1 Kings 3:3

3:3 Solomon demonstrated his loyalty to the Lord by following ¹  the practices ²  of his father David, except that he offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places.

1 Kings 3:14

3:14 If you follow my instructions ³  by obeying ⁴  my rules and regulations, just as your father David did, ⁵  then I will grant you long life.” ⁶ 

1 Kings 8:15

8:15 He said, “The Lord God of Israel is worthy of praise because he has fulfilled ⁷  what he promised ⁸  my father David.

1 Kings 8:24

8:24 You have kept your word to your servant, my father David; ⁹  this very day you have fulfilled what you promised. ¹⁰ 

1 Kings 11:6

11:6 Solomon did evil in the Lord’s sight; ¹¹  he did not remain loyal to ¹²  the Lord, like his father David had.

1 Kings 11:12

11:12 However, for your father David’s sake I will not do this while you are alive. I will tear it away from your son’s hand instead.

1 Kings 11:27

11:27 This is what prompted him to rebel against the king: ¹³  Solomon built a terrace and he closed up a gap in the wall of the city of his father David. ¹⁴ 

1 Kings 11:43

11:43 Then Solomon passed away ¹⁵  and was buried in the city of his father David. ¹⁶  His son Rehoboam replaced him as king. ¹⁷ 

1 Kings 12:6

12:6 King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served ¹⁸  his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, ¹⁹  “How do you advise me to answer these people?”

1 Kings 12:9

12:9 He asked them, “How do you advise me ²⁰  to respond to these people who said to me, ‘Lessen the demands your father placed on us’?” ²¹ 

1 Kings 13:12

13:12 Their father asked them, “Which road did he take?” His sons showed him ²²  the road the prophet ²³  from Judah had taken.

1 Kings 15:15

15:15 He brought the holy items that he and his father had made into the Lord’s temple, including the silver, gold, and other articles. ²⁴ 

[3:3]  ¹ tn Heb “Solomon loved the Lord by walking in.”

[3:3]  ² tn Or “policies, rules.”

[3:14]  ³ tn Heb “walk in my ways.”

[3:14]  ⁴ tn Or “keeping.”

[3:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “walked.”

[3:14]  ⁶ tn Heb “I will lengthen your days.”

[8:15]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew text reads, “by his hand.”

[8:15]  ⁶ tn The Hebrew text reads, “by his mouth.”

[8:24]  ⁷ tn Heb “[you] who kept to your servant David my father that which you spoke to him.”

[8:24]  ⁸ tn Heb “you spoke by your mouth and by your hand you fulfilled, as this day.”

[11:6]  ⁹ tn Heb “in the eyes of the Lord.”

[11:6]  ¹⁰ tn The idiomatic statement reads in Hebrew, “he did not fill up after.”

[11:27]  ¹¹ tn Heb “this is the matter concerning which he raised a hand against the king.”

[11:27]  ¹² 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]  ¹³ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

[11:43]  ¹⁴ 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]  ¹⁵ 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.”

[12:6]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “stood before.”

[12:6]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “saying.”

[12:9]  ¹⁷ tn In the Hebrew text the verb “we will respond” is plural, although it can be understood as an editorial “we.” The ancient versions have the singular here.

[12:9]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “Lighten the yoke which your father placed on us.”

[13:12]  ¹⁹ tn The Hebrew text has “and his sons saw” (וַיִּרְאוּ [vayyir’u], Qal from רָאָה [ra’ah]). In this case the verbal construction (vav consecutive + prefixed verbal form) would have to be understood as pluperfect, “his sons had seen.” Such uses of this construction are rare at best. Consequently many, following the lead of the ancient versions, prefer to emend the verbal form to a Hiphil with pronominal suffix (וַיַּרְאֻהוּ [vayyar’uhu], “and they showed him”).

[13:12]  ²⁰ tn Heb “the man of God.”

[15:15]  ²¹ tn Heb “and he brought the holy things of his father and his holy things (into) the house of the Lord, silver, gold, and items.” Instead of “his holy things,” a marginal reading (Qere) in the Hebrew text has “the holy things of [the house of the Lord].”