1 Kings 1:6

1:6 (Now his father had never corrected¹ him² by saying, “Why do you do such things?” He was also very handsome and had been born right after Absalom.³)

1 Kings 6:32

6:32 On the two doors made of olive wood he carved⁴ cherubs, palm trees, and flowers in bloom, and he plated them with gold.⁵ He plated the cherubs and the palm trees with hammered gold.⁶

1 Kings 7:23

7:23 He also made the large bronze basin called “The Sea.”⁷ It measured 15 feet⁸ from rim to rim, was circular in shape, and stood seven-and-a-half feet⁹ high. Its circumference was 45 feet.¹⁰

1 Kings 9:16

9:16 (Pharaoh, king of Egypt, had attacked and captured Gezer. He burned it and killed the Canaanites who lived in the city. He gave it as a wedding present to his daughter, who had married Solomon.)

1 Kings 10:5

10:5 the food in his banquet hall,¹¹ his servants and attendants,¹² their robes, his cupbearers, and his burnt offerings which he presented in the Lord’s temple, she was amazed.¹³

1 Kings 12:15

12:15 The king refused to listen to the people, because the Lord was instigating this turn of events¹⁴ so that he might bring to pass the prophetic announcement he had made¹⁵ through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.

1 Kings 16:15

Zimri’s Reign over Israel

16:15 In the twenty-seventh year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Zimri became king over Israel; he ruled for seven days in Tirzah. Zimri’s revolt took place while the army was deployed¹⁶ in Gibbethon, which was in Philistine territory.

1 Kings 16:31

16:31 As if following in the sinful footsteps of Jeroboam son of Nebat were not bad enough, he married Jezebel the daughter of King Ethbaal of the Sidonians. Then he worshiped and bowed to Baal.¹⁷

1 Kings 19:13

19:13 When Elijah heard it, he covered his face with his robe and went out and stood at the entrance to the cave. All of a sudden¹⁸ a voice asked him, “Why are you here, Elijah?”

1 Kings 21:22

21:22 I will make your dynasty¹⁹ like those of Jeroboam son of Nebat and Baasha son of Ahijah because you angered me and made Israel sin.’²⁰

1 Kings 21:29

21:29 “Have you noticed how Ahab shows remorse²¹ before me? Because he shows remorse before me, I will not bring disaster on his dynasty during his lifetime, but during the reign of his son.”²²

1 Kings 22:4

22:4 Then he said to Jehoshaphat, “Will you go with me to attack Ramoth Gilead?” Jehoshaphat replied to the king of Israel, “I will support you; my army and horses are at your disposal.”²³

¹tn Or “disciplined.”

²tn Heb “did not correct him from his days.” The phrase “from his days” means “from his earliest days,” or “ever in his life.” See GKC 382 §119.w, n. 2.

³tn Heb “and she gave birth to him after Absalom.” This does not imply they had the same mother; Absalom’s mother was Maacah, not Haggith (2 Sam 3:4).

⁴tn Heb “carved carvings of.”

⁵tn Heb “he plated [with] gold” (the precise object is not stated).

⁶tn Heb “and he hammered out the gold on the cherubs and the palm trees.”

⁷tn 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).

⁸tn Heb “ten cubits.”

⁹tn Heb “five cubits.”

¹⁰tn Heb “and a measuring line went around it thirty cubits all around.”

¹¹tn Heb “the food on his table.”

¹²tn Heb “the seating of his servants and the standing of his attendants.”

¹³tn Heb “there was no breath still in her.”

¹⁴tn Heb “because this turn of events was from the Lord.”

¹⁵tn Heb “so that he might bring to pass his word which the Lord spoke.”

¹⁶tn Heb “Now the people were encamped.

¹⁷tn Heb “and he went and served Baal and bowed down to him.”

sn The Canaanites worshiped Baal as a storm and fertility god.

¹⁸tn Heb “look.”

¹⁹tn Heb “house.”

²⁰tn Heb “because of the provocation by which you angered [me], and you caused Israel to sin.”

²¹tn Or “humbles himself.” The expression occurs a second time later in this verse.

²²tn 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.”

²³tn Heb “Like me, like you; like my people, like your people; like my horses; like your horses.”