1 Kings 1:1

Adonijah Tries to Seize the Throne

1:1 King David was very old; ¹  even when they covered him with blankets, ²  he could not get warm.

1 Kings 1:7

1:7 He collaborated ³  with Joab son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest, and they supported ⁴  him. ⁵ 

1 Kings 6:33

6:33 In the same way he made doorposts of olive wood for the entrance to the main hall, only with four-sided pillars. ⁶ 

1 Kings 8:34

8:34 then listen from heaven, forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them back to the land you gave to their ancestors.

1 Kings 11:17

11:17 Hadad, ⁷  who was only a small boy at the time, escaped with some of his father’s Edomite servants and headed for Egypt. ⁸ 

1 Kings 13:30

13:30 He put the corpse into his own tomb, and they ⁹  mourned over him, saying, “Ah, my brother!”

1 Kings 15:8

15:8 Abijah passed away ¹⁰  and was buried ¹¹  in the city of David. His son Asa replaced him as king.

1 Kings 16:6

16:6 Baasha passed away ¹²  and was buried in Tirzah. His son Elah replaced him as king.

1 Kings 16:28

16:28 Omri passed away ¹³  and was buried in Samaria. His son Ahab replaced him as king. ¹⁴ 

1 Kings 17:3

17:3 “Leave here and travel eastward. Hide out in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan.

1 Kings 17:5

17:5 So he did ¹⁵  as the Lord told him; he went and lived in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan.

[1:1]  ¹ tn Heb “was old, coming into the days” (i.e., advancing in years).

[1:1]  ² tn Or “garments.”

[1:7]  ³ tn Heb “his words were.”

[1:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “helped after” (i.e., stood by).

[1:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “Adonijah.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[6:33]  ⁵ tn Heb “and so he did at the entrance of the main hall, doorposts of olive wood, from a fourth.”

[11:17]  ⁷ tn The MT reads “Adad,” an alternate form of the name Hadad.

[11:17]  ⁸ tn Heb “and Adad fled, he and Edomite men from the servants of his father, to go to Egypt, and Hadad was a small boy.”

[13:30]  ⁹ tn “They” is the reading of the Hebrew text here; perhaps this is meant to include not only the old prophet but his sons (cf. v. 31).

[15:8]  ¹¹ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.” The Old Greek also has these words: “in the twenty-eighth year of Jeroboam.”

[15:8]  ¹² tn Heb “and they buried him.”

[16:6]  ¹³ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

[16:28]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

[16:28]  ¹⁶ tc The Old Greek has eight additional verses here. Cf. 1 Kgs 22:41-44.

[17:5]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “So he went and did.”