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 1:51

1:51 Solomon was told, “Look, Adonijah fears you; ⁴  see, he has taken hold of the horns of the altar, saying, ‘May King Solomon solemnly promise ⁵  me today that he will not kill his servant with the sword.’”

1 Kings 2:15

2:15 He said, “You know that the kingdom ⁶  was mine and all Israel considered me king. ⁷  But then the kingdom was given to my brother, for the Lord decided it should be his. ⁸ 

1 Kings 2:39

2:39 Three years later two of Shimei’s servants ran away to King Achish son of Maacah of Gath. Shimei was told, “Look, your servants are in Gath.”

[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).

[1:51]  ⁴ tn Heb “King Solomon.” The name and title have been replaced by the pronoun (“you”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[1:51]  ⁵ tn Or “swear an oath to.”

[2:15]  ⁷ tn Or “kingship.”

[2:15]  ⁸ tn Heb “set their face to me to be king.”

[2:15]  ⁹ tn Heb “and the kingdom turned about and became my brother’s, for from the Lord it became his.”