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 8:26-27

8:26 Now, O God of Israel, may the promise you made to your servant, my father David, be realized.

8:27 “God does not really live on the earth! Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built!

1 Kings 10:24

10:24 Everyone in the world wanted to visit Solomon to see him display his God-given wisdom.

1 Kings 11:23

11:23 God also brought against Solomon another enemy, Rezon son of Eliada who had run away from his master, King Hadadezer of Zobah.

1 Kings 15:3

15:3 He followed all the sinful practices of his father before him. He was not wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God, as his ancestor David had been.

1 Kings 15:30

15:30 This happened because of the sins which Jeroboam committed and which he made Israel commit. These sins angered the Lord God of Israel.

1 Kings 16:13

16:13 This happened because of all the sins which Baasha and his son Elah committed and which they made Israel commit. They angered the Lord God of Israel with their worthless idols.

1 Kings 16:26

16:26 He followed in the footsteps of Jeroboam son of Nebat and encouraged Israel to sin; 10  they angered the Lord God of Israel with their worthless idols. 11 

1 Kings 16:33

16:33 Ahab also made an Asherah pole; he 12  did more to anger the Lord God of Israel than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

1 Kings 19:8

19:8 So he got up and ate and drank. That meal gave him the strength to travel forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.


tn Heb “the words that you spoke.”

tn Or “prove to be reliable.”

tn Heb “Indeed, can God really live on the earth?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course not,” the force of which the translation above seeks to reflect.

tc The Old Greek translation and Syriac Peshitta have “all the kings of the earth.” See 2 Chr 9:23.

tn Heb “and all the earth was seeking the face of Solomon to hear his wisdom which God had placed in his heart.”

tn Heb “him”; the referent (Solomon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

tn Heb “his heart was not complete with the Lord his God, like the heart of David his father.”

tn Heb “because of Jeroboam which he committed and which he made Israel commit, by his provocation by which he made the Lord God of Israel angry.”

tn Heb “angering the Lord God of Israel with their empty things.”

10 tn Heb “walked in all the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat and in his sin which he made Israel sin.”

11 tn Heb “angering the Lord God of Israel with their empty things.”

12 tn Heb “Ahab”; the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.