1 Kings 1:6

1:6 (Now his father had never corrected ¹  him ²  by saying, “Why do you do such things?” He was also very handsome and had been born right after Absalom. ³ )

1 Kings 21:25

21:25 (There had never been anyone like Ahab, who was firmly committed ⁴  to doing evil in the sight of ⁵  the Lord, urged on by his wife Jezebel. ⁶ 

1 Kings 22:48

22:48 Jehoshaphat built a fleet of large merchant ships ⁷  to travel to Ophir for gold, but they never made the voyage because they were shipwrecked in Ezion Geber.

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¹ tn Or “disciplined.”

² tn Heb “did not correct him from his days.” The phrase “from his days” means “from his earliest days,” or “ever in his life.” See GKC 382 §119.w, n. 2.

³ tn Heb “and she gave birth to him after Absalom.” This does not imply they had the same mother; Absalom’s mother was Maacah, not Haggith (2 Sam 3:4).

⁴ tn Heb “who sold himself.”

⁵ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

⁶ tn Heb “like Ahab…whom his wife Jezebel incited.”

⁷ tn Heb “a fleet of Tarshish [ships].” This probably refers to large ships either made in or capable of traveling to the distant western port of Tarshish.