1 Kings 1:25

1:25 For today he has gone down and sacrificed many cattle, steers, and sheep and has invited all the king’s sons, the army commanders, and Abiathar the priest. At this moment¹ they are having a feast² in his presence, and they have declared, ‘Long live King Adonijah!’³

1 Kings 2:4

2:4 and the Lord will fulfill his promise to me,⁴ ‘If your descendants watch their step⁵ and live faithfully in my presence⁶ with all their heart and being,⁷ then,’ he promised,⁸ ‘you will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’⁹

1 Kings 2:26

2:26 The king then told Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your property¹⁰ in Anathoth. You deserve to die,¹¹ but today I will not kill you because you did carry the ark of the sovereign Lord before my father David and you suffered with my father through all his difficult times.”¹²

1 Kings 3:1

The Lord Gives Solomon Wisdom

3:1 Solomon made an alliance by marriage with Pharaoh, king of Egypt; he married Pharaoh’s daughter. He brought her to the City of David¹³ until he could finish building his residence and the temple of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem.¹⁴

1 Kings 7:14

7:14 He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali,¹⁵ and his father was a craftsman in bronze from Tyre. He had the skill and knowledge¹⁶ to make all kinds of works of bronze. He reported to King Solomon and did all the work he was assigned.

1 Kings 12:28

12:28 After the king had consulted with his advisers,¹⁷ he made two golden calves. Then he said to the people,¹⁸ “It is too much trouble for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look, Israel, here are your gods who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”

1 Kings 13:26

13:26 When the old prophet who had invited him to his house heard the news,¹⁹ he said, “It is the prophet²⁰ who rebelled against the Lord.²¹ The Lord delivered him over to the lion and it ripped him up²² and killed him, just as the Lord warned him.”²³

1 Kings 15:18

15:18 Asa took all the silver and gold that was left in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and of the royal palace and handed it to his servants. He then told them to deliver it²⁴ to Ben Hadad son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, ruler in Damascus, along with this message:

1 Kings 15:23

15:23 The rest of the events of Asa’s reign, including all his successes and accomplishments, as well as a record of the cities he built, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah.²⁵ Yet when he was very old he developed a foot disease.²⁶

1 Kings 19:4

19:4 while he went a day’s journey into the desert. He went and sat down under a shrub²⁷ and asked the Lord to take his life:²⁸ “I’ve had enough! Now, O Lord, take my life. After all, I’m no better than my ancestors.”²⁹

1 Kings 20:31

20:31 His advisers³⁰ said to him, “Look, we have heard that the kings of the Israelite dynasty are kind.³¹ Allow us to put sackcloth around our waists and ropes on our heads³² and surrender³³ to the king of Israel. Maybe he will spare our lives.”

1 Kings 22:8

22:8 The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man through whom we can seek the Lord’s will.³⁴ But I despise³⁵ him because he does not prophesy prosperity for me, but disaster. His name is Micaiah son of Imlah.³⁶ Jehoshaphat said, “The king should not say such things.”

¹tn Heb “look.”

²tn Heb “eating and drinking.”

³tn Heb “let the king, Adonijah, live!”

⁴tn Heb “then the Lord will establish his word which he spoke to me, saying.”

⁵tn Heb “guard their way.”

⁶tn Heb “by walking before me in faithfulness.”

⁷tn Or “soul.”

⁸tn Heb “saying.”

⁹tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel.”

¹⁰tn Or “field.”

¹¹tn Heb “you are a man of death.”

¹²tn Heb “and because you suffered through all which my father suffered.”

¹³sn The phrase City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

¹⁴map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

¹⁵tn 2 Chr 2:14 (13 HT) says “from the daughters of Dan.”

¹⁶tn Heb “he was filled with the skill, understanding, and knowledge.”

¹⁷tn The words “with his advisers” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

¹⁸tn Heb “to them,” although this may be a corruption of “to the people.” Cf. the Old Greek translation.

¹⁹tn Heb “and the prophet who had brought him back from the road heard.”

²⁰tn Heb “the man of God.”

²¹tn Heb “the mouth of the Lord.”

²²tn Heb “broke him,” or “crushed him.”

²³tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord which he spoke to him.”

²⁴tn Heb “King Asa sent it.”

²⁵tn Heb “As for the rest of all the events of Asa, and all his strength and all which he did and the cities which he built, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?”

²⁶tn Heb “Yet in the time of his old age he became sick in his feet.”

²⁷tn Or “broom tree” (also in v. 5).

²⁸tn Heb “and asked with respect to his life to die.”

²⁹tn Heb “fathers.”

³⁰tn Or “servants.”

³¹tn Or “merciful.” The word used here often means “devoted” or “loyal.” Perhaps the idea is that the Israelite kings are willing to make treaties with other kings.

³²sn Sackcloth was worn as a sign of sorrow and repentance. The precise significance of the ropes on the head is uncertain, but it probably was a sign of submission. These actions were comparable to raising a white flag on the battlefield or throwing in the towel in a boxing match.

³³tn Heb “go out.”

³⁴tn Heb “to seek the Lord from him.”

³⁵tn Or “hate.”

³⁶tn The words “his name is” are supplied for stylistic reasons.