1 Kings 1:38
1:38 So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites, and the Pelethites 1 went down, put Solomon on King David’s mule, and led him to Gihon.
1 Kings 2:29
2:29 When King Solomon heard 2 that Joab had run to the tent of the Lord and was right there beside the altar, he ordered Benaiah son of Jehoiada, 3 “Go, strike him down.”
1 Kings 2:31
2:31 The king told him, “Do as he said! Strike him down and bury him. Take away from me and from my father’s family 4 the guilt of Joab’s murderous, bloody deeds. 5
1 Kings 9:9
9:9 Others will then answer, 6 ‘Because they abandoned the Lord their God, who led their ancestors 7 out of Egypt. They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served. 8 That is why the Lord has brought all this disaster down on them.’”
1 Kings 11:24
11:24 He gathered some men and organized a raiding band. 9 When David tried to kill them, 10 they went to Damascus, where they settled down and gained control of the city.
1 Kings 15:13
15:13 He also removed Maacah his grandmother 11 from her position as queen because she had made a loathsome Asherah pole. Asa cut down her Asherah pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
1 Kings 17:19
17:19 He said to her, “Hand me your son.” He took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him down on his bed.
1 Kings 18:39-40
18:39 When all the people saw this, they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground and said, “The Lord is the true God! 12 The Lord is the true God!”
18:40 Elijah told them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Don’t let even one of them escape!” So they seized them, and Elijah led them down to the Kishon Valley and executed 13 them there.
1 Kings 18:42
18:42 So Ahab went on up to eat and drink, while Elijah climbed to the top of Carmel. He bent down toward the ground and put his face between his knees.
1 Kings 21:4
21:4 So Ahab went into his palace, bitter and angry that Naboth the Jezreelite had said, 14 “I will not sell to you my ancestral inheritance.” 15 He lay down on his bed, pouted, 16 and would not eat.
1 Kings 22:35
22:35 While the battle raged throughout the day, the king stood propped up in his chariot opposite the Syrians. He died in the evening; the blood from the wound ran down into the bottom of the chariot.
1 sn The Kerethites and Pelethites were members of David’s royal guard (see 2 Sam 8:18). The Kerethites may have been descendants of an ethnic group originating in Crete.
2 tn Heb “and it was related to King Solomon.”
3 tn Heb “so Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, saying.”
4 tn Heb “house.”
5 tn Heb “take away the undeserved bloodshed which Joab spilled from upon me and from upon the house of my father.”
6 tn Heb “and they will say.”
7 tn Heb “fathers.”
8 tn Heb “and they took hold of other gods and bowed down to them and served them.”
9 tn Heb “and he was the officer of a raiding band.”
10 tn The Hebrew text reads “when David killed them.” This phrase is traditionally joined with what precedes. The ancient Greek version does not reflect the phrase and some suggest that it has been misplaced from the end of v. 23.
11 tn Heb “mother,” but Hebrew often uses the terms “father” and “mother” for grandparents and more remote ancestors.
12 tn Heb “the God” (the phrase occurs twice in this verse).
13 tn Or “slaughtered.”
14 tn Heb “on account of the word that Naboth the Jezreelite spoke to him.”
15 tn Heb “I will not give to you the inheritance of my fathers.”
16 tn Heb “turned away his face.”