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. ¹ 

1 Kings 14:24

14:24 There were also male cultic prostitutes ²  in the land. They committed the same horrible sins as the nations ³  that the Lord had driven out from before the Israelites.

1 Kings 21:26

21:26 He was so wicked he worshiped the disgusting idols, ⁴  just like the Amorites ⁵  whom the Lord had driven out from before the Israelites.)

1 Kings 22:53

22:53 He worshiped and bowed down to Baal, ⁶  angering the Lord God of Israel just as his father had done. ⁷ 

1 Kings 5:6

5:6 So now order some cedars of Lebanon to be cut for me. My servants will work with your servants. I will pay your servants whatever you say is appropriate, for you know that we have no one among us who knows how to cut down trees like the Sidonians.”

1 Kings 8:39

8:39 then listen from your heavenly dwelling place, forgive their sin, ⁸  and act favorably toward each one based on your evaluation of his motives. ⁹  (Indeed you are the only one who can correctly evaluate the motives of all people.) ¹⁰ 

1 Kings 8:56

8:56 “The Lord is worthy of praise because he has made Israel his people secure ¹¹  just as he promised! Not one of all the faithful promises he made through his servant Moses is left unfulfilled! ¹² 

1 Kings 8:43

8:43 Then listen from your heavenly dwelling place and answer all the prayers of the foreigners. ¹³  Then all the nations of the earth will acknowledge your reputation, ¹⁴  obey ¹⁵  you like your people Israel do, and recognize that this temple I built belongs to you. ¹⁶ 

[9:4]  ¹ 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.

[14:24]  ² tc The Old Greek translation has “a conspiracy” rather than “male cultic prostitutes.”

[14:24]  ³ tn Heb “they did according to all the abominable acts of the nations.”

[21:26]  ³ tn The Hebrew word used here, גִלּוּלִים (gillulim) is always used as a disdainful reference to idols. It is generally thought to have originally referred to “dung pellets” (cf. KBL 183 s.v. גִלּוּלִים). It is only one of several terms used in this way, such as אֱלִילִים (’elilim, “worthless things”) and הֲבָלִים (havalim, “vanities” or “empty winds”).

[21:26]  ⁴ tn Heb “He acted very abominably by walking after the disgusting idols, according to all which the Amorites had done.”

[22:53]  ⁴ tn Heb “he served Baal and bowed down to him.”

[22:53]  ⁵ tn Heb “according to all which his father had done.”

[8:39]  ⁵ tn The words “their sin” are added for clarification.

[8:39]  ⁶ 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]  ⁷ tn Heb “Indeed you know, you alone, the heart of all the sons of mankind.”

[8:56]  ⁶ tn Heb “he has given a resting place to his people Israel.”

[8:56]  ⁷ tn Heb “not one word from his entire good word he spoke by Moses his servant has fallen.”

[8:43]  ⁷ tn Heb “and do all which the foreigner calls to [i.e., “requests of”] you.”

[8:43]  ⁸ tn Heb “your name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in v. 41.

[8:43]  ⁹ tn Heb “fear.”

[8:43]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “that your name is called over this house which I built.” The Hebrew idiom “to call the name over” indicates ownership. See 2 Sam 12:28.