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 1:30

1:30 I will keep ³  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 1:51

1:51 Solomon was told, “Look, Adonijah fears you; ⁴  see, he has taken hold of the horns of the altar, saying, ‘May King Solomon solemnly promise ⁵  me today that he will not kill his servant with the sword.’”

1 Kings 2:8

2:8 “Note well, you still have to contend with Shimei son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahurim, ⁶  who tried to call down upon me a horrible judgment when I went to Mahanaim. ⁷  He came down and met me at the Jordan, and I solemnly promised ⁸  him by the Lord, ‘I will not strike you down ⁹  with the sword.’

1 Kings 2:42

2:42 the king summoned ¹⁰  Shimei and said to him, “You will recall ¹¹  that I made you take an oath by the Lord, and I solemnly warned you, ‘If you ever leave and go anywhere, ¹²  know for sure that you will certainly die.’ You said to me, ‘The proposal is acceptable; I agree to it.’ ¹³ 

1 Kings 18:10

18:10 As certainly as the Lord your God lives, my master has sent to every nation and kingdom in an effort to find you. When they say, ‘He’s not here,’ he makes them ¹⁴  swear an oath that they could not find you.

[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.”

[1:30]  ³ tn Or “carry out, perform.”

[1:51]  ⁵ tn Heb “King Solomon.” The name and title have been replaced by the pronoun (“you”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[1:51]  ⁶ tn Or “swear an oath to.”

[2:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “Look, with you is Shimei….”

[2:8]  ⁸ tn Heb “and he cursed me with a horrible curse on the day I went to Mahanaim.”

[2:8]  ⁹ tn Or “swore an oath to.”

[2:8]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “kill you.”

[2:42]  ⁹ tn Heb “sent and summoned.”

[2:42]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Is it not [true]…?” In the Hebrew text the statement is interrogative; the rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course it is.”

[2:42]  ¹¹ tn Heb “here or there.”

[2:42]  ¹² tn Heb “good is the word; I have heard.”

[18:10]  ¹¹ tn Heb “he makes the kingdom or the nation swear an oath.”