1 Kings 1:13

1:13 Visit ¹  King David and say to him, ‘My master, O king, did you not solemnly promise ²  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 1:27

1:27 Has my master the king authorized this without informing your servants ³  who should succeed my master the king on his throne?” ⁴ 

1 Kings 1:30

1:30 I will keep ⁵  today the oath I swore to you by the Lord God of Israel: ‘Surely Solomon your son will be king after me; he will sit in my place on my throne.’”

1 Kings 2:4

2:4 and the Lord will fulfill his promise to me, ⁶  ‘If your descendants watch their step ⁷  and live faithfully in my presence ⁸  with all their heart and being, ⁹  then,’ he promised, ¹⁰  ‘you will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’ ¹¹ 

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 ¹²  for me as he promised), Adonijah will be executed today!”

1 Kings 5:5

5:5 So I have decided ¹³  to build a temple to honor the Lord ¹⁴  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.’ ¹⁵ 

1 Kings 8:20

8:20 The Lord has kept the promise he made. ¹⁶  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 ¹⁷  of the Lord God of Israel

1 Kings 10:9

10:9 May the Lord your God be praised because he favored ¹⁸  you by placing you on the throne of Israel! Because of the Lord’s eternal love for Israel, he made you king so you could make just and right decisions.” ¹⁹ 

1 Kings 22:10

22:10 Now the king of Israel and King Jehoshaphat of Judah were sitting on their respective thrones, ²⁰  dressed in their robes, at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria. ²¹  All the prophets were prophesying before them.

[1:13]  ¹ 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]  ² tn Or “swear an oath to.”

[1:27]  ³ tc Many Hebrew mss and ancient textual witnesses agree with the Qere in reading this as singular, “your servant.”

[1:27]  ⁴ tn Heb “From my master the king is this thing done, and you did not make known to your servants who will sit on the throne of my master the king after him?”

[1:30]  ⁵ tn Or “carry out, perform.”

[2:4]  ⁷ tn Heb “then the Lord will establish his word which he spoke to me, saying.”

[2:4]  ⁸ tn Heb “guard their way.”

[2:4]  ⁹ tn Heb “by walking before me in faithfulness.”

[2:4]  ¹⁰ tn Or “soul.”

[2:4]  ¹¹ tn Heb “saying.”

[2:4]  ¹² tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel.”

[2:24]  ⁹ tn Heb “house.”

[5:5]  ¹¹ tn Heb “Look, I am saying.”

[5:5]  ¹² 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]  ¹³ 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.

[8:20]  ¹³ tn Heb “his word that he spoke.”

[8:20]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “name.”

[10:9]  ¹⁵ tn Or “delighted in.”

[10:9]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “to do justice and righteousness.”

[22:10]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “were sitting, a man on his throne.”

[22:10]  ¹⁸ map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.