1 Raja-raja 1:29-30

1:29 The king swore an oath: “As certainly as the Lord lives (he who has rescued me ¹  from every danger), 1:30 I will keep ²  today the oath I swore to you by the Lord God of Israel: ‘Surely Solomon your son will be king after me; he will sit in my place on my throne.’”

1 Raja-raja 2:33

2:33 May Joab and his descendants be perpetually guilty of their shed blood, but may the Lord give perpetual peace to David, his descendants, his family, ³  and his dynasty.” ⁴ 

1 Raja-raja 2:44

2:44 Then the king said to Shimei, “You are well aware of the way you mistreated my father David. ⁵  The Lord will punish you for what you did. ⁶ 

1 Raja-raja 3:3

3:3 Solomon demonstrated his loyalty to the Lord by following ⁷  the practices ⁸  of his father David, except that he offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places.

1 Raja-raja 3:5

3:5 One night in Gibeon the Lord appeared ⁹  to Solomon in a dream. God said, “Tell ¹⁰  me what I should give you.”

1 Raja-raja 5:12

5:12 So the Lord gave Solomon wisdom, as he had promised him. And Hiram and Solomon were at peace and made a treaty. ¹¹ 

1 Raja-raja 6:14

6:14 So Solomon finished building the temple. ¹² 

1 Raja-raja 7:12

7:12 Around the great courtyard were three rows of chiseled stones and one row of cedar beams, like the inner courtyard of the Lord’s temple and the hall of the palace. ¹³ 

1 Raja-raja 7:48

7:48 Solomon also made all these items for the Lord’s temple: the gold altar, the gold table on which was kept the Bread of the Presence, ¹⁴ 

1 Raja-raja 8:22

Solomon Prays for Israel

8:22 Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in front of the entire assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward the sky. ¹⁵ 

1 Raja-raja 9:8

9:8 This temple will become a heap of ruins; ¹⁶  everyone who passes by it will be shocked and will hiss out their scorn, ¹⁷  saying, ‘Why did the Lord do this to this land and this temple?’

1 Raja-raja 9:15

9:15 Here are the details concerning the work crews ¹⁸  King Solomon conscripted ¹⁹  to build the Lord’s temple, his palace, the terrace, the wall of Jerusalem, ²⁰  and the cities of ²¹  Hazor, ²²  Megiddo, ²³  and Gezer.

1 Raja-raja 12:22

12:22 But God told Shemaiah the prophet, ²⁴ 

1 Raja-raja 13:9

13:9 For the Lord gave me strict orders, ²⁵  ‘Do not eat or drink ²⁶  there and do not go home the way you came.’”

1 Raja-raja 13:32

13:32 for the prophecy he announced with the Lord’s authority ²⁷  against the altar in Bethel ²⁸  and against all the temples on the high places in the cities of the north ²⁹  will certainly be fulfilled.”

1 Raja-raja 14:11

14:11 Dogs will eat the members of your family ³⁰  who die in the city, and the birds of the sky will eat the ones who die in the country.”’ Indeed, the Lord has announced it!

1 Raja-raja 14:24

14:24 There were also male cultic prostitutes ³¹  in the land. They committed the same horrible sins as the nations ³²  that the Lord had driven out from before the Israelites.

1 Raja-raja 15:15

15:15 He brought the holy items that he and his father had made into the Lord’s temple, including the silver, gold, and other articles. ³³ 

1 Raja-raja 18:1

Elijah Meets the King’s Servant

18:1 Some time later, in the third year of the famine, the Lord told Elijah, ³⁴  “Go, make an appearance before Ahab, so I may send rain on the surface of the ground.”

1 Raja-raja 18:18

18:18 Elijah ³⁵  replied, “I have not brought disaster ³⁶  on Israel. But you and your father’s dynasty have, by abandoning the Lord’s commandments and following the Baals.

1 Raja-raja 18:22

18:22 Elijah said to them: ³⁷  “I am the only prophet of the Lord who is left, but there are 450 prophets of Baal.

1 Raja-raja 18:30-32

18:30 Elijah then told all the people, “Approach me.” So all the people approached him. He repaired the altar of the Lord that had been torn down. ³⁸  18:31 Then Elijah took twelve stones, corresponding to the number of tribes that descended from Jacob, to whom the Lord had said, “Israel will be your new ³⁹  name.” ⁴⁰  18:32 With the stones he constructed an altar for the Lord. ⁴¹  Around the altar he made a trench large enough to contain two seahs ⁴²  of seed.

1 Raja-raja 18:38

18:38 Then fire from the Lord fell from the sky. ⁴³  It consumed the offering, the wood, the stones, and the dirt, and licked up the water in the trench.

1 Raja-raja 19:12

19:12 After the earthquake, there was a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. After the fire, there was a soft whisper. ⁴⁴ 

1 Raja-raja 19:15

19:15 The Lord said to him, “Go back the way you came and then head for the Desert of Damascus. Go and anoint Hazael king over Syria.

1 Raja-raja 20:14

20:14 Ahab asked, “By whom will this be accomplished?” ⁴⁵  He answered, “This is what the Lord says, ‘By the servants of the district governors.’” Ahab ⁴⁶  asked, “Who will launch the attack?” He answered, “You will.”

1 Raja-raja 21:25

21:25 (There had never been anyone like Ahab, who was firmly committed ⁴⁷  to doing evil in the sight of ⁴⁸  the Lord, urged on by his wife Jezebel. ⁴⁹ 

1 Raja-raja 22:11-12

22:11 Zedekiah son of Kenaanah made iron horns and said, “This is what the Lord says, ‘With these you will gore Syria until they are destroyed.’” 22:12 All the prophets were prophesying the same, saying, “Attack Ramoth Gilead! You will succeed; the Lord will hand it over to the king.”

