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 4:7
4:7 Solomon had twelve district governors appointed throughout Israel who acquired supplies for the king and his palace. Each was responsible for one month in the year.
1 Kings 6:18
6:18 The inside of the temple was all cedar and was adorned with carvings of round ornaments and of flowers in bloom. Everything was cedar; no stones were visible. 7
1 Kings 7:33
7:33 The wheels were constructed like chariot wheels; their crossbars, rims, spokes, and hubs were made of cast metal.
1 Kings 8:65
8:65 At that time Solomon and all Israel with him celebrated a festival before the Lord our God for two entire weeks. This great assembly included people from all over the land, from Lebo Hamath in the north to the Brook of Egypt 8 in the south. 9
1 Kings 14:18
14:18 All Israel buried him and mourned for him, just as the Lord had predicted 10 through his servant the prophet Ahijah.
1 Kings 16:26
16:26 He followed in the footsteps of Jeroboam son of Nebat and encouraged Israel to sin; 11 they angered the Lord God of Israel with their worthless idols. 12
1 Kings 18:35
18:35 The water flowed down all sides of the altar and filled the trench.
1 Kings 19:18
19:18 I still have left in Israel seven thousand followers who have not bowed their knees to Baal or kissed the images of him.” 13
1 Kings 22:23
22:23 So now, look, the Lord has placed a lying spirit in the mouths of all these prophets of yours; but the Lord has decreed disaster for you.”
1 Kings 22:28
22:28 Micaiah said, “If you really do safely return, then the Lord has not spoken through me.” Then he added, “Take note, 14 all you people.”
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 “Cedar was inside the temple, carvings of gourds (i.e., gourd-shaped ornaments) and opened flowers; the whole was cedar, no stone was seen.”
8 tn Or “the Wadi of Egypt” (NAB, NIV, NRSV); CEV “the Egyptian Gorge.”
9 tn Heb “Solomon held at that time the festival, and all Israel was with him, a great assembly from Lebo Hamath to the Brook of Egypt, before the Lord our God for seven days and seven days, fourteen days.”
10 tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord which he spoke.”
11 tn Heb “walked in all the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat and in his sin which he made Israel sin.”
12 tn Heb “angering the Lord God of Israel with their empty things.”
13 tn Heb “I have kept in Israel seven thousand, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal, and all the mouths that have not kissed him.”
14 tn Heb “Listen.”