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 9:22

9:22 Solomon did not assign Israelites to these work crews; ⁶  the Israelites served as his soldiers, attendants, officers, charioteers, and commanders of his chariot forces. ⁷ 

1 Kings 16:9

16:9 His servant Zimri, a commander of half of his chariot force, conspired against him. While Elah was drinking heavily ⁸  at the house of Arza, who supervised the palace in Tirzah,

1 Kings 22:32

22:32 When the chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “He must be the king of Israel.” So they turned and attacked him, but Jehoshaphat cried out.

1 Kings 22:35

22:35 While the battle raged throughout the day, the king stood propped up in his chariot opposite the Syrians. He died in the evening; the blood from the wound ran down into the bottom of the chariot.

1 Kings 22:38

22:38 They washed off the chariot at the pool of Samaria (this was where the prostitutes bathed); ⁹  dogs licked his blood, just as the Lord had said would happen. ¹⁰ 

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 sn These work crews. The work crews referred to here must be different than the temporary crews described in 5:13-16.

⁷ tn Heb “officers of his chariots and his horses.”

¹¹ tn Heb “while he was drinking and drunken.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “now the prostitutes bathed.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord which he spoke.”