1 Kings 6:13

6:13 I will live among the Israelites and will not abandon my people Israel.”

1 Kings 8:51

8:51 After all, ¹  they are your people and your special possession ²  whom you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron-smelting furnace. ³ 

1 Kings 8:60

8:60 Then ⁴  all the nations of the earth will recognize that the Lord is the only genuine God. ⁵ 

1 Kings 12:5

12:5 He said to them, “Go away for three days, then return to me.” So the people went away.

1 Kings 12:13

12:13 The king responded to the people harshly. He rejected the advice of the older men

1 Kings 12:30

12:30 This caused Israel to sin; ⁶  the people went to Bethel and Dan to worship the calves. ⁷ 

1 Kings 20:8

20:8 All the leaders and people said to him, “Do not give in or agree to his demands.” ⁸ 

1 Kings 21:9

21:9 This is what she wrote: ⁹  “Observe a time of fasting and seat Naboth in front of the people.

[8:51]  ¹ tn Or “for.”

[8:51]  ² tn Heb “inheritance.”

[8:51]  ³ tn The Hebrew term כּוּר (kur, “furnace,” cf. Akkadian ku„ru) is a metaphor for the intense heat of purification. A כּוּר was not a source of heat but a crucible (“iron-smelting furnace”) in which precious metals were melted down and their impurities burned away (see I. Cornelius, NIDOTTE 2:618-19). Thus Egypt served not as a place of punishment for the Israelites, but as a place of refinement to bring Israel to a place of submission to divine sovereignty.

[8:60]  ¹ tn Heb “so that.”

[8:60]  ² tn Heb “the Lord, he is the God, there is no other.”

[12:30]  ¹ tn Heb “and this thing became a sin.”

[12:30]  ² 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.”

[20:8]  ¹ tn Heb “Do not listen and do not be willing.”

[21:9]  ¹ tn Heb “she wrote on the scrolls, saying.”