Footnotes

1. 1 Kings 9:1 tn Heb “and all the desire of Solomon which he wanted to do.”
2. 1 Kings 9:2 sn In the same way he had appeared to him at Gibeon. See 1 Kgs 3:5.
3. 1 Kings 9:3 tn Heb “I have heard.”
4. 1 Kings 9:3 tn Heb “by placing my name there perpetually” (or perhaps, “forever”).
5. 1 Kings 9:3 tn Heb “and my eyes and my heart will be there all the days.”
6. 1 Kings 9:4 tn Heb “As for you, if you walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, by doing all which I commanded you, [and] you keep my rules and my regulations.” Verse 4 is actually a lengthy protasis (“if” section) of a conditional sentence, the apodosis (“then” section) of which appears in v. 5.
7. 1 Kings 9:5 tn Heb “I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever.”
8. 1 Kings 9:5 tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel.”
9. 1 Kings 9:6 tn Heb “which I placed before you.”
10. 1 Kings 9:6 tn Heb “and walk and serve other gods and bow down to them.”
11. 1 Kings 9:7 tn Heb “I will cut off Israel from upon the surface of the land.”
12. 1 Kings 9:7 tn Heb “and the temple which I consecrated for my name I will send away from before my face.”sn Instead of “I will send away,” the parallel text in 2 Chr 7:20 has “I will throw away.” The two verbs sound very similar in Hebrew, so the discrepancy is likely due to an oral transmissional error.
13. 1 Kings 9:7 tn Heb “will become a proverb and a taunt,” that is, a proverbial example of destruction and an object of reproach.
14. 1 Kings 9:8 tn Heb “and this house will be high [or elevated].” The statement makes little sense in this context, which predicts the desolation that judgment will bring. Some treat the clause as concessive, “Even though this temple is lofty [now].” Others, following the lead of several ancient versions, emend the text to, “this temple will become a heap of ruins.”
15. 1 Kings 9:8 tn Heb “hiss,” or perhaps “whistle.” This refers to a derisive sound one would make when taunting an object of ridicule.
16. 1 Kings 9:9 tn Heb “and they will say.”
17. 1 Kings 9:9 tn Heb “fathers.”
18. 1 Kings 9:9 tn Heb “and they took hold of other gods and bowed down to them and served them.”
19. 1 Kings 9:10 tn Heb “the two houses, the house of the Lord and the house of the king.”
20. 1 Kings 9:12 tn Heb “they were not agreeable in his eyes.”
21. 1 Kings 9:13 tn Heb “and he said.”
22. 1 Kings 9:13 tn Heb “my brother.” Kings allied through a parity treaty would sometimes address each other as “my brother.” See 1 Kgs 20:32-33.
23. 1 Kings 9:13 tn Heb “he called them the land of Cabul to this day.” The significance of the name is unclear, though it appears to be disparaging. The name may be derived from a root, attested in Akkadian and Arabic, meaning “bound” or “restricted.” Some propose a wordplay, pointing out that the name “Cabul” sounds like a Hebrew phrase meaning, “like not,” or “as good as nothing.”
24. 1 Kings 9:14 tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 9,000 pounds of gold (cf. NCV, NLT); CEV “five tons”; TEV “4,000 kilogrammes.”
25. 1 Kings 9:15 sn The work crews. This Hebrew word מַס (mas) refers to a group of laborers conscripted for royal or public service.
26. 1 Kings 9:15 tn Heb “raised up.”
27. 1 Kings 9:15 tn The words “the cities of” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
28. 1 Kings 9:18 tn The Hebrew text has “in the wilderness, in the land.”
29. 1 Kings 9:19 tn Heb “to Solomon.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
30. 1 Kings 9:19 tn Heb “the cities of the chariots and the cities of the horses.”
31. 1 Kings 9:19 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.”
32. 1 Kings 9:20 tn Heb “all the people who were left from the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not from the sons of Israel.”
33. 1 Kings 9:21 tn Heb “their sons who were left after them in the land, whom the sons of Israel were unable to wipe out, and Solomon raised them up for a crew of labor to this day.”
34. 1 Kings 9:22 sn These work crews. The work crews referred to here must be different than the temporary crews described in 5:13-16.
35. 1 Kings 9:22 tn Heb “officers of his chariots and his horses.”
36. 1 Kings 9:23 tn Heb “these [were] the officials of the governors who were over the work belonging to Solomon, five hundred fifty, the ones ruling over the people, the ones doing the work.”
37. 1 Kings 9:24 sn The phrase City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
38. 1 Kings 9:24 tn Heb “As soon as Pharaoh’s daughter went up from the City of David to her house which he built for her, then he built the terrace.”
39. 1 Kings 9:25 tn Or “tokens of peace”; NIV, TEV “fellowship offerings.”
40. 1 Kings 9:25 tn Heb “and he made complete the house.”
41. 1 Kings 9:26 tn Or “a fleet” (in which case “ships” would be implied).
42. 1 Kings 9:27 tn Heb “and Hiram sent with the fleet his servants, men of ships, [who] know the sea, [to be] with the servants of Solomon.”
43. 1 Kings 9:28 tn Heb “went.”
44. 1 Kings 9:28 tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 31,500 pounds of gold (cf. NCV); CEV, NLT “sixteen tons”; TEV “more than 14,000 kilogrammes.”