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 5:5

5:5 So I have decided⁴ to build a temple to honor the Lord⁵ 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.’⁶

1 Kings 5:9

5:9 My servants will bring the timber down from Lebanon to the sea. I will send it by sea in raft-like bundles to the place you designate.⁷ There I will separate the logs⁸ and you can carry them away. In exchange you will supply the food I need for my royal court.”⁹

1 Kings 8:16

8:16 He told David,¹⁰ ‘Since the day I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from all the tribes of Israel to build a temple in which to live.¹¹ But I have chosen David to lead my people Israel.’

1 Kings 11:33

11:33 I am taking the kingdom from him¹² because they have¹³ abandoned me and worshiped the Sidonian goddess Astarte, the Moabite god Chemosh, and the Ammonite god Milcom. They have not followed my instructions¹⁴ by doing what I approve and obeying my rules and regulations, like Solomon’s father David did.¹⁵

1 Kings 12:14

12:14 and followed¹⁶ the advice of the younger ones. He said, “My father imposed heavy demands on you; I will make them even heavier.¹⁷ My father punished you with ordinary whips; I will punish you with whips that really sting your flesh.”¹⁸

1 Kings 19:4

19:4 while he went a day’s journey into the desert. He went and sat down under a shrub¹⁹ and asked the Lord to take his life:²⁰ “I’ve had enough! Now, O Lord, take my life. After all, I’m no better than my ancestors.”²¹

1 Kings 20:34

20:34 Ben Hadad²² said, “I will return the cities my father took from your father. You may set up markets²³ in Damascus, just as my father did in Samaria.”²⁴ Ahab then said, “I want to make a treaty with you before I dismiss you.”²⁵ So he made a treaty with him and then dismissed him.

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 “Look, I am saying.”

⁵tn 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.

⁶tn 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.

⁷tn Heb “I will place them [on? as?] rafts in the sea to the place where you designate to me.” This may mean he would send them by raft, or that he would tie them in raft-like bundles, and have ships tow them down to an Israelite port.

⁸tn Heb “smash them,” i.e., untie the bundles.

⁹tn Heb “as for you, you will satisfy my desire by giving food for my house.”

¹⁰tn Heb “saying.”

¹¹tn Heb “to build a house for my name to be there.”

sn To build a temple in which to live (Heb “to build a house for my name to be there”). In the OT, 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.

¹²tn The words “I am taking the kingdom from him” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

¹³tc This is the reading of the MT; the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate read “he has.”

¹⁴tn Heb “walked in my ways.”

¹⁵tn Heb “by doing what is right in my eyes, my rules and my regulations, like David his father.”

¹⁶tn Heb “and spoke to them according to.”

¹⁷tn Heb “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke.”

¹⁸tn Heb “My father punished you with whips, but I will punish you with scorpions.” See the note on the same phrase in v. 11.

¹⁹tn Or “broom tree” (also in v. 5).

²⁰tn Heb “and asked with respect to his life to die.”

²¹tn Heb “fathers.”

²²tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ben Hadad) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²³tn Heb “streets,” but this must refer to streets set up with stalls for merchants to sell their goods. See HALOT 299 s.v. חוּץ.

²⁴map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.

²⁵tn Heb “I will send you away with a treaty.” The words “Ahab then said” are supplied in the translation. There is nothing in the Hebrew text to indicate that the speaker has changed from Ben Hadad to Ahab. Some suggest adding “and he said” before “I will send you away.” Others prefer to maintain Ben Hadad as the speaker and change the statement to, “Please send me away with a treaty.”