1 Kings 2:22

2:22 King Solomon answered his mother, “Why just request Abishag the Shunammite for him?¹ Since he is my older brother, you should also request the kingdom for him, for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab son of Zeruiah!”

1 Kings 3:1

The Lord Gives Solomon Wisdom

3:1 Solomon made an alliance by marriage with Pharaoh, king of Egypt; he married Pharaoh’s daughter. He brought her to the City of David² until he could finish building his residence and the temple of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem.³

1 Kings 5:9

5:9 My servants will bring the timber down from Lebanon to the sea. I will send it by sea in raft-like bundles to the place you designate.⁴ There I will separate the logs⁵ and you can carry them away. In exchange you will supply the food I need for my royal court.”⁶

1 Kings 12:28

12:28 After the king had consulted with his advisers,⁷ he made two golden calves. Then he said to the people,⁸ “It is too much trouble for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look, Israel, here are your gods who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”

1 Kings 16:34

16:34 During Ahab’s reign,⁹ Hiel the Bethelite rebuilt Jericho.¹⁰ Abiram, his firstborn son, died when he laid the foundation;¹¹ Segub, his youngest son, died when he erected its gates,¹² just as the Lord had warned¹³ through Joshua son of Nun.¹⁴

1 Kings 18:12

18:12 But when I leave you, the Lord’s spirit will carry you away so I can’t find you.¹⁵ If I go tell Ahab I’ve seen you, he won’t be able to find you and he will kill me.¹⁶ That would not be fair,¹⁷ because your servant has been a loyal follower of¹⁸ the Lord from my youth.

1 Kings 19:21

19:21 Elisha¹⁹ went back and took his pair of oxen and slaughtered them. He cooked the meat over a fire that he made by burning the harness and yoke.²⁰ He gave the people meat and they ate. Then he got up and followed Elijah and became his assistant.

1 Kings 20:33

20:33 The men took this as a good omen and quickly accepted his offer, saying, “Ben Hadad is your brother.” Ahab²¹ then said, “Go, get him.” So Ben Hadad came out to him, and Ahab pulled him up into his chariot.

1 Kings 21:13

21:13 The two villains arrived and sat opposite him. Then the villains testified against Naboth right before the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king.” So they dragged him²² outside the city and stoned him to death.²³

¹tn Heb “for Adonijah.”

²sn The phrase City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

³map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

⁴tn Heb “I will place them [on? as?] rafts in the sea to the place where you designate to me.” This may mean he would send them by raft, or that he would tie them in raft-like bundles, and have ships tow them down to an Israelite port.

⁵tn Heb “smash them,” i.e., untie the bundles.

⁶tn Heb “as for you, you will satisfy my desire by giving food for my house.”

⁷tn The words “with his advisers” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

⁸tn Heb “to them,” although this may be a corruption of “to the people.” Cf. the Old Greek translation.

⁹tn Heb “in his days.”

¹⁰map For location see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.

¹¹tn Heb “with Abiram, his firstborn, he founded it.”

¹²tn Heb “with Segub, his youngest, he set up its gates.”

¹³tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord which he spoke.”

¹⁴sn Warned through Joshua son of Nun. For the background to this statement, see Josh 6:26, where Joshua pronounces a curse on the one who dares to rebuild Jericho. Here that curse is viewed as a prophecy spoken by God through Joshua.

¹⁵tn Heb “to [a place] which I do not know.”

¹⁶tn Heb “and I will go to inform Ahab and he will not find you and he will kill me.”

¹⁷tn The words “that would not be fair” are added to clarify the logic of Obadiah’s argument.

¹⁸tn Heb “has feared the Lord” (also see the note at 1 Kgs 18:3).

¹⁹tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²⁰tn Heb “and with the equipment of the oxen he cooked them, the flesh.”

²¹tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ahab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²²tn Heb “led him.”

²³tn Heb “and they stoned him with stones and he died.”