2:13 Haggith’s son Adonijah visited Bathsheba, Solomon’s mother. She asked, “Do you come in peace?” He answered, “Yes.” 11
2:23 King Solomon then swore an oath by the Lord, “May God judge me severely, 13 if Adonijah does not pay for this request with his life! 14
So Solomon took firm control of the kingdom. 18
4:7 Solomon had twelve district governors appointed throughout Israel who acquired supplies for the king and his palace. Each was responsible for one month in the year.
4:29 God gave Solomon wisdom and very great discernment; the breadth of his understanding 23 was as infinite as the sand on the seashore.
6:37 In the month Ziv 29 of the fourth year of Solomon’s reign 30 the foundation was laid for the Lord’s temple.
7:40 Hiram also made basins, shovels, and bowls. He 31 finished all the work on the Lord’s temple he had been assigned by King Solomon. 32
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, 34
8:22 Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in front of the entire assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward the sky. 35
9:1 After Solomon finished building the Lord’s temple, the royal palace, and all the other construction projects he had planned, 36
9:26 King Solomon also built ships 40 in Ezion Geber, which is located near Elat in the land of Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea. 9:27 Hiram sent his fleet and some of his sailors, who were well acquainted with the sea, to serve with Solomon’s men. 41
10:26 Solomon accumulated 44 chariots and horses. He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses. He kept them in assigned cities and in Jerusalem. 45
11:1 King Solomon fell in love with many foreign women (besides Pharaoh’s daughter), including Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites.
11:9 The Lord was angry with Solomon because he had shifted his allegiance 55 away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him on two occasions 56
11:23 God also brought against Solomon 57 another enemy, Rezon son of Eliada who had run away from his master, King Hadadezer of Zobah.
11:26 Jeroboam son of Nebat, one of Solomon’s servants, rebelled against 59 the king. He was an Ephraimite 60 from Zeredah whose mother was a widow named Zeruah.
1 tn Heb “now, come.” The imperative of הָלַךְ (halakh) is here used as an introductory interjection. See BDB 234 s.v. חָלַךְ.
2 tn Or “so that.”
3 tn The words “if a decision is not made” are added for clarification.
4 tn Heb “lies down with his fathers.”
5 tn Heb “I and my son Solomon.” The order has been reversed in the translation for stylistic reasons.
6 tn Heb “will be guilty”; NASB “considered offenders”; TEV “treated as traitors.”
7 tn Heb “the king.”
8 tn The plural form is used in the Hebrew text to indicate honor and authority.
9 tn Heb “mount Solomon my son on the mule that belongs to me and take him down to Gihon.”
10 tn Or “designate” (i.e., by anointing with oil).
11 tn Heb “[in] peace.”
12 tn Heb “Say to Solomon the king, for he will not turn back your face, that he might give to me Abishag the Shunammite for a wife.”
13 tn Heb “So may God do to me, and so may he add.”
14 tn Heb “if with his life Adonijah has not spoken this word.”
15 tn Heb “Solomon drove out Abiathar from being a priest to the
16 tn Heb “fulfilling the word of the
17 tn “The king commanded Benaiah son of Jehoiada and he went out and struck him down and he died.”
18 tn “And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.”
19 tn Heb “Solomon loved the
20 tn Or “policies, rules.”
21 tn Or “revealed himself.”
22 tn Heb “ask.”
23 tn Heb “heart,” i.e., mind. (The Hebrew term translated “heart” often refers to the mental faculties.)
24 tn Heb “the wisdom of Solomon.”
25 tn Heb “heard.”
26 tn Heb “I will satisfy all your desire with respect to cedar wood and with respect to the wood of evergreens.”
27 tn Heb “with plated gold” (or perhaps, “with pure gold”).
28 tn Heb “it.”
29 sn In the month Ziv. This would be April-May, 966
30 tn The words “of Solomon’s reign” are added for clarification. See v. 1.
31 tn Heb “Hiram.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
32 tn Heb “Hiram finished doing all the work which he did for King Solomon [on] the house of the
33 tn Heb “which Hiram made for King Solomon [for] the house of the
34 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.
sn This bread was viewed as a perpetual offering to God and was regarded as holy. See Lev 24:5-9.
35 tn Or “heaven.”
36 tn Heb “and all the desire of Solomon which he wanted to do.”
37 sn These work crews. The work crews referred to here must be different than the temporary crews described in 5:13-16.
38 tn Heb “officers of his chariots and his horses.”
39 tn Heb “these [were] the officials of the governors who were over the work belonging to Solomon, five hundred fifty, the ones ruling over the people, the ones doing the work.”
40 tn Or “a fleet” (in which case “ships” would be implied).
41 tn Heb “and Hiram sent with the fleet his servants, men of ships, [who] know the sea, [to be] with the servants of Solomon.”
42 tn Heb “besides what he had given her according to the hand of King Solomon.”
43 tn Heb “turned and went.”
44 tn Or “gathered.”
45 tn Heb “he placed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.”
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46 tn Heb “bent his heart after.”
47 tn Heb “his heart was not complete with the
48 tn Heb “in the eyes of the
49 tn The idiomatic statement reads in Hebrew, “he did not fill up after.”
50 tn Heb “then.”
51 sn The hill east of Jerusalem refers to the Mount of Olives.
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52 sn A high place. The “high places” were places of worship that were naturally or artificially elevated (see 1 Kgs 3:2).
53 tn Heb “Chemosh, the detestable thing of Moab.”
54 tc The MT reads “Molech,” but Milcom must be intended (see vv. 5, 33).
55 tn Heb “bent his heart.”
56 sn These two occasions are mentioned in 1 Kgs 3:5 and 9:2.
57 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Solomon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
58 tn The construction (Qal of קוּץ + בְּ [quts + bet] preposition) is rare, but not without parallel (see Lev 20:23).
59 tn Heb “raised a hand against.”
60 tn Heb “Ephrathite,” which here refers to an Ephraimite (see HALOT 81 s.v. אֶפְרַיִם).
61 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
62 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.
63 tc Before this sentence the Old Greek translation includes the following words: “And it so happened that when Jeroboam son of Nebat heard – now he was in Egypt where he had fled from before Solomon and was residing in Egypt – he came straight to his city in the land of Sarira which is on mount Ephraim. And king Solomon slept with his fathers.”
64 tc Verse 2 is not included in the Old Greek translation. See the note on 11:43.
65 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).