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.¹ There I will separate the logs² and you can carry them away. In exchange you will supply the food I need for my royal court.”³

1 Kings 8:46

8:46 “The time will come when your people⁴ will sin against you (for there is no one who is sinless!) and you will be angry with them and deliver them over to their enemies, who will take them as prisoners to their own land,⁵ whether far away or close by.

1 Kings 8:64

8:64 That day the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard that is in front of the Lord’s temple. He offered there burnt sacrifices, grain offerings, and the fat from the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that stood before the Lord was too small to hold all these offerings.⁶

1 Kings 10:21

10:21 All of King Solomon’s cups were made of gold, and all the household items in the Palace of the Lebanon Forest were made of pure gold. There were no silver items, for silver was not considered very valuable in Solomon’s time.⁷

1 Kings 18:26

18:26 So they took a bull, as he had suggested,⁸ and prepared it. They invoked the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, “Baal, answer us.” But there was no sound and no answer. They jumped⁹ around on the altar they had made.¹⁰

1 Kings 19:11

19:11 The Lord¹¹ said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord. Look, the Lord is ready to pass by.”

A very powerful wind went before the Lord, digging into the mountain and causing landslides,¹² but the Lord was not in the wind. After the windstorm there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake.

1 Kings 22:8

22:8 The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man through whom we can seek the Lord’s will.¹³ But I despise¹⁴ him because he does not prophesy prosperity for me, but disaster. His name is Micaiah son of Imlah.¹⁵ Jehoshaphat said, “The king should not say such things.”

¹tn 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.

²tn Heb “smash them,” i.e., untie the bundles.

³tn Heb “as for you, you will satisfy my desire by giving food for my house.”

⁴tn Heb “they”; the referent (your people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵tn Heb “the land of the enemy.”

⁶tn Heb “to hold the burnt sacrifices, grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.”

⁷tn Heb “there was no silver, it was not regarded as anything in the days of Solomon.”

⁸tn Heb “and they took the bull which he allowed them.”

⁹tn Heb “limped” (the same verb is used in v. 21).

¹⁰tc The MT has “which he made,” but some medieval Hebrew mss and the ancient versions have the plural form of the verb.

¹¹tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹²tn Heb “tearing away the mountains and breaking the cliffs” (or perhaps, “breaking the stones”).

¹³tn Heb “to seek the Lord from him.”

¹⁴tn Or “hate.”

¹⁵tn The words “his name is” are supplied for stylistic reasons.