1 Kings 2:5

2:5 “You know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me – how he murdered two commanders of the Israelite armies, Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether. ¹  During peacetime he struck them down like he would in battle; ²  when he shed their blood as if in battle, he stained his own belt and the sandals on his feet. ³ 

1 Kings 2:26

2:26 The king then told Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your property ⁴  in Anathoth. You deserve to die, ⁵  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.” ⁶ 

1 Kings 3:6

3:6 Solomon replied, “You demonstrated ⁷  great loyalty to your servant, my father David, as he served ⁸  you faithfully, properly, and sincerely. ⁹  You have maintained this great loyalty to this day by allowing his son to sit on his throne. ¹⁰ 

1 Kings 8:43

8:43 Then listen from your heavenly dwelling place and answer all the prayers of the foreigners. ¹¹  Then all the nations of the earth will acknowledge your reputation, ¹²  obey ¹³  you like your people Israel do, and recognize that this temple I built belongs to you. ¹⁴ 

¹ tn Heb “what he did to the two commanders…and he killed them.”

² tn Heb “he shed the blood of battle in peace.”

³ tn Heb “and he shed the blood of battle when he killed which is on his waist and on his sandal[s] which are on his feet.” That is, he covered himself with guilt and his guilt was obvious to all who saw him.

⁴ tn Or “field.”

⁵ tn Heb “you are a man of death.”

⁶ tn Heb “and because you suffered through all which my father suffered.”

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

¹¹ tn Heb “your name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in v. 41.

¹² tn Heb “fear.”

¹³ 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.