1 Kings 1:33

1:33 and he ¹  told them, “Take your master’s ²  servants with you, put my son Solomon on my mule, and lead him down to Gihon. ³ 

1 Kings 1:44

1:44 The king sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites, and the Pelethites and they put him on the king’s mule.

1 Kings 8:9

8:9 There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets Moses had placed there in Horeb. ⁴  It was there that ⁵  the Lord made an agreement with the Israelites after he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

1 Kings 11:7

11:7 Furthermore, ⁶  on the hill east of Jerusalem ⁷  Solomon built a high place ⁸  for the detestable Moabite god Chemosh ⁹  and for the detestable Ammonite god Milcom. ¹⁰ 

1 Kings 12:25

Jeroboam Makes Golden Calves

12:25 ¹¹ Jeroboam built up Shechem in the Ephraimite hill country and lived there. From there he went out and built up Penuel.

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¹ tn Heb “the king.”

² tn The plural form is used in the Hebrew text to indicate honor and authority.

³ tn Heb “mount Solomon my son on the mule that belongs to me and take him down to Gihon.”

⁴ sn Horeb is another name for Mount Sinai.

⁵ tn Heb “in Horeb where.”

⁶ tn Heb “then.”

⁷ sn The hill east of Jerusalem refers to the Mount of Olives.

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

⁸ sn A high place. The “high places” were places of worship that were naturally or artificially elevated (see 1 Kgs 3:2).

⁹ tn Heb “Chemosh, the detestable thing of Moab.”

¹⁰ tc The MT reads “Molech,” but Milcom must be intended (see vv. 5, 33).

¹¹ tc The Old Greek translation has here a lengthy section consisting of twenty-three verses that are not found in the MT.