1 Kings 3:18

3:18 Then three days after I had my baby, this woman also had a baby. We were alone; there was no one else in the house except the two of us.¹

1 Kings 5:14

5:14 He sent them to Lebanon in shifts of 10,000 men per month. They worked in Lebanon for one month, and then spent two months at home. Adoniram was supervisor of² the work crews.

1 Kings 6:32

6:32 On the two doors made of olive wood he carved³ cherubs, palm trees, and flowers in bloom, and he plated them with gold.⁴ He plated the cherubs and the palm trees with hammered gold.⁵

1 Kings 7:24

7:24 Under the rim all the way around it⁶ were round ornaments⁷ arranged in settings 15 feet long.⁸ The ornaments were in two rows and had been cast with “The Sea.”⁹

1 Kings 7:31

7:31 Inside the stand was a round opening that was a foot-and-a-half deep; it had a support that was two and one-quarter feet long.¹⁰ On the edge of the opening were carvings in square frames.¹¹

1 Kings 8:9

8:9 There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets Moses had placed there in Horeb.¹² It was there that¹³ the Lord made an agreement with the Israelites after he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

1 Kings 10:19

10:19 There were six steps leading up to the throne, and the back of it was rounded on top. The throne had two armrests with a statue of a lion standing on each side.¹⁴

1 Kings 11:29

11:29 At that time, when Jeroboam had left Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite met him on the road; the two of them were alone in the open country. Ahijah¹⁵ was wearing a brand new robe,

1 Kings 16:8

Elah’s Reign over Israel

16:8 In the twenty-sixth year of King Asa’s reign over Judah, Baasha’s son Elah became king over Israel; he ruled in Tirzah for two years.

1 Kings 16:24

16:24 He purchased the hill of Samaria¹⁶ from Shemer for two talents¹⁷ of silver. He launched a construction project there¹⁸ and named the city he built after Shemer, the former owner of the hill of Samaria.

1 Kings 16:29

Ahab Promotes Idolatry

16:29 In the thirty-eighth year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Omri’s son Ahab became king over Israel. Ahab son of Omri ruled over Israel for twenty-two years in Samaria.¹⁹

1 Kings 20:1

Ben Hadad Invades Israel

20:1 Now King Ben Hadad of Syria assembled all his army, along with thirty-two other kings with their horses and chariots. He marched against Samaria²⁰ and besieged and attacked it.²¹

1 Kings 20:27

20:27 When the Israelites had mustered and had received their supplies, they marched out to face them in battle. When the Israelites deployed opposite them, they were like two small flocks²² of goats, but the Syrians filled the land.

1 Kings 21:13

21:13 The two villains arrived and sat opposite him. Then the villains testified against Naboth right before the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king.” So they dragged him²³ outside the city and stoned him to death.²⁴

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;²⁵ fight only the king of Israel.”

1 Kings 22:51

Ahaziah’s Reign over Israel

22:51 In the seventeenth year of King Jehoshaphat’s reign over Judah, Ahab’s son Ahaziah became king over Israel in Samaria.²⁶ He ruled for two years over Israel.

¹sn There was no one else in the house except the two of us. In other words, there were no other witnesses to the births who could identify which child belonged to which mother.

²tn Heb “was over.”

³tn Heb “carved carvings of.”

⁴tn Heb “he plated [with] gold” (the precise object is not stated).

⁵tn Heb “and he hammered out the gold on the cherubs and the palm trees.”

⁶tn Heb “The Sea.” The proper noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“it”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁷tn Or “gourd-shaped ornaments.”

⁸tn Heb “ten cubits surrounding the sea all around.” The precise meaning of this description is uncertain.

⁹tn Heb “the gourd-shaped ornaments were in two rows, cast in its casting.”

¹⁰tn Heb “And its opening from the inside to the top and upwards [was] a cubit, and its opening was round, the work of a stand, a cubit-and-a-half.” The precise meaning of this description is uncertain.

¹¹tn Heb “also over its opening were carvings and their frames [were] squared, not round.”

¹²sn Horeb is another name for Mount Sinai.

¹³tn Heb “in Horeb where.”

¹⁴tn Heb “[There were] armrests on each side of the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the armrests.”

¹⁵tn The Hebrew text has simply “he,” making it a bit unclear whether Jeroboam or Ahijah is the subject, but in the Hebrew word order Ahijah is the nearer antecedent, and this is followed by the present translation.

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¹⁷tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 150 pounds of silver.

¹⁸tn Heb “he built up the hill.”

¹⁹map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.

²⁰map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.

²¹tn Heb “and he went up and besieged Samaria and fought against it.”

²²tn The noun translated “small flocks” occurs only here. The common interpretation derives the word from the verbal root חשׂף, “to strip off; to make bare.” In this case the noun refers to something “stripped off” or “made bare.” HALOT 359 s.v. II חשׂף derives the noun from a proposed homonymic verbal root (which occurs only in Ps 29:9) meaning “cause a premature birth.” In this case the derived noun could refer to goats that are undersized because they are born prematurely.

²³tn Heb “led him.”

²⁴tn Heb “and they stoned him with stones and he died.”

²⁵tn Heb “small or great.”

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