1 Kings 2:7

2:7 “Treat fairly ¹  the sons of Barzillai of Gilead and provide for their needs, ²  because they helped me ³  when I had to flee from your brother Absalom.

1 Kings 4:3

4:3 Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, wrote down what happened. ⁴ 

Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was in charge of the records.

1 Kings 4:31

4:31 He was wiser than any man, including Ethan the Ezrahite or Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol. He was famous in all the neighboring nations. ⁵ 

1 Kings 13:12-13

13:12 Their father asked them, “Which road did he take?” His sons showed him ⁶  the road the prophet ⁷  from Judah had taken. 13:13 He then told his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” When they had saddled the donkey for him, he mounted it

1 Kings 20:3

20:3 He said to him, “This is what Ben Hadad says, ‘Your silver and your gold are mine, as well as the best of your wives and sons.’”

1 Kings 20:5

20:5 The messengers came again and said, “This is what Ben Hadad says, ‘I sent this message to you, “You must give me your silver, gold, wives, and sons.”

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¹ tn Heb “do loyalty with”; or “act faithfully toward.”

² tn Heb “and let them be among the ones who eat [at] your table.”

³ tn Heb “drew near to.”

⁴ tn Heb “were scribes”; NASB, NIV, NRSV “secretaries”; TEV, NLT “court secretaries.”

⁵ tn Heb “his name was in all the surrounding nations.”

⁶ tn The Hebrew text has “and his sons saw” (וַיִּרְאוּ [vayyir’u], Qal from רָאָה [ra’ah]). In this case the verbal construction (vav consecutive + prefixed verbal form) would have to be understood as pluperfect, “his sons had seen.” Such uses of this construction are rare at best. Consequently many, following the lead of the ancient versions, prefer to emend the verbal form to a Hiphil with pronominal suffix (וַיַּרְאֻהוּ [vayyar’uhu], “and they showed him”).

⁷ tn Heb “the man of God.”