1 Kings 2:37

2:37 If you ever do leave and cross the Kidron Valley, know for sure that you will certainly die! You will be responsible for your own death.” ¹ 

1 Kings 1:11

1:11 Nathan said to Bathsheba, Solomon’s mother, “Has it been reported to you ²  that Haggith’s son Adonijah has become king behind our master David’s back? ³ 

1 Kings 2:42

2:42 the king summoned ⁴  Shimei and said to him, “You will recall ⁵  that I made you take an oath by the Lord, and I solemnly warned you, ‘If you ever leave and go anywhere, ⁶  know for sure that you will certainly die.’ You said to me, ‘The proposal is acceptable; I agree to it.’ ⁷ 

1 Kings 2:44

2:44 Then the king said to Shimei, “You are well aware of the way you mistreated my father David. ⁸  The Lord will punish you for what you did. ⁹ 

1 Kings 5:6

5:6 So now order some cedars of Lebanon to be cut for me. My servants will work with your servants. I will pay your servants whatever you say is appropriate, for you know that we have no one among us who knows how to cut down trees like the Sidonians.”

1 Kings 2:32

2:32 May the Lord punish him for the blood he shed; ¹⁰  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 ¹¹  – Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army.

[2:37]  ¹ tn Heb “your blood will be upon your head.”

[1:11]  ² tn Heb “Have you not heard?”

[1:11]  ³ tn Heb “and our master David does not know.”

[2:42]  ³ tn Heb “sent and summoned.”

[2:42]  ⁴ tn Heb “Is it not [true]…?” In the Hebrew text the statement is interrogative; the rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course it is.”

[2:42]  ⁵ tn Heb “here or there.”

[2:42]  ⁶ tn Heb “good is the word; I have heard.”

[2:44]  ⁴ tn Heb “You know all the evil, for your heart knows, which you did to David my father.”

[2:44]  ⁵ tn Heb “The Lord will cause your evil to return upon your head.”

[2:32]  ⁵ tn Heb “The Lord will cause his blood to return upon his head.”

[2:32]  ⁶ 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.”