1 Kings 2:4

2:4 and the Lord will fulfill his promise to me, ¹  ‘If your descendants watch their step ²  and live faithfully in my presence ³  with all their heart and being, ⁴  then,’ he promised, ⁵  ‘you will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’ ⁶ 

1 Kings 6:6

6:6 The bottom floor of the extension was seven and a half feet ⁷  wide, the middle floor nine feet ⁸  wide, and the third floor ten and a half ⁹  feet wide. He made ledges ¹⁰  on the temple’s outer walls so the beams would not have to be inserted into the walls. ¹¹ 

1 Kings 8:25

8:25 Now, O Lord, God of Israel, keep the promise you made to your servant, my father David, when you said, ‘You will never fail to have a successor ruling before me on the throne of Israel, ¹²  provided that your descendants watch their step and serve me as you have done.’ ¹³ 

1 Kings 12:16

12:16 When all Israel saw that the king refused to listen to them, the people answered the king, “We have no portion in David, no share in the son of Jesse! ¹⁴  Return to your homes, O Israel! ¹⁵  Now, look after your own dynasty, O David!” ¹⁶  So Israel returned to their homes. ¹⁷ 

1 Kings 13:6

13:6 The king pled with ¹⁸  the prophet, ¹⁹  “Seek the favor of ²⁰  the Lord your God and pray for me, so that my hand may be restored.” So the prophet sought the Lord’s favor ²¹  and the king’s hand was restored to its former condition. ²² 

1 Kings 14:5

14:5 But the Lord had told Ahijah, “Look, Jeroboam’s wife is coming to find out from you what will happen to her son, for he is sick. Tell her so-and-so. ²³  When she comes, she will be in a disguise.”

1 Kings 18:12

18:12 But when I leave you, the Lord’s spirit will carry you away so I can’t find you. ²⁴  If I go tell Ahab I’ve seen you, he won’t be able to find you and he will kill me. ²⁵  That would not be fair, ²⁶  because your servant has been a loyal follower of ²⁷  the Lord from my youth.

1 Kings 18:26

18:26 So they took a bull, as he had suggested, ²⁸  and prepared it. They invoked the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, “Baal, answer us.” But there was no sound and no answer. They jumped ²⁹  around on the altar they had made. ³⁰ 

1 Kings 21:2

21:2 Ahab said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard so I can make a vegetable garden out of it, for it is adjacent to my palace. I will give you an even better vineyard in its place, or if you prefer, ³¹  I will pay you silver for it.” ³² 

[2:4]  ¹ tn Heb “then the Lord will establish his word which he spoke to me, saying.”

[2:4]  ² tn Heb “guard their way.”

[2:4]  ³ tn Heb “by walking before me in faithfulness.”

[2:4]  ⁴ tn Or “soul.”

[2:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “saying.”

[2:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel.”

[6:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “five cubits.”

[6:6]  ⁸ tn Heb “six cubits.”

[6:6]  ⁹ tn Heb “seven cubits.”

[6:6]  ¹⁰ tn Or “offsets” (ASV, NAB, NASB, NRSV); NIV “offset ledges.”

[6:6]  ¹¹ tn Heb “so that [the beams] would not have a hold in the walls of the temple.”

[8:25]  ¹³ tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from before me sitting on the throne of Israel.”

[8:25]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “guard their way by walking before me as you have walked before me.”

[12:16]  ¹⁹ sn We have no portion in David; no share in the son of Jesse. Their point seems to be that they have no familial relationship with David that brings them any benefits or places upon them any obligations. They are being treated like outsiders.

[12:16]  ²⁰ tn Heb “to your tents, Israel.” The word “return” is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[12:16]  ²¹ tn Heb “Now see your house, David.”

[12:16]  ²² tn Heb “went to their tents.”

[13:6]  ²⁵ tn Heb “The king answered and said to.”

[13:6]  ²⁶ tn Heb “the man of God” (a second time later in this verse, and once in v. 7 and v. 8).

[13:6]  ²⁷ tn Heb “appease the face of.”

[13:6]  ²⁸ tn Heb “appeased the face of the Lord.”

[13:6]  ²⁹ tn Heb “and it was as in the beginning.”

[14:5]  ³¹ sn Tell her so-and-so. Certainly the Lord gave Ahijah a specific message to give to Jeroboam’s wife (see vv. 6-16), but the author of Kings here condenses the Lord’s message with the words “so-and-so.” For dramatic effect he prefers to have us hear the message from Ahijah’s lips as he speaks to the king’s wife.

[18:12]  ³⁷ tn Heb “to [a place] which I do not know.”

[18:12]  ³⁸ tn Heb “and I will go to inform Ahab and he will not find you and he will kill me.”

[18:12]  ³⁹ tn The words “that would not be fair” are added to clarify the logic of Obadiah’s argument.

[18:12]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “has feared the Lord” (also see the note at 1 Kgs 18:3).

[18:26]  ⁴³ tn Heb “and they took the bull which he allowed them.”

[18:26]  ⁴⁴ tn Heb “limped” (the same verb is used in v. 21).

[18:26]  ⁴⁵ tc The MT has “which he made,” but some medieval Hebrew mss and the ancient versions have the plural form of the verb.

[21:2]  ⁴⁹ tn Heb “if it is good in your eyes.”

[21:2]  ⁵⁰ tc The Old Greek translation includes the following words: “And it will be mine as a garden of herbs.”