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 3:3

3:3 Solomon demonstrated his loyalty to the Lord by following ⁴  the practices ⁵  of his father David, except that he offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places.

1 Kings 11:17

11:17 Hadad, ⁶  who was only a small boy at the time, escaped with some of his father’s Edomite servants and headed for Egypt. ⁷ 

1 Kings 11:27

11:27 This is what prompted him to rebel against the king: ⁸  Solomon built a terrace and he closed up a gap in the wall of the city of his father David. ⁹ 

1 Kings 15:24

15:24 Asa passed away ¹⁰  and was buried with his ancestors in the city of his ancestor David. His son Jehoshaphat replaced him as king.

1 Kings 22:50

22:50 Jehoshaphat passed away ¹¹  and was buried with his ancestors in the city of his ancestor ¹²  David. His son Jehoram replaced him as king.

1 Kings 22:52-53

22:52 He did evil in the sight of ¹³  the Lord and followed in the footsteps ¹⁴  of his father and mother; like Jeroboam son of Nebat, he encouraged Israel to sin. ¹⁵  22:53 He worshiped and bowed down to Baal, ¹⁶  angering the Lord God of Israel just as his father had done. ¹⁷ 

[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).

[3:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “Solomon loved the Lord by walking in.”

[3:3]  ⁵ tn Or “policies, rules.”

[11:17]  ⁷ tn The MT reads “Adad,” an alternate form of the name Hadad.

[11:17]  ⁸ tn Heb “and Adad fled, he and Edomite men from the servants of his father, to go to Egypt, and Hadad was a small boy.”

[11:27]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “this is the matter concerning which he raised a hand against the king.”

[11:27]  ¹¹ sn The city of his father David. The phrase refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

[15:24]  ¹³ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

[22:50]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

[22:50]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “with his fathers in the city of his father.”

[22:52]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[22:52]  ²⁰ tn Or “way.”

[22:52]  ²¹ 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.”

[22:53]  ²² tn Heb “he served Baal and bowed down to him.”

[22:53]  ²³ tn Heb “according to all which his father had done.”