1 Raja-raja 1:44

1:44 The king sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites, and the Pelethites and they put him on the king’s mule.

1 Raja-raja 2:15

2:15 He said, “You know that the kingdom ¹  was mine and all Israel considered me king. ²  But then the kingdom was given to my brother, for the Lord decided it should be his. ³ 

1 Raja-raja 2:26

2:26 The king then told Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your property ⁴  in Anathoth. You deserve to die, ⁵  but today I will not kill you because you did carry the ark of the sovereign Lord before my father David and you suffered with my father through all his difficult times.” ⁶ 

1 Raja-raja 7:2

7:2 He named ⁷  it “The Palace of the Lebanon Forest”; ⁸  it was 150 feet ⁹  long, 75 feet ¹⁰  wide, and 45 feet ¹¹  high. It had four rows of cedar pillars and cedar beams above the pillars.

1 Raja-raja 7:27

7:27 He also made ten bronze movable stands. Each stand was six feet ¹²  long, six feet ¹³  wide, and four-and-a-half feet ¹⁴  high.

1 Raja-raja 8:46-47

8:46 “The time will come when your people ¹⁵  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, ¹⁶  whether far away or close by. 8:47 When your people ¹⁷  come to their senses ¹⁸  in the land where they are held prisoner, they will repent and beg for your mercy in the land of their imprisonment, admitting, ‘We have sinned and gone astray; ¹⁹  we have done evil.’

1 Raja-raja 9:4

9:4 You must serve me with integrity and sincerity, just as your father David did. Do everything I commanded and obey my rules and regulations. ²⁰ 

1 Raja-raja 9:16

9:16 (Pharaoh, king of Egypt, had attacked and captured Gezer. He burned it and killed the Canaanites who lived in the city. He gave it as a wedding present to his daughter, who had married Solomon.)

1 Raja-raja 12:21

12:21 When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he summoned 180,000 skilled warriors from all of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin ²¹  to attack Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam son of Solomon.

1 Raja-raja 14:8

14:8 I tore the kingdom away from the Davidic dynasty and gave it to you. But you are not like my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me wholeheartedly by doing only what I approve. ²² 

1 Raja-raja 15:23

15:23 The rest of the events of Asa’s reign, including all his successes and accomplishments, as well as a record of the cities he built, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah. ²³  Yet when he was very old he developed a foot disease. ²⁴ 

1 Raja-raja 18:27

18:27 At noon Elijah mocked them, “Yell louder! After all, he is a god; he may be deep in thought, or perhaps he stepped out for a moment or has taken a trip. Perhaps he is sleeping and needs to be awakened.” ²⁵ 

1 Raja-raja 21:10

21:10 Also seat two villains opposite him and have them testify, ‘You cursed God and the king.’ Then take him out and stone him to death.”

1 Raja-raja 22:13

22:13 Now the messenger who went to summon Micaiah said to him, “Look, the prophets are in complete agreement that the king will succeed. ²⁶  Your words must agree with theirs; you must predict success.” ²⁷ 

[2:15]  ¹ tn Or “kingship.”

[2:15]  ² tn Heb “set their face to me to be king.”

[2:15]  ³ tn Heb “and the kingdom turned about and became my brother’s, for from the Lord it became his.”

[2:26]  ⁴ tn Or “field.”

[2:26]  ⁵ tn Heb “you are a man of death.”

[2:26]  ⁶ tn Heb “and because you suffered through all which my father suffered.”

[7:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “he built.”

[7:2]  ⁸ sn The Palace of the Lebanon Forest. This name was appropriate because of the large amount of cedar, undoubtedly brought from Lebanon, used in its construction. The cedar pillars in the palace must have given it the appearance of a forest.

[7:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “one hundred cubits.”

[7:2]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “fifty cubits.”

[7:2]  ¹¹ tn Heb “thirty cubits.”

[7:27]  ¹² tn Heb “four cubits.”

[7:27]  ¹³ tn Heb “four cubits.”

[7:27]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “three cubits.”

[8:46]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “they”; the referent (your people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:46]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “the land of the enemy.”

[8:47]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “they”; the referent (your people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:47]  ¹⁸ tn Or “stop and reflect”; Heb “bring back to their heart.”

[8:47]  ¹⁹ tn Or “done wrong.”

[9:4]  ²⁰ tn Heb “As for you, if you walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, by doing all which I commanded you, [and] you keep my rules and my regulations.” Verse 4 is actually a lengthy protasis (“if” section) of a conditional sentence, the apodosis (“then” section) of which appears in v. 5.

[12:21]  ²¹ tn Heb “he summoned all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, one hundred eighty thousand chosen men, accomplished in war.”

[14:8]  ²² tn Heb “what was right in my eyes.”

[15:23]  ²³ tn Heb “As for the rest of all the events of Asa, and all his strength and all which he did and the cities which he built, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?”

[15:23]  ²⁴ tn Heb “Yet in the time of his old age he became sick in his feet.”

[18:27]  ²⁵ sn Elijah’s sarcastic proposals would have been especially offensive and irritating to Baal’s prophets, for they believed Baal was imprisoned in the underworld as death’s captive during this time of drought. Elijah’s apparent ignorance of their theology is probably designed for dramatic effect; indeed the suggestion that Baal is away on a trip or deep in sleep comes precariously close to the truth as viewed by the prophets.

[22:13]  ²⁶ tn Heb “the words of the prophets are [with] one mouth good for the king.”

[22:13]  ²⁷ tn Heb “let your words be like the word of each of them and speak good.”