1 Raja-raja 22:17

22:17 Micaiah ⁵⁰  said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains like sheep that have no shepherd. Then the Lord said, ‘They have no master. They should go home in peace.’”

1 Raja-raja 22:20

22:20 The Lord said, ‘Who will deceive Ahab, so he will attack Ramoth Gilead and die ⁵¹  there?’ One said this and another that.

1 Raja-raja 22:28

22:28 Micaiah said, “If you really do safely return, then the Lord has not spoken through me.” Then he added, “Take note, ⁵²  all you people.”

1 Raja-raja 22:38

22:38 They washed off the chariot at the pool of Samaria (this was where the prostitutes bathed); ⁵³  dogs licked his blood, just as the Lord had said would happen. ⁵⁴ 

[1:29]  ¹ tn Or “ransomed my life.”

[1:30]  ² tn Or “carry out, perform.”

[2:33]  ³ tn Heb “house.”

[2:33]  ⁴ tn Heb “his throne.”

[2:44]  ⁵ tn Heb “You know all the evil, for your heart knows, which you did to David my father.”

[2:44]  ⁶ tn Heb “The Lord will cause your evil to return upon your head.”

[3:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “Solomon loved the Lord by walking in.”

[3:3]  ⁸ tn Or “policies, rules.”

[3:5]  ⁹ tn Or “revealed himself.”

[3:5]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “ask.”

[5:12]  ¹¹ tn Heb “a covenant,” referring to a formal peace treaty or alliance.

[6:14]  ¹² tn Heb “ built the house and completed it.”

[7:12]  ¹³ tn Or “the porch of the temple.”

[7:48]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “the bread of the face [or presence].” Many recent English versions employ “the bread of the Presence,” although this does not convey much to the modern reader.

[7:48]  sn This bread was viewed as a perpetual offering to God and was regarded as holy. See Lev 24:5-9.

[8:22]  ¹⁵ tn Or “heaven.”

[9:8]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and this house will be high [or elevated].” The statement makes little sense in this context, which predicts the desolation that judgment will bring. Some treat the clause as concessive, “Even though this temple is lofty [now].” Others, following the lead of several ancient versions, emend the text to, “this temple will become a heap of ruins.”

[9:8]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “hiss,” or perhaps “whistle.” This refers to a derisive sound one would make when taunting an object of ridicule.

[9:15]  ¹⁸ sn The work crews. This Hebrew word מַס (mas) refers to a group of laborers conscripted for royal or public service.

[9:15]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “raised up.”

[9:15]  ²⁰ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[9:15]  ²¹ tn The words “the cities of” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[9:15]  ²² map For location see Map1 D2; Map2 D3; Map3 A2; Map4 C1.

[9:15]  ²³ map For location see Map1 D4; Map2 C1; Map4 C2; Map5 F2; Map7 B1.

[12:22]  ²⁴ tn Heb “and the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying.”

[13:9]  ²⁵ tn Heb “for this he commanded me by the word of the Lord, saying.”

[13:9]  ²⁶ tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”

[13:32]  ²⁷ tn Heb “for the word which he cried out by the word of the Lord”

[13:32]  ²⁸ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[13:32]  ²⁹ tn Heb “Samaria.” The name of Israel’s capital city here stands for the northern kingdom as a whole. Actually Samaria was not built and named until several years after this (see 1 Kgs 16:24), so it is likely that the author of Kings, writing at a later time, is here adapting the old prophet’s original statement.

[14:11]  ³⁰ tn The Hebrew text has “belonging to Jeroboam” here.

[14:24]  ³¹ tc The Old Greek translation has “a conspiracy” rather than “male cultic prostitutes.”

[14:24]  ³² tn Heb “they did according to all the abominable acts of the nations.”

[15:15]  ³³ tn Heb “and he brought the holy things of his father and his holy things (into) the house of the Lord, silver, gold, and items.” Instead of “his holy things,” a marginal reading (Qere) in the Hebrew text has “the holy things of [the house of the Lord].”

[18:1]  ³⁴ tn Heb “the word of the Lord came to Elijah.”

[18:18]  ³⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[18:18]  ³⁶ tn Or “trouble.”

[18:22]  ³⁷ tn Heb “to the people.”

[18:30]  ³⁸ sn Torn down. The condition of the altar symbolizes the spiritual state of the people.

[18:31]  ³⁹ tn The word “new” is implied but not actually present in the Hebrew text.

[18:31]  ⁴⁰ sn Israel will be your new name. See Gen 32:28; 35:10.

[18:32]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “and he built the stones into an altar in the name of the Lord.”

[18:32]  ⁴² tn A seah was a dry measure equivalent to about seven quarts.

[18:38]  ⁴³ tn The words “from the sky” are added for stylistic reasons.

[19:12]  ⁴⁴ tn Heb “a voice, calm, soft.”

[20:14]  ⁴⁵ tn The words “will this be accomplished” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[20:14]  ⁴⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ahab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[21:25]  ⁴⁷ tn Heb “who sold himself.”

[21:25]  ⁴⁸ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[21:25]  ⁴⁹ tn Heb “like Ahab…whom his wife Jezebel incited.”

[22:17]  ⁵⁰ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Micaiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[22:20]  ⁵¹ tn Heb “and fall.”

[22:28]  ⁵² tn Heb “Listen.”

[22:38]  ⁵³ tn Heb “now the prostitutes bathed.”

[22:38]  ⁵⁴ tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord which he spoke.”