1 Raja-raja 3:8

3:8 Your servant stands ¹  among your chosen people; ²  they are a great nation that is too numerous to count or number.

1 Raja-raja 10:18

10:18 The king made a large throne decorated with ivory and overlaid it with pure gold.

1 Raja-raja 7:12

7:12 Around the great courtyard were three rows of chiseled stones and one row of cedar beams, like the inner courtyard of the Lord’s temple and the hall of the palace. ³ 

1 Raja-raja 20:21

20:21 Then the king of Israel marched out and struck down the horses and chariots; he thoroughly defeated ⁴  Syria.

1 Raja-raja 7:10

7:10 The foundation was made of large valuable stones, measuring either 15 feet or 12 feet. ⁵ 

1 Raja-raja 5:17

5:17 By royal order ⁶  they supplied large valuable stones in order to build the temple’s foundation with chiseled stone.

1 Raja-raja 4:29

4:29 God gave Solomon wisdom and very great discernment; the breadth of his understanding ⁷  was as infinite as the sand on the seashore.

1 Raja-raja 1:37

1:37 As the Lord is with my master the king, so may he be with Solomon, and may he make him an even greater king than my master King David!” ⁸ 

1 Raja-raja 11:20

11:20 Tahpenes’ sister gave birth to his son, ⁹  named Genubath. Tahpenes raised ¹⁰  him in Pharaoh’s palace; Genubath grew up in Pharaoh’s palace among Pharaoh’s sons.

1 Raja-raja 12:10

12:10 The young advisers with whom Rehoboam ¹¹  had grown up said to him, “Say this to these people who have said to you, ‘Your father made us work hard, but now lighten our burden.’ ¹²  Say this to them: ‘I am a lot harsher than my father! ¹³ 

1 Raja-raja 4:30

4:30 Solomon was wiser than all the men of the east and all the sages of Egypt. ¹⁴ 

1 Raja-raja 8:42

8:42 When they hear about your great reputation ¹⁵  and your ability to accomplish mighty deeds, ¹⁶  they will come and direct their prayers toward this temple.

1 Raja-raja 11:19

11:19 Pharaoh liked Hadad so well ¹⁷  he gave him his sister-in-law (Queen Tahpenes’ sister) as a wife. ¹⁸ 

1 Raja-raja 3:6

3:6 Solomon replied, “You demonstrated ¹⁹  great loyalty to your servant, my father David, as he served ²⁰  you faithfully, properly, and sincerely. ²¹  You have maintained this great loyalty to this day by allowing his son to sit on his throne. ²² 

1 Raja-raja 12:8

12:8 But Rehoboam rejected their advice and consulted the young advisers who served him, with whom he had grown up. ²³ 

1 Raja-raja 22:31

22:31 Now the king of Syria had ordered his thirty-two chariot commanders, “Do not fight common soldiers or high-ranking officers; ²⁴  fight only the king of Israel.”

1 Raja-raja 3:9

3:9 So give your servant a discerning mind ²⁵  so he can make judicial decisions for ²⁶  your people and distinguish right from wrong. ²⁷  Otherwise ²⁸  no one is able ²⁹  to make judicial decisions for ³⁰  this great nation of yours.” ³¹ 

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 ³²  has given David a wise son to rule over this great nation.”

1 Raja-raja 10:2

10:2 She arrived in Jerusalem ³³  with a great display of pomp, ³⁴  bringing with her camels carrying spices, ³⁵  a very large quantity of gold, and precious gems. She visited Solomon and discussed with him everything that was on her mind.

1 Raja-raja 4:13

4:13 Ben-Geber was in charge of Ramoth Gilead; he controlled the tent villages of Jair son of Manasseh in Gilead, as well as the region of Argob in Bashan, including sixty large walled cities with bronze bars locking their gates.

1 Raja-raja 7:9

7:9 All of these were built with the best ³⁶  stones, chiseled to the right size ³⁷  and cut with a saw on all sides, ³⁸  from the foundation to the edge of the roof ³⁹  and from the outside to the great courtyard.

