1 Raja-raja 1:13

1:13 Visit ¹  King David and say to him, ‘My master, O king, did you not solemnly promise ²  your servant, “Surely your son Solomon will be king after me; he will sit on my throne”? So why has Adonijah become king?’

1 Raja-raja 1:27

1:27 Has my master the king authorized this without informing your servants ³  who should succeed my master the king on his throne?” ⁴ 

1 Raja-raja 1:30

1:30 I will keep ⁵  today the oath I swore to you by the Lord God of Israel: ‘Surely Solomon your son will be king after me; he will sit in my place on my throne.’”

1 Raja-raja 1:33

1:33 and he ⁶  told them, “Take your master’s ⁷  servants with you, put my son Solomon on my mule, and lead him down to Gihon. ⁸ 

1 Raja-raja 1:44

1:44 The king sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites, and the Pelethites and they put him on the king’s mule.

1 Raja-raja 1:47

1:47 The king’s servants have even come to congratulate ⁹  our master ¹⁰  King David, saying, ‘May your God ¹¹  make Solomon more famous than you and make him an even greater king than you!’ ¹²  Then the king leaned ¹³  on the bed

1 Raja-raja 2:24

2:24 Now, as certainly as the Lord lives (he who made me secure, allowed me to sit on my father David’s throne, and established a dynasty ¹⁴  for me as he promised), Adonijah will be executed today!”

1 Raja-raja 5:5

5:5 So I have decided ¹⁵  to build a temple to honor the Lord ¹⁶  my God, as the Lord instructed my father David, ‘Your son, whom I will put on your throne in your place, is the one who will build a temple to honor me.’ ¹⁷ 

1 Raja-raja 5:7

5:7 When Hiram heard Solomon’s message, he was very happy. He said, “The Lord is worthy of praise today because he ¹⁸  has given David a wise son to rule over this great nation.”

1 Raja-raja 6:1

The Building of the Temple

6:1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites left Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, during the month Ziv ¹⁹  (the second month), he began building the Lord’s temple.

1 Raja-raja 6:32

6:32 On the two doors made of olive wood he carved ²⁰  cherubs, palm trees, and flowers in bloom, and he plated them with gold. ²¹  He plated the cherubs and the palm trees with hammered gold. ²² 

1 Raja-raja 7:16

7:16 He made two bronze tops for the pillars; each was seven-and-a-half feet high. ²³ 

1 Raja-raja 7:25

7:25 “The Sea” stood on top of twelve bulls. Three faced northward, three westward, three southward, and three eastward. “The Sea” was placed on top of them, and they all faced outward. ²⁴ 

1 Raja-raja 7:31

7:31 Inside the stand was a round opening that was a foot-and-a-half deep; it had a support that was two and one-quarter feet long. ²⁵  On the edge of the opening were carvings in square frames. ²⁶ 

1 Raja-raja 7:38

7:38 He also made ten bronze basins, each of which could hold about 240 gallons. ²⁷  Each basin was six feet in diameter; ²⁸  there was one basin for each stand.

1 Raja-raja 7:42

7:42 the four hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments for the latticework of the two pillars (each latticework had two rows of these ornaments at the bowl-shaped top of the pillar),

1 Raja-raja 8:16

8:16 He told David, ²⁹  ‘Since the day I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from all the tribes of Israel to build a temple in which to live. ³⁰  But I have chosen David to lead my people Israel.’

1 Raja-raja 8:20

8:20 The Lord has kept the promise he made. ³¹  I have taken my father David’s place and have occupied the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised. I have built this temple for the honor ³²  of the Lord God of Israel

1 Raja-raja 8:36

8:36 then listen from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Certainly ³³  you will then teach them the right way to live ³⁴  and send rain on your land that you have given your people to possess. ³⁵ 

1 Raja-raja 8:44

8:44 “When you direct your people to march out and fight their enemies, ³⁶  and they direct their prayers to the Lord ³⁷  toward his chosen city and this temple I built for your honor, ³⁸ 

1 Raja-raja 8:54

8:54 When Solomon finished presenting all these prayers and requests to the Lord, he got up from before the altar of the Lord where he had kneeled and spread out his hands toward the sky. ³⁹ 

1 Raja-raja 8:66

8:66 On the fifteenth day after the festival started, ⁴⁰  he dismissed the people. They asked God to empower the king ⁴¹  and then went to their homes, happy and content ⁴²  because of all the good the Lord had done for his servant David and his people Israel.

