1 Kings 3:14

3:14 If you follow my instructions ¹  by obeying ²  my rules and regulations, just as your father David did, ³  then I will grant you long life.” ⁴ 

1 Kings 11:4

11:4 When Solomon became old, his wives shifted his allegiance to ⁵  other gods; he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God, as his father David had been. ⁶ 

1 Kings 11:33

11:33 I am taking the kingdom from him ⁷  because they have ⁸  abandoned me and worshiped the Sidonian goddess Astarte, the Moabite god Chemosh, and the Ammonite god Milcom. They have not followed my instructions ⁹  by doing what I approve and obeying my rules and regulations, like Solomon’s father David did. ¹⁰ 

1 Kings 11:2

11:2 They came from nations about which the Lord had warned the Israelites, “You must not establish friendly relations with them! ¹¹  If you do, they will surely shift your allegiance to their gods.” ¹²  But Solomon was irresistibly attracted to them. ¹³ 

1 Kings 20:3

20:3 He said to him, “This is what Ben Hadad says, ‘Your silver and your gold are mine, as well as the best of your wives and sons.’”

1 Kings 20:2

20:2 He sent messengers to King Ahab of Israel, who was in the city. ¹⁴ 

1 Kings 1:2

1:2 His servants advised ¹⁵  him, “A young virgin must be found for our master, the king, ¹⁶  to take care of the king’s needs ¹⁷  and serve as his nurse. She can also sleep with you ¹⁸  and keep our master, the king, warm.” ¹⁹ 

1 Kings 1:20-21

1:20 Now, ²⁰  my master, O king, all Israel is watching anxiously to see who is named to succeed my master the king on the throne. ²¹  1:21 If a decision is not made, ²²  when my master the king is buried with his ancestors, ²³  my son Solomon and I ²⁴  will be considered state criminals.” ²⁵ 

Psalms 119:80

119:80 May I be fully committed to your statutes, ²⁶ 

so that I might not be ashamed.

¹ tn Heb “walk in my ways.”

² tn Or “keeping.”

³ tn Heb “walked.”

⁴ tn Heb “I will lengthen your days.”

⁵ tn Heb “bent his heart after.”

⁶ tn Heb “his heart was not complete with the Lord his God, like the heart of David his father.”

⁷ tn The words “I am taking the kingdom from him” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

⁸ tc This is the reading of the MT; the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate read “he has.”

⁹ tn Heb “walked in my ways.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “by doing what is right in my eyes, my rules and my regulations, like David his father.”

¹¹ tn Heb “you must not go into them, and they must not go into you.”

¹² tn Heb “Surely they will bend your heart after their gods.” The words “if you do” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

¹³ tn Heb “Solomon clung to them for love.” The pronominal suffix, translated “them,” is masculine here, even though it appears the foreign women are in view. Perhaps this is due to attraction to the masculine forms used of the nations earlier in the verse.

¹⁴ tn Heb “to the city.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “said to.”

¹⁶ 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).

¹⁷ 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).

¹⁸ 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.

¹⁹ tn Heb “and my master, the king, will be warm.”

²⁰ tc Many Hebrew mss have עַתָּה (’attah, “now”) rather than the similar sounding independent pronoun אַתָּה (’attah, “you”).

²¹ tn Heb “the eyes of all Israel are upon you to declare to them who will sit on the throne of my master the king after him.”

²² tn The words “if a decision is not made” are added for clarification.

²³ tn Heb “lies down with his fathers.”

²⁴ tn Heb “I and my son Solomon.” The order has been reversed in the translation for stylistic reasons.

²⁵ tn Heb “will be guilty”; NASB “considered offenders”; TEV “treated as traitors.”

²⁶ tn Heb “may my heart be complete in your statutes.”