1 Raja-raja 8:65

8:65 At that time Solomon and all Israel with him celebrated a festival before the Lord our God for two entire weeks. This great assembly included people from all over the land, from Lebo Hamath in the north to the Brook of Egypt ⁴⁰  in the south. ⁴¹ 

1 Raja-raja 18:44

18:44 The seventh time the servant ⁴²  said, “Look, a small cloud, the size of the palm of a man’s hand, is rising up from the sea.” Elijah ⁴³  then said, “Go and tell Ahab, ‘Hitch up the chariots and go down, so that the rain won’t overtake you.’” ⁴⁴ 

1 Raja-raja 1:47

1:47 The king’s servants have even come to congratulate ⁴⁵  our master ⁴⁶  King David, saying, ‘May your God ⁴⁷  make Solomon more famous than you and make him an even greater king than you!’ ⁴⁸  Then the king leaned ⁴⁹  on the bed

1 Raja-raja 20:28

20:28 The prophet ⁵⁰  visited the king of Israel and said, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Because the Syrians said, “The Lord is a god of the mountains and not a god of the valleys,” I will hand over to you this entire huge army. ⁵¹  Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”

1 Raja-raja 20:13

The Lord Delivers Israel

20:13 Now a prophet visited King Ahab of Israel and said, “This is what the Lord says, ‘Do you see this huge army? ⁵²  Look, I am going to hand it over to you this very day. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”

1 Raja-raja 19:11

19:11 The Lord ⁵³  said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord. Look, the Lord is ready to pass by.”

A very powerful wind went before the Lord, digging into the mountain and causing landslides, ⁵⁴  but the Lord was not in the wind. After the windstorm there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake.

1 Raja-raja 1:35

1:35 Then follow him up as he comes and sits on my throne. He will be king in my place; I have decreed ⁵⁵  that he will be ruler over Israel and Judah.”

1 Raja-raja 18:45

18:45 Meanwhile the sky was covered with dark clouds, the wind blew, and there was a heavy rainstorm. Ahab rode toward ⁵⁶  Jezreel.

1 Raja-raja 11:34

11:34 I will not take the whole kingdom from his hand. I will allow him to be ruler for the rest of his life for the sake of my chosen servant David who kept my commandments and rules.

1 Raja-raja 14:7

14:7 Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘This is what the Lord God of Israel says: “I raised you up ⁵⁷  from among the people and made you ruler over my people Israel.

1 Raja-raja 16:2

16:2 “I raised you up ⁵⁸  from the dust and made you ruler over my people Israel. Yet you followed in Jeroboam’s footsteps ⁵⁹  and encouraged my people Israel to sin; their sins have made me angry. ⁶⁰ 

1 Raja-raja 6:17

6:17 The main hall in front of the inner sanctuary was 60 feet long. ⁶¹ 

1 Raja-raja 22:10

22:10 Now the king of Israel and King Jehoshaphat of Judah were sitting on their respective thrones, ⁶²  dressed in their robes, at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria. ⁶³  All the prophets were prophesying before them.

1 Raja-raja 7:38

7:38 He also made ten bronze basins, each of which could hold about 240 gallons. ⁶⁴  Each basin was six feet in diameter; ⁶⁵  there was one basin for each stand.

1 Raja-raja 10:16

10:16 King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; 600 measures ⁶⁶  of gold were used for each shield.

1 Raja-raja 22:30

22:30 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself and then enter ⁶⁷  into the battle; but you wear your royal robes.” So the king of Israel disguised himself and then entered into the battle.

1 Raja-raja 3:4

3:4 The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for it had the most prominent of the high places. ⁶⁸  Solomon would offer up ⁶⁹  a thousand burnt sacrifices on the altar there.

1 Raja-raja 4:1

Solomon’s Royal Court and Administrators

4:1 King Solomon ruled over all Israel.

1 Raja-raja 6:33

6:33 In the same way he made doorposts of olive wood for the entrance to the main hall, only with four-sided pillars. ⁷⁰ 

1 Raja-raja 10:11

10:11 (Hiram’s fleet, which carried gold from Ophir, also brought from Ophir a very large quantity of fine timber and precious gems.

1 Raja-raja 8:41

8:41 “Foreigners, who do not belong to your people Israel, will come from a distant land because of your reputation. ⁷¹ 

1 Raja-raja 10:22

10:22 Along with Hiram’s fleet, the king had a fleet of large merchant ships ⁷²  that sailed the sea. Once every three years the fleet ⁷³  came into port with cargoes of ⁷⁴  gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks. ⁷⁵ 

1 Raja-raja 13:14

13:14 and took off after the prophet, ⁷⁶  whom he found sitting under an oak tree. He asked him, “Are you the prophet ⁷⁷  from Judah?” He answered, “Yes, I am.”

