Discovery Box1 Kings 1:21 
Context1:21 If a decision is not made, 1 when my master the king is buried with his ancestors, 2 my son Solomon and I 3 will be considered state criminals.” 4
1 Kings 11:43
Context11:43 Then Solomon passed away 5 and was buried in the city of his father David. 6 His son Rehoboam replaced him as king. 7
1 Kings 14:31
Context14:31 Rehoboam passed away 8 and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David. His mother was an Ammonite named Naamah. His son Abijah 9 replaced him as king.
1 Kings 15:24
Context15:24 Asa passed away 10 and was buried with his ancestors in the city of his ancestor David. His son Jehoshaphat replaced him as king.
1 Kings 22:50
Context22:50 Jehoshaphat passed away 11 and was buried with his ancestors in the city of his ancestor 12 David. His son Jehoram replaced him as king.
1 tn The words “if a decision is not made” are added for clarification.
2 tn Heb “lies down with his fathers.”
3 tn Heb “I and my son Solomon.” The order has been reversed in the translation for stylistic reasons.
4 tn Heb “will be guilty”; NASB “considered offenders”; TEV “treated as traitors.”
5 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
6 sn 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.
7 tc Before this sentence the Old Greek translation includes the following words: “And it so happened that when Jeroboam son of Nebat heard – now he was in Egypt where he had fled from before Solomon and was residing in Egypt – he came straight to his city in the land of Sarira which is on mount Ephraim. And king Solomon slept with his fathers.”
8 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
9 tn In the Hebrew text the name is spelled “Abijam” here and in 1 Kgs 15:1-8.
10 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
11 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
12 tn Heb “with his fathers in the city of his father.”
