1 Kings 1:6
Context1:6 (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 3:17
Context3:17 One of the women said, “My master, this woman and I live in the same house. I had a baby while she was with me in the house.
1 Kings 3:21
Context3:21 I got up in the morning to nurse my son, and there he was, 4 dead! But when I examined him carefully in the morning, I realized it was not my baby.” 5
1 Kings 3:27
Context3:27 The king responded, “Give the first woman the living child; don’t kill him. She is the mother.”


[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).
[3:21] 5 tn Heb “look, it was not my son to whom I had given birth.”