1 Raja-raja 12:25

Jeroboam Makes Golden Calves

12:25 ¹ Jeroboam built up Shechem in the Ephraimite hill country and lived there. From there he went out and built up Penuel.

1 Raja-raja 15:22

15:22 King Asa ordered all the men of Judah (no exemptions were granted) to carry away the stones and wood that Baasha had used to build Ramah. ²  King Asa used the materials to build up ³  Geba (in Benjamin) and Mizpah.

1 Raja-raja 15:17

15:17 King Baasha of Israel attacked Judah and established Ramah as a military outpost to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the land of King Asa of Judah. ⁴ 

1 Raja-raja 16:24

16:24 He purchased the hill of Samaria ⁵  from Shemer for two talents ⁶  of silver. He launched a construction project there ⁷  and named the city he built after Shemer, the former owner of the hill of Samaria.

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. ⁸  Yet when he was very old he developed a foot disease. ⁹ 

1 Raja-raja 2:46

2:46 The king then gave the order to Benaiah son of Jehoiada who went and executed Shimei. ¹⁰ 

So Solomon took firm control of the kingdom. ¹¹ 

1 Raja-raja 2:12

Solomon Secures the Throne

2:12 Solomon sat on his father David’s throne, and his royal authority ¹²  was firmly solidified.

1 Raja-raja 2:45

2:45 But King Solomon will be empowered ¹³  and David’s dynasty ¹⁴  will endure permanently before the Lord.”

1 Raja-raja 3:7

3:7 Now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in my father David’s place, even though I am only a young man and am inexperienced. ¹⁵ 

¹ tc The Old Greek translation has here a lengthy section consisting of twenty-three verses that are not found in the MT.

² tn Heb “and King Asa made a proclamation to all Judah, there was no one exempt, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its wood which Baasha had built.”

³ tn Heb “and King Asa built with them.”

⁴ tn Heb “and he built up Ramah so as to not permit going out or coming in to Asa king of Judah.”

⁵ map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.

⁶ 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.

⁷ tn Heb “he built up the hill.”

⁸ 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?”

⁹ tn Heb “Yet in the time of his old age he became sick in his feet.”

¹⁰ tn “The king commanded Benaiah son of Jehoiada and he went out and struck him down and he died.”

¹¹ tn “And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.”

¹² tn Or “kingship.”

¹³ tn Or “blessed.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “throne.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “and I do not know going out or coming in.”