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TWOT Reference: 1640a,1640e
nation, people
people, nation
persons, members of one's people, compatriots, country-men
kinsman, kindred
Strong's Number H5971 matches the Hebrew עַם (ʿam),
which occurs 83 times in 67 verses in '1Ki'
in the WLC Hebrew.
Page 1 / 2 (1Ki 1:39–1Ki 16:22)
The priest Zadok took the horn of oil from the tabernacle and anointed Solomon. Then they blew the ram’s horn, and all the people proclaimed, “Long live King Solomon! ”
All the people went up after him, playing flutes and rejoicing with such a great joy that the earth split open from the sound.[fn]
However, the people were sacrificing on the high places, because until that time a temple for the LORD’s name had not been built.
“Your servant is among your people you have chosen, a people too many to be numbered or counted.
“So give your servant a receptive heart to judge your people and to discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of yours? ”
Emissaries of all peoples, sent by every king on earth who had heard of his wisdom, came to listen to Solomon’s wisdom.
When Hiram heard Solomon’s words, he rejoiced greatly and said, “Blessed be the LORD today! He has given David a wise son to be over this great people! ”
not including his thirty-three hundred[fn] deputies in charge of the work. They supervised the people doing the work.
“Since the day I brought my people Israel out of Egypt,
I have not chosen a city to build a temple in
among any of the tribes of Israel,
so that my name would be there.
But I have chosen David to rule my people Israel.”
Hear the petition of your servant
and your people Israel,
which they pray toward this place.
May you hear in your dwelling place in heaven.
May you hear and forgive.
When your people Israel are defeated before an enemy,
because they have sinned against you,
and they return to you and praise your name,
and they pray and plead with you
for mercy in this temple,
may you hear in heaven
and forgive the sin of your people Israel.
May you restore them to the land
you gave their ancestors.
may you hear in heaven
and forgive the sin of your servants
and your people Israel,
so that you may teach them to walk on the good way.
May you send rain on your land
that you gave your people for an inheritance.
every prayer or petition
that any person or that all your people Israel may have —
they each know their own affliction[fn] —
as they spread out their hands toward this temple,
Even for the foreigner who is not of your people Israel
but has come from a distant land
because of your name —
may you hear in heaven, your dwelling place,
and do according to all the foreigner asks.
Then all peoples of earth will know your name,
to fear you as your people Israel do
and to know that this temple I have built
bears your name.
When your people go out to fight against their enemies,[fn]
wherever you send them,
and they pray to the LORD
in the direction of the city you have chosen
and the temple I have built for your name,
May you forgive your people
who sinned against you
and all their rebellions[fn] against you,
and may you grant them compassion
before their captors,
so that they may treat them compassionately.
For they are your people and your inheritance;
you brought them out of Egypt,
out of the middle of an iron furnace.
May your eyes be open to your servant’s petition
and to the petition of your people Israel,
listening to them whenever they call to you.
For you, Lord GOD, have set them apart as your inheritance
from all peoples of the earth,
as you spoke through your servant Moses
when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt.
“Blessed be the LORD! He has given rest to his people Israel according to all he has said. Not one of all the good promises he made through his servant Moses has failed.
“May my words with which I have made my petition before the LORD be near the LORD our God day and night. May he uphold his servant’s cause and the cause of his people Israel, as each day requires.
I will cut off Israel from the land I gave them, and I will reject[fn] the temple I have sanctified for my name. Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.
As for all the peoples who remained of the Amorites, Hethites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who were not Israelites —
These were the deputies who were over Solomon’s work: 550 who supervised the people doing the work.
Rehoboam replied, “Go away for three days and then return to me.” So the people left.
Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon when he was alive, asking, “How do you advise me to respond to this people? ”
They replied, “Today if you will be a servant to this people and serve them, and if you respond to them by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”
He asked them, “What message do you advise that we send back to this people who said to me, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’? ”
The young men who had grown up with him told him, “This is what you should say to this people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you, make it lighter on us! ’ This is what you should tell them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist!
So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had ordered: “Return to me on the third day.”
Then the king answered the people harshly. He rejected the advice the elders had given him
The king did not listen to the people, because this turn of events came from the LORD to carry out his word, which the LORD had spoken through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.
When all Israel saw that the king had not listened to them, the people answered him:
What portion do we have in David?
We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse.
Israel, return to your tents;
David, now look after your own house!
So Israel went to their tents,
“Say to Rehoboam son of Solomon, king of Judah, to the whole house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people,
“If these people regularly go to offer sacrifices in the LORD’s temple in Jerusalem, the heart of these people will return to their lord, King Rehoboam of Judah. They will kill me and go back to the king of Judah.”
This led to sin; the people walked in procession before one of the calves all the way to Dan.[fn]
Jeroboam also made shrines[fn] on the high places and made priests from the ranks of the people who were not Levites.
Even after this, Jeroboam did not repent of his evil way but again made priests for the high places from the ranks of the people. He ordained whoever so desired it, and they became priests of the high places.
Jeroboam said to his wife, “Go disguise yourself, so they won’t know that you’re Jeroboam’s wife, and go to Shiloh. The prophet Ahijah is there; it was he who told about me becoming king over this people.
“Go tell Jeroboam, ‘This is what the LORD God of Israel says: I raised you up from among the people, appointed you ruler over my people Israel,
“Because I raised you up from the dust and made you ruler over my people Israel, but you have walked in the ways of Jeroboam and have caused my people Israel to sin, angering me with their sins,
In the twenty-seventh year of Judah’s King Asa, Zimri became king for seven days in Tirzah. Now the troops were encamped against Gibbethon of the Philistines.
When these troops heard that Zimri had not only conspired but had also struck down the king, then all Israel made Omri, the army commander, king over Israel that very day in the camp.
At that time the people of Israel were divided: half the people followed Tibni son of Ginath, to make him king, and half followed Omri.
1. 1Ki 1:39–1Ki 16:22
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; Arabic 
see above; original meaning probably those united, connected, related, compare WeGGN 1893, 480); — absolute 
paternal uncle, etc., see I. 
