1 Raja-raja 1:47

1:47 The king’s servants have even come to congratulate ¹  our master ²  King David, saying, ‘May your God ³  make Solomon more famous than you and make him an even greater king than you!’ ⁴  Then the king leaned ⁵  on the bed

1 Raja-raja 3:9

3:9 So give your servant a discerning mind ⁶  so he can make judicial decisions for ⁷  your people and distinguish right from wrong. ⁸  Otherwise ⁹  no one is able ¹⁰  to make judicial decisions for ¹¹  this great nation of yours.” ¹² 

1 Raja-raja 6:6

6:6 The bottom floor of the extension was seven and a half feet ¹³  wide, the middle floor nine feet ¹⁴  wide, and the third floor ten and a half ¹⁵  feet wide. He made ledges ¹⁶  on the temple’s outer walls so the beams would not have to be inserted into the walls. ¹⁷ 

1 Raja-raja 6:20

6:20 The inner sanctuary was 30 feet ¹⁸  long, 30 feet wide, and 30 feet high. He plated it with gold, ¹⁹  as well as the cedar altar. ²⁰ 

1 Raja-raja 8:32-33

8:32 Listen from heaven and make a just decision about your servants’ claims. Condemn the guilty party, declare the other innocent, and give both of them what they deserve. ²¹ 

8:33 “The time will come when ²²  your people Israel are defeated by an enemy ²³  because they sinned against you. If they come back to you, renew their allegiance to you, ²⁴  and pray for your help ²⁵  in this temple,

1 Raja-raja 8:35-36

8:35 “The time will come when ²⁶  the skies are shut up tightly and no rain falls because your people ²⁷  sinned against you. When they direct their prayers toward this place, renew their allegiance to you, ²⁸  and turn away from their sin because you punish ²⁹  them, 8:36 then listen from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Certainly ³⁰  you will then teach them the right way to live ³¹  and send rain on your land that you have given your people to possess. ³² 

1 Raja-raja 8:47

8:47 When your people ³³  come to their senses ³⁴  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; ³⁵  we have done evil.’

1 Raja-raja 8:58

8:58 May he make us submissive, ³⁶  so we can follow all his instructions ³⁷  and obey ³⁸  the commandments, rules, and regulations he commanded our ancestors.

1 Raja-raja 12:28

12:28 After the king had consulted with his advisers, ³⁹  he made two golden calves. Then he said to the people, ⁴⁰  “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 Raja-raja 20:23

20:23 Now the advisers ⁴¹  of the king of Syria said to him: “Their God is a god of the mountains. That’s why they overpowered us. But if we fight them in the plains, we will certainly overpower them.

[1:47]  ¹ tn Heb “to bless.”

[1:47]  ² tn The plural form is used in the Hebrew text to indicate honor and authority.

[1:47]  ³ tc Many Hebrew mss agree with the Qere in reading simply “God.”

[1:47]  ⁴ tn Heb “make the name of Solomon better than your name, and make his throne greater than your throne.” The term שֵׁם (shem, “name”) is used here of one’s fame and reputation.

[1:47]  ⁵ tn Or “bowed down; worshiped.”

[3:9]  ⁶ tn Heb “a hearing heart.” (The Hebrew term translated “heart” often refers to the mental faculties.)

[3:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “to judge.”

[3:9]  ⁸ tn Heb “to understand between good and evil.”

[3:9]  ⁹ tn Heb “for”; the word “otherwise” is used to reflect the logical sense of the statement.

[3:9]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “who is able?” The rhetorical question anticipates the answer, “no one.”

[3:9]  ¹¹ tn Heb “to judge.”

[3:9]  ¹² tn Heb “your numerous people.”

[6:6]  ¹³ tn Heb “five cubits.”

[6:6]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “six cubits.”

[6:6]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “seven cubits.”

[6:6]  ¹⁶ tn Or “offsets” (ASV, NAB, NASB, NRSV); NIV “offset ledges.”

[6:6]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “so that [the beams] would not have a hold in the walls of the temple.”

[6:20]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “twenty cubits” (this measurement occurs three times in this verse).

[6:20]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “with plated gold” (or perhaps, “with pure gold”).

[6:20]  ²⁰ tn Heb “he plated [the] altar of cedar.”

[8:32]  ²¹ tn Heb “and you, hear [from] heaven and act and judge your servants by declaring the guilty to be guilty, to give his way on his head, and to declare the innocent to be innocent, to give to him according to his innocence.”

[8:33]  ²² tn Heb “when.” In the Hebrew text vv. 33-34 actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided into two sentences for stylistic reasons.

[8:33]  ²³ tn Or “are struck down before an enemy.”

[8:33]  ²⁴ tn Heb “confess [or perhaps, “praise”] your name.”

[8:33]  ²⁵ tn Heb “and they pray and ask for help.”

[8:35]  ²⁶ tn Heb “when.” In the Hebrew text vv. 35-36a actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided into two sentences for stylistic reasons.

[8:35]  ²⁷ tn Heb “they”; the referent (your people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:35]  ²⁸ tn Heb “confess [or perhaps, “praise”] your name.”

[8:35]  ²⁹ tn The Hebrew text has “because you answer them,” as if the verb is from עָנָה (’anah, “to answer”). However, this reference to a divine answer is premature, since the next verse asks for God to intervene in mercy. It is better to revocalize the consonantal text as תְעַנֵּם (tÿ’annem, “you afflict them”), a Piel verb form from the homonym עָנָה (“to afflict”).

[8:36]  ³⁰ tn The translation understands כִּי (ki) in an emphatic or asseverative sense.

[8:36]  ³¹ tn Heb “the good way in which they should walk.”

[8:36]  ³² tn Or “for an inheritance.”

[8:47]  ³³ tn Heb “they”; the referent (your people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:47]  ³⁴ tn Or “stop and reflect”; Heb “bring back to their heart.”

[8:47]  ³⁵ tn Or “done wrong.”

[8:58]  ³⁶ tn Heb “to bend our hearts toward him.” The infinitive is subordinate to the initial prayer, “may the Lord our God be with us.” The Hebrew term לֵבָב (levav, “heart”) here refers to the people’s volition and will.

[8:58]  ³⁷ tn Heb “to walk in all his ways.”

[8:58]  ³⁸ tn Heb “keep.”

[12:28]  ³⁹ tn The words “with his advisers” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[12:28]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “to them,” although this may be a corruption of “to the people.” Cf. the Old Greek translation.

[20:23]  ⁴¹ tn Or “servants.”