1 Kings 3:6

3:6 Solomon replied, “You demonstrated ¹  great loyalty to your servant, my father David, as he served ²  you faithfully, properly, and sincerely. ³  You have maintained this great loyalty to this day by allowing his son to sit on his throne. ⁴ 

1 Kings 5:5

5:5 So I have decided ⁵  to build a temple to honor the Lord ⁶  my God, as the Lord instructed my father David, ‘Your son, whom I will put on your throne in your place, is the one who will build a temple to honor me.’ ⁷ 

1 Kings 7:14

7:14 He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, ⁸  and his father was a craftsman in bronze from Tyre. He had the skill and knowledge ⁹  to make all kinds of works of bronze. He reported to King Solomon and did all the work he was assigned.

1 Kings 7:51

7:51 When King Solomon finished constructing the Lord’s temple, he ¹⁰  put the holy items that belonged to his father David (the silver, gold, and other articles) in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple.

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, ¹¹  provided that your descendants watch their step and serve me as you have done.’ ¹² 

1 Kings 11:33

11:33 I am taking the kingdom from him ¹³  because they have ¹⁴  abandoned me and worshiped the Sidonian goddess Astarte, the Moabite god Chemosh, and the Ammonite god Milcom. They have not followed my instructions ¹⁵  by doing what I approve and obeying my rules and regulations, like Solomon’s father David did. ¹⁶ 

1 Kings 22:43

22:43 He followed in his father Asa’s footsteps and was careful to do what the Lord approved. ¹⁷  (22:44) ¹⁸  However, the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.

[3:6]  ¹ tn Heb “did.”

[3:6]  ² tn Heb “walked before.”

[3:6]  ³ tn Heb “in faithfulness and in innocence and in uprightness of heart with you.”

[3:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “and you have kept to him this great loyalty and you gave to him a son [who] sits on his throne as this day.”

[5:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “Look, I am saying.”

[5:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “a house for the name of the Lord.” The word “name” sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor. The “name” of the Lord sometimes designates the Lord himself, being indistinguishable from the proper name.

[5:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “a house for my name.” The word “name” sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor. The “name” of the Lord sometimes designates the Lord himself, being indistinguishable from the proper name.

[7:14]  ⁹ tn 2 Chr 2:14 (13 HT) says “from the daughters of Dan.”

[7:14]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “he was filled with the skill, understanding, and knowledge.”

[7:51]  ¹³ tn Heb “Solomon.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[8:25]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from before me sitting on the throne of Israel.”

[8:25]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “guard their way by walking before me as you have walked before me.”

[11:33]  ²¹ tn The words “I am taking the kingdom from him” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[11:33]  ²² tc This is the reading of the MT; the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate read “he has.”

[11:33]  ²³ tn Heb “walked in my ways.”

[11:33]  ²⁴ tn Heb “by doing what is right in my eyes, my rules and my regulations, like David his father.”

[22:43]  ²⁵ tn Heb “he walked in all the way of Asa his father and did not turn from it, doing what is right in the eyes of the Lord.”

[22:43]  ²⁶ sn Beginning with 22:43b, the verse numbers through 22:53 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), because 22:43b in the English Bible = 22:44 in the Hebrew text. The remaining verses in the chapter differ by one, with 22:44-53 ET = 22:45-54 HT.