1 Kings 1:1

Adonijah Tries to Seize the Throne

1:1 King David was very old;¹ even when they covered him with blankets,² he could not get warm.

1 Kings 1:32

1:32 King David said, “Summon Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet,³ and Benaiah son of Jehoiada.” They came before the king,

1 Kings 1:40

1:40 All the people followed him up, playing flutes and celebrating so loudly they made the ground shake.⁴

1 Kings 3:8

3:8 Your servant stands⁵ among your chosen people;⁶ they are a great nation that is too numerous to count or number.

1 Kings 5:17

5:17 By royal order⁷ they supplied large valuable stones in order to build the temple’s foundation with chiseled stone.

1 Kings 7:47

7:47 Solomon left all these items unweighed; there were so many of them they did not weigh the bronze.⁸

1 Kings 8:14

8:14 Then the king turned around⁹ and pronounced a blessing over the whole Israelite assembly as they stood there.¹⁰

1 Kings 9:28

9:28 They sailed¹¹ to Ophir, took from there four hundred twenty talents¹² of gold, and then brought them to King Solomon.

1 Kings 11:8

11:8 He built high places for all his foreign wives so they could burn incense and make sacrifices to their gods.¹³

1 Kings 11:16

11:16 For six months Joab and the entire Israelite army¹⁴ stayed there until they had exterminated every male in Edom.¹⁵

1 Kings 12:3

12:3 They sent for him,¹⁶ and Jeroboam and the whole Israelite assembly came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,

1 Kings 13:30

13:30 He put the corpse into his own tomb, and they¹⁷ mourned over him, saying, “Ah, my brother!”

1 Kings 18:29

18:29 Throughout the afternoon they were in an ecstatic frenzy,¹⁸ but there was no sound, no answer, and no response.¹⁹

1 Kings 22:33

22:33 When the chariot commanders realized he was not the king of Israel, they turned away from him.

¹tn Heb “was old, coming into the days” (i.e., advancing in years).

²tn Or “garments.”

³sn Summon…Nathan. Nathan must have left the room when Bathsheba reentered.

⁴tn Heb “and all the people went up after him, and the people were playing flutes and rejoicing with great joy and the ground split open at the sound of them.” The verb בָּקַע (baqa’, “to split open”), which elsewhere describes the effects of an earthquake, is obviously here an exaggeration for the sake of emphasis.

⁵tn There is no verb expressed in the Hebrew text; “stands” is supplied in the translation for clarification.

⁶tn Heb “your people whom you have chosen.”

⁷tn Heb “and the king commanded.”

⁸tn Heb “Solomon left all the items, due to their very great abundance; the weight of the bronze was not sought.”

⁹tn Heb “turned his face.”

¹⁰tn Heb “and he blessed all the assembly of Israel, and all the assembly of Israel was standing.”

¹¹tn Heb “went.”

¹²tn 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 31,500 pounds of gold (cf. NCV); CEV, NLT “sixteen tons”; TEV “more than 14,000 kilogrammes.”

¹³tn Heb “and the same thing he did for all his foreign wives, [who] were burning incense and sacrificing to their gods.”

¹⁴tn Heb “and all Israel.”

¹⁵tn Heb “until he had cut off every male in Edom.”

¹⁶tn Heb “They sent and called for him.”

¹⁷tn “They” is the reading of the Hebrew text here; perhaps this is meant to include not only the old prophet but his sons (cf. v. 31).

¹⁸tn Heb “when noon passed they prophesied until the offering up of the offering.”

¹⁹tc The Old Greek translation and Syriac Peshitta include the following words here: “When it was time to offer the sacrifice, Elijah the Tishbite spoke to the prophets of the abominations: ‘Stand aside for the time being, and I will offer my burnt offering.’ So they stood aside and departed.”

sn In 2 Kgs 4:31 the words “there was no sound and there was no response” are used to describe a dead boy. Similar words are used here to describe the god Baal as dead and therefore unresponsive.