1 Raja-raja 2:26

2:26 The king then told Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your property ¹  in Anathoth. You deserve to die, ²  but today I will not kill you because you did carry the ark of the sovereign Lord before my father David and you suffered with my father through all his difficult times.” ³ 

1 Raja-raja 3:6

3:6 Solomon replied, “You demonstrated ⁴  great loyalty to your servant, my father David, as he served ⁵  you faithfully, properly, and sincerely. ⁶  You have maintained this great loyalty to this day by allowing his son to sit on his throne. ⁷ 

1 Raja-raja 8:64

8:64 That day the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard that is in front of the Lord’s temple. He offered there burnt sacrifices, grain offerings, and the fat from the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that stood before the Lord was too small to hold all these offerings. ⁸ 

1 Raja-raja 12:32

12:32 Jeroboam inaugurated a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, ⁹  like the festival celebrated in Judah. ¹⁰  On the altar in Bethel he offered sacrifices to the calves he had made. ¹¹  In Bethel he also appointed priests for the high places he had made.

[2:26]  ¹ tn Or “field.”

[2:26]  ² tn Heb “you are a man of death.”

[2:26]  ³ tn Heb “and because you suffered through all which my father suffered.”

[3:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “did.”

[3:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “walked before.”

[3:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “in faithfulness and in innocence and in uprightness of heart with you.”

[3:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “and you have kept to him this great loyalty and you gave to him a son [who] sits on his throne as this day.”

[8:64]  ⁸ tn Heb “to hold the burnt sacrifices, grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.”

[12:32]  ⁹ sn The eighth month would correspond to October-November in modern reckoning.

[12:32]  ¹⁰ sn The festival he celebrated in Judah probably refers to the Feast of Tabernacles (i.e., Booths or Temporary Shelters), held in the seventh month (September-October). See also 1 Kgs 8:2.

[12:32]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and he offered up [sacrifices] on the altar; he did this in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves which he had made.”