1 Kings 13:8

13:8 But the prophet said to the king, “Even if you were to give me half your possessions, 1  I could not go with you and eat and drink 2  in this place.

1 Kings 13:17-18

13:17 For the Lord gave me strict orders, 3  ‘Do not eat or drink 4  there; do not go back the way you came.’” 13:18 The old prophet then said, 5  “I too am a prophet like you. An angel told me with the Lord’s authority, 6  ‘Bring him back with you to your house so he can eat and drink.’” 7  But he was lying to him. 8 

1 Kings 14:15

14:15 The Lord will attack Israel, making it like a reed that sways in the water. 9  He will remove Israel from this good land he gave to their ancestors 10  and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, 11  because they angered the Lord by making Asherah poles. 12 

1 Kings 17:10

17:10 So he got up and went to Zarephath. When he went through the city gate, there was a widow gathering wood. He called out to her, “Please give me a cup 13  of water, so I can take a drink.”

1 Kings 18:5

18:5 Ahab told Obadiah, “Go through the land to all the springs and valleys. Maybe we can find some grazing areas 14  so we can keep the horses and mules alive and not have to kill 15  some of the animals.”

1 Kings 18:13

18:13 Certainly my master is aware of what I did 16  when Jezebel was killing the Lord’s prophets. I hid one hundred of the Lord’s prophets in two caves in two groups of fifty and I brought them food and water.

1 Kings 18:33

18:33 He arranged the wood, cut up the bull, and placed it on the wood.

1 tn Heb “house.”

2 tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”

3 tn Heb “for a word to me by the word of the Lord.”

4 tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”

5 tn Heb “and he said to him.”

6 tn Heb “by the word of the Lord.”

7 tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”

8 tn Or “deceiving him.”

7 tn The elliptical Hebrew text reads literally “and the Lord will strike Israel as a reed sways in the water.”

8 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 22, 31).

9 tn Heb “the River.” In biblical Hebrew this is a typical reference to the Euphrates River. The name “Euphrates” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

10 tn Heb “because they made their Asherah poles that anger the Lord”; or “their images of Asherah”; ASV, NASB “their Asherim”; NCV “they set up idols to worship Asherah.”

9 tn Heb “a little.”

11 tn Heb “grass.”

12 tn Heb “to cut off.”

13 tn Heb “Has it not been told to my master what I did…?” The rhetorical question expects an answer, “Of course it has!”