1 Kings 2:26

2:26 The king then told Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your property¹ in Anathoth. You deserve to die,² but today I will not kill you because you did carry the ark of the sovereign Lord before my father David and you suffered with my father through all his difficult times.”³

1 Kings 2:32

2:32 May the Lord punish him for the blood he shed;⁴ behind my father David’s back he struck down and murdered with the sword two men who were more innocent and morally upright than he⁵ – Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army.

1 Kings 3:1

The Lord Gives Solomon Wisdom

3:1 Solomon made an alliance by marriage with Pharaoh, king of Egypt; he married Pharaoh’s daughter. He brought her to the City of David⁶ until he could finish building his residence and the temple of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem.⁷

1 Kings 5:5

5:5 So I have decided⁸ to build a temple to honor the Lord⁹ my God, as the Lord instructed my father David, ‘Your son, whom I will put on your throne in your place, is the one who will build a temple to honor me.’¹⁰

1 Kings 8:1

Solomon Moves the Ark into the Temple

8:1 ¹¹Then Solomon convened in Jerusalem¹² Israel’s elders, all the leaders of the Israelite tribes and families, so they could witness the transferal of the ark of the Lord’s covenant from the city of David (that is, Zion).¹³

1 Kings 8:20

8:20 The Lord has kept the promise he made.¹⁴ I have taken my father David’s place and have occupied the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised. I have built this temple for the honor¹⁵ of the Lord God of Israel

1 Kings 8:25

8:25 Now, O Lord, God of Israel, keep the promise you made to your servant, my father David, when you said, ‘You will never fail to have a successor ruling before me on the throne of Israel,¹⁶ provided that your descendants watch their step and serve me as you have done.’¹⁷

1 Kings 8:66

8:66 On the fifteenth day after the festival started,¹⁸ he dismissed the people. They asked God to empower the king¹⁹ and then went to their homes, happy and content²⁰ because of all the good the Lord had done for his servant David and his people Israel.

1 Kings 11:33

11:33 I am taking the kingdom from him²¹ because they have²² abandoned me and worshiped the Sidonian goddess Astarte, the Moabite god Chemosh, and the Ammonite god Milcom. They have not followed my instructions²³ by doing what I approve and obeying my rules and regulations, like Solomon’s father David did.²⁴

¹tn Or “field.”

²tn Heb “you are a man of death.”

³tn Heb “and because you suffered through all which my father suffered.”

⁴tn Heb “The Lord will cause his blood to return upon his head.”

⁵tn Heb “because he struck down two men more innocent and better than he and he killed them with the sword, and my father David did not know.”

⁶sn The phrase City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

⁷map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

⁸tn Heb “Look, I am saying.”

⁹tn 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.

¹⁰tn Heb “a house for my name.” 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.

¹¹tc The Old Greek translation includes the following words at the beginning of ch. 8: “It so happened that when Solomon finished building the Lord’s temple and his own house, after twenty years.”

¹²map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

¹³tn Heb “Then Solomon convened the elders of Israel, the heads of the tribes, the chiefs of the fathers belonging to the sons of Israel to King Solomon [in] Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the city of David (it is Zion).”

¹⁴tn Heb “his word that he spoke.”

¹⁵tn Heb “name.”

¹⁶tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from before me sitting on the throne of Israel.”

¹⁷tn Heb “guard their way by walking before me as you have walked before me.”

¹⁸tn Heb “on the eighth day” (that is, the day after the second seven-day sequence).

¹⁹tn Heb “they blessed the king.”

²⁰tn Heb “good of heart.”

²¹tn The words “I am taking the kingdom from him” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

²²tc This is the reading of the MT; the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate read “he has.”

²³tn Heb “walked in my ways.”

²⁴tn Heb “by doing what is right in my eyes, my rules and my regulations, like David his father.”