1 Kings 13:12

13:12 Their father asked them, “Which road did he take?” His sons showed him¹ the road the prophet² from Judah had taken.

1 Kings 18:6

18:6 They divided up the land between them; Ahab went³ one way and Obadiah went the other.

1 Kings 2:2

2:2 “I am about to die.⁴ Be strong and become a man!

1 Kings 2:41

2:41 When Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath and had then returned,

1 Kings 3:14

3:14 If you follow my instructions⁵ by obeying⁶ my rules and regulations, just as your father David did,⁷ then I will grant you long life.”⁸

1 Kings 9:4

9:4 You must serve me with integrity and sincerity, just as your father David did. Do everything I commanded and obey my rules and regulations.⁹

1 Kings 22:48

22:48 Jehoshaphat built a fleet of large merchant ships¹⁰ to travel to Ophir for gold, but they never made the voyage because they were shipwrecked in Ezion Geber.

1 Kings 14:8

14:8 I tore the kingdom away from the Davidic dynasty and gave it to you. But you are not like my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me wholeheartedly by doing only what I approve.¹¹

1 Kings 19:4

19:4 while he went a day’s journey into the desert. He went and sat down under a shrub¹² and asked the Lord to take his life:¹³ “I’ve had enough! Now, O Lord, take my life. After all, I’m no better than my ancestors.”¹⁴

1 Kings 22:13

22:13 Now the messenger who went to summon Micaiah said to him, “Look, the prophets are in complete agreement that the king will succeed.¹⁵ Your words must agree with theirs; you must predict success.”¹⁶

1 Kings 3:6

3:6 Solomon replied, “You demonstrated¹⁷ great loyalty to your servant, my father David, as he served¹⁸ you faithfully, properly, and sincerely.¹⁹ You have maintained this great loyalty to this day by allowing his son to sit on his throne.²⁰

¹tn The Hebrew text has “and his sons saw” (וַיִּרְאוּ [vayyir’u], Qal from רָאָה [ra’ah]). In this case the verbal construction (vav consecutive + prefixed verbal form) would have to be understood as pluperfect, “his sons had seen.” Such uses of this construction are rare at best. Consequently many, following the lead of the ancient versions, prefer to emend the verbal form to a Hiphil with pronominal suffix (וַיַּרְאֻהוּ [vayyar’uhu], “and they showed him”).

²tn Heb “the man of God.”

³tn The Hebrew text has “alone” here and again in reference to Obadiah toward the end of the verse.

⁵tn Heb “going the way of all the earth.”

⁷tn Heb “walk in my ways.”

⁸tn Or “keeping.”

⁹tn Heb “walked.”

¹⁰tn Heb “I will lengthen your days.”

⁹tn Heb “As for you, if you walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, by doing all which I commanded you, [and] you keep my rules and my regulations.” Verse 4 is actually a lengthy protasis (“if” section) of a conditional sentence, the apodosis (“then” section) of which appears in v. 5.

¹¹tn Heb “a fleet of Tarshish [ships].” This probably refers to large ships either made in or capable of traveling to the distant western port of Tarshish.

¹³tn Heb “what was right in my eyes.”

¹⁵tn Or “broom tree” (also in v. 5).

¹⁶tn Heb “and asked with respect to his life to die.”

¹⁷tn Heb “fathers.”

¹⁷tn Heb “the words of the prophets are [with] one mouth good for the king.”

¹⁸tn Heb “let your words be like the word of each of them and speak good.”

¹⁹tn Heb “did.”

²⁰tn Heb “walked before.”

²¹tn Heb “in faithfulness and in innocence and in uprightness of heart with you.”

²²tn Heb “and you have kept to him this great loyalty and you gave to him a son [who] sits on his throne as this day.”