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August H. 1 and 2 Kings. NIV Application Commentary. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2006.

      Marshall, I. Howard. Acts. Tyndale New Testament Commentaries. Leicester: Inter-Varsity, 1980.

      Olley, John W. The Message of Kings. The Bible Speaks Today. Nottingham: Inter-Varsity, 2011.

      ———. “Pharaoh’s Daughter, Solomon’s Palace and the Temple: Another Look at the Structure of 1 Kings 1–11.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 27 (2003) 355–69.

      ———. “‘You are Light of the World’: A Missiological Focus for the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew.” Mission Studies 20, no. 1 (2003) 9–28.

      Veblen, Thorstein. The Theory of the Leisure Class. New York: Macmillan, 1899.

      Wiseman, Donald J. 1 and 2 Kings. Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries. Leicester: InterVarsity, 1993.

      9. Gen 12:3; mišpāḥôt “extended families, clans” is also in the table of nations, 10:5, 18, 20, 31, 32, and the description of creatures that came out of the ark, 8:19 (NIV “peoples,” “clans,” and “kind” respectively). ‘ădāmāh “earth, ground” features prominently throughout Gen 1–11 (28 times), echoing the commonality of all people as ‘ādām, more basic than any family or ethnic identity. Bible quotations are from the NIV unless otherwise specified.

      10. Gen 18:18–19; here the terminology is the more common “nations” (gôyim) and “earth, land” (‘ereṣ).

      11. Gen 11:1–9; English versions transliterate the Hebrew bābel only in v. 9, elsewhere using the later Greek form “Babylon.”

      12. Gen 12:2; 15:1.

      13. While recognizing incorporation of earlier material, implying selection and editing, our attention is the context of recipients of the present form of the books: what is the writer/editor communicating in that setting?

      14. In Olley, Message of Kings, I explore several ways in which Kings shines light into current faith and lifestyle issues.

      15. Keller, Counterfeit Gods.

      16. So NIV. The verb hiśkîl may also be translated “be successful” (as in Josh 1:7–8) or “understand, gain insight” (so LXX; cf. Gen 3:6). Success and wisdom, along with prosperity, flow from trusting obedience.

      17. My translation; NIV’s “right and wrong” obscures the echoes of the narrative of Genesis 3 and the “tree of the knowledge of good and bad,” with its fruit “desirable for gaining wisdom” (hiśkîl).

      18. Gordon, “A House Divided,” 94–105. Gordon notes also that the last recorded activity of Solomon is seeking the life of his rival Jeroboam (11:40). The narrator there pointedly says ‘the Lord raised up adversaries’ (11:14, 21).

      19. Crane, “Solomon,” 34, 40.

      20. It is also the centre of the chiastic structure of the whole narrative, chs. 1–11. See Olley, “Pharaoh’s Daughter,” 355–69.

      21. bāyit “house” is commonly translated “palace” when it is a king’s “house” and “temple” when reference is to God or a god.

      22. The first such instance is as early as the fifth year of the reign of Solomon’s son, Rehoboam (1 Kgs 14:25–26); cf. 1 Kgs 15:18; 2 Kgs 12:18; 14:14; 18:14–16.

      23. Cf. Exod 1:14; 2:23; 5:9; 6:6, 9 with “yoke” used in Lev 26:13.

      24. The heading in NIV; also Wiseman, 1 and 2 Kings, 125.

      25. Brueggemann, 1 and 2 Kings, 127–28.

      26. Cf. NIV’s insertion of “however” in 11:1 (not in Hebrew), so suggesting that the marriages were the sole factor in Solomon’s failure.

      27. The term was coined by Veblen to describe the use of money or resources to display a higher status than others; see Leisure Class.

      28. The noun is only here in v. 19 (par. 2 Chr 8:6) and in Isa 21:4, “longing for” twilight, probably as relief.

      29. A person “desiring” a woman (Gen 34:8; Deut 21:11) or God (Ps 91:14; NIV “love”) and God “setting his affection on” Israel (Deut 7:7; 10:15).

      30. Brueggemann, 1 and 2 Kings, 128.

      31. There is also a reversal of the exodus and settlement of the land in that Solomon gives some of the land away to a foreign ruler.

      32. Greek cheiropoiētos is in LXX Lev 26:1, 30; Isa 2:18; 10:11; 19:1; 21:9; 31:7, etc., overwhelmingly of idols.

      33. Marshall, Acts, 146. See also Acts 17:23; Heb 9:11, 24.

      34. I have developed this in Olley, “Light of the World,” 9–28.

      35. The only other New Testament allusion to Kings is Elijah’s prayer for rain (James 5:17–18; cf. 1 Kgs 18:41–46).

      36. Konkel, 1 and 2 Kings, 317–19.

      37. Cf. the crucial role of the “worthy person” or “someone who promotes peace” who supplies the needs of the itinerant disciples who take nothing with them (Matt 10:11; Luke 10:6).

      38. Cohn, 2 Kings, 40.