1 Kings 1:4
1:4 The young woman was very beautiful; she became the king’s nurse and served him, but the king did not have sexual relations with her. 1
1 Kings 8:18
8:18 The Lord told my father David, ‘It is right for you to have a strong desire to build a temple to honor me. 2
1 Kings 8:27
8:27 “God does not really live on the earth! 3 Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built!
1 Kings 17:9
17:9 “Get up, go to Zarephath in Sidonian territory, and live there. I have already told 4 a widow who lives there to provide for you.”
1 Kings 21:5
21:5 Then his wife Jezebel came in and said to him, “Why do you have a bitter attitude and refuse to eat?”
1 Kings 21:10
21:10 Also seat two villains opposite him and have them testify, ‘You cursed God and the king.’ Then take him out and stone him to death.”
1 tn Heb “did not know her.”
2 tn Heb “Because it was with your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was with your heart.”
3 tn Heb “Indeed, can God really live on the earth?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course not,” the force of which the translation above seeks to reflect.
4 tn Heb “Look, I have commanded.”