1 Kings 1:21

1:21 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 2:12

Solomon Secures the Throne

2:12 Solomon sat on his father David’s throne, and his royal authority ⁵  was firmly solidified.

1 Kings 8:17

8:17 Now my father David had a strong desire ⁶  to build a temple to honor the Lord God of Israel. ⁷ 

1 Kings 8:26

8:26 Now, O God of Israel, may the promise you made ⁸  to your servant, my father David, be realized. ⁹ 

1 Kings 8:57

8:57 May the Lord our God be with us, as he was with our ancestors. May he not abandon us or leave us.

1 Kings 11:6

11:6 Solomon did evil in the Lord’s sight; ¹⁰  he did not remain loyal to ¹¹  the Lord, like his father David had.

1 Kings 11:12

11:12 However, for your father David’s sake I will not do this while you are alive. I will tear it away from your son’s hand instead.

1 Kings 15:8

15:8 Abijah passed away ¹²  and was buried ¹³  in the city of David. His son Asa replaced him as king.

1 Kings 15:12

15:12 He removed the male cultic prostitutes from the land and got rid of all the disgusting idols ¹⁴  his ancestors ¹⁵  had made.

1 Kings 15:15

15:15 He brought the holy items that he and his father had made into the Lord’s temple, including the silver, gold, and other articles. ¹⁶ 

1 Kings 15:26

15:26 He did evil in the sight of ¹⁷  the Lord. He followed in his father’s footsteps and encouraged Israel to sin. ¹⁸ 

1 Kings 16:6

16:6 Baasha passed away ¹⁹  and was buried in Tirzah. His son Elah replaced him as king.

1 Kings 16:28

16:28 Omri passed away ²⁰  and was buried in Samaria. His son Ahab replaced him as king. ²¹ 

1 Kings 21:3

21:3 But Naboth replied to Ahab, “The Lord forbid that I should sell you my ancestral inheritance.” ²² 

1 Kings 22:46

22:46 He removed from the land any male cultic prostitutes who had managed to survive the reign of his father Asa. ²³ 

[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.”

[2:12]  ⁵ tn Or “kingship.”

[8:17]  ⁹ tn Heb “and it was with the heart of David my father.”

[8:17]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “to build a house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.” The word “name” in the OT sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor. The “name” of the Lord sometimes designates the Lord himself, being indistinguishable from the proper name.

[8:26]  ¹³ tn Heb “the words that you spoke.”

[8:26]  ¹⁴ tn Or “prove to be reliable.”

[11:6]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “in the eyes of the Lord.”

[11:6]  ¹⁸ tn The idiomatic statement reads in Hebrew, “he did not fill up after.”

[15:8]  ²¹ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.” The Old Greek also has these words: “in the twenty-eighth year of Jeroboam.”

[15:8]  ²² tn Heb “and they buried him.”

[15:12]  ²⁵ tn The word used here, גִלּוּלִים [gillulim], is always used as a disdainful reference to idols. It is generally thought to have originally referred to “dung pellets” (cf. KBL 183 s.v. גִלּוּלִים). It is only one of several terms used in this way, such as “worthless things” (אֱלִילִים, ’elilim), “vanities” or “empty winds” (הֲבָלִים, havalim).

[15:12]  ²⁶ tn Heb “fathers” (also in v. 24).

[15:15]  ²⁹ tn Heb “and he brought the holy things of his father and his holy things (into) the house of the Lord, silver, gold, and items.” Instead of “his holy things,” a marginal reading (Qere) in the Hebrew text has “the holy things of [the house of the Lord].”

[15:26]  ³³ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[15:26]  ³⁴ tn Heb “and he walked in the way of his father and in his sin which he made Israel sin.”

[16:6]  ³⁷ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

[16:28]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

[16:28]  ⁴² tc The Old Greek has eight additional verses here. Cf. 1 Kgs 22:41-44.

[21:3]  ⁴⁵ tn Heb “Far be it from me, by the Lord, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you.”

[22:46]  ⁴⁹ tn Heb “and the rest of the male cultic prostitutes who were left in the days of Asa his father, he burned from the land.” Some understand the verb בִּעֵר (bi’er) to mean “sweep away” here rather than “burn.” See the note at 1 Kgs 14:10.