1 Kings 2:31

2:31 The king told him, “Do as he said! Strike him down and bury him. Take away from me and from my father’s family¹ the guilt of Joab’s murderous, bloody deeds.²

1 Kings 2:38

2:38 Shimei said to the king, “My master the king’s proposal is acceptable.³ Your servant will do as you say.”⁴ So Shimei lived in Jerusalem for a long time.⁵

1 Kings 9:8

9:8 This temple will become a heap of ruins;⁶ everyone who passes by it will be shocked and will hiss out their scorn,⁷ saying, ‘Why did the Lord do this to this land and this temple?’

1 Kings 11:2

11:2 They came from nations about which the Lord had warned the Israelites, “You must not establish friendly relations with them!⁸ If you do, they will surely shift your allegiance to their gods.”⁹ But Solomon was irresistibly attracted to them.¹⁰

1 Kings 11:12

11:12 However, for your father David’s sake I will not do this while you are alive. I will tear it away from your son’s hand instead.

1 Kings 12:6

12:6 King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served¹¹ his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them,¹² “How do you advise me to answer these people?”

1 Kings 13:22

13:22 You went back and ate and drank in this place, even though he said to you, “Do not eat or drink there.”¹³ Therefore¹⁴ your corpse will not be buried in your ancestral tomb.’”¹⁵

1 Kings 17:13

17:13 Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go and do as you planned.¹⁶ But first make a small cake for me and bring it to me; then make something for yourself and your son.

1 Kings 18:25

18:25 Elijah told the prophets of Baal, “Choose one of the bulls for yourselves and go first, for you are the majority. Invoke the name of your god, but do not light a fire.”¹⁷

1 Kings 19:2

19:2 Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah with this warning,¹⁸ “May the gods judge me severely¹⁹ if by this time tomorrow I do not take your life as you did theirs!”²⁰

1 Kings 20:22

The Lord Gives Israel Another Victory

20:22 The prophet²¹ visited the king of Israel and instructed him, “Go, fortify your defenses.²² Determine²³ what you must do, for in the spring²⁴ the king of Syria will attack²⁵ you.”

1 Kings 22:22

22:22 He replied, ‘I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouths of all his prophets.’ The Lord²⁶ said, ‘Deceive and overpower him.²⁷ Go out and do as you have proposed.’

1 Kings 22:31

22:31 Now the king of Syria had ordered his thirty-two chariot commanders, “Do not fight common soldiers or high-ranking officers;²⁸ fight only the king of Israel.”

1 Kings 22:43

22:43 He followed in his father Asa’s footsteps and was careful to do what the Lord approved.²⁹ (22:44)³⁰ However, the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.

¹tn Heb “house.”

²tn Heb “take away the undeserved bloodshed which Joab spilled from upon me and from upon the house of my father.”

³tn Heb “Good is the word, as my master the king has spoken.”

⁴tn Heb “so your servant will do.”

⁵tn Heb “many days.”

⁶tn Heb “and this house will be high [or elevated].” The statement makes little sense in this context, which predicts the desolation that judgment will bring. Some treat the clause as concessive, “Even though this temple is lofty [now].” Others, following the lead of several ancient versions, emend the text to, “this temple will become a heap of ruins.”

⁷tn Heb “hiss,” or perhaps “whistle.” This refers to a derisive sound one would make when taunting an object of ridicule.

⁸tn Heb “you must not go into them, and they must not go into you.”

⁹tn Heb “Surely they will bend your heart after their gods.” The words “if you do” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

¹⁰tn Heb “Solomon clung to them for love.” The pronominal suffix, translated “them,” is masculine here, even though it appears the foreign women are in view. Perhaps this is due to attraction to the masculine forms used of the nations earlier in the verse.

¹¹tn Heb “stood before.”

¹²tn Heb “saying.”

¹³tn Heb “and you returned and ate food and drank water in the place about which he said to you, ‘do not eat food and do not drink water.’”

¹⁴tn “Therefore” is added for stylistic reasons. See the note at 1 Kgs 13:21 pertaining to the grammatical structure of vv. 21-22.

¹⁵tn Heb “will not go to the tomb of your fathers.”

¹⁶tn Heb “according to your word.”

¹⁷tc The last sentence of v. 25 is absent in the Syriac Peshitta.

¹⁸tn Heb “saying.”

¹⁹tn Heb “So may the gods do to me, and so may they add.”

²⁰tn Heb “I do not make your life like the life of one of them.”

²¹tn The definite article indicates previous reference, that is, “the prophet mentioned earlier” (see v. 13).

²²tn Heb “strengthen yourself.”

²³tn Heb “know and see.”

²⁴tn Heb “at the turning of the year.”

²⁵tn Heb “go up against.”

²⁶tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²⁷tn The Hebrew text has two imperfects connected by וְגַם (vÿgam). These verbs could be translated as specific futures, “you will deceive and also you will prevail,” in which case the Lord is assuring the spirit of success on his mission. However, in a commissioning context (note the following imperatives) such as this, it is more likely that the imperfects are injunctive, in which case one could translate, “Deceive, and also overpower.”

²⁸tn Heb “small or great.”

²⁹tn Heb “he walked in all the way of Asa his father and did not turn from it, doing what is right in the eyes of the Lord.”

³⁰sn Beginning with 22:43b, the verse numbers through 22:53 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), because 22:43b in the English Bible = 22:44 in the Hebrew text. The remaining verses in the chapter differ by one, with 22:44-53 ET = 22:45-54 HT.