3:4 The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for it had the most prominent of the high places. 3 Solomon would offer up 4 a thousand burnt sacrifices on the altar there.
12:25 17 Jeroboam built up Shechem in the Ephraimite hill country and lived there. From there he went out and built up Penuel.
19:3 Elijah was afraid, 18 so he got up and fled for his life to Beer Sheba in Judah. He left his servant there,
1 tn Or “designate” (i.e., by anointing with oil).
2 tn I.e., designated by anointing with oil.
3 tn Heb “for it was the great high place.”
4 tn The verb form is an imperfect, which is probably used here in a customary sense to indicate continued or repeated action in past time. See GKC 314 §107.b.
4 tn Heb “barley and straw for the horses and the steeds they brought to the place which was there, each according to his measure.”
5 tn Heb “and a porch for the throne, where he was making judicial decisions, the Porch of Judgment, he made.”
6 tc The Hebrew text reads, “from the floor to the floor.” The second occurrence of the term הַקַּרְקָע (haqqarqa’, “the floor”) is probably an error; one should emend to הַקּוֹרוֹת (haqqorot, “the rafters”). See 6:16.
6 tn Heb “they could not be seen outside.”
7 tn Heb “they”; the referent (your people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
8 tn Or “stop and reflect”; Heb “bring back to their heart.”
9 tn Or “done wrong.”
8 tn Heb “went.”
9 tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 31,500 pounds of gold (cf. NCV); CEV, NLT “sixteen tons”; TEV “more than 14,000 kilogrammes.”
9 tn Heb “nothing like it had been made for all the kingdoms.”
10 tn Heb “and all Israel.”
11 tn Heb “until he had cut off every male in Edom.”
11 tc The Old Greek translation has here a lengthy section consisting of twenty-three verses that are not found in the MT.
12 tc The MT has “and he saw,” but some medieval Hebrew