21:8 She wrote out orders, 3 signed Ahab’s name to them, 4 and sealed them with his seal. She then sent the orders 5 to the leaders 6 and to the nobles who lived in Naboth’s city. 7
21:11 The men of the 8 city, the leaders 9 and the nobles who lived there, 10 followed the written orders Jezebel had sent them. 11
12:6 King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served 12 his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, 13 “How do you advise me to answer these people?”
1 tn Heb “Do not listen and do not be willing.”
1 tn Heb “He rejected the advice of the elders which they advised and he consulted the young men with whom he had grown up, who stood before him.” The referent (Rehoboam) of the initial pronoun (“he”) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
1 tn Heb “scrolls.”
2 tn Heb “in the name of Ahab.”
3 tn Heb “scrolls.”
4 tn Heb “elders.”
5 tn Heb “to the nobles who were in his city, the ones who lived with Naboth.”
1 tn Heb “his.”
2 tn Heb “elders.”
3 tn Heb “and the nobles who were living in his city.”
4 tn Heb “did as Jezebel sent to them, just as was written in the scrolls which she sent to them.”
1 tn Heb “stood before.”
2 tn Heb “saying.”