1tn Heb “and all the desire of Solomon which he wanted to do.”

2sn In the same way he had appeared to him at Gibeon. See 1 Kgs 3:5.

3tn Heb “I have heard.”

4tn Heb “by placing my name there perpetually” (or perhaps, “forever”).

5tn Heb “and my eyes and my heart will be there all the days.”

6tn 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.

7tn Heb “I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever.”

8tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel.”

9tn Heb “which I placed before you.”

10tn Heb “and walk and serve other gods and bow down to them.”

11tn Heb “I will cut off Israel from upon the surface of the land.”

12tn 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.

13tn Heb “will become a proverb and a taunt,” that is, a proverbial example of destruction and an object of reproach.

14tn 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.”

15tn Heb “hiss,” or perhaps “whistle.” This refers to a derisive sound one would make when taunting an object of ridicule.

16tn Heb “and they will say.”

17tn Heb “fathers.”

18tn Heb “and they took hold of other gods and bowed down to them and served them.”

19tn Heb “the two houses, the house of the Lord and the house of the king.”

20map For location see Map1-A2; Map2-G2; Map4-A1; JP3-F3; JP4-F3.

21tn Heb “they were not agreeable in his eyes.”

22tn Heb “and he said.”

23tn Heb “my brother.” Kings allied through a parity treaty would sometimes address each other as “my brother.” See 1 Kgs 20:32-33.

24tn 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.”

25tn 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.”

26sn The work crews. This Hebrew word מַס (mas) refers to a group of laborers conscripted for royal or public service.

27tn Heb “raised up.”

28map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

29tn The words “the cities of” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

30map For location see Map1-D2; Map2-D3; Map3-A2; Map4-C1.

31map For location see Map1-D4; Map2-C1; Map4-C2; Map5-F2; Map7-B1.

32tn The Hebrew text has “in the wilderness, in the land.”

33tn Heb “to Solomon.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

34tn Heb “the cities of the chariots and the cities of the horses.”

35tn Heb “and the desire of Solomon which he desired to build in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land of his kingdom.”

36tn 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.”

37tn 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.”

38sn These work crews. The work crews referred to here must be different than the temporary crews described in 5:13-16.

39tn Heb “officers of his chariots and his horses.”

40tn 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.”

41sn The phrase city of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

42tn 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.”

43tn Or “tokens of peace”; NIV, TEV “fellowship offerings.”

44tn Heb “and he made complete the house.”

45tn Or “a fleet” (in which case “ships” would be implied).

46tn Heb “and Hiram sent with the fleet his servants, men of ships, [who] know the sea, [to be] with the servants of Solomon.”

47tn Heb “went.”

48tn 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.”