1:5 Now Adonijah, son of David and Haggith, 1 was promoting himself, 2 boasting, 3 “I will be king!” He managed to acquire 4 chariots and horsemen, as well as fifty men to serve as his royal guard. 5
1:41 Now Adonijah and all his guests heard the commotion just as they had finished eating. 10 When Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he asked, “Why is there such a noisy commotion in the city?” 11
4:19 Geber son of Uri was in charge of the land of Gilead (the territory which had once belonged to King Sihon of the Amorites and to King Og of Bashan). He was sole governor of the area.
6:1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites left Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, during the month Ziv 44 (the second month), he began building the Lord’s temple.
7:23 He also made the large bronze basin called “The Sea.” 54 It measured 15 feet 55 from rim to rim, was circular in shape, and stood seven-and-a-half feet 56 high. Its circumference was 45 feet. 57
12:21 When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he summoned 180,000 skilled warriors from all of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin 78 to attack Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam son of Solomon.
13:11 Now there was an old prophet living in Bethel. 83 When his sons came home, they told their father 84 everything the prophet 85 had done in Bethel that day and all the words he had spoken to the king. 86
14:4 Jeroboam’s wife did as she was told. She went to Shiloh and visited Ahijah. 96 Now Ahijah could not see; he had lost his eyesight in his old age. 97
15:33 In the third year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Baasha son of Ahijah became king over all Israel in Tirzah; he ruled for twenty-four years.
16:8 In the twenty-sixth year of King Asa’s reign over Judah, Baasha’s son Elah became king over Israel; he ruled in Tirzah for two years.
20:1 Now King Ben Hadad of Syria assembled all his army, along with thirty-two other kings with their horses and chariots. He marched against Samaria 105 and besieged and attacked it. 106
21:4 So Ahab went into his palace, bitter and angry that Naboth the Jezreelite had said, 113 “I will not sell to you my ancestral inheritance.” 114 He lay down on his bed, pouted, 115 and would not eat.
21:15 When Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned to death, she 116 said to Ahab, “Get up, take possession of the vineyard Naboth the Jezreelite refused to sell you for silver, for Naboth is no longer alive; he’s dead.”
22:39 The rest of the events of Ahab’s reign, including a record of his accomplishments and how he built a luxurious palace and various cities, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel. 122
22:51 In the seventeenth year of King Jehoshaphat’s reign over Judah, Ahab’s son Ahaziah became king over Israel in Samaria. 125 He ruled for two years over Israel.
1 tn Heb “son of Haggith,” but since this formula usually designates the father (who in this case was David), the translation specifies that David was Adonijah’s father.
sn Haggith was one of David’s wives (2 Sam 3:4; 2 Chr 3:2).
2 tn Heb “lifting himself up.”
3 tn Heb “saying.”
4 tn Or “he acquired for himself.”
5 tn Heb “to run ahead of him.”
6 tc The ancient Greek version omits this appositional phrase.
7 tn Heb “come, go to.” The imperative of הָלַךְ (halakh) is here used as an introductory interjection. See BDB 234 s.v. חָלַךְ.
8 tn Or “swear an oath to.”
9 tn Or “carry out, perform.”
10 tn Heb “And Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard, now they had finished eating.”
11 tn Heb “Why is the city’s sound noisy?”
12 tn Or “kingship.”
13 tn Heb “set their face to me to be king.”
14 tn Heb “and the kingdom turned about and became my brother’s, for from the
15 tn Or “I’d like to make just one request of you.”
16 tn Heb “Do not turn back my face.”
17 tn Heb “and the king said to her.”
18 tn Heb “for Adonijah.”
19 tn Heb “and it was related to King Solomon.”
20 tn Heb “so Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, saying.”
21 tn Heb “house.”
22 tn Heb “take away the undeserved bloodshed which Joab spilled from upon me and from upon the house of my father.”
23 tn Heb “did.”
24 tn Heb “walked before.”
25 tn Heb “in faithfulness and in innocence and in uprightness of heart with you.”
26 tn Heb “and you have kept to him this great loyalty and you gave to him a son [who] sits on his throne as this day.”
27 tn Heb “a hearing heart.” (The Hebrew term translated “heart” often refers to the mental faculties.)
28 tn Heb “to judge.”
29 tn Heb “to understand between good and evil.”
30 tn Heb “for”; the word “otherwise” is used to reflect the logical sense of the statement.
31 tn Heb “who is able?” The rhetorical question anticipates the answer, “no one.”
32 tn Heb “to judge.”
33 tn Heb “your numerous people.”
34 tn Heb “and look, a dream.”
35 tn Or “tokens of peace”; NIV, TEV “fellowship offerings.”
36 tn Heb “look.”
37 tn Heb “look, it was not my son to whom I had given birth.”
38 tn Heb “feared,” perhaps in the sense, “stood in awe of.”
39 tn Heb “saw.”
40 tn Heb “the wisdom of God within him.”
41 tn Heb “a house for the name of the
42 tn Heb “because of the battles which surrounded him until the
43 tn Heb “was over.”
44 sn During the month Ziv. This would be April-May, 966
45 tn Heb “he built.”
46 sn The Palace of the Lebanon Forest. This name was appropriate because of the large amount of cedar, undoubtedly brought from Lebanon, used in its construction. The cedar pillars in the palace must have given it the appearance of a forest.
47 tn Heb “one hundred cubits.”
48 tn Heb “fifty cubits.”
49 tn Heb “thirty cubits.”
50 tn Heb “a porch of pillars.”
51 tn Heb “fifty cubits.”
52 tn Heb “thirty cubits.”
