1 Kings 1:27
1:27 Has my master the king authorized this without informing your servants
1 who should succeed my master the king on his throne?”
2
1 Kings 2:4
2:4 and the
Lord will fulfill his promise to me,
3 ‘If your descendants watch their step
4 and live faithfully in my presence
5 with all their heart and being,
6 then,’ he promised,
7 ‘you will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’
8
1 Kings 2:19
2:19 So Bathsheba visited King Solomon to speak to him on Adonijah’s behalf. The king got up to greet 9 her, bowed to her, and then sat on his throne. He ordered a throne to be brought for the king’s mother, 10 and she sat at his right hand.
1 Kings 2:24
2:24 Now, as certainly as the
Lord lives (he who made me secure, allowed me to sit on my father David’s throne, and established a dynasty
11 for me as he promised), Adonijah will be executed today!”
1 Kings 8:20
8:20 The
Lord has kept the promise he made.
12 I have taken my father David’s place and have occupied the throne of Israel, as the
Lord promised. I have built this temple for the honor
13 of the
Lord God of Israel
1 Kings 10:9
10:9 May the
Lord your God be praised because he favored
14 you by placing you on the throne of Israel! Because of the
Lord’s eternal love for Israel, he made you king so you could make just and right decisions.”
15
1 tc Many Hebrew mss and ancient textual witnesses agree with the Qere in reading this as singular, “your servant.”
2 tn Heb “From my master the king is this thing done, and you did not make known to your servants who will sit on the throne of my master the king after him?”
3 tn Heb “then the Lord will establish his word which he spoke to me, saying.”
4 tn Heb “guard their way.”
5 tn Heb “by walking before me in faithfulness.”
6 tn Or “soul.”
7 tn Heb “saying.”
8 tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel.”
5 tn Or “meet.”
6 tn Heb “he set up a throne for the mother of the king.”
7 tn Heb “house.”
9 tn Heb “his word that he spoke.”
10 tn Heb “name.”
11 tn Or “delighted in.”
12 tn Heb “to do justice and righteousness.”