1:11 Nathan said to Bathsheba, Solomon’s mother, “Has it been reported to you 1 that Haggith’s son Adonijah has become king behind our master David’s back? 2
1:38 So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites, and the Pelethites 7 went down, put Solomon on King David’s mule, and led him to Gihon.
3:4 The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for it had the most prominent of the high places. 18 Solomon would offer up 19 a thousand burnt sacrifices on the altar there.
5:1 (5:15) 28 King Hiram of Tyre 29 sent messengers 30 to Solomon when he heard that he had been anointed king in his father’s place. (Hiram had always been an ally of David.)
5:7 When Hiram heard Solomon’s message, he was very happy. He said, “The Lord is worthy of praise today because he 31 has given David a wise son to rule over this great nation.”
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 40 (the second month), he began building the Lord’s temple.
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. 43
9:15 Here are the details concerning the work crews 45 King Solomon conscripted 46 to build the Lord’s temple, his palace, the terrace, the wall of Jerusalem, 47 and the cities of 48 Hazor, 49 Megiddo, 50 and Gezer. 9:16 (Pharaoh, king of Egypt, had attacked and captured Gezer. He burned it and killed the Canaanites who lived in the city. He gave it as a wedding present to his daughter, who had married Solomon.)
9:25 Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings 52 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. 53
12:6 King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served 67 his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, 68 “How do you advise me to answer these people?”
12:21 When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he summoned 180,000 skilled warriors from all of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin 69 to attack Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam son of Solomon.
1 tn Heb “Have you not heard?”
2 tn Heb “and our master David does not know.”
3 tn Heb “come, go to.” The imperative of הָלַךְ (halakh) is here used as an introductory interjection. See BDB 234 s.v. חָלַךְ.
4 tn Or “swear an oath to.”
5 tn Or “carry out, perform.”
6 tn Heb “and may he make his throne greater than the throne of my master King David.”
7 sn The Kerethites and Pelethites were members of David’s royal guard (see 2 Sam 8:18). The Kerethites may have been descendants of an ethnic group originating in Crete.
8 tn Heb “to bless.”
9 tn The plural form is used in the Hebrew text to indicate honor and authority.
10 tc Many Hebrew
11 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.
12 tn Or “bowed down; worshiped.”
13 tn Heb “if he is a man of strength [or ability].” In this context, where Adonijah calls himself a “servant,” implying allegiance to the new king, the phrase אִישׁ חַיִל (’ish khayil) probably carries the sense of “a worthy man,” that is, “loyal” (see HALOT 311 s.v. חַיִל).
14 tn Heb “but if evil is found in him.”
15 tn Heb “for Adonijah.”
16 tn Heb “and it was related to King Solomon.”
17 tn Heb “so Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, saying.”
18 tn Heb “for it was the great high place.”
19 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.
20 tn Heb “did.”
21 tn Heb “walked before.”
22 tn Heb “in faithfulness and in innocence and in uprightness of heart with you.”
23 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.”
24 tn Heb “and look, a dream.”
25 tn Or “tokens of peace”; NIV, TEV “fellowship offerings.”
26 tn Heb “Judah and Israel lived securely, each one under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan to Beer Sheba, all the days of Solomon.”
27 tn Heb “everyone who drew near to the table of King Solomon.”
28 sn The verse numbers in the English Bible differ from those in the Hebrew text (BHS) here; 5:1-18 in the English Bible corresponds to 5:15-32 in the Hebrew text. See the note at 4:21.
29 map For location see Map1-A2; Map2-G2; Map4-A1; JP3-F3; JP4-F3.
30 tn Heb “his servants.”
31 tn Or “Blessed be the
32 sn As a unit of dry measure a cor was roughly equivalent to six bushels.
33 tn Heb “his house.”
34 tc The Hebrew text has “twenty cors,” but the ancient Greek version and the parallel text in 2 Chr 2:10 read “twenty thousand baths.”
sn A bath was a liquid measure equivalent to almost six gallons.
35 tn Or “pressed.”
36 tn Heb “and Solomon supplied Hiram with twenty thousand cors of wheat…pure olive oil. So Solomon would give to Hiram year by year.”
37 tn Heb “builders.”
38 tn Heb “the Gebalites.” The reading is problematic and some emend to a verb form meaning, “set the borders.”
39 tc The LXX includes the words “for three years.”
40 sn During the month Ziv. This would be April-May, 966
41 tn Heb “Solomon.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
42 tn Heb “And King Solomon and all the assembly of Israel, those who had been gathered to him, [were] before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle which could not be counted or numbered because of the abundance.”
43 tn Or “toward heaven.”
44 tn Or “tokens of peace”; NIV, TEV “fellowship offerings.”
45 sn The work crews. This Hebrew word מַס (mas) refers to a group of laborers conscripted for royal or public service.
46 tn Heb “raised up.”
47 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
48 tn The words “the cities of” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
49 map For location see Map1-D2; Map2-D3; Map3-A2; Map4-C1.
50 map For location see Map1-D4; Map2-C1; Map4-C2; Map5-F2; Map7-B1.
51 tn Heb “their sons who were left after them in the land, whom the sons of Israel were unable to wipe out, and Solomon raised them up for a crew of labor to this day.”
52 tn Or “tokens of peace”; NIV, TEV “fellowship offerings.”
53 tn Heb “and he made complete the house.”
54 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
55 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.
56 tn Or “balsam oil.”
57 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.”
58 tn Heb “there has not come like those spices yet for quantity which the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.”
59 tn Heb “you must not go into them, and they must not go into you.”
60 tn Heb “Surely they will bend your heart after their gods.” The words “if you do” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
61 tn Heb “Solomon clung to them for love.” The pronominal suffix, translated “them,” is masculine here, even though it appears the foreign women are in view. Perhaps this is due to attraction to the masculine forms used of the nations earlier in the verse.
62 tn Heb “Because this is with you, and you have not kept my covenant and my rules which I commanded you.”
63 tn Heb “this is the matter concerning which he raised a hand against the king.”
64 sn The city of his father David. The phrase refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
65 tn Heb “man of strength.”
66 tn Heb “house.”
67 tn Heb “stood before.”
68 tn Heb “saying.”
69 tn Heb “he summoned all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, one hundred eighty thousand chosen men, accomplished in war.”