1 Kings 6:8

6:8 The entrance to the bottom ¹  level of side rooms was on the south side of the temple; stairs went up ²  to the middle floor and then on up to the third ³  floor.

1 Kings 8:33

8:33 “The time will come when ⁴  your people Israel are defeated by an enemy ⁵  because they sinned against you. If they come back to you, renew their allegiance to you, ⁶  and pray for your help ⁷  in this temple,

1 Kings 8:47

8:47 When your people ⁸  come to their senses ⁹  in the land where they are held prisoner, they will repent and beg for your mercy in the land of their imprisonment, admitting, ‘We have sinned and gone astray; ¹⁰  we have done evil.’

1 Kings 12:12

12:12 Jeroboam and all the people reported ¹¹  to Rehoboam on the third day, just as the king had ordered when he said, “Return to me on the third day.”

1 Kings 12:23

12:23 “Say this to King Rehoboam son of Solomon of Judah, and to all Judah and Benjamin, as well as the rest of the people,

1 Kings 13:29

13:29 The old prophet ¹²  picked up the corpse of the prophet, ¹³  put it on the donkey, and brought it back. The old prophet then entered the city to mourn him and to bury him.

1 Kings 17:18-19

17:18 She asked Elijah, “Why, prophet, have you come ¹⁴  to me to confront me with ¹⁵  my sin and kill my son?” 17:19 He said to her, “Hand me your son.” He took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him down on his bed.

1 Kings 18:30

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. ¹⁶ 

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 21:5

21:5 Then his wife Jezebel came in and said to him, “Why do you have a bitter attitude and refuse to eat?”

1 Kings 21:8

21:8 She wrote out orders, ¹⁷  signed Ahab’s name to them, ¹⁸  and sealed them with his seal. She then sent the orders ¹⁹  to the leaders ²⁰  and to the nobles who lived in Naboth’s city. ²¹ 

1 Kings 21:11

21:11 The men of the ²²  city, the leaders ²³  and the nobles who lived there, ²⁴  followed the written orders Jezebel had sent them. ²⁵ 

1 Kings 22:16

22:16 The king said to him, “How many times must I make you solemnly promise in ²⁶  the name of the Lord to tell me only the truth?”

1 Kings 22:18

22:18 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Didn’t I tell you he does not prophesy prosperity for me, but disaster?”

1 Kings 22:26

22:26 Then the king of Israel said, “Take Micaiah and return him to Amon the city official and Joash the king’s son.

[6:8]  ¹ tc The Hebrew text has “middle,” but the remainder of the verse suggests this is an error.

[6:8]  ² tn Heb “by stairs they went up.” The word translated “stairs” occurs only here. Other options are “trapdoors” or “ladders.”

[6:8]  ³ tc The translation reads with a few medieval Hebrew mss, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate הַשְּׁלִשִׁית (hashÿlishit, “the third”) rather than MT הַשְּׁלִשִׁים (hashÿlishim, “the thirty”).

[8:33]  ⁴ tn Heb “when.” In the Hebrew text vv. 33-34 actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided into two sentences for stylistic reasons.

[8:33]  ⁵ tn Or “are struck down before an enemy.”

[8:33]  ⁶ tn Heb “confess [or perhaps, “praise”] your name.”

[8:33]  ⁷ tn Heb “and they pray and ask for help.”

[8:47]  ⁷ tn Heb “they”; the referent (your people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:47]  ⁸ tn Or “stop and reflect”; Heb “bring back to their heart.”

[8:47]  ⁹ tn Or “done wrong.”

[12:12]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “came.”

[13:29]  ¹³ tn Heb “the prophet.” The word “old” has been supplied in the translation to distinguish this individual from the other prophet.

[13:29]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “the man of God.”

[17:18]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “What to me and to you, man of God, that you have come.”

[17:18]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “to make me remember.”

[18:30]  ¹⁹ sn Torn down. The condition of the altar symbolizes the spiritual state of the people.

[21:8]  ²² tn Heb “scrolls.”

[21:8]  ²³ tn Heb “in the name of Ahab.”

[21:8]  ²⁴ tn Heb “scrolls.”

[21:8]  ²⁵ tn Heb “elders.”

[21:8]  ²⁶ tn Heb “to the nobles who were in his city, the ones who lived with Naboth.”

[21:11]  ²⁵ tn Heb “his.”

[21:11]  ²⁶ tn Heb “elders.”

[21:11]  ²⁷ tn Heb “and the nobles who were living in his city.”

[21:11]  ²⁸ tn Heb “did as Jezebel sent to them, just as was written in the scrolls which she sent to them.”

[22:16]  ²⁸ tn Or “swear an oath by.”