1 Kings 1:27

1:27 Has my master the king authorized this without informing your servants¹ who should succeed my master the king on his throne?”²

1 Kings 1:33

1:33 and he³ told them, “Take your master’s⁴ servants with you, put my son Solomon on my mule, and lead him down to Gihon.⁵

1 Kings 8:29

8:29 Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live.⁶ May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place.⁷

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.⁸

1 Kings 8:52

8:52 “May you be attentive⁹ to your servant’s and your people Israel’s requests for help and may you respond to all their prayers to you.¹⁰

1 Kings 11:17

11:17 Hadad,¹¹ who was only a small boy at the time, escaped with some of his father’s Edomite servants and headed for Egypt.¹²

1 Kings 11:26

11:26 Jeroboam son of Nebat, one of Solomon’s servants, rebelled against¹³ the king. He was an Ephraimite¹⁴ from Zeredah whose mother was a widow named Zeruah.

1 Kings 12:7

12:7 They said to him, “Today if you show a willingness to help these people and grant their request, they will be your servants from this time forward.”¹⁵

1 Kings 20:15

20:15 So Ahab¹⁶ assembled the 232 servants of the district governors. After that he assembled all the Israelite army, numbering 7,000.¹⁷

1 Kings 20:17

20:17 The servants of the district governors led the march. When Ben Hadad sent messengers, they reported back to him, “Men are marching out of Samaria.”¹⁸

1 Kings 20:19

20:19 They marched out of the city with the servants of the district governors in the lead and the army behind them.

¹tc Many Hebrew mss and ancient textual witnesses agree with the Qere in reading this as singular, “your servant.”

²tn Heb “From my master the king is this thing done, and you did not make known to your servants who will sit on the throne of my master the king after him?”

³tn Heb “the king.”

⁴tn The plural form is used in the Hebrew text to indicate honor and authority.

⁵tn Heb “mount Solomon my son on the mule that belongs to me and take him down to Gihon.”

⁶tn Heb “so your eyes might be open toward this house night and day, toward the place about which you said, ‘My name will be there.’”

⁷tn Heb “by listening to the prayer which your servant is praying concerning this place.”

⁸tn 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.”

⁹tn Heb “May your eyes be open.”

¹⁰tn Heb “to listen to them in all their calling out to you.”

¹¹tn The MT reads “Adad,” an alternate form of the name Hadad.

¹²tn Heb “and Adad fled, he and Edomite men from the servants of his father, to go to Egypt, and Hadad was a small boy.”

¹³tn Heb “raised a hand against.”

¹⁴tn Heb “Ephrathite,” which here refers to an Ephraimite (see HALOT 81 s.v. אֶפְרַיִם).

¹⁵tn Heb “If today you are a servant to these people and you serve them and answer them and speak to them good words, they will be your servants all the days.”

¹⁶tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ahab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁷tn Heb “after them he assembled all the people, all the sons of Israel, seven thousand.”

¹⁸map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.