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 8:16

8:16 He told David, ³  ‘Since the day I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from all the tribes of Israel to build a temple in which to live. ⁴  But I have chosen David to lead my people Israel.’

1 Kings 8:20

8:20 The Lord has kept the promise he made. ⁵  I have taken my father David’s place and have occupied the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised. I have built this temple for the honor ⁶  of the Lord God of Israel

1 Kings 8:29

8:29 Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. ⁷  May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place. ⁸ 

1 Kings 8:35

8:35 “The time will come when ⁹  the skies are shut up tightly and no rain falls because your people ¹⁰  sinned against you. When they direct their prayers toward this place, renew their allegiance to you, ¹¹  and turn away from their sin because you punish ¹²  them,

1 Kings 8:44

8:44 “When you direct your people to march out and fight their enemies, ¹³  and they direct their prayers to the Lord ¹⁴  toward his chosen city and this temple I built for your honor, ¹⁵ 

1 Kings 8:48

8:48 When they return to you with all their heart and being ¹⁶  in the land where they are held prisoner, ¹⁷  and direct their prayers to you toward the land you gave to their ancestors, your chosen city, and the temple I built for your honor, ¹⁸ 

1 Kings 9:3

9:3 The Lord said to him, “I have answered ¹⁹  your prayer and your request for help that you made to me. I have consecrated this temple you built by making it my permanent home; ²⁰  I will be constantly present there. ²¹ 

1 Kings 9:7

9:7 then I will remove Israel from the land ²²  I have given them, I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence, ²³  and Israel will be mocked and ridiculed ²⁴  among all the nations.

1 Kings 11:36

11:36 I will leave ²⁵  his son one tribe so my servant David’s dynasty may continue to serve me ²⁶  in Jerusalem, the city I have chosen as my home. ²⁷ 

1 Kings 13:2

13:2 With the authority of the Lord ²⁸  he cried out against the altar, “O altar, altar! This is what the Lord says, ‘Look, a son named Josiah will be born to the Davidic dynasty. He will sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who offer sacrifices on you. Human bones will be burned on you.’” ²⁹ 

1 Kings 18:25-26

18:25 Elijah told the prophets of Baal, “Choose one of the bulls for yourselves and go first, for you are the majority. Invoke the name of your god, but do not light a fire.” ³⁰  18:26 So they took a bull, as he had suggested, ³¹  and prepared it. They invoked the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, “Baal, answer us.” But there was no sound and no answer. They jumped ³²  around on the altar they had made. ³³ 

[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.”

[8:16]  ³ tn Heb “saying.”

[8:16]  ⁴ tn Heb “to build a house for my name to be there.”

[8:20]  ⁵ tn Heb “his word that he spoke.”

[8:20]  ⁶ tn Heb “name.”

[8:29]  ⁷ tn Heb “so your eyes might be open toward this house night and day, toward the place about which you said, ‘My name will be there.’”

[8:29]  ⁸ tn Heb “by listening to the prayer which your servant is praying concerning this place.”

[8:35]  ⁹ tn Heb “when.” In the Hebrew text vv. 35-36a actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided into two sentences for stylistic reasons.

[8:35]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “they”; the referent (your people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:35]  ¹¹ tn Heb “confess [or perhaps, “praise”] your name.”

[8:35]  ¹² tn The Hebrew text has “because you answer them,” as if the verb is from עָנָה (’anah, “to answer”). However, this reference to a divine answer is premature, since the next verse asks for God to intervene in mercy. It is better to revocalize the consonantal text as תְעַנֵּם (tÿ’annem, “you afflict them”), a Piel verb form from the homonym עָנָה (“to afflict”).

[8:44]  ¹¹ tn Heb “When your people go out for battle against their enemies in the way which you send them.”

[8:44]  ¹² tn Or perhaps “to you, O Lord.” See 2 Chr 6:34.

[8:44]  ¹³ tn Heb “your name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in v. 41.

[8:48]  ¹³ tn Or “soul.”

[8:48]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “in the land of their enemies.”

[8:48]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “your name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in v. 41.

[9:3]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “I have heard.”

[9:3]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “by placing my name there perpetually” (or perhaps, “forever”).

[9:3]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and my eyes and my heart will be there all the days.”

[9:7]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “I will cut off Israel from upon the surface of the land.”

[9:7]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “and the temple which I consecrated for my name I will send away from before my face.”

[9:7]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “will become a proverb and a taunt,” that is, a proverbial example of destruction and an object of reproach.

[11:36]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “give.”

[11:36]  ²⁰ tn Heb “so there might be a lamp for David my servant all the days before me in Jerusalem.” The metaphorical “lamp” symbolizes the Davidic dynasty. Because this imagery is unfamiliar to the modern reader, the translation “so my servant David’s dynasty may continue to serve me” has been used.

[11:36]  ²¹ tn Heb “so there might be a lamp for David my servant all the days before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there.”

[13:2]  ²¹ tn Heb “by the word of the Lord.”

[13:2]  ²² sn ‘Look…you.’ For the fulfillment of this prophecy see 2 Kgs 23:15-20.

[18:25]  ²³ tc The last sentence of v. 25 is absent in the Syriac Peshitta.

[18:26]  ²⁵ tn Heb “and they took the bull which he allowed them.”

[18:26]  ²⁶ tn Heb “limped” (the same verb is used in v. 21).

[18:26]  ²⁷ tc The MT has “which he made,” but some medieval Hebrew mss and the ancient versions have the plural form of the verb.