1 Kings 5:5

5:5 So I have decided ¹  to build a temple to honor the Lord ²  my God, as the Lord instructed my father David, ‘Your son, whom I will put on your throne in your place, is the one who will build a temple to honor me.’ ³ 

1 Kings 5:9

5:9 My servants will bring the timber down from Lebanon to the sea. I will send it by sea in raft-like bundles to the place you designate. ⁴  There I will separate the logs ⁵  and you can carry them away. In exchange you will supply the food I need for my royal court.” ⁶ 

1 Kings 8:20

8:20 The Lord has kept the promise he made. ⁷  I have taken my father David’s place and have occupied the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised. I have built this temple for the honor ⁸  of the Lord God of Israel

1 Kings 8:35

8:35 “The time will come when ⁹  the skies are shut up tightly and no rain falls because your people ¹⁰  sinned against you. When they direct their prayers toward this place, renew their allegiance to you, ¹¹  and turn away from their sin because you punish ¹²  them,

1 Kings 8:43

8:43 Then listen from your heavenly dwelling place and answer all the prayers of the foreigners. ¹³  Then all the nations of the earth will acknowledge your reputation, ¹⁴  obey ¹⁵  you like your people Israel do, and recognize that this temple I built belongs to you. ¹⁶ 

1 Kings 16:15

Zimri’s Reign over Israel

16:15 In the twenty-seventh year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Zimri became king over Israel; he ruled for seven days in Tirzah. Zimri’s revolt took place while the army was deployed ¹⁷  in Gibbethon, which was in Philistine territory.

1 Kings 21:2

21:2 Ahab said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard so I can make a vegetable garden out of it, for it is adjacent to my palace. I will give you an even better vineyard in its place, or if you prefer, ¹⁸  I will pay you silver for it.” ¹⁹ 

1 Kings 21:6

21:6 He answered her, “While I was talking to Naboth the Jezreelite, I said to him, ‘Sell me your vineyard for silver, or if you prefer, I will give you another vineyard in its place.’ But he said, ‘I will not sell you my vineyard.’” ²⁰ 

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¹ tn Heb “Look, I am saying.”

² tn Heb “a house for the name of the Lord.” The word “name” sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor. The “name” of the Lord sometimes designates the Lord himself, being indistinguishable from the proper name.

³ tn Heb “a house for my name.” The word “name” sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor. The “name” of the Lord sometimes designates the Lord himself, being indistinguishable from the proper name.

⁴ tn Heb “I will place them [on? as?] rafts in the sea to the place where you designate to me.” This may mean he would send them by raft, or that he would tie them in raft-like bundles, and have ships tow them down to an Israelite port.

⁵ tn Heb “smash them,” i.e., untie the bundles.

⁶ tn Heb “as for you, you will satisfy my desire by giving food for my house.”

⁷ tn Heb “his word that he spoke.”

⁸ tn Heb “name.”

⁹ tn Heb “when.” In the Hebrew text vv. 35-36a actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided into two sentences for stylistic reasons.

¹⁰ tn Heb “they”; the referent (your people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹¹ tn Heb “confess [or perhaps, “praise”] your name.”

¹² tn The Hebrew text has “because you answer them,” as if the verb is from עָנָה (’anah, “to answer”). However, this reference to a divine answer is premature, since the next verse asks for God to intervene in mercy. It is better to revocalize the consonantal text as תְעַנֵּם (tÿ’annem, “you afflict them”), a Piel verb form from the homonym עָנָה (“to afflict”).

¹³ tn Heb “and do all which the foreigner calls to [i.e., “requests of”] you.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “your name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in v. 41.

¹⁵ tn Heb “fear.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “that your name is called over this house which I built.” The Hebrew idiom “to call the name over” indicates ownership. See 2 Sam 12:28.

¹⁷ tn Heb “Now the people were encamped.

¹⁸ tn Heb “if it is good in your eyes.”

¹⁹ tc The Old Greek translation includes the following words: “And it will be mine as a garden of herbs.”

²⁰ tn Heb “While I was talking…, I said…, he said….” Ahab’s explanation is one lengthy sentence in the Hebrew text, which is divided in the English translation for stylistic reasons.