1 Kings 1:40

New English Translation

⁴⁰All the people followed him up, playing flutes and celebrating so loudly they made the ground shake.^[a]

1 Kings 1:40 tn Heb “and all the people went up after him, and the people were playing flutes and rejoicing with great joy and the ground split open at the sound of them.” The verb בָּקַע (baqaʿ, “to split open”), which elsewhere describes the effects of an earthquake, is obviously here an exaggeration for the sake of emphasis.

New English Translation (NET)