53 tn Heb “and a porch was in front of them (i.e., the aforementioned pillars) and pillars and a roof in front of them (i.e., the aforementioned pillars and porch).” The precise meaning of the term translated “roof” is uncertain; it occurs only here and in Ezek 41:25-26.
54 tn Heb “He made the sea, cast.”
sn This large basin that was mounted on twelve bronze bulls and contained water for the priests to bathe themselves (2 Chr 4:6; cf. Exod 30:17-21).
55 tn Heb “ten cubits.”
56 tn Heb “five cubits.”
57 tn Heb “and a measuring line went around it thirty cubits all around.”
58 tn Heb “Solomon.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
59 sn Horeb is another name for Mount Sinai.
60 tn Heb “in Horeb where.”
61 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 34, 40, 48, 53, 57, 58).
62 tn Heb “said.”
63 tn Heb “one who keeps the covenant and the loyal love.” The expression is a hendiadys.
64 tn Heb “who walk before you with all their heart.”
65 tn Heb “May these words of mine, which I have requested before the
66 tn Heb “accomplish the justice of.”
67 tn Heb “the food on his table.”
68 tn Heb “the seating of his servants and the standing of his attendants.”
69 tn Heb “there was no breath still in her.”
70 sn Three minas. The mina was a unit of measure for weight.
71 sn The Palace of the Lebanon Forest. This name was appropriate because of the large amount of cedar, undoubtedly brought from Lebanon, used in its construction. The cedar pillars in the palace must have given it the appearance of a forest.
72 tn Heb “and he was the officer of a raiding band.”
73 tn The Hebrew text reads “when David killed them.” This phrase is traditionally joined with what precedes. The ancient Greek version does not reflect the phrase and some suggest that it has been misplaced from the end of v. 23.
74 tn Heb “this is the matter concerning which he raised a hand against the king.”
75 sn The city of his father David. The phrase refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
76 tn Heb “man of strength.”
77 tn Heb “house.”
78 tn Heb “he summoned all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, one hundred eighty thousand chosen men, accomplished in war.”
79 tn Heb “gave.”
80 tn Heb “spoken.”
81 tn Heb “the fat.” Reference is made to burnt wood mixed with fat. See HALOT 234 s.v. דשׁן.
82 tn Heb “will be poured out.”
83 map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.
84 tn Heb “and his son came and told him.” The MT has the singular here, but several other textual witnesses have the plural, which is more consistent with the second half of the verse and with vv. 12-13.
85 tn Heb “the man of God.”
86 tn Heb “all the actions which the man of God performed that day in Bethel, the words which he spoke to the king, and they told them to their father.”
87 tn The Hebrew text has “because” at the beginning of the sentence. In the Hebrew text vv. 21-22 are one long sentence comprised of a causal clause giving the reason for divine punishment (vv. 21-22a) and the main clause announcing the punishment (v. 22b). The translation divides this lengthy sentence for stylistic reasons.
88 tn Heb “the mouth [i.e., command] of the
89 tn 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.’”
90 tn “Therefore” is added for stylistic reasons. See the note at 1 Kgs 13:21 pertaining to the grammatical structure of vv. 21-22.
91 tn Heb “will not go to the tomb of your fathers.”
92 tn Heb “the corpse.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“it”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
93 tn Heb “for the word which he cried out by the word of the
94 map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.
95 tn Heb “Samaria.” The name of Israel’s capital city here stands for the northern kingdom as a whole. Actually Samaria was not built and named until several years after this (see 1 Kgs 16:24), so it is likely that the author of Kings, writing at a later time, is here adapting the old prophet’s original statement.
96 tn Heb “and the wife of Jeroboam did so; she arose and went to Shiloh and entered the house of Ahijah.”
97 tn Heb “his eyes were set because of his old age.”
98 tn Heb “I am sent to you [with] a hard [message].”
99 tn Heb “mother,” but Hebrew often uses the terms “father” and “mother” for grandparents and more remote ancestors.
100 tn Heb “[May there be] a covenant between me and you [as there was] between my father and your father.”
101 tn Heb “so he will go up from upon me.”
102 tn Heb “cutting off.”
103 tn Heb “look.”
104 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
105 map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.
106 tn Heb “and he went up and besieged Samaria and fought against it.”
107 tn Heb “elders.”
108 tn Heb “Know and see that this [man] is seeking trouble.”
109 tn Heb “And you, you muster an army like the one that fell from you, horse like horse and chariot like chariot.”
110 tn Heb “he listened to their voice and did so.”
111 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the prophet) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
112 tn Heb “so [i.e., in accordance with his testimony] is your judgment, you have determined [it].”
113 tn Heb “on account of the word that Naboth the Jezreelite spoke to him.”
114 tn Heb “I will not give to you the inheritance of my fathers.”
115 tn Heb “turned away his face.”
116 tn Heb “Jezebel”; the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“she”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
117 tn Or “humbles himself.” The expression occurs a second time later in this verse.
118 tn Heb “I will not bring the disaster during his days, [but] in the days of his son I will bring the disaster on his house.”
119 tn Heb “Like me, like you; like my people, like your people; like my horses; like your horses.”
120 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the
121 tn The Hebrew text has two imperfects connected by וְגַם (vÿgam). These verbs could be translated as specific futures, “you will deceive and also you will prevail,” in which case the
122 tn Heb “As for the rest of the acts of Ahab and all that he did, and the house of ivory which he built and all the cities which he built, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?”
123 tn Heb “he walked in all the way of Asa his father and did not turn from it, doing what is right in the eyes of the
124 sn Beginning with 22:43b, the verse numbers through 22:53 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), because 22:43b in the English Bible = 22:44 in the Hebrew text. The remaining verses in the chapter differ by one, with 22:44-53 ET = 22:45-54 HT.
125 map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.