1 Kings 3:6

3:6 Solomon replied, “You demonstrated ¹  great loyalty to your servant, my father David, as he served ²  you faithfully, properly, and sincerely. ³  You have maintained this great loyalty to this day by allowing his son to sit on his throne. ⁴ 

1 Kings 3:1

The Lord Gives Solomon Wisdom

3:1 Solomon made an alliance by marriage with Pharaoh, king of Egypt; he married Pharaoh’s daughter. He brought her to the City of David ⁵  until he could finish building his residence and the temple of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem. ⁶ 

1 Kings 17:11-14

17:11 As she went to get it, he called out to her, “Please bring me a piece of bread.” ⁷  17:12 She said, “As certainly as the Lord your God lives, I have no food, except for a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. Right now I am gathering a couple of sticks for a fire. Then I’m going home to make one final meal for my son and myself. After we have eaten that, we will die of starvation.” ⁸  17:13 Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go and do as you planned. ⁹  But first make a small cake for me and bring it to me; then make something for yourself and your son. 17:14 For this is what the Lord God of Israel says, ‘The jar of flour will not be empty and the jug of oil will not run out until the day the Lord makes it rain on the surface of the ground.’”

1 Kings 17:17

17:17 After this ¹⁰  the son of the woman who owned the house got sick. His illness was so severe he could no longer breathe.

Psalms 132:11-12

132:11 The Lord made a reliable promise to David; ¹¹ 

he will not go back on his word. ¹² 

He said, ¹³  “I will place one of your descendants ¹⁴  on your throne.

132:12 If your sons keep my covenant

and the rules I teach them,

their sons will also sit on your throne forever.”

Proverbs 17:6

17:6 Grandchildren ¹⁵  are like ¹⁶  a crown ¹⁷  to the elderly,

and the glory ¹⁸  of children is their parents. ¹⁹ 

¹ tn Heb “did.”

² tn Heb “walked before.”

³ tn Heb “in faithfulness and in innocence and in uprightness of heart with you.”

⁴ 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.”

⁵ sn The phrase City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

⁶ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

⁷ tn The Hebrew text also includes the phrase “in your hand.”

⁸ tn Heb “Look, I am gathering two sticks and then I will go and make it for me and my son and we will eat it and we will die.”

⁹ tn Heb “according to your word.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “after these things.”

¹¹ tn Heb “the Lord swore an oath to David [in] truth.”

¹² tn Heb “he will not turn back from it.”

¹³ tn The words “he said” are supplied in the translation to clarify that what follows are the Lord’s words.

¹⁴ tn Heb “the fruit of your body.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “children of children [sons of sons].”

¹⁶ tn The comparative “like” does not appear in the Hebrew text, but is implied by the metaphor; it is supplied in the translation for the sake of clarity.

¹⁷ sn The metaphor signifies that grandchildren are like a crown, that is, they are the “crowning glory” of life. The proverb comes from a culture that places great importance on the family in society and that values its heritage.

¹⁸ tn The noun תִּפְאָרָת (tif’arat) means “beauty; glory” (BDB 802 s.v.). In this passage “glory” seems to be identified with “glorying; boasting”; so a rendering that children are proud of their parents would be in order. Thus, “glory of children” would be a subjective genitive, the glorying that children do.”

¹⁹ tc The LXX has inserted: “To the faithful belongs the whole world of wealth, but to the unfaithful not an obulus.” It was apparently some popular sentiment at the time.