1 Raja-raja 1:48

1:48 and said ¹  this: ‘The Lord God of Israel is worthy of praise because ²  today he has placed a successor on my throne and allowed me to see it.’” ³ 

1 Raja-raja 2:27

2:27 Solomon dismissed Abiathar from his position as priest of the Lord, ⁴  fulfilling the decree of judgment the Lord made in Shiloh against the family of Eli. ⁵ 

1 Raja-raja 7:48

7:48 Solomon also made all these items for the Lord’s temple: the gold altar, the gold table on which was kept the Bread of the Presence, ⁶ 

1 Raja-raja 8:27

8:27 “God does not really live on the earth! ⁷  Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built!

1 Raja-raja 9:20

9:20 Now several non-Israelite peoples were left in the land after the conquest of Joshua, including the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. ⁸ 

1 Raja-raja 10:17

10:17 He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold; three minas ⁹  of gold were used for each of these shields. The king placed them in the Palace of the Lebanon Forest. ¹⁰ 

1 Raja-raja 10:20

10:20 There were twelve statues of lions on the six steps, one lion at each end of each step. There was nothing like it in any other kingdom. ¹¹ 

1 Raja-raja 12:14

12:14 and followed ¹²  the advice of the younger ones. He said, “My father imposed heavy demands on you; I will make them even heavier. ¹³  My father punished you with ordinary whips; I will punish you with whips that really sting your flesh.” ¹⁴ 

1 Raja-raja 14:4

14:4 Jeroboam’s wife did as she was told. She went to Shiloh and visited Ahijah. ¹⁵  Now Ahijah could not see; he had lost his eyesight in his old age. ¹⁶ 

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. ¹⁷  Abijah and Jeroboam had been at war with each other.

1 Raja-raja 15:13

15:13 He also removed Maacah his grandmother ¹⁸  from her position as queen because she had made a loathsome Asherah pole. Asa cut down her Asherah pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

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, ¹⁹  “Go, make an appearance before Ahab, so I may send rain on the surface of the ground.”

1 Raja-raja 19:18

19:18 I still have left in Israel seven thousand followers who have not bowed their knees to Baal or kissed the images of him.” ²⁰ 

1 Raja-raja 20:10

20:10 Ben Hadad sent another message to him, “May the gods judge me severely ²¹  if there is enough dirt left in Samaria for my soldiers to scoop up in their hands.” ²² 

1 Raja-raja 20:14

20:14 Ahab asked, “By whom will this be accomplished?” ²³  He answered, “This is what the Lord says, ‘By the servants of the district governors.’” Ahab ²⁴  asked, “Who will launch the attack?” He answered, “You will.”

1 Raja-raja 22:28

22:28 Micaiah said, “If you really do safely return, then the Lord has not spoken through me.” Then he added, “Take note, ²⁵  all you people.”

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. ²⁶ 

[1:48]  ¹ tn The Hebrew text reads, “and the king said.”

[1:48]  ² tn Or “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who….” In this blessing formula אֲשֶׁר (’asher, “who; because”) introduces the reason why the one being blessed deserves the honor.

[1:48]  ³ tn Heb “and my eyes are seeing.”

[2:27]  ⁴ tn Heb “Solomon drove out Abiathar from being a priest to the Lord.”

[2:27]  ⁵ tn Heb “fulfilling the word of the Lord which he spoke against the house of Eli in Shiloh.”

[7:48]  ⁶ tn Heb “the bread of the face [or presence].” Many recent English versions employ “the bread of the Presence,” although this does not convey much to the modern reader.

[7:48]  sn This bread was viewed as a perpetual offering to God and was regarded as holy. See Lev 24:5-9.

[8:27]  ⁷ tn Heb “Indeed, can God really live on the earth?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course not,” the force of which the translation above seeks to reflect.

[9:20]  ⁸ tn Heb “all the people who were left from the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not from the sons of Israel.”

[10:17]  ⁹ sn Three minas. The mina was a unit of measure for weight.

[10:17]  ¹⁰ sn The Palace of the Lebanon Forest. This name was appropriate because of the large amount of cedar, undoubtedly brought from Lebanon, used in its construction. The cedar pillars in the palace must have given it the appearance of a forest.

[10:20]  ¹¹ tn Heb “nothing like it had been made for all the kingdoms.”

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

[12:14]  ¹³ tn Heb “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke.”

[12:14]  ¹⁴ 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.

[14:4]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and the wife of Jeroboam did so; she arose and went to Shiloh and entered the house of Ahijah.”

[14:4]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “his eyes were set because of his old age.”

[15:7]  ¹⁷ 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?”

[15:13]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “mother,” but Hebrew often uses the terms “father” and “mother” for grandparents and more remote ancestors.

[18:1]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “the word of the Lord came to Elijah.”

[19:18]  ²⁰ tn Heb “I have kept in Israel seven thousand, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal, and all the mouths that have not kissed him.”

[20:10]  ²¹ tn Heb “So may the gods do to me, and so may they add.”

[20:10]  ²² tn Heb “if the dirt of Samaria suffices for the handfuls of all the people who are at my feet.”

[20:14]  ²³ tn The words “will this be accomplished” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[20:14]  ²⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ahab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[22:28]  ²⁵ tn Heb “Listen.”

[22:39]  ²⁶ 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?”