1 Kings 2:15

2:15 He said, “You know that the kingdom¹ was mine and all Israel considered me king.² But then the kingdom was given to my brother, for the Lord decided it should be his.³

1 Kings 8:23

8:23 He prayed:⁴ “O Lord, God of Israel, there is no god like you in heaven above or on earth below! You maintain covenantal loyalty⁵ to your servants who obey you with sincerity.⁶

1 Kings 9:7

9:7 then I will remove Israel from the land⁷ I have given them, I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence,⁸ and Israel will be mocked and ridiculed⁹ among all the nations.

1 Kings 9:9

9:9 Others will then answer,¹⁰ ‘Because they abandoned the Lord their God, who led their ancestors¹¹ out of Egypt. They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served.¹² That is why the Lord has brought all this disaster down on them.’”

1 Kings 10:29

10:29 They paid 600 silver pieces for each chariot from Egypt and 150 silver pieces for each horse. They also sold chariots and horses to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Syria.¹³

1 Kings 13:11

13:11 Now there was an old prophet living in Bethel.¹⁴ When his sons came home, they told their father¹⁵ everything the prophet¹⁶ had done in Bethel that day and all the words he had spoken to the king.¹⁷

1 Kings 14:9

14:9 You have sinned more than all who came before you. You went and angered me by making other gods, formed out of metal; you have completely disregarded me.¹⁸

1 Kings 15:5

15:5 He did this¹⁹ because David had done what he approved²⁰ and had not disregarded any of his commandments²¹ his entire lifetime, except for the incident involving Uriah the Hittite.

1 Kings 20:1

Ben Hadad Invades Israel

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 Samaria²² and besieged and attacked it.²³

1 Kings 20:13

The Lord Delivers Israel

20:13 Now a prophet visited King Ahab of Israel and said, “This is what the Lord says, ‘Do you see this huge army?²⁴ Look, I am going to hand it over to you this very day. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”

¹tn Or “kingship.”

²tn Heb “set their face to me to be king.”

³tn Heb “and the kingdom turned about and became my brother’s, for from the Lord it became his.”

⁴tn Heb “said.”

⁵tn Heb “one who keeps the covenant and the loyal love.” The expression is a hendiadys.

⁶tn Heb “who walk before you with all their heart.”

⁷tn Heb “I will cut off Israel from upon the surface of the land.”

⁸tn Heb “and the temple which I consecrated for my name I will send away from before my face.”

sn Instead of “I will send away,” the parallel text in 2 Chr 7:20 has “I will throw away.” The two verbs sound very similar in Hebrew, so the discrepancy is likely due to an oral transmissional error.

⁹tn Heb “will become a proverb and a taunt,” that is, a proverbial example of destruction and an object of reproach.

¹⁰tn Heb “and they will say.”

¹¹tn Heb “fathers.”

¹²tn Heb “and they took hold of other gods and bowed down to them and served them.”

¹³tn Heb “and a chariot went up and came out of Egypt for six hundred silver [pieces], and a horse for one hundred fifty, and in the same way to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Aram by their hand they brought out.”

¹⁴map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.

¹⁵tn 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.

¹⁶tn Heb “the man of God.”

¹⁷tn 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.”

¹⁸tn Heb “you went and you made for yourself other gods, metal [ones], angering me, and you threw me behind your back.”

¹⁹tn The words “he did this” are added for stylistic reasons.

²⁰tn Heb “what was right in the eyes of the Lord.”

²¹tn Heb “and had not turned aside from all which he commanded him.”

²²map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.

²³tn Heb “and he went up and besieged Samaria and fought against it.”

²⁴tn Heb “this great horde.”