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 I 3  will be considered state criminals.” 4 

1 Kings 8:32

8:32 Listen from heaven and make a just decision about your servants’ claims. Condemn the guilty party, declare the other innocent, and give both of them what they deserve. 5 

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

2 tn Heb “lies down with his fathers.”

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

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

5 tn Heb “and you, hear [from] heaven and act and judge your servants by declaring the guilty to be guilty, to give his way on his head, and to declare the innocent to be innocent, to give to him according to his innocence.”