1 Kings 1:4

1:4 The young woman was very beautiful; she became the king’s nurse and served him, but the king did not have sexual relations with her.¹

1 Kings 1:8

1:8 But Zadok the priest, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, and David’s elite warriors² did not ally themselves³ with Adonijah.

1 Kings 1:24

1:24 Nathan said, “My master, O king, did you announce, ‘Adonijah will be king after me; he will sit on my throne’?

1 Kings 1:26

1:26 But he did not invite me – your servant – or Zadok the priest, or Benaiah son of Jehoiada, or your servant Solomon.

1 Kings 2:44

2:44 Then the king said to Shimei, “You are well aware of the way you mistreated my father David.⁴ The Lord will punish you for what you did.⁵

1 Kings 3:13-14

3:13 Furthermore, I am giving⁶ you what you did not request – riches and honor so that you will be the greatest king of your generation.⁷ 3:14 If you follow my instructions⁸ by obeying⁹ my rules and regulations, just as your father David did,¹⁰ then I will grant you long life.”¹¹

1 Kings 9:4

9:4 You must serve me with integrity and sincerity, just as your father David did. Do everything I commanded and obey my rules and regulations.¹²

1 Kings 9:13

9:13 Hiram asked,¹³ “Why did you give me these cities, my friend¹⁴?” He called that area the region of Cabul, a name which it has retained to this day.¹⁵

1 Kings 9:22

9:22 Solomon did not assign Israelites to these work crews;¹⁶ the Israelites served as his soldiers, attendants, officers, charioteers, and commanders of his chariot forces.¹⁷

1 Kings 11:10

11:10 and had warned him about this very thing, so that he would not follow other gods.¹⁸ But he did not obey¹⁹ the Lord’s command.

1 Kings 13:10

13:10 So he started back on another road; he did not travel back on the same road he had taken to Bethel.

1 Kings 13:12

13:12 Their father asked them, “Which road did he take?” His sons showed him²⁰ the road the prophet²¹ from Judah had taken.

1 Kings 14:22

14:22 Judah did evil in the sight of²² the Lord. They made him more jealous by their sins than their ancestors had done.²³

1 Kings 15:26

15:26 He did evil in the sight of²⁴ the Lord. He followed in his father’s footsteps and encouraged Israel to sin.²⁵

1 Kings 15:34

15:34 He did evil in the sight of²⁶ the Lord; he followed in Jeroboam’s footsteps and encouraged Israel to sin.²⁷

1 Kings 16:33

16:33 Ahab also made an Asherah pole; he²⁸ did more to anger the Lord God of Israel than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

1 Kings 17:15

17:15 She went and did as Elijah told her; there was always enough food for Elijah and for her and her family.²⁹

¹tn Heb “did not know her.”

²tn Or “bodyguard” (Heb “mighty men”).

³tn Heb “were not.”

⁴tn Heb “You know all the evil, for your heart knows, which you did to David my father.”

⁵tn Heb “The Lord will cause your evil to return upon your head.”

⁶tn The translation assumes that the perfect tense here indicates that the action occurs as the statement is made.

⁷tn Heb “so that there is not one among the kings like you all your days.” The LXX lacks the words “all your days.”

⁸tn Heb “walk in my ways.”

⁹tn Or “keeping.”

¹⁰tn Heb “walked.”

¹¹tn Heb “I will lengthen your days.”

¹²tn Heb “As for you, if you walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, by doing all which I commanded you, [and] you keep my rules and my regulations.” Verse 4 is actually a lengthy protasis (“if” section) of a conditional sentence, the apodosis (“then” section) of which appears in v. 5.

¹³tn Heb “and he said.”

¹⁴tn Heb “my brother.” Kings allied through a parity treaty would sometimes address each other as “my brother.” See 1 Kgs 20:32-33.

¹⁵tn Heb “he called them the land of Cabul to this day.” The significance of the name is unclear, though it appears to be disparaging. The name may be derived from a root, attested in Akkadian and Arabic, meaning “bound” or “restricted.” Some propose a wordplay, pointing out that the name “Cabul” sounds like a Hebrew phrase meaning, “like not,” or “as good as nothing.”

¹⁶sn These work crews. The work crews referred to here must be different than the temporary crews described in 5:13-16.

¹⁷tn Heb “officers of his chariots and his horses.”

¹⁸tn Heb “and had commanded him concerning this thing not to walk after other gods.”

¹⁹tn Or “keep.”

²⁰tn The Hebrew text has “and his sons saw” (וַיִּרְאוּ [vayyir’u], Qal from רָאָה [ra’ah]). In this case the verbal construction (vav consecutive + prefixed verbal form) would have to be understood as pluperfect, “his sons had seen.” Such uses of this construction are rare at best. Consequently many, following the lead of the ancient versions, prefer to emend the verbal form to a Hiphil with pronominal suffix (וַיַּרְאֻהוּ [vayyar’uhu], “and they showed him”).

²¹tn Heb “the man of God.”

²²tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

²³tn Heb “and they made him jealous more than all which their fathers had done by their sins which they sinned.”

²⁴tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

²⁵tn Heb “and he walked in the way of his father and in his sin which he made Israel sin.”

²⁶tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

²⁷tn Heb “and he walked in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin which he made Israel sin.”

²⁸tn Heb “Ahab”; the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

²⁹tn Heb “and she ate, she and he and her house [for] days.”