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 7:36
7:36 He engraved ornamental cherubs, lions, and palm trees on the plates of the supports and frames wherever there was room, 2 with wreaths 3 all around.
1 Kings 8:5
8:5 Now King Solomon and all the Israelites who had assembled with him went on ahead of the ark and sacrificed more sheep and cattle than could be counted or numbered. 4
1 Kings 9:20
9:20 Now several non-Israelite peoples were left in the land after the conquest of Joshua, including the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. 5
1 Kings 11:25
11:25 He was Israel’s enemy throughout Solomon’s reign and, like Hadad, caused trouble. He loathed 6 Israel and ruled over Syria.
1 Kings 11:41
Solomon’s Reign Ends
11:41 The rest of the events of Solomon’s reign, including all his accomplishments and his wise decisions, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of Solomon. 7
1 Kings 14:24
14:24 There were also male cultic prostitutes 8 in the land. They committed the same horrible sins as the nations 9 that the Lord had driven out from before the Israelites.
1 Kings 15:3
15:3 He followed all the sinful practices of his father before him. He was not wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God, as his ancestor David had been. 10
1 Kings 15:14
15:14 The high places were not eliminated, yet Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord throughout his lifetime. 11
1 tn Heb “through all the territory of Israel.”
2 tn Heb “according to the space of each.”
3 tn The precise meaning of this last word, translated “wreaths,” is uncertain.
4 tn Heb “And King Solomon and all the assembly of Israel, those who had been gathered to him, [were] before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle which could not be counted or numbered because of the abundance.”
5 tn Heb “all the people who were left from the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not from the sons of Israel.”
6 tn The construction (Qal of קוּץ + בְּ [quts + bet] preposition) is rare, but not without parallel (see Lev 20:23).
7 tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Solomon, and all which he did, and his wisdom, are they not written on the scroll of the events of Solomon?”
8 tc The Old Greek translation has “a conspiracy” rather than “male cultic prostitutes.”
9 tn Heb “they did according to all the abominable acts of the nations.”
10 tn Heb “his heart was not complete with the Lord his God, like the heart of David his father.”
11 tn Heb “yet the heart of Asa was complete with the Lord all his days.”