1 Kings 1:11

1:11 Nathan said to Bathsheba, Solomon’s mother, “Has it been reported to you ¹  that Haggith’s son Adonijah has become king behind our master David’s back? ² 

1 Kings 1:13

1:13 Visit ³  King David and say to him, ‘My master, O king, did you not solemnly promise ⁴  your servant, “Surely your son Solomon will be king after me; he will sit on my throne”? So why has Adonijah become king?’

1 Kings 1:38

1:38 So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites, and the Pelethites ⁵  went down, put Solomon on King David’s mule, and led him to Gihon.

1 Kings 1:47

1:47 The king’s servants have even come to congratulate ⁶  our master ⁷  King David, saying, ‘May your God ⁸  make Solomon more famous than you and make him an even greater king than you!’ ⁹  Then the king leaned ¹⁰  on the bed

1 Kings 2:24

2:24 Now, as certainly as the Lord lives (he who made me secure, allowed me to sit on my father David’s throne, and established a dynasty ¹¹  for me as he promised), Adonijah will be executed today!”

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 ¹²  until he could finish building his residence and the temple of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem. ¹³ 

1 Kings 5:3

5:3 “You know that my father David was unable to build a temple to honor the Lord ¹⁴  his God, for he was busy fighting battles on all fronts while the Lord subdued his enemies. ¹⁵ 

1 Kings 5:5

5:5 So I have decided ¹⁶  to build a temple to honor the Lord ¹⁷  my God, as the Lord instructed my father David, ‘Your son, whom I will put on your throne in your place, is the one who will build a temple to honor me.’ ¹⁸ 

1 Kings 6:12

6:12 “As for this temple you are building, if you follow ¹⁹  my rules, observe ²⁰  my regulations, and obey all my commandments, ²¹  I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David. ²² 

1 Kings 7:51--8:1

7:51 When King Solomon finished constructing the Lord’s temple, he ²³  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 ²⁴ Then Solomon convened in Jerusalem ²⁵  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). ²⁶ 

1 Kings 8:20

8:20 The Lord has kept the promise he made. ²⁷  I have taken my father David’s place and have occupied the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised. I have built this temple for the honor ²⁸  of the Lord God of Israel

1 Kings 9:5

9:5 Then I will allow your dynasty to rule over Israel permanently, ²⁹  just as I promised your father David, ‘You will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’ ³⁰ 

1 Kings 11:21

11:21 While in Egypt Hadad heard that David had passed away ³¹  and that Joab, the commander of the army, was dead. So Hadad asked Pharaoh, “Give me permission to leave ³²  so I can return to my homeland.”

1 Kings 11:34

11:34 I will not take the whole kingdom from his hand. I will allow him to be ruler for the rest of his life for the sake of my chosen servant David who kept my commandments and rules.

1 Kings 12:20

12:20 When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they summoned him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. No one except the tribe of Judah remained loyal to the Davidic dynasty. ³³ 

1 Kings 13:2

13:2 With the authority of the Lord ³⁴  he cried out against the altar, “O altar, altar! This is what the Lord says, ‘Look, a son named Josiah will be born to the Davidic dynasty. He will sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who offer sacrifices on you. Human bones will be burned on you.’” ³⁵ 

1 Kings 15:5

15:5 He did this ³⁶  because David had done what he approved ³⁷  and had not disregarded any of his commandments ³⁸  his entire lifetime, except for the incident involving Uriah the Hittite.

[1:11]  ¹ tn Heb “Have you not heard?”

[1:11]  ² tn Heb “and our master David does not know.”

[1:13]  ³ tn Heb “come, go to.” The imperative of הָלַךְ (halakh) is here used as an introductory interjection. See BDB 234 s.v. חָלַךְ.

[1:13]  ⁴ tn Or “swear an oath to.”

[1:38]  ⁵ sn The Kerethites and Pelethites were members of David’s royal guard (see 2 Sam 8:18). The Kerethites may have been descendants of an ethnic group originating in Crete.

[1:47]  ⁷ tn Heb “to bless.”

[1:47]  ⁸ tn The plural form is used in the Hebrew text to indicate honor and authority.

[1:47]  ⁹ tc Many Hebrew mss agree with the Qere in reading simply “God.”

[1:47]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “make the name of Solomon better than your name, and make his throne greater than your throne.” The term שֵׁם (shem, “name”) is used here of one’s fame and reputation.

[1:47]  ¹¹ tn Or “bowed down; worshiped.”

[2:24]  ⁹ tn Heb “house.”

[3:1]  ¹¹ sn The phrase City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

[3:1]  ¹² map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[5:3]  ¹³ tn Heb “a house for the name of the Lord.” The word “name” sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor. The “name” of the Lord sometimes designates the Lord himself, being indistinguishable from the proper name.

[5:3]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “because of the battles which surrounded him until the Lord placed them under the soles of his feet.”

[5:5]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “Look, I am saying.”

[5:5]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “a house for the name of the Lord.” The word “name” sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor. The “name” of the Lord sometimes designates the Lord himself, being indistinguishable from the proper name.

[5:5]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “a house for my name.” The word “name” sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor. The “name” of the Lord sometimes designates the Lord himself, being indistinguishable from the proper name.

[6:12]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “walk in.”

[6:12]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “do.”

[6:12]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and keep all my commandments by walking in them.”

[6:12]  ²⁰ tn Heb “I will establish my word with you which I spoke to David your father.”

[7:51]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “Solomon.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[8:1]  ²¹ 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.”

[8:1]  ²² map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[8:1]  ²³ 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).”

[8:20]  ²³ tn Heb “his word that he spoke.”

[8:20]  ²⁴ tn Heb “name.”

[9:5]  ²⁵ tn Heb “I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever.”

[9:5]  ²⁶ tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel.”

[11:21]  ²⁷ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

[11:21]  ²⁸ tn Heb “send me away.”

[12:20]  ²⁹ tn Heb “there was no one [following] after the house of David except the tribe of Judah, it alone.”

[13:2]  ³¹ tn Heb “by the word of the Lord.”

[13:2]  ³² sn ‘Look…you.’ For the fulfillment of this prophecy see 2 Kgs 23:15-20.

[15:5]  ³³ tn The words “he did this” are added for stylistic reasons.

[15:5]  ³⁴ tn Heb “what was right in the eyes of the Lord.”

[15:5]  ³⁵ tn Heb “and had not turned aside from all which he commanded him.”