1 Kings 1:40

1:40 All the people followed him up, playing flutes and celebrating so loudly they made the ground shake. ¹ 

1 Kings 3:8

3:8 Your servant stands ²  among your chosen people; ³  they are a great nation that is too numerous to count or number.

1 Kings 8:41

8:41 “Foreigners, who do not belong to your people Israel, will come from a distant land because of your reputation. ⁴ 

1 Kings 8:50

8:50 Forgive all the rebellious acts of your sinful people and cause their captors to have mercy on them. ⁵ 

1 Kings 12:5

12:5 He said to them, “Go away for three days, then return to me.” So the people went away.

1 Kings 20:8

20:8 All the leaders and people said to him, “Do not give in or agree to his demands.” ⁶ 

1 Kings 21:9

21:9 This is what she wrote: ⁷  “Observe a time of fasting and seat Naboth in front of the people.

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¹ tn Heb “and all the people went up after him, and the people were playing flutes and rejoicing with great joy and the ground split open at the sound of them.” The verb בָּקַע (baqa’, “to split open”), which elsewhere describes the effects of an earthquake, is obviously here an exaggeration for the sake of emphasis.

² tn There is no verb expressed in the Hebrew text; “stands” is supplied in the translation for clarification.

³ tn Heb “your people whom you have chosen.”

⁴ tn Heb “your name.” In the OT the word “name” sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor. The “name” of the Lord sometimes designates the Lord himself, being indistinguishable from the proper name.

⁵ tn Heb “and forgive your people who have sinned against you, [forgive] all their rebellious acts by which they rebelled against you, and grant them mercy before their captors so they will show them mercy.”

⁶ tn Heb “Do not listen and do not be willing.”

⁷ tn Heb “she wrote on the scrolls, saying.”