1 Kings 14:12-13

14:12 “As for you, get up and go home. When you set foot in the city, the boy will die. 14:13 All Israel will mourn him and bury him. He is the only one in Jeroboam’s family ¹  who will receive a decent burial, for he is the only one in whom the Lord God of Israel found anything good.

1 Kings 14:1

14:1 ² At that time Jeroboam’s son Abijah became sick.

1 Kings 2:20-34

2:20 She said, “I would like to ask you for just one small favor. ³  Please don’t refuse me.” ⁴  He said, ⁵  “Go ahead and ask, my mother, for I would not refuse you.” 2:21 She said, “Allow Abishag the Shunammite to be given to your brother Adonijah as a wife.” 2:22 King Solomon answered his mother, “Why just request Abishag the Shunammite for him? ⁶  Since he is my older brother, you should also request the kingdom for him, for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab son of Zeruiah!”

2:23 King Solomon then swore an oath by the Lord, “May God judge me severely, ⁷  if Adonijah does not pay for this request with his life! ⁸  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 ⁹  for me as he promised), Adonijah will be executed today!” 2:25 King Solomon then sent ¹⁰  Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and he killed Adonijah. ¹¹ 

2:26 The king then told Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your property ¹²  in Anathoth. You deserve to die, ¹³  but today I will not kill you because you did carry the ark of the sovereign Lord before my father David and you suffered with my father through all his difficult times.” ¹⁴  2:27 Solomon dismissed Abiathar from his position as priest of the Lord, ¹⁵  fulfilling the decree of judgment the Lord made in Shiloh against the family of Eli. ¹⁶ 

2:28 When the news reached Joab (for Joab had supported ¹⁷  Adonijah, although he had not supported Absalom), he ¹⁸  ran to the tent of the Lord and grabbed hold of the horns of the altar. ¹⁹  2:29 When King Solomon heard ²⁰  that Joab had run to the tent of the Lord and was right there beside the altar, he ordered Benaiah son of Jehoiada, ²¹  “Go, strike him down.” 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. ²²  2:31 The king told him, “Do as he said! Strike him down and bury him. Take away from me and from my father’s family ²³  the guilt of Joab’s murderous, bloody deeds. ²⁴  2:32 May the Lord punish him for the blood he shed; ²⁵  behind my father David’s back he struck down and murdered with the sword two men who were more innocent and morally upright than he ²⁶  – Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army. 2:33 May Joab and his descendants be perpetually guilty of their shed blood, but may the Lord give perpetual peace to David, his descendants, his family, ²⁷  and his dynasty.” ²⁸  2:34 So Benaiah son of Jehoiada went up and executed Joab; ²⁹  he was buried at his home in the wilderness.

1 Kings 4:18-20

4:18 Shimei son of Ela was in charge of Benjamin.

4:19 Geber son of Uri was in charge of the land of Gilead (the territory which had once belonged to King Sihon of the Amorites and to King Og of Bashan). He was sole governor of the area.

Solomon’s Wealth and Fame

4:20 The people of Judah and Israel were as innumerable as the sand on the seashore; they had plenty to eat and drink and were happy.

[14:13]  ¹ tn Heb “house.”

[14:1]  ² tc Some mss of the Old Greek lack vv. 1-20.

[2:20]  ³ tn Or “I’d like to make just one request of you.”

[2:20]  ⁴ tn Heb “Do not turn back my face.”

[2:20]  ⁵ tn Heb “and the king said to her.”

[2:22]  ⁶ tn Heb “for Adonijah.”

[2:23]  ⁷ tn Heb “So may God do to me, and so may he add.”

[2:23]  ⁸ tn Heb “if with his life Adonijah has not spoken this word.”

[2:24]  ⁹ tn Heb “house.”

[2:25]  ¹⁰ tn The Hebrew text adds, “by the hand of.”

[2:25]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and he struck him and he died.”

[2:26]  ¹² tn Or “field.”

[2:26]  ¹³ tn Heb “you are a man of death.”

[2:26]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and because you suffered through all which my father suffered.”

[2:27]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “Solomon drove out Abiathar from being a priest to the Lord.”

[2:27]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “fulfilling the word of the Lord which he spoke against the house of Eli in Shiloh.”

[2:28]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “turned after” (also later in this verse).

[2:28]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “Joab.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[2:28]  ¹⁹ sn Grabbed hold of the horns of the altar. The “horns” of the altar were the horn-shaped projections on the four corners of the altar (see Exod 27:2). By going to the holy place and grabbing hold of the horns of the altar, Joab was seeking asylum from Solomon.

[2:29]  ²⁰ tn Heb “and it was related to King Solomon.”

[2:29]  ²¹ tn Heb “so Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, saying.”

[2:30]  ²² tn Heb “saying, “In this way Joab spoke and in this way he answered me.”

[2:31]  ²³ tn Heb “house.”

[2:31]  ²⁴ tn Heb “take away the undeserved bloodshed which Joab spilled from upon me and from upon the house of my father.”

[2:32]  ²⁵ tn Heb “The Lord will cause his blood to return upon his head.”

[2:32]  ²⁶ tn Heb “because he struck down two men more innocent and better than he and he killed them with the sword, and my father David did not know.”

[2:33]  ²⁷ tn Heb “house.”

[2:33]  ²⁸ tn Heb “his throne.”

[2:34]  ²⁹ tn Heb “struck him and killed him.” The referent (Joab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.