1 Kings 1:5

1:5 Now Adonijah, son of David and Haggith, ¹  was promoting himself, ²  boasting, ³  “I will be king!” He managed to acquire ⁴  chariots and horsemen, as well as fifty men to serve as his royal guard. ⁵ 

1 Kings 1:33

1:33 and he ⁶  told them, “Take your master’s ⁷  servants with you, put my son Solomon on my mule, and lead him down to Gihon. ⁸ 

¹ tn Heb “son of Haggith,” but since this formula usually designates the father (who in this case was David), the translation specifies that David was Adonijah’s father.

² tn Heb “lifting himself up.”

³ tn Heb “saying.”

⁴ tn Or “he acquired for himself.”

⁵ tn Heb “to run ahead of him.”

⁶ tn Heb “the king.”

⁷ tn The plural form is used in the Hebrew text to indicate honor and authority.

⁸ tn Heb “mount Solomon my son on the mule that belongs to me and take him down to Gihon.”