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 2:8

2:8 “Note well, you still have to contend with Shimei son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahurim, ³  who tried to call down upon me a horrible judgment when I went to Mahanaim. ⁴  He came down and met me at the Jordan, and I solemnly promised ⁵  him by the Lord, ‘I will not strike you down ⁶  with the sword.’

1 Kings 2:22

2:22 King Solomon answered his mother, “Why just request Abishag the Shunammite for him? ⁷  Since he is my older brother, you should also request the kingdom for him, for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab son of Zeruiah!”

1 Kings 3:6

3:6 Solomon replied, “You demonstrated ⁸  great loyalty to your servant, my father David, as he served ⁹  you faithfully, properly, and sincerely. ¹⁰  You have maintained this great loyalty to this day by allowing his son to sit on his throne. ¹¹ 

1 Kings 5:5

5:5 So I have decided ¹²  to build a temple to honor the Lord ¹³  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.’ ¹⁴ 

1 Kings 12:16

12:16 When all Israel saw that the king refused to listen to them, the people answered the king, “We have no portion in David, no share in the son of Jesse! ¹⁵  Return to your homes, O Israel! ¹⁶  Now, look after your own dynasty, O David!” ¹⁷  So Israel returned to their homes. ¹⁸ 

1 Kings 14:5

14:5 But the Lord had told Ahijah, “Look, Jeroboam’s wife is coming to find out from you what will happen to her son, for he is sick. Tell her so-and-so. ¹⁹  When she comes, she will be in a disguise.”

1 Kings 14:21

Rehoboam’s Reign over Judah

14:21 Now Rehoboam son of Solomon ruled in Judah. He ²⁰  was forty-one years old when he became king and he ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem, ²¹  the city the Lord chose from all the tribes of Israel to be his home. ²²  His mother was an Ammonite woman ²³  named Naamah.

1 Kings 16:7

16:7 The prophet Jehu son of Hanani received from the Lord the message predicting the downfall of Baasha and his family because of all the evil Baasha had done in the sight of the Lord. ²⁴  His actions angered the Lord (including the way he had destroyed Jeroboam’s dynasty), so that his family ended up like Jeroboam’s. ²⁵ 

1 Kings 17:12

17:12 She said, “As certainly as the Lord your God lives, I have no food, except for a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. Right now I am gathering a couple of sticks for a fire. Then I’m going home to make one final meal for my son and myself. After we have eaten that, we will die of starvation.” ²⁶ 

1 Kings 22:8

22:8 The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man through whom we can seek the Lord’s will. ²⁷  But I despise ²⁸  him because he does not prophesy prosperity for me, but disaster. His name is Micaiah son of Imlah. ²⁹  Jehoshaphat said, “The king should not say such things.”

[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.”

[2:8]  ³ tn Heb “Look, with you is Shimei….”

[2:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “and he cursed me with a horrible curse on the day I went to Mahanaim.”

[2:8]  ⁵ tn Or “swore an oath to.”

[2:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “kill you.”

[2:22]  ⁵ tn Heb “for Adonijah.”

[3:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “did.”

[3:6]  ⁸ tn Heb “walked before.”

[3:6]  ⁹ tn Heb “in faithfulness and in innocence and in uprightness of heart with you.”

[3:6]  ¹⁰ 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.”

[5:5]  ⁹ tn Heb “Look, I am saying.”

[5:5]  ¹⁰ 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]  ¹¹ 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.

[12:16]  ¹¹ sn We have no portion in David; no share in the son of Jesse. Their point seems to be that they have no familial relationship with David that brings them any benefits or places upon them any obligations. They are being treated like outsiders.

[12:16]  ¹² tn Heb “to your tents, Israel.” The word “return” is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[12:16]  ¹³ tn Heb “Now see your house, David.”

[12:16]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “went to their tents.”

[14:5]  ¹³ sn Tell her so-and-so. Certainly the Lord gave Ahijah a specific message to give to Jeroboam’s wife (see vv. 6-16), but the author of Kings here condenses the Lord’s message with the words “so-and-so.” For dramatic effect he prefers to have us hear the message from Ahijah’s lips as he speaks to the king’s wife.

[14:21]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “Rehoboam.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[14:21]  ¹⁶ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[14:21]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “the city where the Lord chose to place his name from all the tribes of Israel.”

[14:21]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “an Ammonite”; the word “woman” is implied.

[16:7]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and also through Jehu son of Hanani the word of the Lord came concerning [or “against”] Baasha and his house, and because of all the evil which he did in the eyes of the Lord.”

[16:7]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “angering him by the work of his hands, so that he was like the house of Jeroboam, and because of how he struck it down.”

[17:12]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “Look, I am gathering two sticks and then I will go and make it for me and my son and we will eat it and we will die.”

[22:8]  ²¹ tn Heb “to seek the Lord from him.”

[22:8]  ²² tn Or “hate.”

[22:8]  ²³ tn The words “his name is” are supplied for stylistic reasons.