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 7:51--8:1

7:51 When King Solomon finished constructing the Lord’s temple, he ⁵  put the holy items that belonged to his father David (the silver, gold, and other articles) in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple.

Solomon Moves the Ark into the Temple

8:1 ⁶ Then Solomon convened in Jerusalem ⁷  Israel’s elders, all the leaders of the Israelite tribes and families, so they could witness the transferal of the ark of the Lord’s covenant from the city of David (that is, Zion). ⁸ 

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, ⁹  provided that your descendants watch their step and serve me as you have done.’ ¹⁰ 

1 Kings 14:21

Rehoboam’s Reign over Judah

14:21 Now Rehoboam son of Solomon ruled in Judah. He ¹¹  was forty-one years old when he became king and he ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem, ¹²  the city the Lord chose from all the tribes of Israel to be his home. ¹³  His mother was an Ammonite woman ¹⁴  named Naamah.

1 Kings 16:34

16:34 During Ahab’s reign, ¹⁵  Hiel the Bethelite rebuilt Jericho. ¹⁶  Abiram, his firstborn son, died when he laid the foundation; ¹⁷  Segub, his youngest son, died when he erected its gates, ¹⁸  just as the Lord had warned ¹⁹  through Joshua son of Nun. ²⁰ 

1 Kings 18:12

18:12 But when I leave you, the Lord’s spirit will carry you away so I can’t find you. ²¹  If I go tell Ahab I’ve seen you, he won’t be able to find you and he will kill me. ²²  That would not be fair, ²³  because your servant has been a loyal follower of ²⁴  the Lord from my youth.

1 Kings 18:26

18:26 So they took a bull, as he had suggested, ²⁵  and prepared it. They invoked the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, “Baal, answer us.” But there was no sound and no answer. They jumped ²⁶  around on the altar they had made. ²⁷ 

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 tn Heb “Solomon.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁹ tc The Old Greek translation includes the following words at the beginning of ch. 8: “It so happened that when Solomon finished building the Lord’s temple and his own house, after twenty years.”

¹⁰ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

¹¹ tn Heb “Then Solomon convened the elders of Israel, the heads of the tribes, the chiefs of the fathers belonging to the sons of Israel to King Solomon [in] Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the city of David (it is Zion).”

¹³ tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from before me sitting on the throne of Israel.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “guard their way by walking before me as you have walked before me.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “Rehoboam.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹⁸ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

¹⁹ tn Heb “the city where the Lord chose to place his name from all the tribes of Israel.”

²⁰ tn Heb “an Ammonite”; the word “woman” is implied.

²¹ tn Heb “in his days.”

²² map For location see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.

²³ tn Heb “with Abiram, his firstborn, he founded it.”

²⁴ tn Heb “with Segub, his youngest, he set up its gates.”

²⁵ tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord which he spoke.”

²⁶ sn Warned through Joshua son of Nun. For the background to this statement, see Josh 6:26, where Joshua pronounces a curse on the one who dares to rebuild Jericho. Here that curse is viewed as a prophecy spoken by God through Joshua.

²⁵ tn Heb “to [a place] which I do not know.”

²⁶ tn Heb “and I will go to inform Ahab and he will not find you and he will kill me.”

²⁷ tn The words “that would not be fair” are added to clarify the logic of Obadiah’s argument.

²⁸ tn Heb “has feared the Lord” (also see the note at 1 Kgs 18:3).

²⁹ tn Heb “and they took the bull which he allowed them.”

³⁰ tn Heb “limped” (the same verb is used in v. 21).

³¹ tc The MT has “which he made,” but some medieval Hebrew mss and the ancient versions have the plural form of the verb.