1 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 2:15
Context2:15 He said, “You know that the kingdom 4 was mine and all Israel considered me king. 5 But then the kingdom was given to my brother, for the Lord decided it should be his. 6
1 Kings 5:3
Context5:3 “You know that my father David was unable to build a temple to honor the Lord 7 his God, for he was busy fighting battles on all fronts while the Lord subdued his enemies. 8
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 “kingship.”
5 tn Heb “set their face to me to be king.”
6 tn Heb “and the kingdom turned about and became my brother’s, for from the
7 tn Heb “a house for the name of the
8 tn Heb “because of the battles which surrounded him until the