1 Kings 2:4

2:4 and the Lord will fulfill his promise to me, ¹  ‘If your descendants watch their step ²  and live faithfully in my presence ³  with all their heart and being, ⁴  then,’ he promised, ⁵  ‘you will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’ ⁶ 

1 Kings 9:4-6

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. ⁷  9:5 Then I will allow your dynasty to rule over Israel permanently, ⁸  just as I promised your father David, ‘You will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’ ⁹ 

9:6 “But if you or your sons ever turn away from me, fail to obey the regulations and rules I instructed you to keep, ¹⁰  and decide to serve and worship other gods, ¹¹ 

1 Kings 9:1

The Lord Gives Solomon a Promise and a Warning

9:1 After Solomon finished building the Lord’s temple, the royal palace, and all the other construction projects he had planned, ¹² 

1 Kings 1:9

1:9 Adonijah sacrificed sheep, cattle, and fattened steers at the Stone of Zoheleth near En Rogel. He invited all his brothers, the king’s sons, ¹³  as well as all the men of Judah, the king’s servants.

1 Kings 1:2

1:2 His servants advised ¹⁴  him, “A young virgin must be found for our master, the king, ¹⁵  to take care of the king’s needs ¹⁶  and serve as his nurse. She can also sleep with you ¹⁷  and keep our master, the king, warm.” ¹⁸ 

1 Kings 6:16-17

6:16 He built a wall 30 feet in from the rear of the temple as a partition for an inner sanctuary that would be the most holy place. ¹⁹  He paneled the wall with cedar planks from the floor to the rafters. ²⁰  6:17 The main hall in front of the inner sanctuary was 60 feet long. ²¹ 

¹ tn Heb “then the Lord will establish his word which he spoke to me, saying.”

² tn Heb “guard their way.”

³ tn Heb “by walking before me in faithfulness.”

⁴ tn Or “soul.”

⁵ tn Heb “saying.”

⁶ tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel.”

⁷ tn 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.

⁸ tn Heb “I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever.”

⁹ tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “which I placed before you.”

¹¹ tn Heb “and walk and serve other gods and bow down to them.”

¹² tn Heb “and all the desire of Solomon which he wanted to do.”

¹³ tc The ancient Greek version omits this appositional phrase.

¹⁴ tn Heb “said to.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “let them seek for my master, the king, a young girl, a virgin.” The third person plural subject of the verb is indefinite (see GKC 460 §144.f). The appositional expression, “a young girl, a virgin,” is idiomatic; the second term specifically defines the more general first term (see IBHS 230 §12.3b).

¹⁶ tn Heb “and she will stand before the king.” The Hebrew phrase “stand before” can mean “to attend; to serve” (BDB 764 s.v. עָמַד).

¹⁷ tn Heb “and she will lie down in your bosom.” The expression might imply sexual intimacy (see 2 Sam 12:3 [where the lamb symbolizes Bathsheba] and Mic 7:5), though v. 4b indicates that David did not actually have sex with the young woman.

¹⁸ tn Heb “and my master, the king, will be warm.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “He built twenty cubits from the rear areas of the temple with cedar planks from the floor to the walls, and he built it on the inside for an inner sanctuary, for a holy place of holy places.”

²⁰ tc The MT has קְלָעִים (qÿla’im, “curtains”), but this should be emended to קוֹרוֹת (qorot, “rafters”). See BDB 900 s.v. קוֹרָה.

²¹ tn Heb “and the house was forty cubits, that is, the main hall before it.”