1 Kings 8:1

Solomon Moves the Ark into the Temple

8:1 ¹ Then Solomon convened in Jerusalem ²  Israel’s elders, all the leaders of the Israelite tribes and families, so they could witness the transferal of the ark of the Lord’s covenant from the city of David (that is, Zion). ³ 

1 Kings 8:35

8:35 “The time will come when ⁴  the skies are shut up tightly and no rain falls because your people ⁵  sinned against you. When they direct their prayers toward this place, renew their allegiance to you, ⁶  and turn away from their sin because you punish ⁷  them,

1 Kings 8:66

8:66 On the fifteenth day after the festival started, ⁸  he dismissed the people. They asked God to empower the king ⁹  and then went to their homes, happy and content ¹⁰  because of all the good the Lord had done for his servant David and his people Israel.

1 Kings 12:24

12:24 ‘The Lord says this: “Do not attack and make war with your brothers, the Israelites. Each of you go home, for I have caused this to happen.”’” ¹¹  They obeyed the Lord and went home as the Lord had ordered them to do. ¹² 

1 Kings 14:15

14:15 The Lord will attack Israel, making it like a reed that sways in the water. ¹³  He will remove Israel from this good land he gave to their ancestors ¹⁴  and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, ¹⁵  because they angered the Lord by making Asherah poles. ¹⁶ 

1 Kings 18:23

18:23 Let them bring us two bulls. Let them choose one of the bulls for themselves, cut it up into pieces, and place it on the wood. But they must not set it on fire. I will do the same to the other bull and place it on the wood. But I will not set it on fire.

1 Kings 19:21

19:21 Elisha ¹⁷  went back and took his pair of oxen and slaughtered them. He cooked the meat over a fire that he made by burning the harness and yoke. ¹⁸  He gave the people meat and they ate. Then he got up and followed Elijah and became his assistant.

1 Kings 21:19

21:19 Say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: “Haven’t you committed murder and taken possession of the property of the deceased?”’ Then say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: “In the spot where dogs licked up Naboth’s blood they will also lick up your blood – yes, yours!”’”

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¹ tc The Old Greek translation includes the following words at the beginning of ch. 8: “It so happened that when Solomon finished building the Lord’s temple and his own house, after twenty years.”

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³ tn Heb “Then Solomon convened the elders of Israel, the heads of the tribes, the chiefs of the fathers belonging to the sons of Israel to King Solomon [in] Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the city of David (it is Zion).”

⁴ 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.

⁵ tn Heb “they”; the referent (your people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁶ tn Heb “confess [or perhaps, “praise”] your name.”

⁷ 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”).

⁸ tn Heb “on the eighth day” (that is, the day after the second seven-day sequence).

⁹ tn Heb “they blessed the king.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “good of heart.”

¹¹ tn Heb “for this thing is from me.”

¹² tn Heb “and they heard the word of the Lord and returned to go according to the word of the Lord.”

¹³ tn The elliptical Hebrew text reads literally “and the Lord will strike Israel as a reed sways in the water.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 22, 31).

¹⁵ tn Heb “the River.” In biblical Hebrew this is a typical reference to the Euphrates River. The name “Euphrates” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

¹⁶ tn Heb “because they made their Asherah poles that anger the Lord”; or “their images of Asherah”; ASV, NASB “their Asherim”; NCV “they set up idols to worship Asherah.”

sn Asherah was a leading deity of the Canaanite pantheon, wife/sister of El and goddess of fertility. She was commonly worshiped at shrines in or near groves of evergreen trees, or, failing that, at places marked by wooden poles. These were to be burned or cut down (Deut 12:3; 16:21; Judg 6:25, 28, 30; 2 Kgs 18:4).

¹⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁸ tn Heb “and with the equipment of the oxen he cooked them, the flesh.”