1 Kings 1:6

1:6 (Now his father had never corrected ¹  him ²  by saying, “Why do you do such things?” He was also very handsome and had been born right after Absalom. ³ )

1 Kings 1:48

1:48 and said ⁴  this: ‘The Lord God of Israel is worthy of praise because ⁵  today he has placed a successor on my throne and allowed me to see it.’” ⁶ 

1 Kings 3:13

3:13 Furthermore, I am giving ⁷  you what you did not request – riches and honor so that you will be the greatest king of your generation. ⁸ 

1 Kings 8:41

8:41 “Foreigners, who do not belong to your people Israel, will come from a distant land because of your reputation. ⁹ 

1 Kings 10:11

10:11 (Hiram’s fleet, which carried gold from Ophir, also brought from Ophir a very large quantity of fine timber and precious gems.

1 Kings 14:24

14:24 There were also male cultic prostitutes ¹⁰  in the land. They committed the same horrible sins as the nations ¹¹  that the Lord had driven out from before the Israelites.

1 Kings 15:13

15:13 He also removed Maacah his grandmother ¹²  from her position as queen because she had made a loathsome Asherah pole. Asa cut down her Asherah pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

[1:6]  ¹ tn Or “disciplined.”

[1:6]  ² tn Heb “did not correct him from his days.” The phrase “from his days” means “from his earliest days,” or “ever in his life.” See GKC 382 §119.w, n. 2.

[1:6]  ³ tn Heb “and she gave birth to him after Absalom.” This does not imply they had the same mother; Absalom’s mother was Maacah, not Haggith (2 Sam 3:4).

[1:48]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew text reads, “and the king said.”

[1:48]  ⁵ tn Or “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who….” In this blessing formula אֲשֶׁר (’asher, “who; because”) introduces the reason why the one being blessed deserves the honor.

[1:48]  ⁶ tn Heb “and my eyes are seeing.”

[3:13]  ⁷ tn The translation assumes that the perfect tense here indicates that the action occurs as the statement is made.

[3:13]  ⁸ tn Heb “so that there is not one among the kings like you all your days.” The LXX lacks the words “all your days.”

[8:41]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “your name.” In the OT 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.

[14:24]  ¹³ tc The Old Greek translation has “a conspiracy” rather than “male cultic prostitutes.”

[14:24]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “they did according to all the abominable acts of the nations.”

[15:13]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “mother,” but Hebrew often uses the terms “father” and “mother” for grandparents and more remote ancestors.