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 3:9

3:9 So give your servant a discerning mind ⁴  so he can make judicial decisions for ⁵  your people and distinguish right from wrong. ⁶  Otherwise ⁷  no one is able ⁸  to make judicial decisions for ⁹  this great nation of yours.” ¹⁰ 

1 Kings 3:8

3:8 Your servant stands ¹¹  among your chosen people; ¹²  they are a great nation that is too numerous to count or number.

1 Kings 8:33-34

8:33 “The time will come when ¹³  your people Israel are defeated by an enemy ¹⁴  because they sinned against you. If they come back to you, renew their allegiance to you, ¹⁵  and pray for your help ¹⁶  in this temple, 8:34 then listen from heaven, forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them back to the land you gave to their ancestors.

1 Kings 8:52

8:52 “May you be attentive ¹⁷  to your servant’s and your people Israel’s requests for help and may you respond to all their prayers to you. ¹⁸ 

1 Kings 2:8

2:8 “Note well, you still have to contend with Shimei son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahurim, ¹⁹  who tried to call down upon me a horrible judgment when I went to Mahanaim. ²⁰  He came down and met me at the Jordan, and I solemnly promised ²¹  him by the Lord, ‘I will not strike you down ²²  with the sword.’

1 Kings 8:38

8:38 When all your people Israel pray and ask for help, ²³  as they acknowledge their pain ²⁴  and spread out their hands toward this temple,

1 Kings 8:44

8:44 “When you direct your people to march out and fight their enemies, ²⁵  and they direct their prayers to the Lord ²⁶  toward his chosen city and this temple I built for your honor, ²⁷ 

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, ²⁸  I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant.

1 Kings 13:8

13:8 But the prophet said to the king, “Even if you were to give me half your possessions, ²⁹  I could not go with you and eat and drink ³⁰  in this place.

1 Kings 3:6

3:6 Solomon replied, “You demonstrated ³¹  great loyalty to your servant, my father David, as he served ³²  you faithfully, properly, and sincerely. ³³  You have maintained this great loyalty to this day by allowing his son to sit on his throne. ³⁴ 

1 Kings 11:38

11:38 You must obey ³⁵  all I command you to do, follow my instructions, ³⁶  do what I approve, ³⁷  and keep my rules and commandments, like my servant David did. Then I will be with you and establish for you a lasting dynasty, as I did for David; ³⁸  I will give you Israel.

[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.

[3:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “a hearing heart.” (The Hebrew term translated “heart” often refers to the mental faculties.)

[3:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “to judge.”

[3:9]  ⁶ tn Heb “to understand between good and evil.”

[3:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “for”; the word “otherwise” is used to reflect the logical sense of the statement.

[3:9]  ⁸ tn Heb “who is able?” The rhetorical question anticipates the answer, “no one.”

[3:9]  ⁹ tn Heb “to judge.”

[3:9]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “your numerous people.”

[3:8]  ⁷ tn There is no verb expressed in the Hebrew text; “stands” is supplied in the translation for clarification.

[3:8]  ⁸ tn Heb “your people whom you have chosen.”

[8:33]  ¹⁰ 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]  ¹¹ tn Or “are struck down before an enemy.”

[8:33]  ¹² tn Heb “confess [or perhaps, “praise”] your name.”

[8:33]  ¹³ tn Heb “and they pray and ask for help.”

[8:52]  ¹³ tn Heb “May your eyes be open.”

[8:52]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “to listen to them in all their calling out to you.”

[2:8]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “Look, with you is Shimei….”

[2:8]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and he cursed me with a horrible curse on the day I went to Mahanaim.”

[2:8]  ¹⁸ tn Or “swore an oath to.”

[2:8]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “kill you.”

[8:38]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “every prayer, every request for help which will be to all the people, to all your people Israel.”

[8:38]  ²⁰ tn Heb “which they know, each the pain of his heart.”

[8:44]  ²² tn Heb “When your people go out for battle against their enemies in the way which you send them.”

[8:44]  ²³ tn Or perhaps “to you, O Lord.” See 2 Chr 6:34.

[8:44]  ²⁴ tn Heb “your name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in v. 41.

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

[13:8]  ²⁸ tn Heb “house.”

[13:8]  ²⁹ tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”

[3:6]  ³¹ tn Heb “did.”

[3:6]  ³² tn Heb “walked before.”

[3:6]  ³³ tn Heb “in faithfulness and in innocence and in uprightness of heart with you.”

[3:6]  ³⁴ tn Heb “and you have kept to him this great loyalty and you gave to him a son [who] sits on his throne as this day.”

[11:38]  ³⁴ tn Heb “If you obey.” In the Hebrew text v. 38 is actually one long conditional sentence, which has been broken into two parts in the translation for stylistic purposes.

[11:38]  ³⁵ tn Heb “walk in my ways.”

[11:38]  ³⁶ tn Heb “do what is right in my eyes.”

[11:38]  ³⁷ tn Heb “I will build for you a permanent house, like I built for David.”