1 Raja-raja 5:15

5:15 Solomon also had 70,000 common laborers ¹  and 80,000 stonecutters ²  in the hills,

1 Raja-raja 8:12

8:12 Then Solomon said, “The Lord has said that he lives in thick darkness.

1 Raja-raja 10:1

Solomon Entertains a Queen

10:1 When the queen of Sheba heard about Solomon, ³  she came to challenge ⁴  him with difficult questions. ⁵ 

1 Raja-raja 11:3

11:3 He had 700 royal wives ⁶  and 300 concubines; ⁷  his wives had a powerful influence over him. ⁸ 

1 Raja-raja 11:6

11:6 Solomon did evil in the Lord’s sight; ⁹  he did not remain loyal to ¹⁰  the Lord, like his father David had.

1 Raja-raja 11:19

11:19 Pharaoh liked Hadad so well ¹¹  he gave him his sister-in-law (Queen Tahpenes’ sister) as a wife. ¹² 

1 Raja-raja 15:4

15:4 Nevertheless for David’s sake the Lord his God maintained his dynasty ¹³  in Jerusalem by giving him a son ¹⁴  to succeed him ¹⁵  and by protecting Jerusalem. ¹⁶ 

1 Raja-raja 15:34

15:34 He did evil in the sight of ¹⁷  the Lord; he followed in Jeroboam’s footsteps and encouraged Israel to sin. ¹⁸ 

1 Raja-raja 16:25

16:25 Omri did more evil in the sight of ¹⁹  the Lord than all who were before him.

1 Raja-raja 16:30

16:30 Ahab son of Omri did more evil in the sight of ²⁰  the Lord than all who were before him.

1 Raja-raja 18:14

18:14 Now you say, ‘Go and say to your master, “Elijah is back,”’ ²¹  but he will kill me.”

1 Raja-raja 18:41

18:41 Then Elijah told Ahab, “Go on up and eat and drink, for the sound of a heavy rainstorm can be heard.” ²² 

1 Raja-raja 19:1

Elijah Runs for His Life

19:1 Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, including a detailed account of how he killed all the prophets with the sword.

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.

[5:15]  ¹ tn Heb “carriers of loads.”

[5:15]  ² tn Heb “cutters” (probably of stones).

[10:1]  ³ tn Heb “the report about Solomon.” The Hebrew text also has, “to the name of the Lord,” which fits very awkwardly in the sentence. If retained, perhaps it should be translated, “because of the reputation of the Lord.” The phrase, which is omitted in the parallel passage in 2 Chr 9:1, may be an addition based on the queen’s declaration of praise to the Lord in v. 9.

[10:1]  ⁴ tn Or “test.”

[10:1]  ⁵ tn Or “riddles.”

[11:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “wives, princesses.”

[11:3]  ⁷ sn Concubines were slave women in ancient Near Eastern societies who were the legal property of their master, but who could have legitimate sexual relations with their master. A concubine’s status was more elevated than a mere servant, but she was not free and did not have the legal rights of a free wife. The children of a concubine could, in some instances, become equal heirs with the children of the free wife. The usage in the present passage suggests that after the period of the Judges concubines may have become more of a royal prerogative (cf. also 2 Sam 21:10-14).

[11:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “his wives bent his heart.”

[11:6]  ⁹ tn Heb “in the eyes of the Lord.”

[11:6]  ¹⁰ tn The idiomatic statement reads in Hebrew, “he did not fill up after.”

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

[11:19]  ¹² tn Heb “and he gave to him a wife, the sister of his wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.”

[15:4]  ¹³ tn Heb “gave him a lamp.”

[15:4]  ¹⁴ tc The Old Greek has the plural “his sons.”

[15:4]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “by raising up his son after him.”

[15:4]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and by causing Jerusalem to stand firm.”

[15:34]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[15:34]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “and he walked in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin which he made Israel sin.”

[16:25]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[16:30]  ²⁰ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[18:14]  ²¹ tn Heb “Look, Elijah”; or “Elijah is here.”

[18:41]  ²² tn Heb “for [there is] the sound of the roar of the rain.”