1 Raja-raja 9:8

9:8 This temple will become a heap of ruins; ⁴³  everyone who passes by it will be shocked and will hiss out their scorn, ⁴⁴  saying, ‘Why did the Lord do this to this land and this temple?’

1 Raja-raja 9:25

9:25 Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings ⁴⁵  on the altar he had built for the Lord, burning incense along with them before the Lord. He made the temple his official worship place. ⁴⁶ 

1 Raja-raja 10:9

10:9 May the Lord your God be praised because he favored ⁴⁷  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.” ⁴⁸ 

1 Raja-raja 12:14

12:14 and followed ⁴⁹  the advice of the younger ones. He said, “My father imposed heavy demands on you; I will make them even heavier. ⁵⁰  My father punished you with ordinary whips; I will punish you with whips that really sting your flesh.” ⁵¹ 

1 Raja-raja 12:18

12:18 King Rehoboam sent Adoniram, ⁵²  the supervisor of the work crews, ⁵³  out after them, but all Israel stoned him to death. King Rehoboam managed to jump into his chariot and escape to Jerusalem. ⁵⁴ 

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. ⁵⁵ 

1 Raja-raja 13:2

13:2 With the authority of the Lord ⁵⁶  he cried out against the altar, “O altar, altar! This is what the Lord says, ‘Look, a son named Josiah will be born to the Davidic dynasty. He will sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who offer sacrifices on you. Human bones will be burned on you.’” ⁵⁷ 

1 Raja-raja 13:4

13:4 When the king heard what the prophet ⁵⁸  cried out against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam, standing at the altar, extended his hand ⁵⁹  and ordered, ⁶⁰  “Seize him!” The hand he had extended shriveled up ⁶¹  and he could not pull it back.

1 Raja-raja 13:32

13:32 for the prophecy he announced with the Lord’s authority ⁶²  against the altar in Bethel ⁶³  and against all the temples on the high places in the cities of the north ⁶⁴  will certainly be fulfilled.”

1 Raja-raja 14:2

14:2 Jeroboam told his wife, “Disguise ⁶⁵  yourself so that people cannot recognize you are Jeroboam’s wife. Then go to Shiloh; Ahijah the prophet, who told me I would rule over this nation, lives there. ⁶⁶ 

1 Raja-raja 15:7

15:7 The rest of the events of Abijah’s reign, including all his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah. ⁶⁷  Abijah and Jeroboam had been at war with each other.

1 Raja-raja 15:23

15:23 The rest of the events of Asa’s reign, including all his successes and accomplishments, as well as a record of the cities he built, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah. ⁶⁸  Yet when he was very old he developed a foot disease. ⁶⁹ 

1 Raja-raja 16:2

16:2 “I raised you up ⁷⁰  from the dust and made you ruler over my people Israel. Yet you followed in Jeroboam’s footsteps ⁷¹  and encouraged my people Israel to sin; their sins have made me angry. ⁷² 

1 Raja-raja 16:16

16:16 While deployed there, the army received this report: ⁷³  “Zimri has conspired against the king and assassinated him.” ⁷⁴  So all Israel made Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel that very day in the camp.

1 Raja-raja 16:24

16:24 He purchased the hill of Samaria ⁷⁵  from Shemer for two talents ⁷⁶  of silver. He launched a construction project there ⁷⁷  and named the city he built after Shemer, the former owner of the hill of Samaria.

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 18:1

Elijah Meets the King’s Servant

18:1 Some time later, in the third year of the famine, the Lord told Elijah, ⁷⁸  “Go, make an appearance before Ahab, so I may send rain on the surface of the ground.”

1 Raja-raja 18:12

18:12 But when I leave you, the Lord’s spirit will carry you away so I can’t find you. ⁷⁹  If I go tell Ahab I’ve seen you, he won’t be able to find you and he will kill me. ⁸⁰  That would not be fair, ⁸¹  because your servant has been a loyal follower of ⁸²  the Lord from my youth.

1 Raja-raja 18:21

18:21 Elijah approached all the people and said, “How long are you going to be paralyzed by indecision? ⁸³  If the Lord is the true God, ⁸⁴  then follow him, but if Baal is, follow him!” But the people did not say a word.

