1 Kings 8:10

8:10 Once the priests left the holy place, a cloud filled the Lord’s temple.

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 20:19

20:19 They marched out of the city with the servants of the district governors in the lead and the army behind them.

1 Kings 20:21

20:21 Then the king of Israel marched out and struck down the horses and chariots; he thoroughly defeated ⁴  Syria.

[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.

[20:21]  ¹ tn Heb “struck down Aram with a great striking down.”