2:28 When the news reached Joab (for Joab had supported 3 Adonijah, although he had not supported Absalom), he 4 ran to the tent of the Lord and grabbed hold of the horns of the altar. 5 2:29 When King Solomon heard 6 that Joab had run to the tent of the Lord and was right there beside the altar, he ordered Benaiah son of Jehoiada, 7 “Go, strike him down.”
3:4 The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for it had the most prominent of the high places. 8 Solomon would offer up 9 a thousand burnt sacrifices on the altar there.
8:31 “When someone is accused of sinning against his neighbor and the latter pronounces a curse on the alleged offender before your altar in this temple, be willing to forgive the accused if the accusation is false. 10
8:54 When Solomon finished presenting all these prayers and requests to the Lord, he got up from before the altar of the Lord where he had kneeled and spread out his hands toward the sky. 11
9:25 Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings 12 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. 13
1 tn Heb “King Solomon.” The name and title have been replaced by the pronoun (“you”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
2 tn Or “swear an oath to.”
3 tn Heb “turned after” (also later in this verse).
4 tn Heb “Joab.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
5 sn Grabbed hold of the horns of the altar. The “horns” of the altar were the horn-shaped projections on the four corners of the altar (see Exod 27:2). By going to the holy place and grabbing hold of the horns of the altar, Joab was seeking asylum from Solomon.
6 tn Heb “and it was related to King Solomon.”
7 tn Heb “so Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, saying.”
8 tn Heb “for it was the great high place.”
9 tn The verb form is an imperfect, which is probably used here in a customary sense to indicate continued or repeated action in past time. See GKC 314 §107.b.
10 tn Heb “and forgive the man who sins against his neighbor when one takes up against him a curse to curse him and the curse comes before your altar in this house.” In the Hebrew text the words “and forgive” conclude v. 30, but the accusative sign at the beginning of v. 31 suggests the verb actually goes with what follows in v. 31. The parallel text in 2 Chr 6:22 begins with “and if,” rather than the accusative sign. In this case “forgive” must be taken with what precedes, and v. 31 must be taken as the protasis (“if” clause) of a conditional sentence, with v. 32 being the apodosis (“then” clause) that completes the sentence.
sn Be willing to forgive the accused if the accusation is false. At first it appears that Solomon is asking God to forgive the guilty party. But in v. 32 Solomon asks the
11 tn Or “toward heaven.”
12 tn Or “tokens of peace”; NIV, TEV “fellowship offerings.”
13 tn Heb “and he made complete the house.”
14 tn Heb “gave.”
15 tn Heb “spoken.”
16 tn Heb “the fat.” Reference is made to burnt wood mixed with fat. See HALOT 234 s.v. דשׁן.
17 tn Heb “will be poured out.”
18 tn Heb “for the word which he cried out by the word of the
19 map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.
20 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.