1 Raja-raja 18:26

18:26 So they took a bull, as he had suggested, ⁸⁵  and prepared it. They invoked the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, “Baal, answer us.” But there was no sound and no answer. They jumped ⁸⁶  around on the altar they had made. ⁸⁷ 

1 Raja-raja 20:1

Ben Hadad Invades Israel

20:1 Now King Ben Hadad of Syria assembled all his army, along with thirty-two other kings with their horses and chariots. He marched against Samaria ⁸⁸  and besieged and attacked it. ⁸⁹ 

1 Raja-raja 20:23

20:23 Now the advisers ⁹⁰  of the king of Syria said to him: “Their God is a god of the mountains. That’s why they overpowered us. But if we fight them in the plains, we will certainly overpower them.

1 Raja-raja 20:30

20:30 The remaining 27,000 ran to Aphek and went into the city, but the wall fell on them. ⁹¹  Now Ben Hadad ran into the city and hid in an inner room. ⁹² 

1 Raja-raja 20:33

20:33 The men took this as a good omen and quickly accepted his offer, saying, “Ben Hadad is your brother.” Ahab ⁹³  then said, “Go, get him.” So Ben Hadad came out to him, and Ahab pulled him up into his chariot.

1 Raja-raja 21:7

21:7 His wife Jezebel said to him, “You are the king of Israel! ⁹⁴  Get up, eat some food, and have a good time. ⁹⁵  I will get the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite for you.”

1 Raja-raja 21:29

21:29 “Have you noticed how Ahab shows remorse ⁹⁶  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.” ⁹⁷ 

1 Raja-raja 22:6

22:6 So the king of Israel assembled about four hundred prophets and asked them, “Should I attack Ramoth Gilead or not?” ⁹⁸  They said, “Attack! The sovereign one ⁹⁹  will hand it over to the king.”

1 Raja-raja 22:10

22:10 Now the king of Israel and King Jehoshaphat of Judah were sitting on their respective thrones, ¹⁰⁰  dressed in their robes, at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria. ¹⁰¹  All the prophets were prophesying before them.

1 Raja-raja 22:39

22:39 The rest of the events of Ahab’s reign, including a record of his accomplishments and how he built a luxurious palace and various cities, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel. ¹⁰² 

[1:13]  ¹ tn Heb “come, go to.” The imperative of הָלַךְ (halakh) is here used as an introductory interjection. See BDB 234 s.v. חָלַךְ.

[1:13]  ² tn Or “swear an oath to.”

[1:27]  ³ tc Many Hebrew mss and ancient textual witnesses agree with the Qere in reading this as singular, “your servant.”

[1:27]  ⁴ tn Heb “From my master the king is this thing done, and you did not make known to your servants who will sit on the throne of my master the king after him?”

[1:30]  ⁵ tn Or “carry out, perform.”

[1:33]  ⁶ tn Heb “the king.”

[1:33]  ⁷ tn The plural form is used in the Hebrew text to indicate honor and authority.

[1:33]  ⁸ tn Heb “mount Solomon my son on the mule that belongs to me and take him down to Gihon.”

[1:47]  ⁹ tn Heb “to bless.”

[1:47]  ¹⁰ tn The plural form is used in the Hebrew text to indicate honor and authority.

[1:47]  ¹¹ tc Many Hebrew mss agree with the Qere in reading simply “God.”

[1:47]  ¹² tn Heb “make the name of Solomon better than your name, and make his throne greater than your throne.” The term שֵׁם (shem, “name”) is used here of one’s fame and reputation.

[1:47]  ¹³ tn Or “bowed down; worshiped.”

[2:24]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “house.”

[5:5]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “Look, I am saying.”

[5:5]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “a house for the name of the Lord.” The word “name” sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor. The “name” of the Lord sometimes designates the Lord himself, being indistinguishable from the proper name.

[5:5]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “a house for my name.” The word “name” sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor. The “name” of the Lord sometimes designates the Lord himself, being indistinguishable from the proper name.

[5:7]  ¹⁸ tn Or “Blessed be the Lord today, who….”

[6:1]  ¹⁹ sn During the month Ziv. This would be April-May, 966 b.c. by modern reckoning.

[6:32]  ²⁰ tn Heb “carved carvings of.”

[6:32]  ²¹ tn Heb “he plated [with] gold” (the precise object is not stated).

