1 Kings 1:19

1:19 He has sacrificed many cattle, steers, and sheep and has invited all the king’s sons, Abiathar the priest, and Joab, the commander of the army, but he has not invited your servant Solomon.

1 Kings 2:38

2:38 Shimei said to the king, “My master the king’s proposal is acceptable. ¹  Your servant will do as you say.” ²  So Shimei lived in Jerusalem for a long time. ³ 

1 Kings 3:7-8

3:7 Now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in my father David’s place, even though I am only a young man and am inexperienced. ⁴  3:8 Your servant stands ⁵  among your chosen people; ⁶  they are a great nation that is too numerous to count or number.

1 Kings 8:24

8:24 You have kept your word to your servant, my father David; ⁷  this very day you have fulfilled what you promised. ⁸ 

1 Kings 8:32

8:32 Listen from heaven and make a just decision about your servants’ claims. Condemn the guilty party, declare the other innocent, and give both of them what they deserve. ⁹ 

1 Kings 8:52

8:52 “May you be attentive ¹⁰  to your servant’s and your people Israel’s requests for help and may you respond to all their prayers to you. ¹¹ 

1 Kings 10:5

10:5 the food in his banquet hall, ¹²  his servants and attendants, ¹³  their robes, his cupbearers, and his burnt offerings which he presented in the Lord’s temple, she was amazed. ¹⁴ 

1 Kings 11:13

11:13 But I will not tear away the entire kingdom; I will leave ¹⁵  your son one tribe for my servant David’s sake and for the sake of my chosen city Jerusalem.”

1 Kings 11:17

11:17 Hadad, ¹⁶  who was only a small boy at the time, escaped with some of his father’s Edomite servants and headed for Egypt. ¹⁷ 

1 Kings 11:26

11:26 Jeroboam son of Nebat, one of Solomon’s servants, rebelled against ¹⁸  the king. He was an Ephraimite ¹⁹  from Zeredah whose mother was a widow named Zeruah.

1 Kings 11:32

11:32 He will retain one tribe, for my servant David’s sake and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.

1 Kings 14:18

14:18 All Israel buried him and mourned for him, just as the Lord had predicted ²⁰  through his servant the prophet Ahijah.

1 Kings 16:9

16:9 His servant Zimri, a commander of half of his chariot force, conspired against him. While Elah was drinking heavily ²¹  at the house of Arza, who supervised the palace in Tirzah,

1 Kings 20:12

20:12 When Ben Hadad received this reply, ²²  he and the other kings were drinking in their quarters. ²³  He ordered his servants, “Get ready to attack!” So they got ready to attack the city.

1 Kings 20:40

20:40 Well, it just so happened that while your servant was doing this and that, he disappeared.” The king of Israel said to him, “Your punishment is already determined by your own testimony.” ²⁴ 

1 Kings 22:3

22:3 The king of Israel said to his servants, “Surely you recognize that Ramoth Gilead belongs to us, though we are hesitant to reclaim it from the king of Syria.” ²⁵ 

[2:38]  ¹ tn Heb “Good is the word, as my master the king has spoken.”

[2:38]  ² tn Heb “so your servant will do.”

[2:38]  ³ tn Heb “many days.”

[3:7]  ¹ tn Heb “and I do not know going out or coming in.”

[3:8]  ¹ tn There is no verb expressed in the Hebrew text; “stands” is supplied in the translation for clarification.

[3:8]  ² tn Heb “your people whom you have chosen.”

[8:24]  ¹ tn Heb “[you] who kept to your servant David my father that which you spoke to him.”

[8:24]  ² tn Heb “you spoke by your mouth and by your hand you fulfilled, as this day.”

[8:32]  ¹ tn Heb “and you, hear [from] heaven and act and judge your servants by declaring the guilty to be guilty, to give his way on his head, and to declare the innocent to be innocent, to give to him according to his innocence.”

[8:52]  ¹ tn Heb “May your eyes be open.”

[8:52]  ² tn Heb “to listen to them in all their calling out to you.”

[10:5]  ¹ tn Heb “the food on his table.”

[10:5]  ² tn Heb “the seating of his servants and the standing of his attendants.”

[10:5]  ³ tn Heb “there was no breath still in her.”

[11:13]  ¹ tn Heb “give.”

[11:17]  ¹ tn The MT reads “Adad,” an alternate form of the name Hadad.

[11:17]  ² 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.”

[11:26]  ¹ tn Heb “raised a hand against.”

[11:26]  ² tn Heb “Ephrathite,” which here refers to an Ephraimite (see HALOT 81 s.v. אֶפְרַיִם).

[14:18]  ¹ tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord which he spoke.”

[16:9]  ¹ tn Heb “while he was drinking and drunken.”

[20:12]  ¹ tn Heb “When he heard this word.”

[20:12]  ² tn Heb “in the temporary shelters.” This is probably referring to tents.

[20:40]  ¹ tn Heb “so [i.e., in accordance with his testimony] is your judgment, you have determined [it].”

[22:3]  ¹ tn Heb “Do you know that Ramoth Gilead belongs to us, and we hesitate to take it from the hand of the king of Aram?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course, you must know!”