1 Raja-raja 2:31

2:31 The king told him, “Do as he said! Strike him down and bury him. Take away from me and from my father’s family ¹  the guilt of Joab’s murderous, bloody deeds. ² 

1 Raja-raja 8:1

Solomon Moves the Ark into the Temple

8:1 ³ Then Solomon convened in Jerusalem ⁴  Israel’s elders, all the leaders of the Israelite tribes and families, so they could witness the transferal of the ark of the Lord’s covenant from the city of David (that is, Zion). ⁵ 

1 Raja-raja 8:9

8:9 There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets Moses had placed there in Horeb. ⁶  It was there that ⁷  the Lord made an agreement with the Israelites after he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

1 Raja-raja 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 Raja-raja 12:20

12:20 When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they summoned him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. No one except the tribe of Judah remained loyal to the Davidic dynasty. ¹¹ 

1 Raja-raja 14:8

14:8 I tore the kingdom away from the Davidic dynasty and gave it to you. But you are not like my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me wholeheartedly by doing only what I approve. ¹² 

1 Raja-raja 15:29

15:29 When he became king, he executed Jeroboam’s entire family. He wiped out everyone who breathed, ¹³  just as the Lord had predicted ¹⁴  through his servant Ahijah the Shilonite.

1 Raja-raja 17:14

17:14 For this is what the Lord God of Israel says, ‘The jar of flour will not be empty and the jug of oil will not run out until the day the Lord makes it rain on the surface of the ground.’”

1 Raja-raja 21:29

21:29 “Have you noticed how Ahab shows remorse ¹⁵  before me? Because he shows remorse before me, I will not bring disaster on his dynasty during his lifetime, but during the reign of his son.” ¹⁶ 

[2:31]  ¹ tn Heb “house.”

[2:31]  ² tn Heb “take away the undeserved bloodshed which Joab spilled from upon me and from upon the house of my father.”

[8:1]  ³ tc The Old Greek translation includes the following words at the beginning of ch. 8: “It so happened that when Solomon finished building the Lord’s temple and his own house, after twenty years.”

[8:1]  ⁴ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[8:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “Then Solomon convened the elders of Israel, the heads of the tribes, the chiefs of the fathers belonging to the sons of Israel to King Solomon [in] Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the city of David (it is Zion).”

[8:9]  ⁶ sn Horeb is another name for Mount Sinai.

[8:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “in Horeb where.”

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

[8:39]  ⁹ 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]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Indeed you know, you alone, the heart of all the sons of mankind.”

[12:20]  ¹¹ tn Heb “there was no one [following] after the house of David except the tribe of Judah, it alone.”

[14:8]  ¹² tn Heb “what was right in my eyes.”

[15:29]  ¹³ tn Heb “and when he became king, he struck down all the house of Jeroboam; he did not leave any breath to Jeroboam until he destroyed him.”

[15:29]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord which he spoke.”

[21:29]  ¹⁵ tn Or “humbles himself.” The expression occurs a second time later in this verse.

[21:29]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “I will not bring the disaster during his days, [but] in the days of his son I will bring the disaster on his house.”