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 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,
4 provided that your descendants watch their step and serve me as you have done.’
5
1 Kings 20:28
20:28 The prophet
6 visited the king of Israel and said, “This is what the
Lord says: ‘Because the Syrians said, “The
Lord is a god of the mountains and not a god of the valleys,” I will hand over to you this entire huge army.
7 Then you will know that I am the
Lord.’”
1 Kings 22:8
22:8 The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man through whom we can seek the
Lord’s will.
8 But I despise
9 him because he does not prophesy prosperity for me, but disaster. His name is Micaiah son of Imlah.
10 Jehoshaphat said, “The king should not say such things.”
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 “there will not be cut off from you a man from before me sitting on the throne of Israel.”
5 tn Heb “guard their way by walking before me as you have walked before me.”
7 tn Heb “the man of God.”
8 tn Heb “I will place all this great horde in your hand.”
10 tn Heb “to seek the Lord from him.”
11 tn Or “hate.”
12 tn The words “his name is” are supplied for stylistic reasons.