1 Kings 1:3
1:3 So they looked through all Israel 1 for a beautiful young woman and found Abishag, a Shunammite, and brought her to the king.
1 Kings 2:40
2:40 So Shimei got up, saddled his donkey, and went to Achish at Gath to find his servants; Shimei went and brought back his servants from Gath.
1 Kings 8:51
8:51 After all, 2 they are your people and your special possession 3 whom you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron-smelting furnace. 4
1 Kings 10:11
10:11 (Hiram’s fleet, which carried gold from Ophir, also brought from Ophir a very large quantity of fine timber and precious gems.
1 Kings 10:25
10:25 Year after year visitors brought their gifts, which included items of silver, items of gold, clothes, perfume, spices, horses, and mules. 5
1 Kings 11:23
11:23 God also brought against Solomon 6 another enemy, Rezon son of Eliada who had run away from his master, King Hadadezer of Zobah.
1 Kings 14:28
14:28 Whenever the king visited the Lord’s temple, the royal guard carried them and then brought them back to the guardroom.
1 Kings 15:15
15:15 He brought the holy items that he and his father had made into the Lord’s temple, including the silver, gold, and other articles. 7
1 Kings 17:23
17:23 Elijah took the boy, brought him down from the upper room to the house, and handed him to his mother. Elijah then said, “See, your son is alive!”
1 tn Heb “through all the territory of Israel.”
2 tn Or “for.”
3 tn Heb “inheritance.”
4 tn The Hebrew term כּוּר (kur, “furnace,” cf. Akkadian ku„ru) is a metaphor for the intense heat of purification. A כּוּר was not a source of heat but a crucible (“iron-smelting furnace”) in which precious metals were melted down and their impurities burned away (see I. Cornelius, NIDOTTE 2:618-19). Thus Egypt served not as a place of punishment for the Israelites, but as a place of refinement to bring Israel to a place of submission to divine sovereignty.
sn From the middle of the iron-smelting furnace. The metaphor of a furnace suggests fire and heat and is an apt image to remind the people of the suffering they endured while slaves in Egypt.
5 tn Heb “and they were bringing each one his gift, items of silver…and mules, the matter of a year in a year.”
6 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Solomon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
7 tn Heb “and he brought the holy things of his father and his holy things (into) the house of the Lord, silver, gold, and items.” Instead of “his holy things,” a marginal reading (Qere) in the Hebrew text has “the holy things of [the house of the Lord].”