2:23 King Solomon then swore an oath by the Lord, “May God judge me severely, 7 if Adonijah does not pay for this request with his life! 8
2:36 Next the king summoned 9 Shimei and told him, “Build yourself a house in Jerusalem 10 and live there – but you may not leave there to go anywhere! 11
2:39 Three years later two of Shimei’s servants ran away to King Achish son of Maacah of Gath. Shimei was told, “Look, your servants are in Gath.”
So Solomon took firm control of the kingdom. 15
3:23 The king said, “One says, ‘My son is alive; your son is dead,’ while the other says, ‘No, your son is dead; my son is alive.’”
4:5 Azariah son of Nathan was supervisor of 18 the district governors.
Zabud son of Nathan was a priest and adviser to 19 the king.
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.
7:40 Hiram also made basins, shovels, and bowls. He 20 finished all the work on the Lord’s temple he had been assigned by King Solomon. 21
9:26 King Solomon also built ships 23 in Ezion Geber, which is located near Elat in the land of Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.
11:1 King Solomon fell in love with many foreign women (besides Pharaoh’s daughter), including Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites.
11:23 God also brought against Solomon 30 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 31 the king. He was an Ephraimite 32 from Zeredah whose mother was a widow named Zeruah.
12:12 Jeroboam and all the people reported 39 to Rehoboam on the third day, just as the king had ordered when he said, “Return to me on the third day.”
15:25 In the second year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Jeroboam’s son Nadab became the king of Israel; he ruled Israel for two years.
16:23 In the thirty-first year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Omri became king over Israel. He ruled for twelve years, six of them in Tirzah.
21:1 After this the following episode took place. 50 Naboth the Jezreelite owned a vineyard in Jezreel adjacent to the palace of King Ahab of Samaria. 51
22:50 Jehoshaphat passed away 55 and was buried with his ancestors in the city of his ancestor 56 David. His son Jehoram replaced him as king.
1 tn Heb “through all the territory of Israel.”
2 tn The words “if a decision is not made” are added for clarification.
3 tn Heb “lies down with his fathers.”
4 tn Heb “I and my son Solomon.” The order has been reversed in the translation for stylistic reasons.
5 tn Heb “will be guilty”; NASB “considered offenders”; TEV “treated as traitors.”
6 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.”
7 tn Heb “So may God do to me, and so may he add.”
8 tn Heb “if with his life Adonijah has not spoken this word.”
9 tn Heb “sent and summoned.”
10 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
11 tn Heb “and you may not go out from there here or there.”
12 tn Heb “You know all the evil, for your heart knows, which you did to David my father.”
13 tn Heb “The
14 tn “The king commanded Benaiah son of Jehoiada and he went out and struck him down and he died.”
15 tn “And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.”
16 tn The translation assumes that the perfect tense here indicates that the action occurs as the statement is made.
17 tn Heb “so that there is not one among the kings like you all your days.” The LXX lacks the words “all your days.”
18 tn Heb “was over.”
19 tn Heb “close associate of”; KJV, ASV, NASB “the king’s friend” (a title for an adviser, not just an acquaintance).
20 tn Heb “Hiram.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
21 tn Heb “Hiram finished doing all the work which he did for King Solomon [on] the house of the
22 tn Heb “which Hiram made for King Solomon [for] the house of the
23 tn Or “a fleet” (in which case “ships” would be implied).
24 tn Heb “about your words [or perhaps, “deeds”] and your wisdom.”
25 tn Heb “besides what he had given her according to the hand of King Solomon.”
26 tn Heb “turned and went.”
27 tn The words “as plentiful” are added for clarification.
28 tn Heb “he made.”
29 tn Heb “as the sycamore fig trees which are in the Shephelah.”
30 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Solomon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
31 tn Heb “raised a hand against.”
32 tn Heb “Ephrathite,” which here refers to an Ephraimite (see HALOT 81 s.v. אֶפְרַיִם).
33 tn Heb “but Jeroboam arose and ran away to Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt.”
34 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
35 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.
36 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.”
37 tc Verse 2 is not included in the Old Greek translation. See the note on 11:43.
38 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).
39 tn Heb “came.”
40 tn Heb “house.”
41 tn Heb “This is the day. What also now?” The precise meaning of the second half of the statement is uncertain.
42 tn Heb “runners.”
43 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
44 tn In the Hebrew text the name is spelled “Abijam” here and in 1 Kgs 15:1-8.
45 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
46 tn Heb “and he became king in his place.”
47 sn The point of the saying is that someone who is still preparing for a battle should not boast as if he has already won the battle. A modern parallel would be, “Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched.”
48 tn Heb “each struck down his man.”
49 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the prophet) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
50 tn Heb “after these things.” The words “the following episode took place” are added for stylistic reasons.
51 sn King Ahab of Samaria. Samaria, as the capital of the northern kingdom, here stands for the nation of Israel.
map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.
52 tn Or “swear an oath by.”
53 tn Heb “the bread of affliction and the water of affliction.”
54 tn Heb “come in peace.” So also in v. 28.
55 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
56 tn Heb “with his fathers in the city of his father.”