Discovery Box1 Kings 2:9 
Context2:9 But now 1 don’t treat him as if he were innocent. You are a wise man and you know how to handle him; 2 make sure he has a bloody death.” 3
1 Kings 2:19
Context2:19 So Bathsheba visited King Solomon to speak to him on Adonijah’s behalf. The king got up to greet 4 her, bowed to her, and then sat on his throne. He ordered a throne to be brought for the king’s mother, 5 and she sat at his right hand.
1 tc The Lucianic recension of the Old Greek and the Vulgate have here “you” rather than “now.” The two words are homonyms in Hebrew.
2 tn Heb “what you should do to him.”
3 tn Heb “bring his grey hair down in blood [to] Sheol.”
4 tn Or “meet.”
5 tn Heb “he set up a throne for the mother of the king.”
