1 Raja-raja 1:49

1:49 All of Adonijah’s guests panicked; ¹  they jumped up and rushed off their separate ways.

1 Raja-raja 4:8

4:8 These were their names:

Ben-Hur was in charge of the hill country of Ephraim.

1 Raja-raja 6:5

6:5 He built an extension all around the walls of the temple’s main hall and holy place and constructed side rooms in it. ² 

1 Raja-raja 6:31

6:31 He made doors of olive wood at the entrance to the inner sanctuary; the pillar on each doorpost was five-sided. ³ 

1 Raja-raja 7:47

7:47 Solomon left all these items unweighed; there were so many of them they did not weigh the bronze. ⁴ 

1 Raja-raja 8:40

8:40 Then they will obey ⁵  you throughout their lifetimes as ⁶  they live on the land you gave to our ancestors.

1 Raja-raja 8:60

8:60 Then ⁷  all the nations of the earth will recognize that the Lord is the only genuine God. ⁸ 

1 Raja-raja 8:62

Solomon Dedicates the Temple

8:62 The king and all Israel with him were presenting sacrifices to the Lord.

1 Raja-raja 10:3

10:3 Solomon answered all her questions; there was no question too complex for the king. ⁹ 

1 Raja-raja 11:19

11:19 Pharaoh liked Hadad so well ¹⁰  he gave him his sister-in-law (Queen Tahpenes’ sister) as a wife. ¹¹ 

1 Raja-raja 11:25

11:25 He was Israel’s enemy throughout Solomon’s reign and, like Hadad, caused trouble. He loathed ¹²  Israel and ruled over Syria.

1 Raja-raja 13:17

13:17 For the Lord gave me strict orders, ¹³  ‘Do not eat or drink ¹⁴  there; do not go back the way you came.’”

1 Raja-raja 14:16

14:16 He will hand Israel over to their enemies ¹⁵  because of the sins which Jeroboam committed and which he made Israel commit.”

1 Raja-raja 14:28

14:28 Whenever the king visited the Lord’s temple, the royal guard carried them and then brought them back to the guardroom.

1 Raja-raja 15:17

15:17 King Baasha of Israel attacked Judah and established Ramah as a military outpost to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the land of King Asa of Judah. ¹⁶ 

1 Raja-raja 17:3

17:3 “Leave here and travel eastward. Hide out in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan.

1 Raja-raja 17:5-6

17:5 So he did ¹⁷  as the Lord told him; he went and lived in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan. 17:6 The ravens would bring him bread and meat each morning and evening, and he would drink from the stream.

1 Raja-raja 17:9

17:9 “Get up, go to Zarephath in Sidonian territory, and live there. I have already told ¹⁸  a widow who lives there to provide for you.”

1 Raja-raja 17:24

17:24 The woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a prophet and that the Lord really does speak through you.” ¹⁹ 

1 Raja-raja 18:39

18:39 When all the people saw this, they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground and said, “The Lord is the true God! ²⁰  The Lord is the true God!”

1 Raja-raja 20:3

20:3 He said to him, “This is what Ben Hadad says, ‘Your silver and your gold are mine, as well as the best of your wives and sons.’”

1 Raja-raja 20:19

20:19 They marched out of the city with the servants of the district governors in the lead and the army behind them.

1 Raja-raja 20:41

20:41 The prophet ²¹  quickly removed the bandage from his eyes and the king of Israel recognized he was one of the prophets.

1 Raja-raja 21:1

Ahab Murders Naboth

21:1 After this the following episode took place. ²²  Naboth the Jezreelite owned a vineyard in Jezreel adjacent to the palace of King Ahab of Samaria. ²³ 

[1:49]  ¹ tn Or “were afraid, trembled.”

[6:5]  ² tn Heb “and he built on the wall of the temple an extension all around, the walls of the temple all around, for the main hall and for the holy place, and he made side rooms all around.”

[6:31]  ³ tn Heb “the pillar, doorposts, a fifth part” (the precise meaning of this description is uncertain).

[7:47]  ⁴ tn Heb “Solomon left all the items, due to their very great abundance; the weight of the bronze was not sought.”

[8:40]  ⁵ tn Heb “fear.”

[8:40]  ⁶ tn Heb “all the days [in] which.”

[8:60]  ⁷ tn Heb “so that.”

[8:60]  ⁸ tn Heb “the Lord, he is the God, there is no other.”

[10:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “Solomon declared to her all her words; there was not a word hidden from the king which he did not declare to her.” If riddles are specifically in view (see v. 1), then one might translate, “Solomon explained to her all her riddles; there was no riddle too complex for the king.”

[11:19]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and Hadad found great favor in the eyes of Pharaoh.”

[11:19]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and he gave to him a wife, the sister of his wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.”

[11:25]  ¹² tn The construction (Qal of קוּץ + בְּ [quts + bet] preposition) is rare, but not without parallel (see Lev 20:23).

[13:17]  ¹³ tn Heb “for a word to me by the word of the Lord.”

[13:17]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”

[14:16]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and he will give [up] Israel.”

[15:17]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and he built up Ramah so as to not permit going out or coming in to Asa king of Judah.”

[17:5]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “So he went and did.”

[17:9]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “Look, I have commanded.”

[17:24]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “you are a man of God and the word of the Lord is truly in your mouth.”

[17:24]  sn This episode is especially significant in light of Ahab’s decision to promote Baal worship in Israel. In Canaanite mythology the drought that swept over the region (v. 1) would signal that Baal, a fertility god responsible for providing food for his subjects, had been defeated by the god of death and was imprisoned in the underworld. While Baal was overcome by death and unable to function like a king, Israel’s God demonstrated his sovereignty and superiority to death by providing food for a widow and restoring life to her son. And he did it all in Sidonian territory, Baal’s back yard, as it were. The episode demonstrates that Israel’s God, not Baal, is the true king who provides food and controls life and death. This polemic against Baalism reaches its climax in the next chapter, when the Lord proves that he, not Baal, controls the elements of the storm and determines when the rains will fall.

[18:39]  ²⁰ tn Heb “the God” (the phrase occurs twice in this verse).

[20:41]  ²¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the prophet) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[21:1]  ²² tn Heb “after these things.” The words “the following episode took place” are added for stylistic reasons.

[21:1]  ²³ sn King Ahab of Samaria. Samaria, as the capital of the northern kingdom, here stands for the nation of Israel.

[21:1]  map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.