1 Kings 8:31

8:31 “When someone is accused of sinning against his neighbor and the latter pronounces a curse on the alleged offender before your altar in this temple, be willing to forgive the accused if the accusation is false. ¹ 

1 Kings 8:33

8:33 “The time will come when ²  your people Israel are defeated by an enemy ³  because they sinned against you. If they come back to you, renew their allegiance to you, ⁴  and pray for your help ⁵  in this temple,

1 Kings 11:27

11:27 This is what prompted him to rebel against the king: ⁶  Solomon built a terrace and he closed up a gap in the wall of the city of his father David. ⁷ 

1 Kings 13:4

13:4 When the king heard what the prophet ⁸  cried out against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam, standing at the altar, extended his hand ⁹  and ordered, ¹⁰  “Seize him!” The hand he had extended shriveled up ¹¹  and he could not pull it back.

1 Kings 13:21

13:21 and he cried out to the prophet from Judah, “This is what the Lord says, ‘You ¹²  have rebelled against the Lord ¹³  and have not obeyed the command the Lord your God gave you.

1 Kings 15:27

15:27 Baasha son of Ahijah, from the tribe of Issachar, conspired against Nadab ¹⁴  and assassinated him in Gibbethon, which was in Philistine territory. This happened while Nadab and all the Israelite army were besieging Gibbethon.

1 Kings 16:9

16:9 His servant Zimri, a commander of half of his chariot force, conspired against him. While Elah was drinking heavily ¹⁵  at the house of Arza, who supervised the palace in Tirzah,

1 Kings 16:16

16:16 While deployed there, the army received this report: ¹⁶  “Zimri has conspired against the king and assassinated him.” ¹⁷  So all Israel made Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel that very day in the camp.

1 Kings 20:1

Ben Hadad Invades Israel

20:1 Now King Ben Hadad of Syria assembled all his army, along with thirty-two other kings with their horses and chariots. He marched against Samaria ¹⁸  and besieged and attacked it. ¹⁹ 

1 Kings 21:13

21:13 The two villains arrived and sat opposite him. Then the villains testified against Naboth right before the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king.” So they dragged him ²⁰  outside the city and stoned him to death. ²¹ 

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¹ tn Heb “and forgive the man who sins against his neighbor when one takes up against him a curse to curse him and the curse comes before your altar in this house.” In the Hebrew text the words “and forgive” conclude v. 30, but the accusative sign at the beginning of v. 31 suggests the verb actually goes with what follows in v. 31. The parallel text in 2 Chr 6:22 begins with “and if,” rather than the accusative sign. In this case “forgive” must be taken with what precedes, and v. 31 must be taken as the protasis (“if” clause) of a conditional sentence, with v. 32 being the apodosis (“then” clause) that completes the sentence.

sn Be willing to forgive the accused if the accusation is false. At first it appears that Solomon is asking God to forgive the guilty party. But in v. 32 Solomon asks the Lord to discern who is guilty and innocent, so v. 31 must refer to a situation where an accusation has been made, but not yet proven. The very periphrastic translation reflects this interpretation.

² tn Heb “when.” In the Hebrew text vv. 33-34 actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided into two sentences for stylistic reasons.

³ tn Or “are struck down before an enemy.”

⁴ tn Heb “confess [or perhaps, “praise”] your name.”

⁵ tn Heb “and they pray and ask for help.”

⁶ tn Heb “this is the matter concerning which he raised a hand against the king.”

⁷ sn The city of his father David. The phrase refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

⁸ tn Heb “the man of God.”

⁹ tn Heb “Jeroboam extended his hand from the altar.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “saying.”

¹¹ tn Heb “dried up” or “withered.” TEV and NLT interpret this as “became paralyzed.”

¹² tn The Hebrew text has “because” at the beginning of the sentence. In the Hebrew text vv. 21-22 are one long sentence comprised of a causal clause giving the reason for divine punishment (vv. 21-22a) and the main clause announcing the punishment (v. 22b). The translation divides this lengthy sentence for stylistic reasons.

¹³ tn Heb “the mouth [i.e., command] of the Lord.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “against him”; the referent (Nadab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁵ tn Heb “while he was drinking and drunken.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “and the people who were encamped heard.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “has conspired against and also has struck down the king.”

¹⁸ map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.

¹⁹ tn Heb “and he went up and besieged Samaria and fought against it.”

²⁰ tn Heb “led him.”

²¹ tn Heb “and they stoned him with stones and he died.”