1 Kings 2:26

2:26 The king then told Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your property ¹  in Anathoth. You deserve to die, ²  but today I will not kill you because you did carry the ark of the sovereign Lord before my father David and you suffered with my father through all his difficult times.” ³ 

1 Kings 2:32

2:32 May the Lord punish him for the blood he shed; ⁴  behind my father David’s back he struck down and murdered with the sword two men who were more innocent and morally upright than he ⁵  – Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army.

1 Kings 3:6

3:6 Solomon replied, “You demonstrated ⁶  great loyalty to your servant, my father David, as he served ⁷  you faithfully, properly, and sincerely. ⁸  You have maintained this great loyalty to this day by allowing his son to sit on his throne. ⁹ 

1 Kings 3:26

3:26 The real mother ¹⁰  spoke up to the king, for her motherly instincts were aroused. ¹¹  She said, “My master, give her the living child! Whatever you do, don’t kill him!” ¹²  But the other woman said, “Neither one of us will have him! Let them cut him in two!”

1 Kings 8:25

8:25 Now, O Lord, God of Israel, keep the promise you made to your servant, my father David, when you said, ‘You will never fail to have a successor ruling before me on the throne of Israel, ¹³  provided that your descendants watch their step and serve me as you have done.’ ¹⁴ 

1 Kings 8:43

8:43 Then listen from your heavenly dwelling place and answer all the prayers of the foreigners. ¹⁵  Then all the nations of the earth will acknowledge your reputation, ¹⁶  obey ¹⁷  you like your people Israel do, and recognize that this temple I built belongs to you. ¹⁸ 

1 Kings 12:32

12:32 Jeroboam inaugurated a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, ¹⁹  like the festival celebrated in Judah. ²⁰  On the altar in Bethel he offered sacrifices to the calves he had made. ²¹  In Bethel he also appointed priests for the high places he had made.

¹ tn Or “field.”

² tn Heb “you are a man of death.”

³ tn Heb “and because you suffered through all which my father suffered.”

⁴ tn Heb “The Lord will cause his blood to return upon his head.”

⁵ tn Heb “because he struck down two men more innocent and better than he and he killed them with the sword, and my father David did not know.”

⁷ tn Heb “did.”

⁸ tn Heb “walked before.”

⁹ tn Heb “in faithfulness and in innocence and in uprightness of heart with you.”

¹⁰ tn 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.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “the woman whose son was alive.”

¹¹ tn Heb “for her compassions grew warm for her son.”

¹² tn The infinitive absolute before the negated jussive emphasizes the main verb.

¹³ tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from before me sitting on the throne of Israel.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “guard their way by walking before me as you have walked before me.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “and do all which the foreigner calls to [i.e., “requests of”] you.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “your name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in v. 41.

¹⁸ tn Heb “fear.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “that your name is called over this house which I built.” The Hebrew idiom “to call the name over” indicates ownership. See 2 Sam 12:28.

¹⁹ sn The eighth month would correspond to October-November in modern reckoning.

²⁰ sn The festival he celebrated in Judah probably refers to the Feast of Tabernacles (i.e., Booths or Temporary Shelters), held in the seventh month (September-October). See also 1 Kgs 8:2.

²¹ tn Heb “and he offered up [sacrifices] on the altar; he did this in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves which he had made.”