1 Kings 2:24

2:24 Now, as certainly as the Lord lives (he who made me secure, allowed me to sit on my father David’s throne, and established a dynasty¹ for me as he promised), Adonijah will be executed today!”

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 family² the guilt of Joab’s murderous, bloody deeds.³

1 Kings 3:6-7

3:6 Solomon replied, “You demonstrated⁴ great loyalty to your servant, my father David, as he served⁵ you faithfully, properly, and sincerely.⁶ You have maintained this great loyalty to this day by allowing his son to sit on his throne.⁷ 3:7 Now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in my father David’s place, even though I am only a young man and am inexperienced.⁸

1 Kings 5:1

Solomon Gathers Building Materials for the Temple

5:1 (5:15)⁹ King Hiram of Tyre¹⁰ sent messengers¹¹ to Solomon when he heard that he had been anointed king in his father’s place. (Hiram had always been an ally of David.)

1 Kings 5:3

5:3 “You know that my father David was unable to build a temple to honor the Lord¹² his God, for he was busy fighting battles on all fronts while the Lord subdued his enemies.¹³

1 Kings 6:12

6:12 “As for this temple you are building, if you follow¹⁴ my rules, observe¹⁵ my regulations, and obey all my commandments,¹⁶ I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David.¹⁷

1 Kings 7:51

7:51 When King Solomon finished constructing the Lord’s temple, he¹⁸ put the holy items that belonged to his father David (the silver, gold, and other articles) in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple.

1 Kings 9:5

9:5 Then I will allow your dynasty to rule over Israel permanently,¹⁹ just as I promised your father David, ‘You will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’²⁰

1 Kings 11:12

11:12 However, for your father David’s sake I will not do this while you are alive. I will tear it away from your son’s hand instead.

1 Kings 11:27

11:27 This is what prompted him to rebel against the king:²¹ Solomon built a terrace and he closed up a gap in the wall of the city of his father David.²²

1 Kings 12:6

12:6 King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served²³ his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them,²⁴ “How do you advise me to answer these people?”

1 Kings 13:11

13:11 Now there was an old prophet living in Bethel.²⁵ When his sons came home, they told their father²⁶ everything the prophet²⁷ had done in Bethel that day and all the words he had spoken to the king.²⁸

1 Kings 18:18

18:18 Elijah²⁹ replied, “I have not brought disaster³⁰ on Israel. But you and your father’s dynasty have, by abandoning the Lord’s commandments and following the Baals.

1 Kings 19:20

19:20 He left the oxen, ran after Elijah, and said, “Please let me kiss my father and mother goodbye, then I will follow you.” Elijah³¹ said to him, “Go back! Indeed, what have I done to you?”

1 Kings 22:43

22:43 He followed in his father Asa’s footsteps and was careful to do what the Lord approved.³² (22:44)³³ However, the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.

1 Kings 22:52

22:52 He did evil in the sight of³⁴ the Lord and followed in the footsteps³⁵ of his father and mother; like Jeroboam son of Nebat, he encouraged Israel to sin.³⁶

¹tn Heb “house.”

²tn Heb “house.”

³tn Heb “take away the undeserved bloodshed which Joab spilled from upon me and from upon the house of my father.”

⁴tn Heb “did.”

⁵tn Heb “walked before.”

⁶tn Heb “in faithfulness and in innocence and in uprightness of heart with you.”

⁷tn 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.”

⁸tn Heb “and I do not know going out or coming in.”

⁹sn The verse numbers in the English Bible differ from those in the Hebrew text (BHS) here; 5:1-18 in the English Bible corresponds to 5:15-32 in the Hebrew text. See the note at 4:21.

¹⁰map For location see Map1-A2; Map2-G2; Map4-A1; JP3-F3; JP4-F3.

¹¹tn Heb “his servants.”

¹²tn Heb “a house for the name of the Lord.” The word “name” sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor. The “name” of the Lord sometimes designates the Lord himself, being indistinguishable from the proper name.

¹³tn Heb “because of the battles which surrounded him until the Lord placed them under the soles of his feet.”

¹⁴tn Heb “walk in.”

¹⁵tn Heb “do.”

¹⁶tn Heb “and keep all my commandments by walking in them.”

¹⁷tn Heb “I will establish my word with you which I spoke to David your father.”

¹⁸tn Heb “Solomon.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹⁹tn Heb “I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever.”

²⁰tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel.”

²¹tn Heb “this is the matter concerning which he raised a hand against the king.”

²²sn The city of his father David. The phrase refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

²³tn Heb “stood before.”

²⁴tn Heb “saying.”

²⁵map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.

²⁶tn Heb “and his son came and told him.” The MT has the singular here, but several other textual witnesses have the plural, which is more consistent with the second half of the verse and with vv. 12-13.

²⁷tn Heb “the man of God.”

²⁸tn Heb “all the actions which the man of God performed that day in Bethel, the words which he spoke to the king, and they told them to their father.”

²⁹tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³⁰tn Or “trouble.”

³¹tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³²tn Heb “he walked in all the way of Asa his father and did not turn from it, doing what is right in the eyes of the Lord.”

³³sn Beginning with 22:43b, the verse numbers through 22:53 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), because 22:43b in the English Bible = 22:44 in the Hebrew text. The remaining verses in the chapter differ by one, with 22:44-53 ET = 22:45-54 HT.

³⁴tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

³⁵tn Or “way.”

³⁶tn 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.”