1 Kings 8:46

8:46 “The time will come when your people ¹  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, ²  whether far away or close by.

1 Kings 8:65

8:65 At that time Solomon and all Israel with him celebrated a festival before the Lord our God for two entire weeks. This great assembly included people from all over the land, from Lebo Hamath in the north to the Brook of Egypt ³  in the south. ⁴ 

1 Kings 12:28

12:28 After the king had consulted with his advisers, ⁵  he made two golden calves. Then he said to the people, ⁶  “It is too much trouble for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look, Israel, here are your gods who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”

1 Kings 14:15

14:15 The Lord will attack Israel, making it like a reed that sways in the water. ⁷  He will remove Israel from this good land he gave to their ancestors ⁸  and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, ⁹  because they angered the Lord by making Asherah poles. ¹⁰ 

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¹ tn Heb “they”; the referent (your people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tn Heb “the land of the enemy.”

³ tn Or “the Wadi of Egypt” (NAB, NIV, NRSV); CEV “the Egyptian Gorge.”

⁴ tn Heb “Solomon held at that time the festival, and all Israel was with him, a great assembly from Lebo Hamath to the Brook of Egypt, before the Lord our God for seven days and seven days, fourteen days.”

⁵ tn The words “with his advisers” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

⁶ tn Heb “to them,” although this may be a corruption of “to the people.” Cf. the Old Greek translation.

⁷ tn The elliptical Hebrew text reads literally “and the Lord will strike Israel as a reed sways in the water.”

⁸ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 22, 31).

⁹ 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.

¹⁰ 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).