1 Kings 6:15

6:15 He constructed the walls inside the temple with cedar planks; he paneled the inside with wood from the floor of the temple to the rafters ¹  of the ceiling. He covered the temple floor with boards made from the wood of evergreens.

1 Kings 8:36

8:36 then listen from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Certainly ²  you will then teach them the right way to live ³  and send rain on your land that you have given your people to possess. ⁴ 

1 Kings 8:50

8:50 Forgive all the rebellious acts of your sinful people and cause their captors to have mercy on them. ⁵ 

1 Kings 9:5

9:5 Then I will allow your dynasty to rule over Israel permanently, ⁶  just as I promised your father David, ‘You will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’ ⁷ 

1 Kings 16:24

16:24 He purchased the hill of Samaria ⁸  from Shemer for two talents ⁹  of silver. He launched a construction project there ¹⁰  and named the city he built after Shemer, the former owner of the hill of Samaria.

1 Kings 17:14

17:14 For this is what the Lord God of Israel says, ‘The jar of flour will not be empty and the jug of oil will not run out until the day the Lord makes it rain on the surface of the ground.’”

1 Kings 18:25

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.” ¹¹ 

1 Kings 20:30

20:30 The remaining 27,000 ran to Aphek and went into the city, but the wall fell on them. ¹²  Now Ben Hadad ran into the city and hid in an inner room. ¹³ 

[6:15]  ¹ tc The MT reads קִירוֹת (qirot, “walls”), but this should be emended to קוֹרוֹת (qorot, “rafters”). See BDB 900 s.v. קוֹרָה.

[8:36]  ² tn The translation understands כִּי (ki) in an emphatic or asseverative sense.

[8:36]  ³ tn Heb “the good way in which they should walk.”

[8:36]  ⁴ tn Or “for an inheritance.”

[8:50]  ³ tn Heb “and forgive your people who have sinned against you, [forgive] all their rebellious acts by which they rebelled against you, and grant them mercy before their captors so they will show them mercy.”

[9:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever.”

[9:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel.”

[16:24]  ⁵ map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.

[16:24]  ⁶ tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 150 pounds of silver.

[16:24]  ⁷ tn Heb “he built up the hill.”

[18:25]  ⁶ tc The last sentence of v. 25 is absent in the Syriac Peshitta.

[20:30]  ⁷ tn Heb “and the remaining ones fled to Aphek to the city and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men, the ones who remained.”

[20:30]  ⁸ tn Heb “and Ben Hadad fled and went into the city, [into] an inner room in an inner room.”