Discovery Box1 Kings 2:24 
Context2:24 Now, as certainly as the Lord lives (he who made me secure, allowed me to sit on my father David’s throne, and established a dynasty 1 for me as he promised), Adonijah will be executed today!”
1 Kings 9:5
Context9:5 Then I will allow your dynasty to rule over Israel permanently, 2 just as I promised your father David, ‘You will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’ 3
1 Kings 11:36
Context11:36 I will leave 4 his son one tribe so my servant David’s dynasty may continue to serve me 5 in Jerusalem, the city I have chosen as my home. 6
1 Kings 12:20
Context12:20 When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they summoned him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. No one except the tribe of Judah remained loyal to the Davidic dynasty. 7
1 Kings 14:8
Context14:8 I tore the kingdom away from the Davidic dynasty and gave it to you. But you are not like my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me wholeheartedly by doing only what I approve. 8
1 Kings 18:18
Context18:18 Elijah 9 replied, “I have not brought disaster 10 on Israel. But you and your father’s dynasty have, by abandoning the Lord’s commandments and following the Baals.
1 Kings 21:29
Context21:29 “Have you noticed how Ahab shows remorse 11 before me? Because he shows remorse before me, I will not bring disaster on his dynasty during his lifetime, but during the reign of his son.” 12
1 tn Heb “house.”
2 tn Heb “I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever.”
3 tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel.”
4 tn Heb “give.”
5 tn Heb “so there might be a lamp for David my servant all the days before me in Jerusalem.” The metaphorical “lamp” symbolizes the Davidic dynasty. Because this imagery is unfamiliar to the modern reader, the translation “so my servant David’s dynasty may continue to serve me” has been used.
6 tn Heb “so there might be a lamp for David my servant all the days before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there.”
7 tn Heb “there was no one [following] after the house of David except the tribe of Judah, it alone.”
8 tn Heb “what was right in my eyes.”
9 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
10 tn Or “trouble.”
11 tn Or “humbles himself.” The expression occurs a second time later in this verse.
12 tn Heb “I will not bring the disaster during his days, [but] in the days of his son I will bring the disaster on his house.”
