1 Kings 3:5

3:5 One night in Gibeon the Lord appeared ¹  to Solomon in a dream. God said, “Tell ²  me what I should give you.”

1 Kings 3:17

3:17 One of the women said, “My master, this woman and I live in the same house. I had a baby while she was with me in the house.

1 Kings 3:23

3:23 The king said, “One says, ‘My son is alive; your son is dead,’ while the other says, ‘No, your son is dead; my son is alive.’”

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 7:32

7:32 The four wheels were under the frames and the crossbars of the axles were connected to the stand. Each wheel was two and one-quarter feet ³  high.

1 Kings 7:37-38

7:37 He made the ten stands in this way. All of them were cast in one mold and were identical in measurements and shape.

7:38 He also made ten bronze basins, each of which could hold about 240 gallons. ⁴  Each basin was six feet in diameter; ⁵  there was one basin for each stand.

1 Kings 10:20

10:20 There were twelve statues of lions on the six steps, one lion at each end of each step. There was nothing like it in any other kingdom. ⁶ 

1 Kings 11:26

11:26 Jeroboam son of Nebat, one of Solomon’s servants, rebelled against ⁷  the king. He was an Ephraimite ⁸  from Zeredah whose mother was a widow named Zeruah.

1 Kings 20:20

20:20 Each one struck down an enemy soldier; ⁹  the Syrians fled and Israel chased them. King Ben Hadad of Syria escaped on horseback with some horsemen.

1 Kings 20:35

A Prophet Denounces Ahab’s Actions

20:35 One of the members of the prophetic guild, speaking with divine authority, ordered his companion, “Wound me!” ¹⁰  But the man refused to wound him.

1 Kings 20:41

20:41 The prophet ¹¹  quickly removed the bandage from his eyes and the king of Israel recognized he was one of the prophets.

1 Kings 22:20

22:20 The Lord said, ‘Who will deceive Ahab, so he will attack Ramoth Gilead and die ¹²  there?’ One said this and another that.

1 Kings 22:36

22:36 As the sun was setting, a cry went through the camp, “Each one should return to his city and to his homeland.”

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¹ tn Or “revealed himself.”

² tn Heb “ask.”

³ tn Heb “a cubit-and-a-half” (a cubit was a unit of measure roughly equivalent to 18 inches or 45 cm).

⁴ tn Heb “forty baths” (a bath was a liquid measure roughly equivalent to six gallons).

⁵ tn Heb “four cubits, each basin.” It is unclear which dimension is being measured.

⁶ tn Heb “nothing like it had been made for all the kingdoms.”

⁷ tn Heb “raised a hand against.”

⁸ tn Heb “Ephrathite,” which here refers to an Ephraimite (see HALOT 81 s.v. אֶפְרַיִם).

⁹ tn Heb “each struck down his man.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “Now a man from the sons of the prophets said to his companion by the word of the Lord, ‘Wound me.’”

¹¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the prophet) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹² tn Heb “and fall.”