1 Raja-raja 18:32

18:32 With the stones he constructed an altar for the Lord. ⁷⁸  Around the altar he made a trench large enough to contain two seahs ⁷⁹  of seed.

1 Raja-raja 1:46

1:46 Furthermore, Solomon has assumed the royal throne. ⁸⁰ 

1 Raja-raja 7:11

7:11 Above the foundation ⁸¹  the best ⁸²  stones, chiseled to the right size, ⁸³  were used along with cedar.

1 Raja-raja 10:23-24

10:23 King Solomon was wealthier and wiser than any of the kings of the earth. ⁸⁴  10:24 Everyone ⁸⁵  in the world wanted to visit Solomon to see him display his God-given wisdom. ⁸⁶ 

1 Raja-raja 13:34

13:34 This sin caused Jeroboam’s dynasty ⁸⁷  to come to an end and to be destroyed from the face of the earth.

1 Raja-raja 4:2

4:2 These were his officials:

Azariah son of Zadok was the priest.

1 Raja-raja 4:20

Solomon’s Wealth and Fame

4:20 The people of Judah and Israel were as innumerable as the sand on the seashore; they had plenty to eat and drink and were happy.

1 Raja-raja 6:5

6:5 He built an extension all around the walls of the temple’s main hall and holy place and constructed side rooms in it. ⁸⁸ 

1 Raja-raja 7:32

7:32 The four wheels were under the frames and the crossbars of the axles were connected to the stand. Each wheel was two and one-quarter feet ⁸⁹  high.

1 Raja-raja 7:47

7:47 Solomon left all these items unweighed; there were so many of them they did not weigh the bronze. ⁹⁰ 

1 Raja-raja 16:25

16:25 Omri did more evil in the sight of ⁹¹  the Lord than all who were before him.

1 Raja-raja 16:30

16:30 Ahab son of Omri did more evil in the sight of ⁹²  the Lord than all who were before him.

1 Raja-raja 7:40

7:40 Hiram also made basins, shovels, and bowls. He ⁹³  finished all the work on the Lord’s temple he had been assigned by King Solomon. ⁹⁴ 

1 Raja-raja 3:28

3:28 When all Israel heard about the judicial decision which the king had rendered, they respected ⁹⁵  the king, for they realized ⁹⁶  that he possessed supernatural wisdom ⁹⁷  to make judicial decisions.

1 Raja-raja 4:24

4:24 His royal court was so large because ⁹⁸  he ruled over all the kingdoms west of the Euphrates River from Tiphsah ⁹⁹  to Gaza; he was at peace with all his neighbors. ¹⁰⁰ 

1 Raja-raja 4:27

4:27 The district governors acquired supplies for King Solomon and all who ate in his royal palace. ¹⁰¹  Each was responsible for one month in the year; they made sure nothing was lacking.

1 Raja-raja 4:31

4:31 He was wiser than any man, including Ethan the Ezrahite or Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol. He was famous in all the neighboring nations. ¹⁰² 

1 Raja-raja 6:3

6:3 The porch in front of the main hall of the temple was 30 feet ¹⁰³  long, corresponding to the width of the temple. It was 15 feet ¹⁰⁴  wide, extending out from the front of the temple.

1 Raja-raja 7:21

7:21 He set up the pillars on the porch in front of the main hall. He erected one pillar on the right ¹⁰⁵  side and called it Jakin; ¹⁰⁶  he erected the other pillar on the left ¹⁰⁷  side and called it Boaz. ¹⁰⁸ 

1 Raja-raja 7:36

7:36 He engraved ornamental cherubs, lions, and palm trees on the plates of the supports and frames wherever there was room, ¹⁰⁹  with wreaths ¹¹⁰  all around.

1 Raja-raja 7:50

7:50 the pure gold bowls, trimming shears, basins, pans, and censers, and the gold door sockets for the inner sanctuary (the most holy place) and for the doors of the main hall of the temple.

