1:5 Now Adonijah, son of David and Haggith, 1 was promoting himself, 2 boasting, 3 “I will be king!” He managed to acquire 4 chariots and horsemen, as well as fifty men to serve as his royal guard. 5
1:11 Nathan said to Bathsheba, Solomon’s mother, “Has it been reported to you 6 that Haggith’s son Adonijah has become king behind our master David’s back? 7
1:38 So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites, and the Pelethites 11 went down, put Solomon on King David’s mule, and led him to Gihon.
4:12 Baana son of Ahilud was in charge of Taanach and Megiddo, 23 as well as all of Beth Shan next to Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth Shan to Abel Meholah and on past Jokmeam.
4:19 Geber son of Uri was in charge of the land of Gilead (the territory which had once belonged to King Sihon of the Amorites and to King Og of Bashan). He was sole governor of the area.
5:7 When Hiram heard Solomon’s message, he was very happy. He said, “The Lord is worthy of praise today because he 24 has given David a wise son to rule over this great nation.”
12:21 When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he summoned 180,000 skilled warriors from all of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin 33 to attack Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam son of Solomon.
15:27 Baasha son of Ahijah, from the tribe of Issachar, conspired against Nadab 34 and assassinated him in Gibbethon, which was in Philistine territory. This happened while Nadab and all the Israelite army were besieging Gibbethon.
15:33 In the third year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Baasha son of Ahijah became king over all Israel in Tirzah; he ruled for twenty-four years.
16:8 In the twenty-sixth year of King Asa’s reign over Judah, Baasha’s son Elah became king over Israel; he ruled in Tirzah for two years.
16:21 At that time the people of Israel were divided in their loyalties. Half the people supported Tibni son of Ginath and wanted to make him king; the other half supported Omri.
19:19 Elijah went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve pairs of oxen; he was near the twelfth pair. Elijah passed by him and threw his robe over him.
22:51 In the seventeenth year of King Jehoshaphat’s reign over Judah, Ahab’s son Ahaziah became king over Israel in Samaria. 40 He ruled for two years over Israel. 22:52 He did evil in the sight of 41 the Lord and followed in the footsteps 42 of his father and mother; like Jeroboam son of Nebat, he encouraged Israel to sin. 43
1 tn Heb “son of Haggith,” but since this formula usually designates the father (who in this case was David), the translation specifies that David was Adonijah’s father.
sn Haggith was one of David’s wives (2 Sam 3:4; 2 Chr 3:2).
2 tn Heb “lifting himself up.”
3 tn Heb “saying.”
4 tn Or “he acquired for himself.”
5 tn Heb “to run ahead of him.”
6 tn Heb “Have you not heard?”
7 tn Heb “and our master David does not know.”
8 tn Heb “come, go to.” The imperative of הָלַךְ (halakh) is here used as an introductory interjection. See BDB 234 s.v. חָלַךְ.
9 tn Or “swear an oath to.”
10 tn Or “carry out, perform.”
11 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.
12 tn Heb “for Adonijah.”
13 tn Heb “and it was related to King Solomon.”
14 tn Heb “so Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, saying.”
15 tn Heb “over.”
16 tc The Old Greek translation includes after v. 35 some fourteen verses that are absent from the MT.
17 tn Heb “did.”
18 tn Heb “walked before.”
19 tn Heb “in faithfulness and in innocence and in uprightness of heart with you.”
20 tn Heb “and you have kept to him this great loyalty and you gave to him a son [who] sits on his throne as this day.”
21 tn Heb “look.”
22 tn Heb “look, it was not my son to whom I had given birth.”
23 map For location see Map1-D4; Map2-C1; Map4-C2; Map5-F2; Map7-B1.
24 tn Or “Blessed be the
25 tn Heb “give.”
26 tn Heb “bore him Genubath his son.”
27 tc The Hebrew text reads וַתִּגְמְלֵהוּ (vattigmÿlehu, “weaned him”) but a slight alteration of the consonantal text yields וַתִּגְדְלֵהוּ (vattigdÿlehu, “raised him”), which seems to make better sense.
28 tn Heb “give.”
29 tn Heb “so there might be a lamp for David my servant all the days before me in Jerusalem.” The metaphorical “lamp” symbolizes the Davidic dynasty. Because this imagery is unfamiliar to the modern reader, the translation “so my servant David’s dynasty may continue to serve me” has been used.
30 tn Heb “so there might be a lamp for David my servant all the days before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there.”
31 tn Heb “because this turn of events was from the
32 tn Heb “so that he might bring to pass his word which the
33 tn Heb “he summoned all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, one hundred eighty thousand chosen men, accomplished in war.”
34 tn Heb “against him”; the referent (Nadab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
35 tn Heb “angering the
36 tn Heb “and he went and served Baal and bowed down to him.”
sn The Canaanites worshiped Baal as a storm and fertility god.
37 tn Heb “according to your word.”
38 tn Or “humbles himself.” The expression occurs a second time later in this verse.
39 tn Heb “I will not bring the disaster during his days, [but] in the days of his son I will bring the disaster on his house.”
40 map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.
41 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
42 tn Or “way.”
43 tn Heb “and walked in the way of his father and in the way of his mother and in the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat who made Israel sin.”