¹ tn Heb “and these are the founding of Solomon to build the house of God.”

¹ tn Heb “and Solomon son of David strengthened himself over his kingdom.”

³ sn See 1 Chr 23:1, where David had previously designated Solomon as king over Israel.

¹ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Solomon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹ tn Heb “there was no silver, it was not regarded as anything in the days of Solomon.”

¹ tn Heb “besides what he had given her according to the hand of King Solomon.”

¹ tn Heb “and all the desire of Solomon which he wanted to do.”

¹ tn Heb “which Hiram made for King Solomon [for] the house of the Lord.”

¹ tn Heb “His house Solomon built in 13 years and he completed all his house.”

¹ tn Heb “and Hiram gave to Solomon cedar wood and the wood of evergreens, all his desire.”

¹ tn Heb “everyone who drew near to the table of King Solomon.”

³ tn Heb “[They] were bringing tribute and were serving Solomon all the days of his life.”

¹ tn Heb “And also Solomon sits on the throne of the kingdom.”

² sn The tabernacle was the tent used to house the ark of the covenant before the construction of Solomon’s temple. This is where God was believed to reside, yet the people were still unfaithful.

² sn This lamentation marked the occasion of the destruction of Solomon’s temple on August 14, 586 b.c., almost exactly 70 years earlier (cf. 2 Kgs 25:8).

³ sn In 1 Kgs 8:10-11 we find a similar event with regard to Solomon’s temple. See also Exod 40:34-35 and Isa 6:4.

⁴ sn Perhaps this refers to a royal armory, or to Solomon’s “House of the Forest of Lebanon,” where weapons may have been kept (see 1 Kgs 10:16-17).

² tn The preposition could be understood as indicating authorship (“Of Solomon”), but since the psalm is a prayer for a king, it may be that the superscription reflects a tradition that understood this as a prayer for Solomon.

¹ tn The Hebrew pronoun is plural, suggesting that Solomon and all Israel (or perhaps Solomon and his successors) are in view. To convey this to the English reader, the translation “you people” has been employed.

¹ tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Solomon, and all which he did, and his wisdom, are they not written on the scroll of the events of Solomon?”