1 Raja-raja 9:22

9:22 Solomon did not assign Israelites to these work crews; ¹¹¹  the Israelites served as his soldiers, attendants, officers, charioteers, and commanders of his chariot forces. ¹¹² 

1 Raja-raja 14:23

14:23 They even built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

1 Raja-raja 20:12

20:12 When Ben Hadad received this reply, ¹¹³  he and the other kings were drinking in their quarters. ¹¹⁴  He ordered his servants, “Get ready to attack!” So they got ready to attack the city.

1 Raja-raja 20:16

20:16 They marched out at noon, while Ben Hadad and the thirty-two kings allied with him were drinking heavily ¹¹⁵  in their quarters. ¹¹⁶ 

1 Raja-raja 22:32

22:32 When the chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “He must be the king of Israel.” So they turned and attacked him, but Jehoshaphat cried out.

1 Raja-raja 1:5

1:5 Now Adonijah, son of David and Haggith, ¹¹⁷  was promoting himself, ¹¹⁸  boasting, ¹¹⁹  “I will be king!” He managed to acquire ¹²⁰  chariots and horsemen, as well as fifty men to serve as his royal guard. ¹²¹ 

1 Raja-raja 3:15

3:15 Solomon then woke up and realized it was a dream. ¹²²  He went to Jerusalem, stood before the ark of the Lord’s covenant, offered up burnt sacrifices, presented peace offerings, ¹²³  and held a feast for all his servants.

1 Raja-raja 4:21

4:21 (5:1) ¹²⁴  Solomon ruled all the kingdoms from the Euphrates River ¹²⁵  to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. These kingdoms paid tribute as Solomon’s subjects throughout his lifetime. ¹²⁶ 

1 Raja-raja 7:2

7:2 He named ¹²⁷  it “The Palace of the Lebanon Forest”; ¹²⁸  it was 150 feet ¹²⁹  long, 75 feet ¹³⁰  wide, and 45 feet ¹³¹  high. It had four rows of cedar pillars and cedar beams above the pillars.

1 Raja-raja 8:35

8:35 “The time will come when ¹³²  the skies are shut up tightly and no rain falls because your people ¹³³  sinned against you. When they direct their prayers toward this place, renew their allegiance to you, ¹³⁴  and turn away from their sin because you punish ¹³⁵  them,

1 Raja-raja 10:7

10:7 I did not believe these things until I came and saw them with my own eyes. Indeed, I didn’t hear even half the story! ¹³⁶  Your wisdom and wealth ¹³⁷  surpass what was reported to me.

1 Raja-raja 10:9-10

10:9 May the Lord your God be praised because he favored ¹³⁸  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.” ¹³⁹  10:10 She gave the king 120 talents ¹⁴⁰  of gold, a very large quantity of spices, and precious gems. The quantity of spices the queen of Sheba gave King Solomon has never been matched. ¹⁴¹ 

1 Raja-raja 10:26

10:26 Solomon accumulated ¹⁴²  chariots and horses. He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses. He kept them in assigned cities and in Jerusalem. ¹⁴³ 

1 Raja-raja 12:2

12:2 ¹⁴⁴  When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard the news, he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon and had been living ever since. ¹⁴⁵ 

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. ¹⁴⁶ 

1 Raja-raja 14:9

14:9 You have sinned more than all who came before you. You went and angered me by making other gods, formed out of metal; you have completely disregarded me. ¹⁴⁷ 

1 Raja-raja 14:15

14:15 The Lord will attack Israel, making it like a reed that sways in the water. ¹⁴⁸  He will remove Israel from this good land he gave to their ancestors ¹⁴⁹  and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, ¹⁵⁰  because they angered the Lord by making Asherah poles. ¹⁵¹ 

1 Raja-raja 19:21

19:21 Elisha ¹⁵²  went back and took his pair of oxen and slaughtered them. He cooked the meat over a fire that he made by burning the harness and yoke. ¹⁵³  He gave the people meat and they ate. Then he got up and followed Elijah and became his assistant.

1 Raja-raja 20:25

20:25 Muster an army like the one you lost, with the same number of horses and chariots. ¹⁵⁴  Then we will fight them in the plains; we will certainly overpower them.” He approved their plan and did as they advised. ¹⁵⁵ 

1 Raja-raja 8:43

8:43 Then listen from your heavenly dwelling place and answer all the prayers of the foreigners. ¹⁵⁶  Then all the nations of the earth will acknowledge your reputation, ¹⁵⁷  obey ¹⁵⁸  you like your people Israel do, and recognize that this temple I built belongs to you. ¹⁵⁹ 

1 Raja-raja 4:8

4:8 These were their names:

Ben-Hur was in charge of the hill country of Ephraim.

