1 Kings 1:30

1:30 I will keep¹ today the oath I swore to you by the Lord God of Israel: ‘Surely Solomon your son will be king after me; he will sit in my place on my throne.’”

1 Kings 1:35

1:35 Then follow him up as he comes and sits on my throne. He will be king in my place; I have decreed² that he will be ruler over Israel and Judah.”

1 Kings 3:7

3:7 Now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in my father David’s place, even though I am only a young man and am inexperienced.³

1 Kings 5:1

Solomon Gathers Building Materials for the Temple

5:1 (5:15)⁴ King Hiram of Tyre⁵ sent messengers⁶ to Solomon when he heard that he had been anointed king in his father’s place. (Hiram had always been an ally of David.)

1 Kings 6:16

6:16 He built a wall 30 feet in from the rear of the temple as a partition for an inner sanctuary that would be the most holy place.⁷ He paneled the wall with cedar planks from the floor to the rafters.⁸

1 Kings 7:50

7:50 the pure gold bowls, trimming shears, basins, pans, and censers, and the gold door sockets for the inner sanctuary (the most holy place) and for the doors of the main hall of the temple.

1 Kings 8:8

8:8 The poles were so long their ends were visible from the holy place in front of the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from beyond that point.⁹ They have remained there to this very day.

1 Kings 8:21

8:21 and set up in it a place for the ark containing the covenant the Lord made with our ancestors¹⁰ when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.”

1 Kings 8:39

8:39 then listen from your heavenly dwelling place, forgive their sin,¹¹ and act favorably toward each one based on your evaluation of his motives.¹² (Indeed you are the only one who can correctly evaluate the motives of all people.)¹³

1 Kings 9:25

9:25 Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings¹⁴ on the altar he had built for the Lord, burning incense along with them before the Lord. He made the temple his official worship place.¹⁵

1 Kings 13:8

13:8 But the prophet said to the king, “Even if you were to give me half your possessions,¹⁶ I could not go with you and eat and drink¹⁷ in this place.

1 Kings 13:22

13:22 You went back and ate and drank in this place, even though he said to you, “Do not eat or drink there.”¹⁸ Therefore¹⁹ your corpse will not be buried in your ancestral tomb.’”²⁰

¹tn Or “carry out, perform.”

²tn Or “commanded.”

³tn Heb “and I do not know going out or coming in.”

⁴sn The verse numbers in the English Bible differ from those in the Hebrew text (BHS) here; 5:1-18 in the English Bible corresponds to 5:15-32 in the Hebrew text. See the note at 4:21.

⁵map For location see Map1-A2; Map2-G2; Map4-A1; JP3-F3; JP4-F3.

⁶tn Heb “his servants.”

⁷tn Heb “He built twenty cubits from the rear areas of the temple with cedar planks from the floor to the walls, and he built it on the inside for an inner sanctuary, for a holy place of holy places.”

⁸tc The MT has קְלָעִים (qÿla’im, “curtains”), but this should be emended to קוֹרוֹת (qorot, “rafters”). See BDB 900 s.v. קוֹרָה.

⁹tn Heb “they could not be seen outside.”

¹⁰tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 34, 40, 48, 53, 57, 58).

¹¹tn The words “their sin” are added for clarification.

¹²tn Heb “and act and give to each one according to all his ways because you know his heart.” In the Hebrew text vv. 37-39a actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided up for stylistic reasons.

¹³tn Heb “Indeed you know, you alone, the heart of all the sons of mankind.”

¹⁴tn Or “tokens of peace”; NIV, TEV “fellowship offerings.”

¹⁵tn Heb “and he made complete the house.”

¹⁶tn Heb “house.”

¹⁷tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”

¹⁸tn Heb “and you returned and ate food and drank water in the place about which he said to you, ‘do not eat food and do not drink water.’”

¹⁹tn “Therefore” is added for stylistic reasons. See the note at 1 Kgs 13:21 pertaining to the grammatical structure of vv. 21-22.

²⁰tn Heb “will not go to the tomb of your fathers.”