Discovery Box1 Kings 2:1-3 
Context2:1 When David was close to death, 1 he told 2 Solomon his son: 2:2 “I am about to die. 3 Be strong and become a man! 2:3 Do the job the Lord your God has assigned you 4 by following his instructions 5 and obeying 6 his rules, commandments, regulations, and laws as written in the law of Moses. Then you will succeed in all you do and seek to accomplish, 7
1 Kings 2:9
Context2:9 But now 8 don’t treat him as if he were innocent. You are a wise man and you know how to handle him; 9 make sure he has a bloody death.” 10
1 tn Heb “and the days of David approached to die.”
2 tn Or “commanded.”
3 tn Heb “going the way of all the earth.”
4 tn Heb “keep the charge of the
5 tn Heb “by walking in his ways.”
6 tn Or “keeping.”
7 tn Heb “then you will cause to succeed all which you do and all which you turn there.”
8 tc The Lucianic recension of the Old Greek and the Vulgate have here “you” rather than “now.” The two words are homonyms in Hebrew.
9 tn Heb “what you should do to him.”
10 tn Heb “bring his grey hair down in blood [to] Sheol.”