[6:32]  ²² tn Heb “and he hammered out the gold on the cherubs and the palm trees.”

[7:16]  ²³ tn Heb “two capitals he made to place on the tops of the pillars, cast in bronze; five cubits was the height of the first capital, and five cubits was the height of the second capital.”

[7:25]  ²⁴ tn Heb “all their hindquarters were toward the inside.”

[7:31]  ²⁵ tn Heb “And its opening from the inside to the top and upwards [was] a cubit, and its opening was round, the work of a stand, a cubit-and-a-half.” The precise meaning of this description is uncertain.

[7:31]  ²⁶ tn Heb “also over its opening were carvings and their frames [were] squared, not round.”

[7:38]  ²⁷ tn Heb “forty baths” (a bath was a liquid measure roughly equivalent to six gallons).

[7:38]  ²⁸ tn Heb “four cubits, each basin.” It is unclear which dimension is being measured.

[8:16]  ²⁹ tn Heb “saying.”

[8:16]  ³⁰ tn Heb “to build a house for my name to be there.”

[8:16]  sn To build a temple in which to live (Heb “to build a house for my name to be there”). In the OT, the word “name” sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor. The “name” of the Lord sometimes designates the Lord himself, being indistinguishable from the proper name.

[8:20]  ³¹ tn Heb “his word that he spoke.”

[8:20]  ³² tn Heb “name.”

[8:36]  ³³ tn The translation understands כִּי (ki) in an emphatic or asseverative sense.

[8:36]  ³⁴ tn Heb “the good way in which they should walk.”

[8:36]  ³⁵ tn Or “for an inheritance.”

[8:44]  ³⁶ tn Heb “When your people go out for battle against their enemies in the way which you send them.”

[8:44]  ³⁷ tn Or perhaps “to you, O Lord.” See 2 Chr 6:34.

[8:44]  ³⁸ tn Heb “your name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in v. 41.

[8:54]  ³⁹ tn Or “toward heaven.”

[8:66]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “on the eighth day” (that is, the day after the second seven-day sequence).

[8:66]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “they blessed the king.”

[8:66]  ⁴² tn Heb “good of heart.”

[9:8]  ⁴³ tn Heb “and this house will be high [or elevated].” The statement makes little sense in this context, which predicts the desolation that judgment will bring. Some treat the clause as concessive, “Even though this temple is lofty [now].” Others, following the lead of several ancient versions, emend the text to, “this temple will become a heap of ruins.”

[9:8]  ⁴⁴ tn Heb “hiss,” or perhaps “whistle.” This refers to a derisive sound one would make when taunting an object of ridicule.

[9:25]  ⁴⁵ tn Or “tokens of peace”; NIV, TEV “fellowship offerings.”

[9:25]  ⁴⁶ tn Heb “and he made complete the house.”

[10:9]  ⁴⁷ tn Or “delighted in.”

[10:9]  ⁴⁸ tn Heb “to do justice and righteousness.”

[12:14]  ⁴⁹ tn Heb “and spoke to them according to.”

[12:14]  ⁵⁰ tn Heb “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke.”

[12:14]  ⁵¹ tn Heb “My father punished you with whips, but I will punish you with scorpions.” See the note on the same phrase in v. 11.

[12:18]  ⁵² tc The MT has “Adoram” here, but the Old Greek translation and Syriac Peshitta have “Adoniram.” Cf. 1 Kgs 4:6.

[12:18]  ⁵³ sn The work crews. See the note on this expression in 4:6.

[12:18]  ⁵⁴ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[12:20]  ⁵⁵ tn Heb “there was no one [following] after the house of David except the tribe of Judah, it alone.”

[13:2]  ⁵⁶ tn Heb “by the word of the Lord.”

[13:2]  ⁵⁷ sn ‘Look…you.’ For the fulfillment of this prophecy see 2 Kgs 23:15-20.

[13:4]  ⁵⁸ tn Heb “the man of God.”

[13:4]  ⁵⁹ tn Heb “Jeroboam extended his hand from the altar.”

[13:4]  ⁶⁰ tn Heb “saying.”

[13:4]  ⁶¹ tn Heb “dried up” or “withered.” TEV and NLT interpret this as “became paralyzed.”

