1 Kings 1:13

1:13 Visit¹ King David and say to him, ‘My master, O king, did you not solemnly promise² your servant, “Surely your son Solomon will be king after me; he will sit on my throne”? So why has Adonijah become king?’

1 Kings 1:51

1:51 Solomon was told, “Look, Adonijah fears you;³ see, he has taken hold of the horns of the altar, saying, ‘May King Solomon solemnly promise⁴ me today that he will not kill his servant with the sword.’”

1 Kings 2:9

2:9 But now⁵ don’t treat him as if he were innocent. You are a wise man and you know how to handle him;⁶ make sure he has a bloody death.”⁷

1 Kings 5:7

5:7 When Hiram heard Solomon’s message, he was very happy. He said, “The Lord is worthy of praise today because he⁸ has given David a wise son to rule over this great nation.”

1 Kings 8:56

8:56 “The Lord is worthy of praise because he has made Israel his people secure⁹ just as he promised! Not one of all the faithful promises he made through his servant Moses is left unfulfilled!¹⁰

1 Kings 9:9

9:9 Others will then answer,¹¹ ‘Because they abandoned the Lord their God, who led their ancestors¹² out of Egypt. They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served.¹³ That is why the Lord has brought all this disaster down on them.’”

1 Kings 10:10

10:10 She gave the king 120 talents¹⁴ 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.¹⁵

1 Kings 10:12

10:12 With the timber the king made supports¹⁶ for the Lord’s temple and for the royal palace and stringed instruments¹⁷ for the musicians. No one has seen so much of this fine timber to this very day.¹⁸)

1 Kings 13:3

13:3 That day he also announced¹⁹ a sign, “This is the sign the Lord has predetermined:²⁰ The altar will be split open and the ashes²¹ on it will fall to the ground.”²²

1 Kings 14:11

14:11 Dogs will eat the members of your family²³ who die in the city, and the birds of the sky will eat the ones who die in the country.”’ Indeed, the Lord has announced it!

1 Kings 16:16

16:16 While deployed there, the army received this report:²⁴ “Zimri has conspired against the king and assassinated him.”²⁵ So all Israel made Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel that very day in the camp.

1 Kings 21:18

21:18 “Get up, go down and meet King Ahab of Israel who lives in Samaria. He is at the vineyard of Naboth; he has gone down there to take possession of it.

¹tn Heb “come, go to.” The imperative of הָלַךְ (halakh) is here used as an introductory interjection. See BDB 234 s.v. חָלַךְ.

²tn Or “swear an oath to.”

³tn Heb “King Solomon.” The name and title have been replaced by the pronoun (“you”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁴tn Or “swear an oath to.”

⁵tc The Lucianic recension of the Old Greek and the Vulgate have here “you” rather than “now.” The two words are homonyms in Hebrew.

⁶tn Heb “what you should do to him.”

⁷tn Heb “bring his grey hair down in blood [to] Sheol.”

⁸tn Or “Blessed be the Lord today, who….”

⁹tn Heb “he has given a resting place to his people Israel.”

¹⁰tn Heb “not one word from his entire good word he spoke by Moses his servant has fallen.”

¹¹tn Heb “and they will say.”

¹²tn Heb “fathers.”

¹³tn Heb “and they took hold of other gods and bowed down to them and served them.”

¹⁴tn 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.”

¹⁵tn Heb “there has not come like those spices yet for quantity which the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.”

¹⁶tn This Hebrew architectural term occurs only here. The meaning is uncertain; some have suggested “banisters” or “parapets”; cf. TEV, NLT “railings.” The parallel passage in 2 Chr 9:11 has a different word, meaning “tracks,” or perhaps “steps.”

¹⁷tn Two types of stringed instruments are specifically mentioned, the כִּנּוֹר (kinnor, “zither” [?]), and נֶבֶל (nevel, “harp”).

¹⁸tn Heb “there has not come thus, the fine timber, and there has not been seen to this day.”

¹⁹tn Heb “gave.”

²⁰tn Heb “spoken.”

²¹tn Heb “the fat.” Reference is made to burnt wood mixed with fat. See HALOT 234 s.v. דשׁן.

²²tn Heb “will be poured out.”

²³tn The Hebrew text has “belonging to Jeroboam” here.

²⁴tn Heb “and the people who were encamped heard.”

²⁵tn Heb “has conspired against and also has struck down the king.”