1 Kings 2:24
2:24 Now, as certainly as the Lord lives (he who made me secure, allowed me to sit on my father David’s throne, and established a dynasty 1 for me as he promised), Adonijah will be executed today!”
1 Kings 3:7
3:7 Now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in my father David’s place, even though I am only a young man and am inexperienced. 2
1 Kings 4:27
4:27 The district governors acquired supplies for King Solomon and all who ate in his royal palace. 3 Each was responsible for one month in the year; they made sure nothing was lacking.
1 Kings 6:12
6:12 “As for this temple you are building, if you follow 4 my rules, observe 5 my regulations, and obey all my commandments, 6 I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David. 7
1 Kings 6:32
6:32 On the two doors made of olive wood he carved 8 cherubs, palm trees, and flowers in bloom, and he plated them with gold. 9 He plated the cherubs and the palm trees with hammered gold. 10
1 Kings 7:6
7:6 He made a colonnade 11 75 feet 12 long and 45 feet 13 wide. There was a porch in front of this and pillars and a roof in front of the porch. 14
1 Kings 7:23
7:23 He also made the large bronze basin called “The Sea.” 15 It measured 15 feet 16 from rim to rim, was circular in shape, and stood seven-and-a-half feet 17 high. Its circumference was 45 feet. 18
1 Kings 8:9
8:9 There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets Moses had placed there in Horeb. 19 It was there that 20 the Lord made an agreement with the Israelites after he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
1 Kings 8:21
8:21 and set up in it a place for the ark containing the covenant the Lord made with our ancestors 21 when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.”
1 Kings 9:3
9:3 The Lord said to him, “I have answered 22 your prayer and your request for help that you made to me. I have consecrated this temple you built by making it my permanent home; 23 I will be constantly present there. 24
1 Kings 9:25
9:25 Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings 25 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. 26
1 Kings 10:12
10:12 With the timber the king made supports 27 for the Lord’s temple and for the royal palace and stringed instruments 28 for the musicians. No one has seen so much of this fine timber to this very day. 29 )
1 Kings 10:17
10:17 He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold; three minas 30 of gold were used for each of these shields. The king placed them in the Palace of the Lebanon Forest. 31
1 Kings 11:28
11:28 Jeroboam was a talented man; 32 when Solomon saw that the young man was an accomplished worker, he made him the leader of the work crew from the tribe 33 of Joseph.
1 Kings 12:15
12:15 The king refused to listen to the people, because the Lord was instigating this turn of events 34 so that he might bring to pass the prophetic announcement he had made 35 through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.
1 Kings 12:20
12:20 When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they summoned him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. No one except the tribe of Judah remained loyal to the Davidic dynasty. 36
1 Kings 15:13
15:13 He also removed Maacah his grandmother 37 from her position as queen because she had made a loathsome Asherah pole. Asa cut down her Asherah pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
1 Kings 15:19
15:19 “I want to make a treaty with you, like the one our fathers made. 38 See, I have sent you silver and gold as a present. Break your treaty with King Baasha of Israel, so he will retreat from my land.” 39
1 Kings 16:13
16:13 This happened because of all the sins which Baasha and his son Elah committed and which they made Israel commit. They angered the Lord God of Israel with their worthless idols. 40
1 Kings 16:16
16:16 While deployed there, the army received this report: 41 “Zimri has conspired against the king and assassinated him.” 42 So all Israel made Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel that very day in the camp.
1 tn Heb “house.”
2 tn Heb “and I do not know going out or coming in.”
3 tn Heb “everyone who drew near to the table of King Solomon.”
4 tn Heb “walk in.”
5 tn Heb “do.”
6 tn Heb “and keep all my commandments by walking in them.”
7 tn Heb “I will establish my word with you which I spoke to David your father.”
8 tn Heb “carved carvings of.”
9 tn Heb “he plated [with] gold” (the precise object is not stated).
10 tn Heb “and he hammered out the gold on the cherubs and the palm trees.”
11 tn Heb “a porch of pillars.”
12 tn Heb “fifty cubits.”
13 tn Heb “thirty cubits.”
14 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.
15 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).
16 tn Heb “ten cubits.”
17 tn Heb “five cubits.”
18 tn Heb “and a measuring line went around it thirty cubits all around.”
19 sn Horeb is another name for Mount Sinai.
20 tn Heb “in Horeb where.”
21 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 34, 40, 48, 53, 57, 58).
22 tn Heb “I have heard.”
23 tn Heb “by placing my name there perpetually” (or perhaps, “forever”).
24 tn Heb “and my eyes and my heart will be there all the days.”
25 tn Or “tokens of peace”; NIV, TEV “fellowship offerings.”
26 tn Heb “and he made complete the house.”
27 tn This Hebrew architectural term occurs only here. The meaning is uncertain; some have suggested “banisters” or “parapets”; cf. TEV, NLT “railings.” The parallel passage in 2 Chr 9:11 has a different word, meaning “tracks,” or perhaps “steps.”
28 tn Two types of stringed instruments are specifically mentioned, the כִּנּוֹר (kinnor, “zither” [?]), and נֶבֶל (nevel, “harp”).
29 tn Heb “there has not come thus, the fine timber, and there has not been seen to this day.”
30 sn Three minas. The mina was a unit of measure for weight.
31 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.
32 tn Heb “man of strength.”
33 tn Heb “house.”
34 tn Heb “because this turn of events was from the Lord.”
35 tn Heb “so that he might bring to pass his word which the Lord spoke.”
36 tn Heb “there was no one [following] after the house of David except the tribe of Judah, it alone.”
37 tn Heb “mother,” but Hebrew often uses the terms “father” and “mother” for grandparents and more remote ancestors.
38 tn Heb “[May there be] a covenant between me and you [as there was] between my father and your father.”
39 tn Heb “so he will go up from upon me.”
40 tn Heb “angering the Lord God of Israel with their empty things.”
41 tn Heb “and the people who were encamped heard.”
42 tn Heb “has conspired against and also has struck down the king.”