Discovery Box1 Kings 1:21
Context1:21 If a decision is not made, 1 when my master the king is buried with his ancestors, 2 my son Solomon and I 3 will be considered state criminals.” 4
1 Kings 11:43
Context11:43 Then Solomon passed away 5 and was buried in the city of his father David. 6 His son Rehoboam replaced him as king. 7
1 Kings 15:8
Context15:8 Abijah passed away 8 and was buried 9 in the city of David. His son Asa replaced him as king.
1 Kings 16:6
Context16:6 Baasha passed away 10 and was buried in Tirzah. His son Elah replaced him as king.
1 Kings 16:28
Context16:28 Omri passed away 11 and was buried in Samaria. His son Ahab replaced him as king. 12
1 Kings 19:6
Context19:6 He looked and right there by his head was a cake baking on hot coals and a jug of water. He ate and drank and then slept some more. 13
[1:21] 1 tn The words “if a decision is not made” are added for clarification.
[1:21] 2 tn Heb “lies down with his fathers.”
[1:21] 3 tn Heb “I and my son Solomon.” The order has been reversed in the translation for stylistic reasons.
[1:21] 4 tn Heb “will be guilty”; NASB “considered offenders”; TEV “treated as traitors.”
[11:43] 5 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
[11:43] 6 sn The city of his father David. The phrase refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
[11:43] 7 tc Before this sentence the Old Greek translation includes the following words: “And it so happened that when Jeroboam son of Nebat heard – now he was in Egypt where he had fled from before Solomon and was residing in Egypt – he came straight to his city in the land of Sarira which is on mount Ephraim. And king Solomon slept with his fathers.”
[15:8] 9 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.” The Old Greek also has these words: “in the twenty-eighth year of Jeroboam.”
[15:8] 10 tn Heb “and they buried him.”
[16:6] 13 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
[16:28] 17 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
[16:28] 18 tc The Old Greek has eight additional verses here. Cf. 1 Kgs 22:41-44.
