1 Kings 8:45

8:45 then listen from heaven to their prayers for help ¹  and vindicate them. ² 

1 Kings 8:49

8:49 then listen from your heavenly dwelling place to their prayers for help ³  and vindicate them. ⁴ 

1 Kings 18:28

18:28 So they yelled louder and, in accordance with their prescribed ritual, ⁵  mutilated themselves with swords and spears until their bodies were covered with blood. ⁶ 

1 Kings 3:28

3:28 When all Israel heard about the judicial decision which the king had rendered, they respected ⁷  the king, for they realized ⁸  that he possessed supernatural wisdom ⁹  to make judicial decisions.

1 Kings 8:59

8:59 May the Lord our God be constantly aware of these requests of mine I have presented to him, ¹⁰  so that he might vindicate ¹¹  his servant and his people Israel as the need arises.

1 Kings 4:28

4:28 Each one also brought to the assigned location his quota of barley and straw for the various horses. ¹² 

1 Kings 6:38

6:38 In the eleventh year, in the month Bul ¹³  (the eighth month) the temple was completed in accordance with all its specifications and blueprints. It took seven years to build. ¹⁴ 

1 Kings 7:7

7:7 He also made a throne room, called “The Hall of Judgment,” where he made judicial decisions. ¹⁵  It was paneled with cedar from the floor to the rafters. ¹⁶ 

1 Kings 8:58

8:58 May he make us submissive, ¹⁷  so we can follow all his instructions ¹⁸  and obey ¹⁹  the commandments, rules, and regulations he commanded our ancestors.

1 Kings 9:4

9:4 You must serve me with integrity and sincerity, just as your father David did. Do everything I commanded and obey my rules and regulations. ²⁰ 

1 Kings 20:40

20:40 Well, it just so happened that while your servant was doing this and that, he disappeared.” The king of Israel said to him, “Your punishment is already determined by your own testimony.” ²¹ 

1 Kings 2:3

2:3 Do the job the Lord your God has assigned you ²²  by following his instructions ²³  and obeying ²⁴  his rules, commandments, regulations, and laws as written in the law of Moses. Then you will succeed in all you do and seek to accomplish, ²⁵ 

1 Kings 3:11

3:11 God said to him, “Because you asked for the ability to make wise judicial decisions, and not for long life, or riches, or vengeance on your enemies, ²⁶ 

1 Kings 6:12

6:12 “As for this temple you are building, if you follow ²⁷  my rules, observe ²⁸  my regulations, and obey all my commandments, ²⁹  I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David. ³⁰ 

1 Kings 10:9

10:9 May the Lord your God be praised because he favored ³¹  you by placing you on the throne of Israel! Because of the Lord’s eternal love for Israel, he made you king so you could make just and right decisions.” ³² 

1 Kings 11:33

11:33 I am taking the kingdom from him ³³  because they have ³⁴  abandoned me and worshiped the Sidonian goddess Astarte, the Moabite god Chemosh, and the Ammonite god Milcom. They have not followed my instructions ³⁵  by doing what I approve and obeying my rules and regulations, like Solomon’s father David did. ³⁶ 

[8:45]  ¹ tn Heb “their prayer and their request for help.”

[8:45]  ² tn Heb “and accomplish their justice.”

[8:49]  ³ tn Heb “their prayer and their request for help.”

[8:49]  ⁴ tn Heb “and accomplish their justice.”

[18:28]  ⁵ tn Or “as was their custom.”

[18:28]  ⁶ tn Heb “until blood poured out on them.”

[3:28]  ⁷ tn Heb “feared,” perhaps in the sense, “stood in awe of.”

[3:28]  ⁸ tn Heb “saw.”

[3:28]  ⁹ tn Heb “the wisdom of God within him.”

[8:59]  ⁹ tn Heb “May these words of mine, which I have requested before the Lord, be near the Lord our God day and night.”

[8:59]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “accomplish the justice of.”

[4:28]  ¹¹ tn Heb “barley and straw for the horses and the steeds they brought to the place which was there, each according to his measure.”

[6:38]  ¹³ sn In the month Bul. This would be October-November 959 b.c. in modern reckoning.

[6:38]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “he built it in seven years.”

[7:7]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and a porch for the throne, where he was making judicial decisions, the Porch of Judgment, he made.”

[7:7]  ¹⁶ tc The Hebrew text reads, “from the floor to the floor.” The second occurrence of the term הַקַּרְקָע (haqqarqa’, “the floor”) is probably an error; one should emend to הַקּוֹרוֹת (haqqorot, “the rafters”). See 6:16.

[8:58]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “to bend our hearts toward him.” The infinitive is subordinate to the initial prayer, “may the Lord our God be with us.” The Hebrew term לֵבָב (levav, “heart”) here refers to the people’s volition and will.

[8:58]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “to walk in all his ways.”

[8:58]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “keep.”

[9:4]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “As for you, if you walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, by doing all which I commanded you, [and] you keep my rules and my regulations.” Verse 4 is actually a lengthy protasis (“if” section) of a conditional sentence, the apodosis (“then” section) of which appears in v. 5.

[20:40]  ²¹ tn Heb “so [i.e., in accordance with his testimony] is your judgment, you have determined [it].”

[2:3]  ²³ tn Heb “keep the charge of the Lord your God.”

[2:3]  ²⁴ tn Heb “by walking in his ways.”

[2:3]  ²⁵ tn Or “keeping.”

[2:3]  ²⁶ tn Heb “then you will cause to succeed all which you do and all which you turn there.”

[3:11]  ²⁵ tn Heb “because you asked for this thing, and did not ask for yourself many days and did not ask for yourself riches and did not ask for the life of your enemies, but you asked for yourself understanding to hear judgment.”

[6:12]  ²⁷ tn Heb “walk in.”

[6:12]  ²⁸ tn Heb “do.”

[6:12]  ²⁹ tn Heb “and keep all my commandments by walking in them.”

[6:12]  ³⁰ tn Heb “I will establish my word with you which I spoke to David your father.”

[10:9]  ²⁹ tn Or “delighted in.”

[10:9]  ³⁰ tn Heb “to do justice and righteousness.”

[11:33]  ³¹ tn The words “I am taking the kingdom from him” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[11:33]  ³² tc This is the reading of the MT; the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate read “he has.”

[11:33]  ³³ tn Heb “walked in my ways.”

[11:33]  ³⁴ tn Heb “by doing what is right in my eyes, my rules and my regulations, like David his father.”