[3:8]  ¹ tn There is no verb expressed in the Hebrew text; “stands” is supplied in the translation for clarification.

[3:8]  ² tn Heb “your people whom you have chosen.”

[7:12]  ³ tn Or “the porch of the temple.”

[20:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “struck down Aram with a great striking down.”

[7:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits” (it is unclear exactly what dimension is being measured). If both numbers refer to the length of the stones (cf. NCV, CEV, NLT), then perhaps stones of two different sizes were used in some alternating pattern.

[5:17]  ⁶ tn Heb “and the king commanded.”

[4:29]  ⁷ tn Heb “heart,” i.e., mind. (The Hebrew term translated “heart” often refers to the mental faculties.)

[1:37]  ⁸ tn Heb “and may he make his throne greater than the throne of my master King David.”

[11:20]  ⁹ tn Heb “bore him Genubath his son.”

[11:20]  ¹⁰ tc The Hebrew text reads וַתִּגְמְלֵהוּ (vattigmÿlehu, “weaned him”) but a slight alteration of the consonantal text yields וַתִּגְדְלֵהוּ (vattigdÿlehu, “raised him”), which seems to make better sense.

[12:10]  ¹¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Rehoboam) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[12:10]  ¹² tn Heb “Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter upon us.”

[12:10]  ¹³ tn Heb “My little one is thicker than my father’s hips.” The referent of “my little one” is not clear. The traditional view is that it refers to the little finger. As the following statement makes clear, Rehoboam’s point is that he is more harsh and demanding than his father.

[4:30]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “the wisdom of Solomon was greater than the wisdom of all the sons of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.”

[8:42]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “your great name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in the previous verse.

[8:42]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and your strong hand and your outstretched arm.”

[11:19]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and Hadad found great favor in the eyes of Pharaoh.”

[11:19]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “and he gave to him a wife, the sister of his wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.”

[3:6]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “did.”

[3:6]  ²⁰ tn Heb “walked before.”

[3:6]  ²¹ tn Heb “in faithfulness and in innocence and in uprightness of heart with you.”

[3:6]  ²² 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.”

[12:8]  ²³ tn Heb “He rejected the advice of the elders which they advised and he consulted the young men with whom he had grown up, who stood before him.” The referent (Rehoboam) of the initial pronoun (“he”) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[22:31]  ²⁴ tn Heb “small or great.”

[3:9]  ²⁵ tn Heb “a hearing heart.” (The Hebrew term translated “heart” often refers to the mental faculties.)

[3:9]  ²⁶ tn Heb “to judge.”

[3:9]  ²⁷ tn Heb “to understand between good and evil.”

[3:9]  ²⁸ tn Heb “for”; the word “otherwise” is used to reflect the logical sense of the statement.

[3:9]  ²⁹ tn Heb “who is able?” The rhetorical question anticipates the answer, “no one.”

[3:9]  ³⁰ tn Heb “to judge.”

[3:9]  ³¹ tn Heb “your numerous people.”

[5:7]  ³² tn Or “Blessed be the Lord today, who….”

[10:2]  ³³ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[10:2]  ³⁴ tn Heb “with very great strength.” The Hebrew term חַיִל (khayil, “strength”) may refer here to the size of her retinue (cf. NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV) or to the great wealth she brought with her.

[10:2]  ³⁵ tn Or “balsam oil.”

[7:9]  ³⁶ tn Or “valuable” (see 5:17).

[7:9]  ³⁷ tn Heb “according to the measurement of chiseled [stone].”

[7:9]  ³⁸ tn Heb “inside and out.”

[7:9]  ³⁹ tn The precise meaning of the Hebrew word טְפָחוֹת (tÿfakhot) is uncertain, but it is clear that the referent stands in opposition to the foundation.

[8:65]  ⁴⁰ tn Or “the Wadi of Egypt” (NAB, NIV, NRSV); CEV “the Egyptian Gorge.”

[8:65]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “Solomon held at that time the festival, and all Israel was with him, a great assembly from Lebo Hamath to the Brook of Egypt, before the Lord our God for seven days and seven days, fourteen days.”

