why are you pretending to be someone else? I have been commissioned to give you bad news. ³ 

1 Kings 15:23

15:23 The rest of the events of Asa’s reign, including all his successes and accomplishments, as well as a record of the cities he built, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah. ⁴  Yet when he was very old he developed a foot disease. ⁵ 

1 Kings 20:10

20:10 Ben Hadad sent another message to him, “May the gods judge me severely ⁶  if there is enough dirt left in Samaria for my soldiers to scoop up in their hands.” ⁷ 

[5:3]  ¹ tn Heb “a house for the name of the Lord.” The word “name” sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor. The “name” of the Lord sometimes designates the Lord himself, being indistinguishable from the proper name.

[5:3]  ² tn Heb “because of the battles which surrounded him until the Lord placed them under the soles of his feet.”

[14:6]  ³ tn Heb “I am sent to you [with] a hard [message].”

[15:23]  ⁵ tn Heb “As for the rest of all the events of Asa, and all his strength and all which he did and the cities which he built, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?”

[15:23]  ⁶ tn Heb “Yet in the time of his old age he became sick in his feet.”

[20:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “So may the gods do to me, and so may they add.”

[20:10]  ⁸ tn Heb “if the dirt of Samaria suffices for the handfuls of all the people who are at my feet.”