1 Kings 8:29

8:29 Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. ¹  May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place. ² 

1 Kings 9:21

9:21 Their descendants remained in the land (the Israelites were unable to wipe them out completely). Solomon conscripted them for his work crews, and they continue in that role to this very day. ³ 

1 Kings 13:3

13:3 That day he also announced ⁴  a sign, “This is the sign the Lord has predetermined: ⁵  The altar will be split open and the ashes ⁶  on it will fall to the ground.” ⁷ 

1 Kings 13:11

13:11 Now there was an old prophet living in Bethel. ⁸  When his sons came home, they told their father ⁹  everything the prophet ¹⁰  had done in Bethel that day and all the words he had spoken to the king. ¹¹ 

1 Kings 22:35

22:35 While the battle raged throughout the day, the king stood propped up in his chariot opposite the Syrians. He died in the evening; the blood from the wound ran down into the bottom of the chariot.

[8:29]  ¹ tn Heb “so your eyes might be open toward this house night and day, toward the place about which you said, ‘My name will be there.’”

[8:29]  ² tn Heb “by listening to the prayer which your servant is praying concerning this place.”

[9:21]  ³ tn Heb “their sons who were left after them in the land, whom the sons of Israel were unable to wipe out, and Solomon raised them up for a crew of labor to this day.”

[13:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “gave.”

[13:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “spoken.”

[13:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “the fat.” Reference is made to burnt wood mixed with fat. See HALOT 234 s.v. דשׁן.

[13:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “will be poured out.”

[13:11]  ⁷ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[13:11]  ⁸ 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]  ⁹ tn Heb “the man of God.”

[13:11]  ¹⁰ 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.”