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 2:24

2:24 Now, as certainly as the Lord lives (he who made me secure, allowed me to sit on my father David’s throne, and established a dynasty ⁴  for me as he promised), Adonijah will be executed today!”

1 Kings 2:44

2:44 Then the king said to Shimei, “You are well aware of the way you mistreated my father David. ⁵  The Lord will punish you for what you did. ⁶ 

1 Kings 3:7

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. ⁷ 

1 Kings 5:1

Solomon Gathers Building Materials for the Temple

5:1 (5:15) ⁸  King Hiram of Tyre ⁹  sent messengers ¹⁰  to Solomon when he heard that he had been anointed king in his father’s place. (Hiram had always been an ally of David.)

1 Kings 5:3

5:3 “You know that my father David was unable to build a temple to honor the Lord ¹¹  his God, for he was busy fighting battles on all fronts while the Lord subdued his enemies. ¹² 

1 Kings 6:12

6:12 “As for this temple you are building, if you follow ¹³  my rules, observe ¹⁴  my regulations, and obey all my commandments, ¹⁵  I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David. ¹⁶ 

1 Kings 9:4-5

9:4 You must serve me with integrity and sincerity, just as your father David did. Do everything I commanded and obey my rules and regulations. ¹⁷  9:5 Then I will allow your dynasty to rule over Israel permanently, ¹⁸  just as I promised your father David, ‘You will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’ ¹⁹ 

1 Kings 11:4

11:4 When Solomon became old, his wives shifted his allegiance to ²⁰  other gods; he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God, as his father David had been. ²¹ 

1 Kings 19:20

19:20 He left the oxen, ran after Elijah, and said, “Please let me kiss my father and mother goodbye, then I will follow you.” Elijah ²²  said to him, “Go back! Indeed, what have I done to you?”

1 Kings 22:52

22:52 He did evil in the sight of ²³  the Lord and followed in the footsteps ²⁴  of his father and mother; like Jeroboam son of Nebat, he encouraged Israel to sin. ²⁵ 

[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).

[2:24]  ⁴ tn Heb “house.”

[2:44]  ⁷ tn Heb “You know all the evil, for your heart knows, which you did to David my father.”

[2:44]  ⁸ tn Heb “The Lord will cause your evil to return upon your head.”

[3:7]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and I do not know going out or coming in.”

[5:1]  ¹³ sn The verse numbers in the English Bible differ from those in the Hebrew text (BHS) here; 5:1-18 in the English Bible corresponds to 5:15-32 in the Hebrew text. See the note at 4:21.

[5:1]  ¹⁴ map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[5:1]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “his servants.”

[5:3]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “a house for the name of the Lord.” 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.

[5:3]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “because of the battles which surrounded him until the Lord placed them under the soles of his feet.”

[6:12]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “walk in.”

[6:12]  ²⁰ tn Heb “do.”

[6:12]  ²¹ tn Heb “and keep all my commandments by walking in them.”

[6:12]  ²² tn Heb “I will establish my word with you which I spoke to David your father.”

[9:4]  ²² tn Heb “As for you, if you walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, by doing all which I commanded you, [and] you keep my rules and my regulations.” Verse 4 is actually a lengthy protasis (“if” section) of a conditional sentence, the apodosis (“then” section) of which appears in v. 5.

[9:5]  ²⁵ tn Heb “I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever.”

[9:5]  ²⁶ tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel.”

[11:4]  ²⁸ tn Heb “bent his heart after.”

[11:4]  ²⁹ tn Heb “his heart was not complete with the Lord his God, like the heart of David his father.”

[19:20]  ³¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[22:52]  ³⁴ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[22:52]  ³⁵ tn Or “way.”

[22:52]  ³⁶ tn Heb “and walked in the way of his father and in the way of his mother and in the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat who made Israel sin.”