[18:44]  ⁴² tn Heb “he”; the referent (the servant) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[18:44]  ⁴³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[18:44]  ⁴⁴ tn Heb “so that the rain won’t restrain you.”

[1:47]  ⁴⁵ tn Heb “to bless.”

[1:47]  ⁴⁶ tn The plural form is used in the Hebrew text to indicate honor and authority.

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

[1:47]  ⁴⁸ 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]  ⁴⁹ tn Or “bowed down; worshiped.”

[20:28]  ⁵⁰ tn Heb “the man of God.”

[20:28]  ⁵¹ tn Heb “I will place all this great horde in your hand.”

[20:13]  ⁵² tn Heb “this great horde.”

[19:11]  ⁵³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[19:11]  ⁵⁴ tn Heb “tearing away the mountains and breaking the cliffs” (or perhaps, “breaking the stones”).

[1:35]  ⁵⁵ tn Or “commanded.”

[18:45]  ⁵⁶ tn Heb “rode and went to.”

[14:7]  ⁵⁷ tn The Hebrew text has “because” at the beginning of the sentence. In the Hebrew text vv. 7-11 are one long sentence comprised of a causal clause giving the reason for divine punishment (vv. 7-9) and the main clause announcing the punishment (vv. 10-11). The translation divides this lengthy sentence for stylistic reasons.

[16:2]  ⁵⁸ 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]  ⁵⁹ tn Heb “walked in the way of Jeroboam.”

[16:2]  ⁶⁰ tn Heb “angering me by their sins.”

[6:17]  ⁶¹ tn Heb “and the house was forty cubits, that is, the main hall before it.”

[22:10]  ⁶² tn Heb “were sitting, a man on his throne.”

[22:10]  ⁶³ map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.

[7:38]  ⁶⁴ tn Heb “forty baths” (a bath was a liquid measure roughly equivalent to six gallons).

[7:38]  ⁶⁵ tn Heb “four cubits, each basin.” It is unclear which dimension is being measured.

[10:16]  ⁶⁶ tn The Hebrew text has simply “six hundred,” with no unit of measure given.

[22:30]  ⁶⁷ tn The Hebrew verbal forms could be imperatives (“Disguise yourself and enter”), but this would make no sense in light of the immediately following context. The forms are better interpreted as infinitives absolute functioning as cohortatives. See IBHS 594 §35.5.2a. Some prefer to emend the forms to imperfects.

[3:4]  ⁶⁸ tn Heb “for it was the great high place.”

[3:4]  ⁶⁹ tn The verb form is an imperfect, which is probably used here in a customary sense to indicate continued or repeated action in past time. See GKC 314 §107.b.

[6:33]  ⁷⁰ tn Heb “and so he did at the entrance of the main hall, doorposts of olive wood, from a fourth.”

[8:41]  ⁷¹ tn Heb “your name.” 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.

[10:22]  ⁷² tn Heb “a fleet of Tarshish [ships].” This probably refers to large ships either made in or capable of traveling to the distant western port of Tarshish.

[10:22]  ⁷³ tn Heb “the fleet of Tarshish [ships].”

[10:22]  ⁷⁴ tn Heb “came carrying.”

[10:22]  ⁷⁵ tn The meaning of this word is unclear. Some suggest “baboons.”

[13:14]  ⁷⁶ tn Heb “the man of God.”

[13:14]  ⁷⁷ tn Heb “the man of God.”

[18:32]  ⁷⁸ tn Heb “and he built the stones into an altar in the name of the Lord.”

[18:32]  ⁷⁹ tn A seah was a dry measure equivalent to about seven quarts.

[1:46]  ⁸⁰ tn Heb “And also Solomon sits on the throne of the kingdom.”

[7:11]  ⁸¹ tn Heb “on top,” or “above.”

[7:11]  ⁸² tn Or “valuable” (see 5:17).

[7:11]  ⁸³ tn Heb “according to the measurement of chiseled [stone].”

[10:23]  ⁸⁴ tn Heb “King Solomon was greater than all the kings of the earth with respect to wealth and with respect to wisdom.”

[10:24]  ⁸⁵ tc The Old Greek translation and Syriac Peshitta have “all the kings of the earth.” See 2 Chr 9:23.

