1 Kings 1:21

1:21 If a decision is not made,¹ when my master the king is buried with his ancestors,² my son Solomon and I³ will be considered state criminals.”⁴

1 Kings 11:43

11:43 Then Solomon passed away⁵ and was buried in the city of his father David.⁶ His son Rehoboam replaced him as king.⁷

1 Kings 14:31

14:31 Rehoboam passed away⁸ and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David. His mother was an Ammonite named Naamah. His son Abijah⁹ replaced him as king.

1 Kings 15:24

15:24 Asa passed away¹⁰ and was buried with his ancestors in the city of his ancestor David. His son Jehoshaphat replaced him as king.

1 Kings 22:50

22:50 Jehoshaphat passed away¹¹ and was buried with his ancestors in the city of his ancestor¹² David. His son Jehoram replaced him as king.

¹tn The words “if a decision is not made” are added for clarification.

²tn Heb “lies down with his fathers.”

³tn Heb “I and my son Solomon.” The order has been reversed in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁴tn Heb “will be guilty”; NASB “considered offenders”; TEV “treated as traitors.”

⁵tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

⁶sn 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.

⁷tc 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.”

⁸tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

⁹tn In the Hebrew text the name is spelled “Abijam” here and in 1 Kgs 15:1-8.

¹⁰tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

¹¹tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

¹²tn Heb “with his fathers in the city of his father.”