1 Kings 1:13
1:13 Visit 1 King David and say to him, ‘My master, O king, did you not solemnly promise 2 your servant, “Surely your son Solomon will be king after me; he will sit on my throne”? So why has Adonijah become king?’
1 Kings 1:17
1:17 She replied to him, “My master, you swore an oath to your servant by the Lord your God, ‘Solomon your son will be king after me and he will sit on my throne.’
1 Kings 1:19
1:19 He has sacrificed many cattle, steers, and sheep and has invited all the king’s sons, Abiathar the priest, and Joab, the commander of the army, but he has not invited your servant Solomon.
1 Kings 1:51
1:51 Solomon was told, “Look, Adonijah fears you; 3 see, he has taken hold of the horns of the altar, saying, ‘May King Solomon solemnly promise 4 me today that he will not kill his servant with the sword.’”
1 Kings 2:38
2:38 Shimei said to the king, “My master the king’s proposal is acceptable. 5 Your servant will do as you say.” 6 So Shimei lived in Jerusalem for a long time. 7
1 Kings 3:6-7
3:6 Solomon replied, “You demonstrated 8 great loyalty to your servant, my father David, as he served 9 you faithfully, properly, and sincerely. 10 You have maintained this great loyalty to this day by allowing his son to sit on his throne. 11
3:7 Now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in my father David’s place, even though I am only a young man and am inexperienced. 12
1 Kings 3:9
3:9 So give your servant a discerning mind 13 so he can make judicial decisions for 14 your people and distinguish right from wrong. 15 Otherwise 16 no one is able 17 to make judicial decisions for 18 this great nation of yours.” 19
1 Kings 3:20
3:20 She got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side, while your servant was sleeping. She put him in her arms, and put her dead son in my arms.
1 Kings 8:53
8:53 After all, 20 you picked them out of all the nations of the earth to be your special possession, 21 just as you, O sovereign Lord, announced through your servant Moses when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt.”
1 Kings 8:56
8:56 “The Lord is worthy of praise because he has made Israel his people secure 22 just as he promised! Not one of all the faithful promises he made through his servant Moses is left unfulfilled! 23
1 Kings 8:59
8:59 May the Lord our God be constantly aware of these requests of mine I have presented to him, 24 so that he might vindicate 25 his servant and his people Israel as the need arises.
1 Kings 11:11
11:11 So the Lord said to Solomon, “Because you insist on doing these things and have not kept the covenantal rules I gave you, 26 I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant.
1 Kings 11:13
11:13 But I will not tear away the entire kingdom; I will leave 27 your son one tribe for my servant David’s sake and for the sake of my chosen city Jerusalem.”
1 Kings 11:32
11:32 He will retain one tribe, for my servant David’s sake and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.
1 Kings 11:34
11:34 I will not take the whole kingdom from his hand. I will allow him to be ruler for the rest of his life for the sake of my chosen servant David who kept my commandments and rules.
1 Kings 11:36
11:36 I will leave 28 his son one tribe so my servant David’s dynasty may continue to serve me 29 in Jerusalem, the city I have chosen as my home. 30
1 Kings 14:8
14:8 I tore the kingdom away from the Davidic dynasty and gave it to you. But you are not like my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me wholeheartedly by doing only what I approve. 31
1 Kings 15:29
15:29 When he became king, he executed Jeroboam’s entire family. He wiped out everyone who breathed, 32 just as the Lord had predicted 33 through his servant Ahijah the Shilonite.
1 Kings 16:9
16:9 His servant Zimri, a commander of half of his chariot force, conspired against him. While Elah was drinking heavily 34 at the house of Arza, who supervised the palace in Tirzah,
1 Kings 18:43
18:43 He told his servant, “Go on up and look in the direction of the sea.” So he went on up, looked, and reported, “There is nothing.” 35 Seven times Elijah sent him to look. 36
1 Kings 20:32
20:32 So they put sackcloth around their waists and ropes on their heads and went to the king of Israel. They said, “Your servant 37 Ben Hadad says, ‘Please let me live!’” Ahab 38 replied, “Is he still alive? He is my brother.” 39
1 Kings 20:40
20:40 Well, it just so happened that while your servant was doing this and that, he disappeared.” The king of Israel said to him, “Your punishment is already determined by your own testimony.” 40
1 tn Heb “come, go to.” The imperative of הָלַךְ (halakh) is here used as an introductory interjection. See BDB 234 s.v. חָלַךְ.
2 tn Or “swear an oath to.”
3 tn Heb “King Solomon.” The name and title have been replaced by the pronoun (“you”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
4 tn Or “swear an oath to.”
5 tn Heb “Good is the word, as my master the king has spoken.”
6 tn Heb “so your servant will do.”
7 tn Heb “many days.”
8 tn Heb “did.”
9 tn Heb “walked before.”
10 tn Heb “in faithfulness and in innocence and in uprightness of heart with you.”
11 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.”
12 tn Heb “and I do not know going out or coming in.”
13 tn Heb “a hearing heart.” (The Hebrew term translated “heart” often refers to the mental faculties.)
14 tn Heb “to judge.”
15 tn Heb “to understand between good and evil.”
16 tn Heb “for”; the word “otherwise” is used to reflect the logical sense of the statement.
17 tn Heb “who is able?” The rhetorical question anticipates the answer, “no one.”
18 tn Heb “to judge.”
19 tn Heb “your numerous people.”
20 tn Or “For.”
21 tn Heb “your inheritance.”
22 tn Heb “he has given a resting place to his people Israel.”
23 tn Heb “not one word from his entire good word he spoke by Moses his servant has fallen.”
24 tn Heb “May these words of mine, which I have requested before the Lord, be near the Lord our God day and night.”
25 tn Heb “accomplish the justice of.”
26 tn Heb “Because this is with you, and you have not kept my covenant and my rules which I commanded you.”
27 tn Heb “give.”
28 tn Heb “give.”
29 tn Heb “so there might be a lamp for David my servant all the days before me in Jerusalem.” The metaphorical “lamp” symbolizes the Davidic dynasty. Because this imagery is unfamiliar to the modern reader, the translation “so my servant David’s dynasty may continue to serve me” has been used.
30 tn Heb “so there might be a lamp for David my servant all the days before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there.”
31 tn Heb “what was right in my eyes.”
32 tn Heb “and when he became king, he struck down all the house of Jeroboam; he did not leave any breath to Jeroboam until he destroyed him.”
33 tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord which he spoke.”
34 tn Heb “while he was drinking and drunken.”
35 sn So he went on up, looked, and reported, “There is nothing.” Several times in this chapter those addressed by Elijah obey his orders. In vv. 20 and 42 Ahab does as instructed, in vv. 26 and 28 the prophets follow Elijah’s advice, and in vv. 30, 34, 40 and 43 the people and servants do as they are told. By juxtaposing Elijah’s commands with accounts of those commands being obeyed, the narrator emphasizes the authority of the Lord’s prophet.
36 tn Heb “He said, ‘Return,’ seven times.”
37 sn Your servant. By referring to Ben Hadad as Ahab’s servant, they are suggesting that Ahab make him a subject in a vassal treaty arrangement.
38 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ahab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
39 sn He is my brother. Ahab’s response indicates that he wants to make a parity treaty and treat Ben Hadad as an equal partner.
40 tn Heb “so [i.e., in accordance with his testimony] is your judgment, you have determined [it].”