[10:24]  ⁸⁶ tn Heb “and all the earth was seeking the face of Solomon to hear his wisdom which God had placed in his heart.”

[13:34]  ⁸⁷ tn Heb “house.”

[6:5]  ⁸⁸ tn Heb “and he built on the wall of the temple an extension all around, the walls of the temple all around, for the main hall and for the holy place, and he made side rooms all around.”

[7:32]  ⁸⁹ tn Heb “a cubit-and-a-half” (a cubit was a unit of measure roughly equivalent to 18 inches or 45 cm).

[7:47]  ⁹⁰ tn Heb “Solomon left all the items, due to their very great abundance; the weight of the bronze was not sought.”

[16:25]  ⁹¹ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[16:30]  ⁹² tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[7:40]  ⁹³ tn Heb “Hiram.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[7:40]  ⁹⁴ tn Heb “Hiram finished doing all the work which he did for King Solomon [on] the house of the Lord.”

[3:28]  ⁹⁵ tn Heb “feared,” perhaps in the sense, “stood in awe of.”

[3:28]  ⁹⁶ tn Heb “saw.”

[3:28]  ⁹⁷ tn Heb “the wisdom of God within him.”

[4:24]  ⁹⁸ tn Heb “because.” The words “his royal court was so large” are added to facilitate the logical connection with the preceding verse.

[4:24]  ⁹⁹ sn Tiphsah. This was located on the Euphrates River.

[4:24]  ¹⁰⁰ tn Heb “for he was ruling over all [the region] beyond the River, from Tiphsah to Gaza, over all the kingdoms beyond the River, and he had peace on every side all around.”

[4:27]  ¹⁰¹ tn Heb “everyone who drew near to the table of King Solomon.”

[4:31]  ¹⁰² tn Heb “his name was in all the surrounding nations.”

[6:3]  ¹⁰³ tn Heb “twenty cubits.”

[6:3]  ¹⁰⁴ tn Heb “ten cubits.”

[7:21]  ¹⁰⁵ tn Or “south.”

[7:21]  ¹⁰⁶ sn The name Jakin appears to be a verbal form and probably means, “he establishes.”

[7:21]  ¹⁰⁷ tn Or “north.”

[7:21]  ¹⁰⁸ sn The meaning of the name Boaz is uncertain. For various proposals, see BDB 126-27 s.v. בעז. One attractive option is to revocalize the name as בְּעֹז (be’oz, “in strength”) and to understand it as completing the verbal form on the first pillar. Taking the words together and reading from right to left, one can translate the sentence, “he establishes [it] in strength.”

[7:36]  ¹⁰⁹ tn Heb “according to the space of each.”

[7:36]  ¹¹⁰ tn The precise meaning of this last word, translated “wreaths,” is uncertain.

[9:22]  ¹¹¹ sn These work crews. The work crews referred to here must be different than the temporary crews described in 5:13-16.

[9:22]  ¹¹² tn Heb “officers of his chariots and his horses.”

[20:12]  ¹¹³ tn Heb “When he heard this word.”

[20:12]  ¹¹⁴ tn Heb “in the temporary shelters.” This is probably referring to tents.

[20:16]  ¹¹⁵ tn Heb “drinking and drunken.”

[20:16]  ¹¹⁶ tn Heb “in the temporary shelters.” This is probably referring to tents.

[1:5]  ¹¹⁷ tn Heb “son of Haggith,” but since this formula usually designates the father (who in this case was David), the translation specifies that David was Adonijah’s father.

[1:5]  sn Haggith was one of David’s wives (2 Sam 3:4; 2 Chr 3:2).

[1:5]  ¹¹⁸ tn Heb “lifting himself up.”

[1:5]  ¹¹⁹ tn Heb “saying.”

[1:5]  ¹²⁰ tn Or “he acquired for himself.”

[1:5]  ¹²¹ tn Heb “to run ahead of him.”

[3:15]  ¹²² tn Heb “and look, a dream.”

[3:15]  ¹²³ tn Or “tokens of peace”; NIV, TEV “fellowship offerings.”

[4:21]  ¹²⁴ sn Beginning with 4:21, the verse numbers through 5:18 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 4:21 ET = 5:1 HT, 4:22 ET = 5:2 HT, etc., through 5:18 ET = 5:32 HT. Beginning with 6:1 the numbering of verses in the English Bible and the Hebrew text is again the same.

