1 Kings 1:18

1:18 But now, look, Adonijah has become king! But you, ¹  my master the king, are not even aware of it! ² 

1 Kings 3:21

3:21 I got up in the morning to nurse my son, and there he was, ³  dead! But when I examined him carefully in the morning, I realized it was not my baby.” ⁴ 

1 Kings 9:6-7

9:6 “But if you or your sons ever turn away from me, fail to obey the regulations and rules I instructed you to keep, ⁵  and decide to serve and worship other gods, ⁶  9:7 then I will remove Israel from the land ⁷  I have given them, I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence, ⁸  and Israel will be mocked and ridiculed ⁹  among all the nations.

1 Kings 10:6

10:6 She said to the king, “The report I heard in my own country about your wise sayings and insight ¹⁰  was true!

¹ tc Instead of עַתָּה (’attah, “now”) many Hebrew mss, along with the Old Greek, Syriac Peshitta, and Latin Vulgate, have the similar sounding independent pronoun אַתָּה (’attah, “you”). This reading is followed in the present translation.

² tn Heb “you do not know [about it].”

³ tn Heb “look.”

⁴ tn Heb “look, it was not my son to whom I had given birth.”

⁵ tn Heb “which I placed before you.”

⁶ tn Heb “and walk and serve other gods and bow down to them.”

⁷ tn Heb “I will cut off Israel from upon the surface of the land.”

⁸ tn Heb “and the temple which I consecrated for my name I will send away from before my face.”

⁹ tn Heb “will become a proverb and a taunt,” that is, a proverbial example of destruction and an object of reproach.

⁹ tn Heb “about your words [or perhaps, “deeds”] and your wisdom.”