1 Kings 2:4

2:4 and the Lord will fulfill his promise to me, 1  ‘If your descendants watch their step 2  and live faithfully in my presence 3  with all their heart and being, 4  then,’ he promised, 5  ‘you will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’ 6 

1 Kings 2:8

2:8 “Note well, you still have to contend with Shimei son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahurim, 7  who tried to call down upon me a horrible judgment when I went to Mahanaim. 8  He came down and met me at the Jordan, and I solemnly promised 9  him by the Lord, ‘I will not strike you down 10  with the sword.’

1 Kings 2:26

2:26 The king then told Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your property 11  in Anathoth. You deserve to die, 12  but today I will not kill you because you did carry the ark of the sovereign Lord before my father David and you suffered with my father through all his difficult times.” 13 

1 Kings 6:6

6:6 The bottom floor of the extension was seven and a half feet 14  wide, the middle floor nine feet 15  wide, and the third floor ten and a half 16  feet wide. He made ledges 17  on the temple’s outer walls so the beams would not have to be inserted into the walls. 18 

1 Kings 8:16

8:16 He told David, 19  ‘Since the day I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from all the tribes of Israel to build a temple in which to live. 20  But I have chosen David to lead my people Israel.’

1 Kings 10:21

10:21 All of King Solomon’s cups were made of gold, and all the household items in the Palace of the Lebanon Forest were made of pure gold. There were no silver items, for silver was not considered very valuable in Solomon’s time. 21 

1 Kings 11:33

11:33 I am taking the kingdom from him 22  because they have 23  abandoned me and worshiped the Sidonian goddess Astarte, the Moabite god Chemosh, and the Ammonite god Milcom. They have not followed my instructions 24  by doing what I approve and obeying my rules and regulations, like Solomon’s father David did. 25 

1 Kings 12:24

12:24 ‘The Lord says this: “Do not attack and make war with your brothers, the Israelites. Each of you go home, for I have caused this to happen.”’” 26  They obeyed the Lord and went home as the Lord had ordered them to do. 27 

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. 28  If I go tell Ahab I’ve seen you, he won’t be able to find you and he will kill me. 29  That would not be fair, 30  because your servant has been a loyal follower of 31  the Lord from my youth.

1 Kings 18:21

18:21 Elijah approached all the people and said, “How long are you going to be paralyzed by indecision? 32  If the Lord is the true God, 33  then follow him, but if Baal is, follow him!” But the people did not say a word.

1 Kings 20:28

20:28 The prophet 34  visited the king of Israel and said, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Because the Syrians said, “The Lord is a god of the mountains and not a god of the valleys,” I will hand over to you this entire huge army. 35  Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”

1 Kings 21:6

21:6 He answered her, “While I was talking to Naboth the Jezreelite, I said to him, ‘Sell me your vineyard for silver, or if you prefer, I will give you another vineyard in its place.’ But he said, ‘I will not sell you my vineyard.’” 36 

1 tn Heb “then the Lord will establish his word which he spoke to me, saying.”

2 tn Heb “guard their way.”

3 tn Heb “by walking before me in faithfulness.”

4 tn Or “soul.”

5 tn Heb “saying.”

6 tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel.”

7 tn Heb “Look, with you is Shimei….”

8 tn Heb “and he cursed me with a horrible curse on the day I went to Mahanaim.”

9 tn Or “swore an oath to.”

10 tn Heb “kill you.”

11 tn Or “field.”

12 tn Heb “you are a man of death.”

13 tn Heb “and because you suffered through all which my father suffered.”

14 tn Heb “five cubits.”

15 tn Heb “six cubits.”

16 tn Heb “seven cubits.”

17 tn Or “offsets” (ASV, NAB, NASB, NRSV); NIV “offset ledges.”

18 tn Heb “so that [the beams] would not have a hold in the walls of the temple.”

19 tn Heb “saying.”

20 tn Heb “to build a house for my name to be there.”

sn To build a temple in which to live (Heb “to build a house for my name to be there”). In the OT, the word “name” sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor. The “name” of the Lord sometimes designates the Lord himself, being indistinguishable from the proper name.

21 tn Heb “there was no silver, it was not regarded as anything in the days of Solomon.”

22 tn The words “I am taking the kingdom from him” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

23 tc This is the reading of the MT; the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate read “he has.”

24 tn Heb “walked in my ways.”

25 tn Heb “by doing what is right in my eyes, my rules and my regulations, like David his father.”

26 tn Heb “for this thing is from me.”

27 tn Heb “and they heard the word of the Lord and returned to go according to the word of the Lord.”

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

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

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

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

32 tn Heb “How long are you going to limp around on two crutches?” (see HALOT 762 s.v. סְעִפִּים). In context this idiomatic expression refers to indecision rather than physical disability.

33 tn Heb “the God.”

34 tn Heb “the man of God.”

35 tn Heb “I will place all this great horde in your hand.”

36 tn Heb “While I was talking…, I said…, he said….” Ahab’s explanation is one lengthy sentence in the Hebrew text, which is divided in the English translation for stylistic reasons.