1 Kings 1:20

1:20 Now, ¹  my master, O king, all Israel is watching anxiously to see who is named to succeed my master the king on the throne. ² 

1 Kings 8:32

8:32 Listen from heaven and make a just decision about your servants’ claims. Condemn the guilty party, declare the other innocent, and give both of them what they deserve. ³ 

1 Kings 8:34

8:34 then listen from heaven, forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them back to the land you gave to their ancestors.

1 Kings 9:4

9:4 You must serve me with integrity and sincerity, just as your father David did. Do everything I commanded and obey my rules and regulations. ⁴ 

1 Kings 12:4

12:4 “Your father made us work too hard. ⁵  Now if you lighten the demands he made and don’t make us work as hard, we will serve you.” ⁶ 

1 Kings 18:37

18:37 Answer me, O Lord, answer me, so these people will know that you, O Lord, are the true God ⁷  and that you are winning back their allegiance.” ⁸ 

1 Kings 22:30

22:30 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself and then enter ⁹  into the battle; but you wear your royal robes.” So the king of Israel disguised himself and then entered into the battle.

¹ tc Many Hebrew mss have עַתָּה (’attah, “now”) rather than the similar sounding independent pronoun אַתָּה (’attah, “you”).

² tn Heb “the eyes of all Israel are upon you to declare to them who will sit on the throne of my master the king after him.”

³ tn Heb “and you, hear [from] heaven and act and judge your servants by declaring the guilty to be guilty, to give his way on his head, and to declare the innocent to be innocent, to give to him according to his innocence.”

⁵ tn Heb “As for you, if you walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, by doing all which I commanded you, [and] you keep my rules and my regulations.” Verse 4 is actually a lengthy protasis (“if” section) of a conditional sentence, the apodosis (“then” section) of which appears in v. 5.

⁷ tn Heb “made our yoke burdensome.”

⁸ tn Heb “but you, now, lighten the burdensome work of your father and the heavy yoke which he placed on us, and we will serve you.” In the Hebrew text the prefixed verbal form with vav (וְנַעַבְדֶךָ, [vÿna’avdekha] “and we will serve you”) following the imperative (הָקֵל [haqel], “lighten”) indicates purpose (or result). The conditional sentence used in the translation above is an attempt to bring out the logical relationship between these forms.

⁹ tn Heb “the God.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “that you are turning their heart[s] back.”

¹¹ tn The Hebrew verbal forms could be imperatives (“Disguise yourself and enter”), but this would make no sense in light of the immediately following context. The forms are better interpreted as infinitives absolute functioning as cohortatives. See IBHS 594 §35.5.2a. Some prefer to emend the forms to imperfects.