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 2:30

2:30 When Benaiah arrived at the tent of the Lord, he said to him, “The king says, ‘Come out!’” But he replied, “No, I will die here!” So Benaiah sent word to the king and reported Joab’s reply. 11 

1 Kings 2:42

2:42 the king summoned 12  Shimei and said to him, “You will recall 13  that I made you take an oath by the Lord, and I solemnly warned you, ‘If you ever leave and go anywhere, 14  know for sure that you will certainly die.’ You said to me, ‘The proposal is acceptable; I agree to it.’ 15 

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 David 16  until he could finish building his residence and the temple of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem. 17 

1 Kings 6:1

The Building of the Temple

6:1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites left Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, during the month Ziv 18  (the second month), he began building the Lord’s temple.

1 Kings 8:64

8:64 That day the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard that is in front of the Lord’s temple. He offered there burnt sacrifices, grain offerings, and the fat from the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that stood before the Lord was too small to hold all these offerings. 19 

1 Kings 9:3

9:3 The Lord said to him, “I have answered 20  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; 21  I will be constantly present there. 22 

1 Kings 12:33

A Prophet from Judah Visits Bethel

12:33 On the fifteenth day of the eighth month (a date he had arbitrarily chosen) 23  Jeroboam 24  offered sacrifices on the altar he had made in Bethel. 25  He inaugurated a festival for the Israelites and went up to the altar to offer sacrifices.

1 Kings 13:18

13:18 The old prophet then said, 26  “I too am a prophet like you. An angel told me with the Lord’s authority, 27  ‘Bring him back with you to your house so he can eat and drink.’” 28  But he was lying to him. 29 

1 Kings 14:15

14:15 The Lord will attack Israel, making it like a reed that sways in the water. 30  He will remove Israel from this good land he gave to their ancestors 31  and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, 32  because they angered the Lord by making Asherah poles. 33 

1 Kings 15:18

15:18 Asa took all the silver and gold that was left in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and of the royal palace and handed it to his servants. He then told them to deliver it 34  to Ben Hadad son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, ruler in Damascus, along with this message:

1 Kings 15:29

15:29 When he became king, he executed Jeroboam’s entire family. He wiped out everyone who breathed, 35  just as the Lord had predicted 36  through his servant Ahijah the Shilonite.

1 Kings 19:4

19:4 while he went a day’s journey into the desert. He went and sat down under a shrub 37  and asked the Lord to take his life: 38  “I’ve had enough! Now, O Lord, take my life. After all, I’m no better than my ancestors.” 39 

1 Kings 22:15

22:15 When he came before the king, the king asked him, “Micaiah, should we attack Ramoth Gilead or not?” He answered him, “Attack! You will succeed; the Lord will hand it over to the king.” 40 

1 Kings 22:43

22:43 He followed in his father Asa’s footsteps and was careful to do what the Lord approved. 41  (22:44) 42  However, the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.

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 Heb “saying, “In this way Joab spoke and in this way he answered me.”

12 tn Heb “sent and summoned.”

13 tn Heb “Is it not [true]…?” In the Hebrew text the statement is interrogative; the rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course it is.”

14 tn Heb “here or there.”

15 tn Heb “good is the word; I have heard.”

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

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

18 sn During the month Ziv. This would be April-May, 966 b.c. by modern reckoning.

19 tn Heb “to hold the burnt sacrifices, grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.”

20 tn Heb “I have heard.”

21 tn Heb “by placing my name there perpetually” (or perhaps, “forever”).

22 tn Heb “and my eyes and my heart will be there all the days.”

23 tn Heb “which he had chosen by himself.”

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

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

26 tn Heb “and he said to him.”

27 tn Heb “by the word of the Lord.”

28 tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”

29 tn Or “deceiving him.”

sn He was lying to him. The motives and actions of the old prophet are difficult to understand. The old man’s response to the prophet’s death (see vv. 26-32) suggests he did not trick him with malicious intent. The old prophet probably wanted the honor of entertaining such a celebrity, or perhaps simply desired some social interaction with a fellow prophet.

30 tn The elliptical Hebrew text reads literally “and the Lord will strike Israel as a reed sways in the water.”

31 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 22, 31).

32 tn Heb “the River.” In biblical Hebrew this is a typical reference to the Euphrates River. The name “Euphrates” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

33 tn Heb “because they made their Asherah poles that anger the Lord”; or “their images of Asherah”; ASV, NASB “their Asherim”; NCV “they set up idols to worship Asherah.”

sn Asherah was a leading deity of the Canaanite pantheon, wife/sister of El and goddess of fertility. She was commonly worshiped at shrines in or near groves of evergreen trees, or, failing that, at places marked by wooden poles. These were to be burned or cut down (Deut 12:3; 16:21; Judg 6:25, 28, 30; 2 Kgs 18:4).

34 tn Heb “King Asa sent it.”

35 tn Heb “and when he became king, he struck down all the house of Jeroboam; he did not leave any breath to Jeroboam until he destroyed him.”

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

37 tn Or “broom tree” (also in v. 5).

38 tn Heb “and asked with respect to his life to die.”

39 tn Heb “fathers.”

40 sn “Attack! You will succeed; the Lord will hand it over to the king.” One does not expect Micaiah, having just vowed to speak only what the Lord tells him, to agree with the other prophets and give the king an inaccurate prophecy. Micaiah’s actions became understandable later, when it is revealed that the Lord desires to deceive the king and lead him to his demise. The Lord even dispatches a lying spirit to deceive Ahab’s prophets. Micaiah can lie to the king because he realizes this lie is from the Lord. It is important to note that in v. 14 Micaiah only vows to speak the word of the Lord; he does not necessarily say he will tell the truth. In this case the Lord’s word itself is deceptive. Only when the king adjures him to tell the truth (v. 16), does Micaiah do so.

41 tn 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.”

42 sn 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.