1 Kings 1:9

1:9 Adonijah sacrificed sheep, cattle, and fattened steers at the Stone of Zoheleth near En Rogel. He invited all his brothers, the king’s sons, ¹  as well as all the men of Judah, the king’s servants.

1 Kings 1:13

1:13 Visit ²  King David and say to him, ‘My master, O king, did you not solemnly promise ³  your servant, “Surely your son Solomon will be king after me; he will sit on my throne”? So why has Adonijah become king?’

1 Kings 1:25

1:25 For today he has gone down and sacrificed many cattle, steers, and sheep and has invited all the king’s sons, the army commanders, and Abiathar the priest. At this moment ⁴  they are having a feast ⁵  in his presence, and they have declared, ‘Long live King Adonijah!’ ⁶ 

1 Kings 1:27

1:27 Has my master the king authorized this without informing your servants ⁷  who should succeed my master the king on his throne?” ⁸ 

1 Kings 1:44

1:44 The king sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites, and the Pelethites and they put him on the king’s mule.

1 Kings 1:51

1:51 Solomon was told, “Look, Adonijah fears you; ⁹  see, he has taken hold of the horns of the altar, saying, ‘May King Solomon solemnly promise ¹⁰  me today that he will not kill his servant with the sword.’”

1 Kings 2:30

2:30 When Benaiah arrived at the tent of the Lord, he said to him, “The king says, ‘Come out!’” But he replied, “No, I will die here!” So Benaiah sent word to the king and reported Joab’s reply. ¹¹ 

1 Kings 3:28

3:28 When all Israel heard about the judicial decision which the king had rendered, they respected ¹²  the king, for they realized ¹³  that he possessed supernatural wisdom ¹⁴  to make judicial decisions.

1 Kings 4:27

4:27 The district governors acquired supplies for King Solomon and all who ate in his royal palace. ¹⁵  Each was responsible for one month in the year; they made sure nothing was lacking.

1 Kings 10:12

10:12 With the timber the king made supports ¹⁶  for the Lord’s temple and for the royal palace and stringed instruments ¹⁷  for the musicians. No one has seen so much of this fine timber to this very day. ¹⁸ )

1 Kings 13:6

13:6 The king pled with ¹⁹  the prophet, ²⁰  “Seek the favor of ²¹  the Lord your God and pray for me, so that my hand may be restored.” So the prophet sought the Lord’s favor ²²  and the king’s hand was restored to its former condition. ²³ 

[1:9]  ¹ tc The ancient Greek version omits this appositional phrase.

[1:13]  ² tn Heb “come, go to.” The imperative of הָלַךְ (halakh) is here used as an introductory interjection. See BDB 234 s.v. חָלַךְ.

[1:13]  ³ tn Or “swear an oath to.”

[1:25]  ³ tn Heb “look.”

[1:25]  ⁴ tn Heb “eating and drinking.”

[1:25]  ⁵ tn Heb “let the king, Adonijah, live!”

[1:27]  ⁴ tc Many Hebrew mss and ancient textual witnesses agree with the Qere in reading this as singular, “your servant.”

[1:27]  ⁵ tn Heb “From my master the king is this thing done, and you did not make known to your servants who will sit on the throne of my master the king after him?”

[1:51]  ⁵ tn Heb “King Solomon.” The name and title have been replaced by the pronoun (“you”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[1:51]  ⁶ tn Or “swear an oath to.”

[2:30]  ⁶ tn Heb “saying, “In this way Joab spoke and in this way he answered me.”

[3:28]  ⁷ tn Heb “feared,” perhaps in the sense, “stood in awe of.”

[3:28]  ⁸ tn Heb “saw.”

[3:28]  ⁹ tn Heb “the wisdom of God within him.”

[4:27]  ⁸ tn Heb “everyone who drew near to the table of King Solomon.”

[10:12]  ⁹ tn This Hebrew architectural term occurs only here. The meaning is uncertain; some have suggested “banisters” or “parapets”; cf. TEV, NLT “railings.” The parallel passage in 2 Chr 9:11 has a different word, meaning “tracks,” or perhaps “steps.”

[10:12]  ¹⁰ tn Two types of stringed instruments are specifically mentioned, the כִּנּוֹר (kinnor, “zither” [?]), and נֶבֶל (nevel, “harp”).

[10:12]  ¹¹ tn Heb “there has not come thus, the fine timber, and there has not been seen to this day.”

[13:6]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “The king answered and said to.”

[13:6]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the man of God” (a second time later in this verse, and once in v. 7 and v. 8).

[13:6]  ¹² tn Heb “appease the face of.”

[13:6]  ¹³ tn Heb “appeased the face of the Lord.”

[13:6]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and it was as in the beginning.”