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 3:9

3:9 So give your servant a discerning mind³ so he can make judicial decisions for⁴ your people and distinguish right from wrong.⁵ Otherwise⁶ no one is able⁷ to make judicial decisions for⁸ this great nation of yours.”⁹

1 Kings 3:22

3:22 The other woman said, “No! My son is alive; your son is dead!” But the first woman replied, “No, your son is dead; my son is alive.” Each presented her case before the king.¹⁰

1 Kings 8:28

8:28 But respond favorably to¹¹ your servant’s prayer and his request for help, O Lord my God. Answer¹² the desperate prayer¹³ your servant is presenting to you¹⁴ today.

1 Kings 8:33

8:33 “The time will come when¹⁵ your people Israel are defeated by an enemy¹⁶ because they sinned against you. If they come back to you, renew their allegiance to you,¹⁷ and pray for your help¹⁸ in this temple,

1 Kings 8:39

8:39 then listen from your heavenly dwelling place, forgive their sin,¹⁹ and act favorably toward each one based on your evaluation of his motives.²⁰ (Indeed you are the only one who can correctly evaluate the motives of all people.)²¹

1 Kings 8:44

8:44 “When you direct your people to march out and fight their enemies,²² and they direct their prayers to the Lord²³ toward his chosen city and this temple I built for your honor,²⁴

1 Kings 8:47

8:47 When your people²⁵ come to their senses²⁶ in the land where they are held prisoner, they will repent and beg for your mercy in the land of their imprisonment, admitting, ‘We have sinned and gone astray;²⁷ we have done evil.’

1 Kings 8:53

8:53 After all,²⁸ you picked them out of all the nations of the earth to be your special possession,²⁹ just as you, O sovereign Lord, announced through your servant Moses when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt.”

1 Kings 9:3

9:3 The Lord said to him, “I have answered³⁰ your prayer and your request for help that you made to me. I have consecrated this temple you built by making it my permanent home;³¹ I will be constantly present there.³²

1 Kings 9:5

9:5 Then I will allow your dynasty to rule over Israel permanently,³³ just as I promised your father David, ‘You will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’³⁴

1 Kings 11:12

11:12 However, for your father David’s sake I will not do this while you are alive. I will tear it away from your son’s hand instead.

1 Kings 13:22

13:22 You went back and ate and drank in this place, even though he said to you, “Do not eat or drink there.”³⁵ Therefore³⁶ your corpse will not be buried in your ancestral tomb.’”³⁷

1 Kings 20:42

20:42 The prophet³⁸ then said to him, “This is what the Lord says, ‘Because you released a man I had determined should die, you will pay with your life and your people will suffer instead of his people.’”³⁹

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 “a hearing heart.” (The Hebrew term translated “heart” often refers to the mental faculties.)

⁴tn Heb “to judge.”

⁵tn Heb “to understand between good and evil.”

⁶tn Heb “for”; the word “otherwise” is used to reflect the logical sense of the statement.

⁷tn Heb “who is able?” The rhetorical question anticipates the answer, “no one.”

⁸tn Heb “to judge.”

⁹tn Heb “your numerous people.”

¹⁰tn Heb “they spoke before the king.” Another option is to translate, “they argued before the king.”

¹¹tn Heb “turn to.”

¹²tn Heb “by listening to.”

¹³tn Heb “the loud cry and the prayer.”

¹⁴tn Heb “praying before you.”

¹⁵tn Heb “when.” In the Hebrew text vv. 33-34 actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided into two sentences for stylistic reasons.

¹⁶tn Or “are struck down before an enemy.”

¹⁷tn Heb “confess [or perhaps, “praise”] your name.”

¹⁸tn Heb “and they pray and ask for help.”

¹⁹tn The words “their sin” are added for clarification.

²⁰tn Heb “and act and give to each one according to all his ways because you know his heart.” In the Hebrew text vv. 37-39a actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided up for stylistic reasons.

²¹tn Heb “Indeed you know, you alone, the heart of all the sons of mankind.”

²²tn Heb “When your people go out for battle against their enemies in the way which you send them.”

²³tn Or perhaps “to you, O Lord.” See 2 Chr 6:34.

²⁴tn Heb “your name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in v. 41.

²⁵tn Heb “they”; the referent (your people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²⁶tn Or “stop and reflect”; Heb “bring back to their heart.”

²⁷tn Or “done wrong.”

²⁸tn Or “For.”

²⁹tn Heb “your inheritance.”

³⁰tn Heb “I have heard.”

³¹tn Heb “by placing my name there perpetually” (or perhaps, “forever”).

³²tn Heb “and my eyes and my heart will be there all the days.”

³³tn Heb “I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever.”

³⁴tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel.”

³⁵tn Heb “and you returned and ate food and drank water in the place about which he said to you, ‘do not eat food and do not drink water.’”

³⁶tn “Therefore” is added for stylistic reasons. See the note at 1 Kgs 13:21 pertaining to the grammatical structure of vv. 21-22.

³⁷tn Heb “will not go to the tomb of your fathers.”

³⁸tn Heb “he”; the referent (the prophet) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³⁹tn Heb “Because you sent away the man of my destruction [i.e., that I determined should be destroyed] from [my/your?] hand, your life will be in place of his life, and your people in place of his people.”