[13:32]  ⁶² tn Heb “for the word which he cried out by the word of the Lord”

[13:32]  ⁶³ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[13:32]  ⁶⁴ tn Heb “Samaria.” The name of Israel’s capital city here stands for the northern kingdom as a whole. Actually Samaria was not built and named until several years after this (see 1 Kgs 16:24), so it is likely that the author of Kings, writing at a later time, is here adapting the old prophet’s original statement.

[14:2]  ⁶⁵ tn Heb “Get up, change yourself.”

[14:2]  ⁶⁶ tn Heb “look, Ahijah the prophet is there, he told me [I would be] king over this nation.”

[15:7]  ⁶⁷ tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Abijah, and all which he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?”

[15:23]  ⁶⁸ tn Heb “As for the rest of all the events of Asa, and all his strength and all which he did and the cities which he built, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?”

[15:23]  ⁶⁹ tn Heb “Yet in the time of his old age he became sick in his feet.”

[16:2]  ⁷⁰ tn The Hebrew text has “because” at the beginning of the sentence. In the Hebrew text vv. 2-3 are one sentence comprised of a causal clause giving the reason for divine punishment (v. 2) and the main clause announcing the punishment (v. 3). The translation divides this sentence for stylistic reasons.

[16:2]  ⁷¹ tn Heb “walked in the way of Jeroboam.”

[16:2]  ⁷² tn Heb “angering me by their sins.”

[16:16]  ⁷³ tn Heb “and the people who were encamped heard.”

[16:16]  ⁷⁴ tn Heb “has conspired against and also has struck down the king.”

[16:24]  ⁷⁵ map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.

[16:24]  ⁷⁶ tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 150 pounds of silver.

[16:24]  ⁷⁷ tn Heb “he built up the hill.”

[18:1]  ⁷⁸ tn Heb “the word of the Lord came to Elijah.”

[18:12]  ⁷⁹ tn Heb “to [a place] which I do not know.”

[18:12]  ⁸⁰ tn Heb “and I will go to inform Ahab and he will not find you and he will kill me.”

[18:12]  ⁸¹ tn The words “that would not be fair” are added to clarify the logic of Obadiah’s argument.

[18:12]  ⁸² tn Heb “has feared the Lord” (also see the note at 1 Kgs 18:3).

[18:21]  ⁸³ tn Heb “How long are you going to limp around on two crutches?” (see HALOT 762 s.v. סְעִפִּים). In context this idiomatic expression refers to indecision rather than physical disability.

[18:21]  ⁸⁴ tn Heb “the God.”

[18:26]  ⁸⁵ tn Heb “and they took the bull which he allowed them.”

[18:26]  ⁸⁶ tn Heb “limped” (the same verb is used in v. 21).

[18:26]  ⁸⁷ tc The MT has “which he made,” but some medieval Hebrew mss and the ancient versions have the plural form of the verb.

[20:1]  ⁸⁸ map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.

[20:1]  ⁸⁹ tn Heb “and he went up and besieged Samaria and fought against it.”

[20:23]  ⁹⁰ tn Or “servants.”

[20:30]  ⁹¹ tn Heb “and the remaining ones fled to Aphek to the city and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men, the ones who remained.”

[20:30]  ⁹² tn Heb “and Ben Hadad fled and went into the city, [into] an inner room in an inner room.”

[20:33]  ⁹³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ahab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[21:7]  ⁹⁴ tn Heb “You, now, you are exercising kingship over Israel.”

[21:7]  ⁹⁵ tn Heb “so your heart [i.e., disposition] might be well.”

[21:29]  ⁹⁶ tn Or “humbles himself.” The expression occurs a second time later in this verse.

[21:29]  ⁹⁷ 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.”

[22:6]  ⁹⁸ tn Heb “Should I go against Ramoth Gilead for war or should I refrain?”

[22:6]  ⁹⁹ tn Though Jehoshaphat requested an oracle from “the Lord” (יְהוָה, Yahweh), they stop short of actually using this name and substitute the title אֲדֹנָי (’adonai, “lord; master”). This ambiguity may explain in part Jehoshaphat’s hesitancy and caution (vv. 7-8). He seems to doubt that the four hundred are genuine prophets of the Lord.

[22:10]  ¹⁰⁰ tn Heb “were sitting, a man on his throne.”

[22:10]  ¹⁰¹ map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.

[22:39]  ¹⁰² tn Heb “As for the rest of the acts of Ahab and all that he did, and the house of ivory which he built and all the cities which he built, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?”