1 Raja-raja 1:33

1:33 and he ¹  told them, “Take your master’s ²  servants with you, put my son Solomon on my mule, and lead him down to Gihon. ³ 

1 Raja-raja 8:21

8:21 and set up in it a place for the ark containing the covenant the Lord made with our ancestors ⁴  when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.”

1 Raja-raja 9:22

9:22 Solomon did not assign Israelites to these work crews; ⁵  the Israelites served as his soldiers, attendants, officers, charioteers, and commanders of his chariot forces. ⁶ 

1 Raja-raja 10:25

10:25 Year after year visitors brought their gifts, which included items of silver, items of gold, clothes, perfume, spices, horses, and mules. ⁷ 

1 Raja-raja 12:9

12:9 He asked them, “How do you advise me ⁸  to respond to these people who said to me, ‘Lessen the demands your father placed on us’?” ⁹ 

1 Raja-raja 14:23

14:23 They even built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

1 Raja-raja 18:37

18:37 Answer me, O Lord, answer me, so these people will know that you, O Lord, are the true God ¹⁰  and that you are winning back their allegiance.” ¹¹ 

1 Raja-raja 20:20

20:20 Each one struck down an enemy soldier; ¹²  the Syrians fled and Israel chased them. King Ben Hadad of Syria escaped on horseback with some horsemen.

[1:33]  ¹ tn Heb “the king.”

[1:33]  ² tn The plural form is used in the Hebrew text to indicate honor and authority.

[1:33]  ³ tn Heb “mount Solomon my son on the mule that belongs to me and take him down to Gihon.”

[8:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 34, 40, 48, 53, 57, 58).

[9:22]  ⁵ sn These work crews. The work crews referred to here must be different than the temporary crews described in 5:13-16.

[9:22]  ⁶ tn Heb “officers of his chariots and his horses.”

[10:25]  ⁷ tn Heb “and they were bringing each one his gift, items of silver…and mules, the matter of a year in a year.”

[12:9]  ⁸ tn In the Hebrew text the verb “we will respond” is plural, although it can be understood as an editorial “we.” The ancient versions have the singular here.

[12:9]  ⁹ tn Heb “Lighten the yoke which your father placed on us.”

[18:37]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the God.”

[18:37]  ¹¹ tn Heb “that you are turning their heart[s] back.”

[20:20]  ¹² tn Heb “each struck down his man.”