1 Raja-raja 1:39

1:39 Zadok the priest took a horn filled with olive oil ¹  from the tent and poured it on ²  Solomon; the trumpet was blown and all the people declared, “Long live King Solomon!”

1 Raja-raja 2:39

2:39 Three years later two of Shimei’s servants ran away to King Achish son of Maacah of Gath. Shimei was told, “Look, your servants are in Gath.”

1 Raja-raja 3:3-5

3:3 Solomon demonstrated his loyalty to the Lord by following ³  the practices ⁴  of his father David, except that he offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places.

3:4 The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for it had the most prominent of the high places. ⁵  Solomon would offer up ⁶  a thousand burnt sacrifices on the altar there. 3:5 One night in Gibeon the Lord appeared ⁷  to Solomon in a dream. God said, “Tell ⁸  me what I should give you.”

1 Raja-raja 9:8

9:8 This temple will become a heap of ruins; ⁹  everyone who passes by it will be shocked and will hiss out their scorn, ¹⁰  saying, ‘Why did the Lord do this to this land and this temple?’

1 Raja-raja 11:28

11:28 Jeroboam was a talented man; ¹¹  when Solomon saw that the young man was an accomplished worker, he made him the leader of the work crew from the tribe ¹²  of Joseph.

1 Raja-raja 18:40

18:40 Elijah told them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Don’t let even one of them escape!” So they seized them, and Elijah led them down to the Kishon Valley and executed ¹³  them there.

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 22:38

22:38 They washed off the chariot at the pool of Samaria (this was where the prostitutes bathed); ¹⁴  dogs licked his blood, just as the Lord had said would happen. ¹⁵ 

1 Raja-raja 22:48

22:48 Jehoshaphat built a fleet of large merchant ships ¹⁶  to travel to Ophir for gold, but they never made the voyage because they were shipwrecked in Ezion Geber.

[1:39]  ¹ tn Heb “the horn of oil.” This has been specified as olive oil in the translation for clarity.

[1:39]  sn A horn filled with oil. An animal’s horn was used as an oil flask in the anointing ceremony.

[1:39]  ² tn Or “anointed.”

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

[3:3]  ⁴ tn Or “policies, rules.”

[3:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “for it was the great high place.”

[3:4]  ⁶ tn The verb form is an imperfect, which is probably used here in a customary sense to indicate continued or repeated action in past time. See GKC 314 §107.b.

[3:5]  ⁷ tn Or “revealed himself.”

[3:5]  ⁸ tn Heb “ask.”

[9:8]  ⁹ 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]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “hiss,” or perhaps “whistle.” This refers to a derisive sound one would make when taunting an object of ridicule.

[11:28]  ¹¹ tn Heb “man of strength.”

[11:28]  ¹² tn Heb “house.”

[18:40]  ¹³ tn Or “slaughtered.”

[22:38]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “now the prostitutes bathed.”

[22:38]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord which he spoke.”

[22:48]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “a fleet of Tarshish [ships].” This probably refers to large ships either made in or capable of traveling to the distant western port of Tarshish.