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 1:47
1:47 The king’s servants have even come to congratulate 3 our master 4 King David, saying, ‘May your God 5 make Solomon more famous than you and make him an even greater king than you!’ 6 Then the king leaned 7 on the bed
1 Kings 22:40
22:40 Ahab passed away. 8 His son Ahaziah replaced him as king.
1 Kings 22:44
22:44 (22:45) Jehoshaphat was also at peace with the king of Israel.
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 “to bless.”
4 tn The plural form is used in the Hebrew text to indicate honor and authority.
5 tc Many Hebrew mss agree with the Qere in reading simply “God.”
6 tn Heb “make the name of Solomon better than your name, and make his throne greater than your throne.” The term שֵׁם (shem, “name”) is used here of one’s fame and reputation.
7 tn Or “bowed down; worshiped.”
8 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”