Add parallel Print Page Options

(Now his father had never corrected[a] him[b] by saying, “Why do you do such things?” He was also very handsome and had been born right after Absalom.[c])

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 1:6 tn Or “disciplined.”
  2. 1 Kings 1:6 tn Heb “did not correct him from his days.” The phrase “from his days” means “from his earliest days,” or “ever in his life.” See GKC 382 §119.w, n. 2.
  3. 1 Kings 1:6 tn Heb “and she gave birth to him after Absalom.” This does not imply they had the same mother; Absalom’s mother was Maacah, not Haggith (2 Sam 3:4).

(His father had never rebuked(A) him by asking, “Why do you behave as you do?” He was also very handsome and was born next after Absalom.)

Read full chapter

And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he also was a very goodly man; and his mother bare him after Absalom.

Read full chapter