[4:21]  ¹²⁵ tn Heb “the River” (also in v. 24). This is the standard designation for the Euphrates River in biblical Hebrew.

[4:21]  ¹²⁶ tn Heb “[They] were bringing tribute and were serving Solomon all the days of his life.”

[7:2]  ¹²⁷ tn Heb “he built.”

[7:2]  ¹²⁸ 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.

[7:2]  ¹²⁹ tn Heb “one hundred cubits.”

[7:2]  ¹³⁰ tn Heb “fifty cubits.”

[7:2]  ¹³¹ tn Heb “thirty cubits.”

[8:35]  ¹³² tn Heb “when.” In the Hebrew text vv. 35-36a actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided into two sentences for stylistic reasons.

[8:35]  ¹³³ tn Heb “they”; the referent (your people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:35]  ¹³⁴ tn Heb “confess [or perhaps, “praise”] your name.”

[8:35]  ¹³⁵ tn The Hebrew text has “because you answer them,” as if the verb is from עָנָה (’anah, “to answer”). However, this reference to a divine answer is premature, since the next verse asks for God to intervene in mercy. It is better to revocalize the consonantal text as תְעַנֵּם (tÿ’annem, “you afflict them”), a Piel verb form from the homonym עָנָה (“to afflict”).

[10:7]  ¹³⁶ tn Heb “the half was not told to me.”

[10:7]  ¹³⁷ tn Heb “good.”

[10:9]  ¹³⁸ tn Or “delighted in.”

[10:9]  ¹³⁹ tn Heb “to do justice and righteousness.”

[10:10]  ¹⁴⁰ 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 9,000 pounds of gold (cf. NCV, NLT); CEV “five tons”; TEV “4,000 kilogrammes.”

[10:10]  ¹⁴¹ tn Heb “there has not come like those spices yet for quantity which the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.”

[10:26]  ¹⁴² tn Or “gathered.”

[10:26]  ¹⁴³ tn Heb “he placed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.”

[10:26]  map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[12:2]  ¹⁴⁴ tc Verse 2 is not included in the Old Greek translation. See the note on 11:43.

[12:2]  ¹⁴⁵ tn Heb “and Jeroboam lived in Egypt.” The parallel text in 2 Chr 10:2 reads, “and Jeroboam returned from Egypt.” In a purely consonantal text the forms “and he lived” and “and he returned” are identical (וישׁב).

[12:20]  ¹⁴⁶ tn Heb “there was no one [following] after the house of David except the tribe of Judah, it alone.”

[14:9]  ¹⁴⁷ tn Heb “you went and you made for yourself other gods, metal [ones], angering me, and you threw me behind your back.”

[14:15]  ¹⁴⁸ tn The elliptical Hebrew text reads literally “and the Lord will strike Israel as a reed sways in the water.”

[14:15]  ¹⁴⁹ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 22, 31).

[14:15]  ¹⁵⁰ tn Heb “the River.” In biblical Hebrew this is a typical reference to the Euphrates River. The name “Euphrates” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[14:15]  ¹⁵¹ tn Heb “because they made their Asherah poles that anger the Lord”; or “their images of Asherah”; ASV, NASB “their Asherim”; NCV “they set up idols to worship Asherah.”

[14:15]  sn Asherah was a leading deity of the Canaanite pantheon, wife/sister of El and goddess of fertility. She was commonly worshiped at shrines in or near groves of evergreen trees, or, failing that, at places marked by wooden poles. These were to be burned or cut down (Deut 12:3; 16:21; Judg 6:25, 28, 30; 2 Kgs 18:4).

[19:21]  ¹⁵² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[19:21]  ¹⁵³ tn Heb “and with the equipment of the oxen he cooked them, the flesh.”

[20:25]  ¹⁵⁴ tn Heb “And you, you muster an army like the one that fell from you, horse like horse and chariot like chariot.”

[20:25]  ¹⁵⁵ tn Heb “he listened to their voice and did so.”

[8:43]  ¹⁵⁶ tn Heb “and do all which the foreigner calls to [i.e., “requests of”] you.”

[8:43]  ¹⁵⁷ tn Heb “your name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in v. 41.

[8:43]  ¹⁵⁸ tn Heb “fear.”

[8:43]  ¹⁵⁹ 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.