1 Kings 2:10

2:10 Then David passed away ¹  and was buried in the city of David. ² 

1 Kings 11:43

11:43 Then Solomon passed away ³  and was buried in the city of his father David. ⁴  His son Rehoboam replaced him as king. ⁵ 

1 Kings 15:8

15:8 Abijah passed away ⁶  and was buried ⁷  in the city of David. His son Asa replaced him as king.

1 Kings 16:4

16:4 Dogs will eat the members of Baasha’s family ⁸  who die in the city, and the birds of the sky will eat the ones who die in the country.”

1 Kings 21:24

21:24 As for Ahab’s family, dogs will eat the ones ⁹  who die in the city, and the birds of the sky will eat the ones who die in the country.”

1 Kings 14:11

14:11 Dogs will eat the members of your family ¹⁰  who die in the city, and the birds of the sky will eat the ones who die in the country.”’ Indeed, the Lord has announced it!

1 Kings 14:31

14:31 Rehoboam passed away ¹¹  and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David. His mother was an Ammonite named Naamah. His son Abijah ¹²  replaced him as king.

1 Kings 15:24

15:24 Asa passed away ¹³  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 ¹⁴  and was buried with his ancestors in the city of his ancestor ¹⁵  David. His son Jehoram replaced him as king.

1 Kings 8:16

8:16 He told David, ¹⁶  ‘Since the day I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from all the tribes of Israel to build a temple in which to live. ¹⁷  But I have chosen David to lead my people Israel.’

1 Kings 9:16

9:16 (Pharaoh, king of Egypt, had attacked and captured Gezer. He burned it and killed the Canaanites who lived in the city. He gave it as a wedding present to his daughter, who had married Solomon.)

1 Kings 13:25

13:25 Some men came by ¹⁸  and saw the corpse lying in the road with the lion standing beside it. ¹⁹  They went and reported what they had seen ²⁰  in the city where the old prophet lived.

[2:10]  ¹ tn Heb “and David lay down with his fathers.”

[2:10]  ² sn The phrase the city of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

[11:43]  ³ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

[11:43]  ⁴ 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.

[11:43]  ⁵ tc Before this sentence the Old Greek translation includes the following words: “And it so happened that when Jeroboam son of Nebat heard – now he was in Egypt where he had fled from before Solomon and was residing in Egypt – he came straight to his city in the land of Sarira which is on mount Ephraim. And king Solomon slept with his fathers.”

[15:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.” The Old Greek also has these words: “in the twenty-eighth year of Jeroboam.”

[15:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “and they buried him.”

[16:4]  ⁷ tn Heb “the ones belonging to Baasha.”

[21:24]  ⁹ tn “Dogs will eat the ones who belonging to Ahab who die in the city.”

[14:11]  ¹¹ tn The Hebrew text has “belonging to Jeroboam” here.

[14:31]  ¹³ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

[14:31]  ¹⁴ tn In the Hebrew text the name is spelled “Abijam” here and in 1 Kgs 15:1-8.

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

[22:50]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

[22:50]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “with his fathers in the city of his father.”

[8:16]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “saying.”

[8:16]  ²⁰ tn Heb “to build a house for my name to be there.”

[13:25]  ²¹ tn Heb “Look, men were passing by.”

[13:25]  ²² tn Heb “the corpse.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“it”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[13:25]  ²³ tn The words “what they had seen” are supplied in the translation for clarification.