1 Kings 2:7

2:7 “Treat fairly ¹  the sons of Barzillai of Gilead and provide for their needs, ²  because they helped me ³  when I had to flee from your brother Absalom.

1 Kings 11:17

11:17 Hadad, ⁴  who was only a small boy at the time, escaped with some of his father’s Edomite servants and headed for Egypt. ⁵ 

1 Kings 11:23

11:23 God also brought against Solomon ⁶  another enemy, Rezon son of Eliada who had run away from his master, King Hadadezer of Zobah.

1 Kings 11:40

11:40 Solomon tried to kill Jeroboam, but Jeroboam escaped to Egypt and found refuge with King Shishak of Egypt. ⁷  He stayed in Egypt until Solomon died.

1 Kings 12:2

12:2 ⁸  When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard the news, he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon and had been living ever since. ⁹ 

[2:7]  ¹ tn Heb “do loyalty with”; or “act faithfully toward.”

[2:7]  ² tn Heb “and let them be among the ones who eat [at] your table.”

[2:7]  ³ tn Heb “drew near to.”

[11:17]  ⁴ tn The MT reads “Adad,” an alternate form of the name Hadad.

[11:17]  ⁵ tn Heb “and Adad fled, he and Edomite men from the servants of his father, to go to Egypt, and Hadad was a small boy.”

[11:23]  ⁷ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Solomon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[11:40]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “but Jeroboam arose and ran away to Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt.”

[12:2]  ¹³ tc Verse 2 is not included in the Old Greek translation. See the note on 11:43.

[12:2]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and Jeroboam lived in Egypt.” The parallel text in 2 Chr 10:2 reads, “and Jeroboam returned from Egypt.” In a purely consonantal text the forms “and he lived” and “and he returned” are identical (וישׁב).