1 Raja-raja 2:4

2:4 and the Lord will fulfill his promise to me, ¹  ‘If your descendants watch their step ²  and live faithfully in my presence ³  with all their heart and being, ⁴  then,’ he promised, ⁵  ‘you will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’ ⁶ 

1 Raja-raja 2:10

2:10 Then David passed away ⁷  and was buried in the city of David. ⁸ 

1 Raja-raja 3:10

3:10 The Lord ⁹  was pleased that Solomon made this request. ¹⁰ 

1 Raja-raja 6:1

The Building of the Temple

6:1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites left Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, during the month Ziv ¹¹  (the second month), he began building the Lord’s temple.

1 Raja-raja 9:19

9:19 all the storage cities that belonged to him, ¹²  and the cities where chariots and horses were kept. ¹³  He built whatever he wanted in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout his entire kingdom. ¹⁴ 

1 Raja-raja 15:11

15:11 Asa did what the Lord approved ¹⁵  like his ancestor ¹⁶  David had done.

[2:4]  ¹ tn Heb “then the Lord will establish his word which he spoke to me, saying.”

[2:4]  ² tn Heb “guard their way.”

[2:4]  ³ tn Heb “by walking before me in faithfulness.”

[2:4]  ⁴ tn Or “soul.”

[2:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “saying.”

[2:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel.”

[2:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “and David lay down with his fathers.”

[2:10]  ⁸ sn The phrase the city of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

[3:10]  ⁹ tn The Hebrew term translated “Lord” here and in v.15 is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).

[3:10]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “And the thing was good in the eyes of the Lord, for Solomon asked for this thing.”

[6:1]  ¹¹ sn During the month Ziv. This would be April-May, 966 b.c. by modern reckoning.

[9:19]  ¹² tn Heb “to Solomon.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[9:19]  ¹³ tn Heb “the cities of the chariots and the cities of the horses.”

[9:19]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and the desire of Solomon which he desired to build in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land of his kingdom.”

[15:11]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “what was right in the eyes of the Lord.”

[15:11]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “father,” but Hebrew often uses the terms “father” and “mother” for grandparents and more remote ancestors.