1 Kings 1:17

1:17 She replied to him, “My master, you swore an oath to your servant by the Lord your God, ‘Solomon your son will be king after me and he will sit on my throne.’

1 Kings 2:20

2:20 She said, “I would like to ask you for just one small favor. ¹  Please don’t refuse me.” ²  He said, ³  “Go ahead and ask, my mother, for I would not refuse you.”

1 Kings 10:5

10:5 the food in his banquet hall, ⁴  his servants and attendants, ⁵  their robes, his cupbearers, and his burnt offerings which he presented in the Lord’s temple, she was amazed. ⁶ 

1 Kings 10:10

10:10 She gave the king 120 talents ⁷  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. ⁸ 

1 Kings 14:6

14:6 When Ahijah heard the sound of her footsteps as she came through the door, he said, “Come on in, wife of Jeroboam! Why are you pretending to be someone else? I have been commissioned to give you bad news. ⁹ 

1 Kings 15:13

15:13 He also removed Maacah his grandmother ¹⁰  from her position as queen because she had made a loathsome Asherah pole. Asa cut down her Asherah pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

1 Kings 21:15

21:15 When Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned to death, she ¹¹  said to Ahab, “Get up, take possession of the vineyard Naboth the Jezreelite refused to sell you for silver, for Naboth is no longer alive; he’s dead.”

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¹ tn Or “I’d like to make just one request of you.”

² tn Heb “Do not turn back my face.”

³ tn Heb “and the king said to her.”

⁴ tn Heb “the food on his table.”

⁵ tn Heb “the seating of his servants and the standing of his attendants.”

⁶ tn Heb “there was no breath still in her.”

⁷ 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.”

⁸ tn Heb “there has not come like those spices yet for quantity which the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.”

⁹ tn Heb “I am sent to you [with] a hard [message].”

¹⁰ tn Heb “mother,” but Hebrew often uses the terms “father” and “mother” for grandparents and more remote ancestors.

¹¹ tn Heb “Jezebel”; the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“she”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.