1 Kings 7:23

7:23 He also made the large bronze basin called “The Sea.” ¹  It measured 15 feet ²  from rim to rim, was circular in shape, and stood seven-and-a-half feet ³  high. Its circumference was 45 feet. ⁴ 

1 Kings 7:29

7:29 On these frames and joints were ornamental lions, bulls, and cherubs. Under the lions and bulls were decorative wreaths. ⁵ 

1 Kings 8:39

8:39 then listen from your heavenly dwelling place, forgive their sin, ⁶  and act favorably toward each one based on your evaluation of his motives. ⁷  (Indeed you are the only one who can correctly evaluate the motives of all people.) ⁸ 

1 Kings 8:63

8:63 Solomon offered as peace offerings ⁹  to the Lord 22,000 cattle and 120,000 sheep. Then the king and all the Israelites dedicated the Lord’s temple.

1 Kings 10:10

10:10 She gave the king 120 talents ¹⁰  of gold, a very large quantity of spices, and precious gems. The quantity of spices the queen of Sheba gave King Solomon has never been matched. ¹¹ 

1 Kings 10:29

10:29 They paid 600 silver pieces for each chariot from Egypt and 150 silver pieces for each horse. They also sold chariots and horses to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Syria. ¹² 

1 Kings 11:11

11:11 So the Lord said to Solomon, “Because you insist on doing these things and have not kept the covenantal rules I gave you, ¹³  I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant.

1 Kings 12:21

12:21 When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he summoned 180,000 skilled warriors from all of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin ¹⁴  to attack Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam son of Solomon.

1 Kings 13:11

13:11 Now there was an old prophet living in Bethel. ¹⁵  When his sons came home, they told their father ¹⁶  everything the prophet ¹⁷  had done in Bethel that day and all the words he had spoken to the king. ¹⁸ 

1 Kings 13:33

A Prophet Announces the End of Jeroboam’s Dynasty

13:33 After this happened, Jeroboam still did not change his evil ways; ¹⁹  he continued to appoint common people ²⁰  as priests at the high places. Anyone who wanted the job he consecrated as a priest. ²¹ 

1 Kings 16:9

16:9 His servant Zimri, a commander of half of his chariot force, conspired against him. While Elah was drinking heavily ²²  at the house of Arza, who supervised the palace in Tirzah,

1 Kings 18:24

18:24 Then you ²³  will invoke the name of your god, and I will invoke the name of the Lord. The god who responds with fire will demonstrate that he is the true God.” ²⁴  All the people responded, “This will be a fair test.” ²⁵ 

1 Kings 22:17

22:17 Micaiah ²⁶  said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains like sheep that have no shepherd. Then the Lord said, ‘They have no master. They should go home in peace.’”

[7:23]  ¹ tn Heb “He made the sea, cast.”

[7:23]  ² tn Heb “ten cubits.”

[7:23]  ³ tn Heb “five cubits.”

[7:23]  ⁴ tn Heb “and a measuring line went around it thirty cubits all around.”

[7:29]  ⁵ tn The precise meaning of these final words is uncertain. A possible literal translation would be, “wreaths, the work of descent.”

[8:39]  ⁹ tn The words “their sin” are added for clarification.

[8:39]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and act and give to each one according to all his ways because you know his heart.” In the Hebrew text vv. 37-39a actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided up for stylistic reasons.

[8:39]  ¹¹ tn Heb “Indeed you know, you alone, the heart of all the sons of mankind.”

[8:63]  ¹³ tn Or “tokens of peace”; NIV, TEV “fellowship offerings.”

[10:10]  ¹⁷ 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 9,000 pounds of gold (cf. NCV, NLT); CEV “five tons”; TEV “4,000 kilogrammes.”

[10:10]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “there has not come like those spices yet for quantity which the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.”

[10:29]  ²¹ tn Heb “and a chariot went up and came out of Egypt for six hundred silver [pieces], and a horse for one hundred fifty, and in the same way to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Aram by their hand they brought out.”

[11:11]  ²⁵ tn Heb “Because this is with you, and you have not kept my covenant and my rules which I commanded you.”

[12:21]  ²⁹ tn Heb “he summoned all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, one hundred eighty thousand chosen men, accomplished in war.”

[13:11]  ³³ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[13:11]  ³⁴ tn Heb “and his son came and told him.” The MT has the singular here, but several other textual witnesses have the plural, which is more consistent with the second half of the verse and with vv. 12-13.

[13:11]  ³⁵ tn Heb “the man of God.”

[13:11]  ³⁶ tn Heb “all the actions which the man of God performed that day in Bethel, the words which he spoke to the king, and they told them to their father.”

[13:33]  ³⁷ tn Heb “did not turn from his evil way.”

[13:33]  ³⁸ sn The expression common people refers to people who were not Levites. See 1 Kgs 12:31.

[13:33]  ³⁹ tn Heb “and one who had the desire he was filling his hand so that he became [one of] the priests of the high places.”

[16:9]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “while he was drinking and drunken.”

[18:24]  ⁴⁵ tn Elijah now directly addresses the prophets.

[18:24]  ⁴⁶ tn Heb “the God.”

[18:24]  ⁴⁷ tn Heb “The matter [i.e., proposal] is good [i.e., acceptable].”

[22:17]  ⁴⁹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Micaiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.