1 Kings 3:6

3:6 Solomon replied, “You demonstrated¹ great loyalty to your servant, my father David, as he served² you faithfully, properly, and sincerely.³ You have maintained this great loyalty to this day by allowing his son to sit on his throne.⁴

1 Kings 8:8

8:8 The poles were so long their ends were visible from the holy place in front of the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from beyond that point.⁵ They have remained there to this very day.

1 Kings 9:21

9:21 Their descendants remained in the land (the Israelites were unable to wipe them out completely). Solomon conscripted them for his work crews, and they continue in that role to this very day.⁶

1 Kings 10:12

10:12 With the timber the king made supports⁷ for the Lord’s temple and for the royal palace and stringed instruments⁸ for the musicians. No one has seen so much of this fine timber to this very day.⁹)

1 Kings 13:3

13:3 That day he also announced¹⁰ a sign, “This is the sign the Lord has predetermined:¹¹ The altar will be split open and the ashes¹² on it will fall to the ground.”¹³

1 Kings 13:11

13:11 Now there was an old prophet living in Bethel.¹⁴ When his sons came home, they told their father¹⁵ everything the prophet¹⁶ had done in Bethel that day and all the words he had spoken to the king.¹⁷

1 Kings 16:16

16:16 While deployed there, the army received this report:¹⁸ “Zimri has conspired against the king and assassinated him.”¹⁹ So all Israel made Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel that very day in the camp.

1 Kings 22:35

22:35 While the battle raged throughout the day, the king stood propped up in his chariot opposite the Syrians. He died in the evening; the blood from the wound ran down into the bottom of the chariot.

¹tn Heb “did.”

²tn Heb “walked before.”

³tn Heb “in faithfulness and in innocence and in uprightness of heart with you.”

⁴tn Heb “and you have kept to him this great loyalty and you gave to him a son [who] sits on his throne as this day.”

⁵tn Heb “they could not be seen outside.”

⁶tn Heb “their sons who were left after them in the land, whom the sons of Israel were unable to wipe out, and Solomon raised them up for a crew of labor to this day.”

⁷tn This Hebrew architectural term occurs only here. The meaning is uncertain; some have suggested “banisters” or “parapets”; cf. TEV, NLT “railings.” The parallel passage in 2 Chr 9:11 has a different word, meaning “tracks,” or perhaps “steps.”

⁸tn Two types of stringed instruments are specifically mentioned, the כִּנּוֹר (kinnor, “zither” [?]), and נֶבֶל (nevel, “harp”).

⁹tn Heb “there has not come thus, the fine timber, and there has not been seen to this day.”

¹⁰tn Heb “gave.”

¹¹tn Heb “spoken.”

¹²tn Heb “the fat.” Reference is made to burnt wood mixed with fat. See HALOT 234 s.v. דשׁן.

¹³tn Heb “will be poured out.”

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¹⁵tn Heb “and his son came and told him.” The MT has the singular here, but several other textual witnesses have the plural, which is more consistent with the second half of the verse and with vv. 12-13.

¹⁶tn Heb “the man of God.”

¹⁷tn Heb “all the actions which the man of God performed that day in Bethel, the words which he spoke to the king, and they told them to their father.”

¹⁸tn Heb “and the people who were encamped heard.”

¹⁹tn Heb “has conspired against and also has struck down the king.”