1 Raja-raja 2:26

2:26 The king then told Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your property ¹  in Anathoth. You deserve to die, ²  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.” ³ 

1 Raja-raja 6:20

6:20 The inner sanctuary was 30 feet ⁴  long, 30 feet wide, and 30 feet high. He plated it with gold, ⁵  as well as the cedar altar. 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 8:15

8:15 He said, “The Lord God of Israel is worthy of praise because he has fulfilled ¹²  what he promised ¹³  my father David.

1 Raja-raja 8:35

8:35 “The time will come when ¹⁴  the skies are shut up tightly and no rain falls because your people ¹⁵  sinned against you. When they direct their prayers toward this place, renew their allegiance to you, ¹⁶  and turn away from their sin because you punish ¹⁷  them,

1 Raja-raja 8:65-66

8:65 At that time Solomon and all Israel with him celebrated a festival before the Lord our God for two entire weeks. This great assembly included people from all over the land, from Lebo Hamath in the north to the Brook of Egypt ¹⁸  in the south. ¹⁹  8:66 On the fifteenth day after the festival started, ²⁰  he dismissed the people. They asked God to empower the king ²¹  and then went to their homes, happy and content ²²  because of all the good the Lord had done for his servant David and his people Israel.

1 Raja-raja 12:20

12:20 When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they summoned him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. No one except the tribe of Judah remained loyal to the Davidic dynasty. ²³ 

1 Raja-raja 14:2

14:2 Jeroboam told his wife, “Disguise ²⁴  yourself so that people cannot recognize you are Jeroboam’s wife. Then go to Shiloh; Ahijah the prophet, who told me I would rule over this nation, lives there. ²⁵ 

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. ²⁶ 

1 Raja-raja 14:13

14:13 All Israel will mourn him and bury him. He is the only one in Jeroboam’s family ²⁷  who will receive a decent burial, for he is the only one in whom the Lord God of Israel found anything good.

1 Raja-raja 15:29

15:29 When he became king, he executed Jeroboam’s entire family. He wiped out everyone who breathed, ²⁸  just as the Lord had predicted ²⁹  through his servant Ahijah the Shilonite.

1 Raja-raja 20:5

20:5 The messengers came again and said, “This is what Ben Hadad says, ‘I sent this message to you, “You must give me your silver, gold, wives, and sons.”

1 Raja-raja 21:29

21:29 “Have you noticed how Ahab shows remorse ³⁰  before me? Because he shows remorse before me, I will not bring disaster on his dynasty during his lifetime, but during the reign of his son.” ³¹ 

[2:26]  ¹ tn Or “field.”

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

[2:26]  ³ tn Heb “and because you suffered through all which my father suffered.”

[6:20]  ⁴ tn Heb “twenty cubits” (this measurement occurs three times in this verse).

[6:20]  ⁵ tn Heb “with plated gold” (or perhaps, “with pure gold”).

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

[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.”

[8:15]  ¹² tn The Hebrew text reads, “by his hand.”

[8:15]  ¹³ tn The Hebrew text reads, “by his mouth.”

[8:35]  ¹⁴ 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]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “they”; the referent (your people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:35]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “confess [or perhaps, “praise”] your name.”

[8:35]  ¹⁷ 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”).

[8:65]  ¹⁸ tn Or “the Wadi of Egypt” (NAB, NIV, NRSV); CEV “the Egyptian Gorge.”

[8:65]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “Solomon held at that time the festival, and all Israel was with him, a great assembly from Lebo Hamath to the Brook of Egypt, before the Lord our God for seven days and seven days, fourteen days.”

[8:66]  ²⁰ tn Heb “on the eighth day” (that is, the day after the second seven-day sequence).

[8:66]  ²¹ tn Heb “they blessed the king.”

[8:66]  ²² tn Heb “good of heart.”

[12:20]  ²³ tn Heb “there was no one [following] after the house of David except the tribe of Judah, it alone.”

[14:2]  ²⁴ tn Heb “Get up, change yourself.”

[14:2]  ²⁵ tn Heb “look, Ahijah the prophet is there, he told me [I would be] king over this nation.”

[14:8]  ²⁶ tn Heb “what was right in my eyes.”

[14:13]  ²⁷ tn Heb “house.”

[15:29]  ²⁸ tn Heb “and when he became king, he struck down all the house of Jeroboam; he did not leave any breath to Jeroboam until he destroyed him.”

[15:29]  ²⁹ tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord which he spoke.”

[21:29]  ³⁰ tn Or “humbles himself.” The expression occurs a second time later in this verse.

[21:29]  ³¹ tn Heb “I will not bring the disaster during his days, [but] in the days of his son I will bring the disaster on his house.”