1 Kings 5:4

5:4 But now the Lord my God has made me secure on all fronts; there is no adversary or dangerous threat.

1 Kings 7:47

7:47 Solomon left all these items unweighed; there were so many of them they did not weigh the bronze. ¹ 

1 Kings 8:14

8:14 Then the king turned around ²  and pronounced a blessing over the whole Israelite assembly as they stood there. ³ 

1 Kings 9:28

9:28 They sailed ⁴  to Ophir, took from there four hundred twenty talents ⁵  of gold, and then brought them to King Solomon.

1 Kings 11:16

11:16 For six months Joab and the entire Israelite army ⁶  stayed there until they had exterminated every male in Edom. ⁷ 

1 Kings 18:29

18:29 Throughout the afternoon they were in an ecstatic frenzy, ⁸  but there was no sound, no answer, and no response. ⁹ 

1 Kings 22:7

22:7 But Jehoshaphat asked, “Is there not a prophet of the Lord still here, that we may ask him?”

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¹ tn Heb “Solomon left all the items, due to their very great abundance; the weight of the bronze was not sought.”

² tn Heb “turned his face.”

³ tn Heb “and he blessed all the assembly of Israel, and all the assembly of Israel was standing.”

⁴ tn Heb “went.”

⁵ tn 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 31,500 pounds of gold (cf. NCV); CEV, NLT “sixteen tons”; TEV “more than 14,000 kilogrammes.”

⁶ tn Heb “and all Israel.”

⁷ tn Heb “until he had cut off every male in Edom.”

⁸ tn Heb “when noon passed they prophesied until the offering up of the offering.”

⁹ tc The Old Greek translation and Syriac Peshitta include the following words here: “When it was time to offer the sacrifice, Elijah the Tishbite spoke to the prophets of the abominations: ‘Stand aside for the time being, and I will offer my burnt offering.’ So they stood aside and departed.”

sn In 2 Kgs 4:31 the words “there was no sound and there was no response” are used to describe a dead boy. Similar words are used here to describe the god Baal as dead and therefore unresponsive.