1 Kings 4:19

4:19 Geber son of Uri was in charge of the land of Gilead (the territory which had once belonged to King Sihon of the Amorites and to King Og of Bashan). He was sole governor of the area.

1 Kings 4:21

4:21 (5:1)¹ Solomon ruled all the kingdoms from the Euphrates River² to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. These kingdoms paid tribute as Solomon’s subjects throughout his lifetime.³

1 Kings 8:9

8:9 There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets Moses had placed there in Horeb.⁴ It was there that⁵ the Lord made an agreement with the Israelites after he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

1 Kings 8:21

8:21 and set up in it a place for the ark containing the covenant the Lord made with our ancestors⁶ when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.”

1 Kings 8:36

8:36 then listen from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Certainly⁷ you will then teach them the right way to live⁸ and send rain on your land that you have given your people to possess.⁹

1 Kings 9:7-8

9:7 then I will remove Israel from the land¹⁰ I have given them, I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence,¹¹ and Israel will be mocked and ridiculed¹² among all the nations. 9:8 This temple will become a heap of ruins;¹³ everyone who passes by it will be shocked and will hiss out their scorn,¹⁴ saying, ‘Why did the Lord do this to this land and this temple?’

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.¹⁵

1 Kings 11:18

11:18 They went from Midian to Paran; they took some men from Paran and went to Egypt. Pharaoh, king of Egypt, supplied him with a house and food and even assigned him some land.¹⁶

1 Kings 15:19

15:19 “I want to make a treaty with you, like the one our fathers made.¹⁷ See, I have sent you silver and gold as a present. Break your treaty with King Baasha of Israel, so he will retreat from my land.”¹⁸

1 Kings 18:5

18:5 Ahab told Obadiah, “Go through the land to all the springs and valleys. Maybe we can find some grazing areas¹⁹ so we can keep the horses and mules alive and not have to kill²⁰ some of the animals.”

1 Kings 20:7

20:7 The king of Israel summoned all the leaders²¹ of the land and said, “Notice how this man is looking for trouble.²² Indeed, he demanded my wives, sons, silver, and gold, and I did not resist him.”

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 flocks²³ of goats, but the Syrians filled the land.

¹sn Beginning with 4:21, the verse numbers through 5:18 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 4:21 ET = 5:1 HT, 4:22 ET = 5:2 HT, etc., through 5:18 ET = 5:32 HT. Beginning with 6:1 the numbering of verses in the English Bible and the Hebrew text is again the same.

²tn Heb “the River” (also in v. 24). This is the standard designation for the Euphrates River in biblical Hebrew.

³tn Heb “[They] were bringing tribute and were serving Solomon all the days of his life.”

⁴sn Horeb is another name for Mount Sinai.

⁵tn Heb “in Horeb where.”

⁶tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 34, 40, 48, 53, 57, 58).

⁷tn The translation understands כִּי (ki) in an emphatic or asseverative sense.

⁸tn Heb “the good way in which they should walk.”

⁹tn Or “for an inheritance.”

¹⁰tn Heb “I will cut off Israel from upon the surface of the land.”

¹¹tn Heb “and the temple which I consecrated for my name I will send away from before my face.”

sn Instead of “I will send away,” the parallel text in 2 Chr 7:20 has “I will throw away.” The two verbs sound very similar in Hebrew, so the discrepancy is likely due to an oral transmissional error.

¹²tn Heb “will become a proverb and a taunt,” that is, a proverbial example of destruction and an object of reproach.

¹³tn Heb “and this house will be high [or elevated].” The statement makes little sense in this context, which predicts the desolation that judgment will bring. Some treat the clause as concessive, “Even though this temple is lofty [now].” Others, following the lead of several ancient versions, emend the text to, “this temple will become a heap of ruins.”

¹⁴tn Heb “hiss,” or perhaps “whistle.” This refers to a derisive sound one would make when taunting an object of ridicule.

¹⁵tn 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.”

¹⁶tn Heb “and they arose from Midian and went to Paran and they took men with them from Paran and went to Egypt to Pharaoh king of Egypt and he gave to him a house and food and he said to him, and a land he gave to him.” Something seems to be accidentally omitted after “and he said to him.”

¹⁷tn Heb “[May there be] a covenant between me and you [as there was] between my father and your father.”

¹⁸tn Heb “so he will go up from upon me.”

¹⁹tn Heb “grass.”

²⁰tn Heb “to cut off.”

²¹tn Heb “elders.”

²²tn Heb “Know and see that this [man] is seeking trouble.”

²³tn 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.