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 8:34

8:34 then listen from heaven, forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them back to the land you gave to their ancestors.

1 Kings 8:57-58

8:57 May the Lord our God be with us, as he was with our ancestors. May he not abandon us or leave us. 8:58 May he make us submissive,⁵ so we can follow all his instructions⁶ and obey⁷ the commandments, rules, and regulations he commanded our ancestors.

1 Kings 14:22

14:22 Judah did evil in the sight of⁸ the Lord. They made him more jealous by their sins than their ancestors had done.⁹

1 Kings 14:31

14:31 Rehoboam passed away¹⁰ and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David. His mother was an Ammonite named Naamah. His son Abijah¹¹ replaced him as king.

1 Kings 15:12

15:12 He removed the male cultic prostitutes from the land and got rid of all the disgusting idols¹² his ancestors¹³ had made.

1 Kings 15:24

15:24 Asa passed away¹⁴ 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 away¹⁵ and was buried with his ancestors in the city of his ancestor¹⁶ 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 “to bend our hearts toward him.” The infinitive is subordinate to the initial prayer, “may the Lord our God be with us.” The Hebrew term לֵבָב (levav, “heart”) here refers to the people’s volition and will.

⁶tn Heb “to walk in all his ways.”

⁷tn Heb “keep.”

⁸tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

⁹tn Heb “and they made him jealous more than all which their fathers had done by their sins which they sinned.”

¹⁰tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

¹¹tn In the Hebrew text the name is spelled “Abijam” here and in 1 Kgs 15:1-8.

¹²tn The word used here, גִלּוּלִים [gillulim], is always used as a disdainful reference to idols. It is generally thought to have originally referred to “dung pellets” (cf. KBL 183 s.v. גִלּוּלִים). It is only one of several terms used in this way, such as “worthless things” (אֱלִילִים, ’elilim), “vanities” or “empty winds” (הֲבָלִים, havalim).

¹³tn Heb “fathers” (also in v. 24).

¹⁴tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

¹⁵tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

¹⁶tn Heb “with his fathers in the city of his father.”